M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan
2 Two days later there was a wedding in the town of Cana in the country of Galilee. Jesus' mother was there.
2 Jesus and his disciples were also asked to the wedding.
3 The people needed more wine. Then Jesus' mother said to him, `They have no wine.'
4 Jesus said, `Woman, why are you telling me about it? It is not yet the time for me to do something.'
5 His mother said to the servants, `Do all that he tells you to do.'
6 Six very large water pots made of stone were standing there. The pots were there because the Jews had a certain law about washing themselves.
7 Jesus said, `Fill the pots with water.' So they filled them to the very top.
8 Jesus said, `Now take some out. Carry it to the one in charge of the feast.' They did what he said.
9 The man in charge of the feast tasted the water that was now turned into wine. He did not know where it came from, but the servants who drew the water knew. When the man had tasted it, he called the man who was being married.
10 He said, `Other people give the good wine at the beginning of the feast. When people have had all they want, then they give the wine which is not so good. But you have kept the good wine until now.'
11 This was the first big work that Jesus did. It was in Cana in Galilee. He showed that he was great. And his disciples believed in him.
12 After this he went to the town called Capernaum. His mother, his brothers, and his disciples also went with him. They stayed there for a few days.
13 The time for the Passover Feast of the Jews was near. So Jesus went to Jerusalem.
14 In the temple he found people buying and selling things. They were selling cows, sheep, and doves. Others were sitting at tables changing money for the people.
15 Jesus tied some pieces of cord together to make a whip. Then he drove out all the people who were buying and selling in the temple. And he drove out the sheep and the cows. He threw down the tables of the money changers and their money.
16 He said to the people who sold doves, `Take these things out of here. Do not make my Father's house into a market place.'
17 His disciples remembered that God's word says, `My love for your house is like a fire burning in me.'
18 The leaders of the Jews said to Jesus, `Who gave you the right to do this? What big work will prove it to us?'
19 Jesus answered them, `Break down this temple and in three days I will raise it up.'
20 The Jewish leaders said, `It took forty-six years to build this temple. Do you say you will raise it in three days?'
21 But Jesus was talking about the temple which was his body.
22 After Jesus died and had been raised from death, the disciples remembered that he had said this to them. Then they believed what the holy writings say. They also believed what Jesus had said to them.
23 Many people believed in Jesus' name when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast. They believed in him because they saw the big works he did.
24 But Jesus would not trust himself to them.
25 He knew what all people are like. He did not need anyone to tell him about any person, because he knew what was in a person's heart.
11 I want to say something a little bit foolish. But please listen to me!
2 I love you as God loves you. I see you as a woman who has not been married and I am giving you to be the wife of a husband. That husband is Christ.
3 But the snake fooled Eve by his trick. And I am afraid that your minds will be drawn away from a clean, pure love of Christ.
4 You listen to a new man when he comes to tell you about a different Jesus, which is not the one we told you about. And when you receive a spirit and a message which are not the ones you had first, then you listen too much.
5 But I really do not think that the chief apostles are any better than I am!
6 Maybe I am not a good talker, but I surely know what I am talking about! Yes, we made this plain to you in every way in all things.
7 Perhaps it was wrong for me to bring myself down in order to raise you up. Do you think that? Was it wrong for me to tell you the good news without pay?
8 I took pay from other churches. I made them poor so that I might help you.
9 When I was with you and needed money, I did not make any of you pay me. When the brothers came from Macedonia, they gave me what I needed. So I was not, and I will not be, any trouble to you.
10 Surely, the true word of Christ is in me. I will never stop being proud of this anywhere in Achaia [Greece].
11 Why is this? Is it because I do not love you? God knows that I love you.
12 And I will keep on doing what I am doing now. Some teachers are praising themselves. They say they are like us. By doing this I prove they are not like us.
13 Men like that are not true apostles. They work to fool people. They try to make themselves look like apostles of Christ.
14 I am not surprised. Satan tries to make himself look like an angel of light.
15 So it is not strange if his workers also try to make themselves look like God's workers who do right. They will come to an end like the work they do! think that I am foolish. But if you do, then please listen to me as if I were foolish. I also want to do a little talking about myself.
16 I am not talking like the Lord when I say this. It seems foolish to say so much about myself.
17 Many people talk about themselves in the world. So I will too.
18 Since you are wise, you still agree to listen to foolish people.
19 You listen to a man even if he makes slaves of you, even if he spends all your money, even if he catches you in a trap, even if he is proud of himself, even if he slaps you in the face.
20 I am ashamed, but I must say that we were too weak to be like that! Anything that others want to be proud of, I can talk about too. And yet it is really foolish to do so.
21 Are they Hebrew people? So am I. Are they Israel's people? So am I. Is Abraham their father? He is mine too.
22 Are they workers for Christ? (I talk like one who is not in his right mind.) I am a better worker. I have worked much harder. I have been in prison more often. I have been beaten many, many times. Often I have almost died.
23 The Jewish leaders five times gave me thirty nine strikes with the rope.
24 Three times people beat me with sticks, and once they threw rocks at me. Three times I was in a boat when it broke in the sea. I have been in the water all one night and day.
25 I have travelled much. I have crossed bad rivers. I have gone where men might steal my things. The Jews and those who are not Jews have troubled me. I have been in hard places in the city. I have had hard times in the desert. I have had hard times on the water. I have had hard times among those who should have been my brothers and were not.
26 I have worked hard. I have been tired out. I have often had no sleep at night. I have been hungry and thirsty. I have often had nothing to eat. I have been cold and did not have enough clothes to wear.
27 Beside all other things, my heart is troubled about the churches. That is a load I carry every day.
28 When anyone is weak, I am weak too. When anyone is made to fall away, my heart burns within me
30 If I must talk about myself, I will talk about the things that show I am weak.
31 God knows I am not telling lies. He is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and he is to be praised forever. 32In the city of Damascus a man ruled for king Aretas. He had the gates of the city guarded because he wanted to catch me.
32 But I sat in a basket. Then it was put out through a window in the wall and was let down. And so I got away from him.
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