M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan
The river of the water of life. The fruitfulness and light of the city of God. The Lord does ever give his servants warning of things to come. The angel will not be worshipped. Nothing may be added to the word of God, nor taken away from it.
22 And he showed me a pure river of the water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the seat of God and of the Lamb, 2 in the middle of the street of the city. And on either side of the river there was the wood of life, which bore 12 kinds of fruit, and gave fruit every month. And the leaves of the wood served to heal the people. 3 And there shall be no more curse, but the seat of God and the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will serve him. 4 And they will see his face, and his name will be in their foreheads. 5 And there will be no night there, and they need no lamp, nor the light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they will reign forevermore.
6 And he said to me, These sayings are faithful and true. And the Lord God of the saints and prophets sent his angel to show to his servants the things that must shortly be fulfilled.
7 Behold, I come shortly. Happy is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.
8 I am John, who saw these things and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel that showed me these things. 9 And he said to me, See you do it not. For I am your fellow servant, and the fellow servant of your brethren the prophets, and of those who keep the sayings of this book. But worship God.
10 And he said to me, Do not seal up the sayings of the prophecy of this book. For the time is at hand.
11 He who does evil, let him do evil still; and he who is filthy, let him be filthy still; and he who is righteous, let him be more righteous; and he who is holy, let him be more holy. 12 And behold, I come shortly, and my reward with me, to give to everyone according to his deeds. 13 I am the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
14 Blessed are those who do his commandments, so that their power may be in the tree of life, and they may enter in through the gates into the city. 15 For outside shall be dogs, and enchanters, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loves or makes lies.
16 I, Jesus, sent my angel to testify of these things to you in the congregations. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright morning star.
17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come! And let him who hears say also, Come! And let him who is a-thirst come. And let whosoever will, take of the water of life, free.
18 I testify to everyone that hears the words of prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book. 19 And if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from those things which are written in this book.
20 He who testifies to these things says, Be it, I come quickly.
Amen. Even so. Come, Lord Jesus!
21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
The end of the New
Testament.
He appears to his disciples again by the Sea of Tiberias, and commands Peter earnestly to feed his sheep.
21 After that, Jesus showed himself again to the disciples at the Sea of Tiberias. And this is how he showed himself: 2 there were together Simon Peter, and Thomas who is called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana (a town of Galilee), and the sons of Zebedee, and two others of the disciples. 3 Simon Peter said to them, I’m going fishing. They said to him, We also will go with you.
They went their way and entered into a boat straightaway, and that night they caught nothing. 4 But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore. Nevertheless, the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. 5 Jesus said to them, Sirs, do you have any fish? They answered him, No. 6 And he said to them, Cast out the net on the right side of the boat and you will find some.
They cast out, and then they were not able to draw the net in for the number of fishes.
7 Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, It is the Lord! When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girded his mantle to him (for he had stripped down), and sprang into the sea.
8 The other disciples came by boat – for they were not far from land, but about a hundred yards – and they drew in the net with fishes. 9 As soon as they had come to land they saw hot coals, and fish laid on them, and bread. 10 Jesus said to them, Bring some of the fish that you have now caught. 11 Simon Peter stepped forth and drew the net to land full of great fishes, a hundred and fifty-three. And for all there were so many, yet the net was not torn.
12 Jesus said to them, Come and eat. And none of the disciples ventured to ask him, Who are you? because they knew that it was the Lord. 13 Jesus then came and took bread and gave it to them, and the fish likewise.
14 And this is now the third time that Jesus appeared to his disciples after he was risen again from death.
15 When they had eaten, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?
He said to him, Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.
Jesus said to him, Feed my lambs. 16 He said to him again the second time, Simon son of Jonah, do you love me?
He said to him, Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.
Jesus said to him, Feed my sheep. 17 He said to him the third time, Simon, do you love me?
And Peter sorrowed because he said to him the third time, Do you love me? And he said to him, Lord, you know all things. You know that I love you.
Jesus said to him, Feed my sheep. 18 Truly truly I say to you, when you were young, you girded yourself and walked where you wished. But when you are old, you will stretch forth your hands, and another will gird you and lead you where you do not wish.
19 He spoke this signifying by what death Peter would glorify God. And when he had said this, he said to him, Follow me.
20 Peter turned about and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following, who also had leaned on his breast at supper and said, Lord, who is it that will betray you? 21 When Peter saw him he said to Jesus, Lord, what about this man?
22 Jesus said to him, If I desire him to remain till I come, what is that to you? Follow me.
23 Then there went out a saying among the brethren that that disciple would not die. But Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but, If I desire him to remain till I come, what is that to you?
24 The same disciple is he who testifies of these things and wrote these things. And we know that his testimony is true.
25 There are also many other things that Jesus did, which, if they were written every one, I suppose the world could not contain the books that would be written.
Here ends the gospel
of Saint John.
Copyright © 2016 by Ruth Magnusson (Davis). Includes emendations to February 2022. All rights reserved.