Bible Reading Plan — M'Cheyne One Year

The River of the Water of Life and the Tree of Life

¹And the angel showed me a river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, issuing from the throne of God and of the Lamb,

²in the middle of the street of the city. On each side of the river was a Tree of life which bore twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

³Every thing that is accursed will cease to be. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be within it, and his servants will worship him;

⁴they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.

⁵Night will cease to be. They have no need of the light of a lamp, nor have they the light of the sun; for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign for ever and ever.

The Promise of Coming Soon and the Warning

⁶Then the angel said to me – “These words may be trusted and are true. The Lord, the God that inspires the prophets, sent his angel to show his servants what must quickly take place;

⁷and they said ‘I will come quickly.’ Blessed will he be who lays to heart the words of the prophecy contained in this book.”

⁸It was I, John, who heard and saw these things; and, when I heard and saw them, I prostrated myself in worship at the feet of the angel that showed them to me.

⁹But he said to me – “Forbear; I am your fellow servant, and the fellow servant of your fellow prophets, and of all who lay to heart the words in this book. Worship God.”

¹⁰Then the angel said to me – “Do not keep secret the words of the prophecy contained in this book; for the time is near.

¹¹Let the wrongdoer continue to do wrong; the filthy-minded continue to be filthy; the righteous continue to act righteously; and the holy-minded continue to be holy.”

¹²(‘I will come quickly. I bring my rewards with me, to give to each what their actions deserve.

¹³I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the beginning and the End.’)

¹⁴Blessed will they be who wash their robes! They will have the right to approach the Tree of life, and may enter the city by the gates.

¹⁵Outside will be the filthy, the sorcerers, the impure, the murderers, the idolaters, and all who love the false and live it.

The Final Testimony and the Plea for the Lord

¹⁶‘I, Jesus, sent my angel to bear testimony to you about these things before the churches. I am the Scion and the Offspring of David, the bright star of the Morning.’

¹⁷‘Come,’ say the Spirit and the Bride; and all who hear, say ‘Come.’ All who thirst, come; anyone who wants, take the water of life freely.

¹⁸I declare to all who hear the words of the prophecy contained in this book – ‘If anyone adds to it, God will add to his troubles the curses described in this book;

¹⁹and if anyone takes away any of the words in the book containing this prophecy, God will take away his share in the Tree of life, and in the Holy City – as described in this book.’

²⁰He whose testimony this is says – ‘Assuredly I will come quickly.’ ‘Amen, come, Lord Jesus.’

²¹May the blessing of the Lord Jesus Christ, be with his people.

The Day of the Lord and the Sun of Righteousness

¹“The day is coming that will burn like a furnace, and all the proud and all evildoers will be stubble, and the day that is coming will burn them up,” says the Lord of hosts, “leaving neither root nor branch.

²But to you who revere my name there will arise the sun of righteousness with healing in its wings, and you will run free like calves let out from their stall.

³In the day when I act you will tread down the wicked, they will be as ashes under the soles of your feet,” says the Lord of hosts.

I Will Send Elijah

⁴“Remember the law of Moses my servant, statutes and judgments which I gave him at Horeb for all Israel.

⁵I am about to send to you Elijah the prophet, before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.

⁶He will turn fathers’ hearts to their sons and sons’ hearts to their fathers, so that I will not come and strike the earth with judgement.”

Jesus Appears at the Sea of Tiberias

¹Later on, Jesus showed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias.

²It was in this way, – Simon Peter, Thomas, who was called ‘The Twin,’ Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, Zebedee’s sons, and two other disciples of Jesus, were together, when Simon Peter said,

³“I am going fishing.”

⁴Just as day was breaking, Jesus came and stood on the beach; but the disciples did not know that it was he.

⁵“My children,” he said, “have you anything to eat?”

⁶“Cast your net to the right of the boat,” he said, “and you will find fish.” So they cast the net, and now they could not haul it in because of the quantity of fish.

⁷The disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Master!” When Simon Peter heard that it was the Master, he fastened his coat around him (for he had taken it off), and threw himself into the sea.

⁸But the rest of the disciples came in the boat (for they were only about a hundred yards from shore), dragging the net full of fish.

⁹When they had come ashore, they found a charcoal fire ready, with some fish already on it, and some bread as well.

¹⁰“Bring some of the fish which you have just caught,” said Jesus.

¹¹So Simon Peter got into the boat and hauled the net ashore full of large fish, a hundred and fifty-three of them; and yet, although there were so many, the net had not been torn.

¹²“Come and have breakfast.”, Jesus said. None of the disciples dared ask him who he was, because they knew it was the Master.

¹³Jesus went and took the bread and gave it to them, and the fish too.

¹⁴This was the third time that Jesus showed himself to the disciples after he had risen from the dead.

Jesus Restores Peter

¹⁵When breakfast was over, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than the others?”

¹⁶Then, a second time, Jesus asked, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?”

¹⁷The third time, Jesus said to him, “Simon, son of John, are you my friend?” Peter was hurt at his third question being ‘Are you my friend?’; and exclaimed, “Master, you know everything! You can tell that I am your friend.”

¹⁸“In truth I tell you,” he continued, “when you were young, you used to put on your own clothes, and walk wherever you wished; but, when you have grown old, you will have to stretch out your hands, while someone else puts on your clothes, and takes you where you do not wish.”

¹⁹Jesus said this to show the death by which Peter was to honor God, and then he added, “Follow me.”

²⁰Peter turned around, and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following – the one who at the supper leant back on the Master’s shoulder, and asked him who it was who would betray him.

²¹Seeing him, Peter said to Jesus, “Master, what about this man?”

²²“If it is my will that he should wait until I come,” answered Jesus, “what has that to do with you? Follow me yourself.”

²³So the report spread among his followers that that disciple was not to die; yet Jesus did not say that he was not to die, but said “If it is my will that he should wait until I come, what has that to do with you?”

²⁴It is this disciple who states these things, and who recorded them; and we know that his statement is true.

²⁵There are many other things which Jesus did; but, if every one of them were to be recorded in detail, I suppose that even the world itself would not hold the books that would be written.