Bible In A Year

¹Sing to Yahweh a new song! Sing to Yahweh, all the earth.

²Sing to Yahweh! Bless his name! Proclaim his salvation from day to day!

³Declare his glory among the nations, His marvelous works among all the peoples.

⁴For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! He is to be feared above all gods.

⁵For all the gods of the peoples are idols, But Yahweh made the heavens.

⁶Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

⁷Ascribe to Yahweh, you families of nations, Ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.

⁸Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Bring an offering, and come into his courts.

⁹Worship Yahweh in holy array. Tremble before him, all the earth.

¹⁰Say among the nations, "Yahweh reigns." The world is also established. It can't be moved. He will judge the peoples with equity.

¹¹Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice. Let the sea roar, and it's fullness!

¹²Let the field and all that is in it exult! Then all the trees of the woods shall sing for joy

¹³Before Yahweh; for he comes, For he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, The peoples with his truth.

¹He entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there who had his hand withered. ²They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him. ³He said to the man who had his hand withered, "Stand up." ⁴He said to them, "Is it lawful on the Sabbath day to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?" But they were silent. ⁵When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other. ⁶The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him. ⁷Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples, and a great multitude followed him from Galilee, from Judea, ⁸from Jerusalem, from Idumaea, beyond the Jordan, and those from around Tyre and Sidon. A great multitude, hearing what great things he did, came to him. ⁹He spoke to his disciples that a little boat should stay near him because of the crowd, so that they wouldn't press on him. ¹⁰For he had healed many, so that as many as had diseases pressed on him that they might touch him. ¹¹The unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, "You are the Son of God!" ¹²He sternly warned them that they should not make him known. ¹³He went up into the mountain, and called to himself those whom he wanted, and they went to him. ¹⁴He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them out to preach, ¹⁵and to have authority to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons: ¹⁶Simon, to whom he gave the name Peter; ¹⁷James the son of Zebedee; John, the brother of James, and he surnamed them Boanerges, which means, Sons of Thunder; ¹⁸Andrew; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus; Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot; ¹⁹and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. He came into a house. ²⁰The multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. ²¹When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him: for they said, "He is insane." ²²The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebul," and, "By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons." ²³He summoned them, and said to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan? ²⁴If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. ²⁵If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. ²⁶If Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he can't stand, but has an end. ²⁷But no one can enter into the house of the strong man to plunder, unless he first binds the strong man; and then he will plunder his house. ²⁸Most assuredly I tell you, all of the children of men's sins will be forgiven them, including their blasphemies with which they may blaspheme; ²⁹but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin" ³⁰-- because they said, "He has an unclean spirit." ³¹His mother and his brothers came, and standing outside, they sent to him, calling him. ³²A multitude was sitting around him, and they told him, "Behold, your mother, your brothers, and your sisters{TR omits "your sisters"} are outside looking for you." ³³He answered them, "Who are my mother and my brothers?" ³⁴Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, "Behold, my mother and my brothers! ³⁵For whoever does the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother."

¹Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea, and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea. ²He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching, ³"Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow, ⁴and it happened, as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds{TR adds "of the air"} came and devoured it. ⁵Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil. ⁶When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. ⁷Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. ⁸Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some brought forth thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much." ⁹He said, "Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear." ¹⁰When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables. ¹¹He said to them, "To you is given the mystery of the Kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables, ¹²that 'seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.'" ¹³He said to them, "Don't you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables? ¹⁴The farmer sows the word. ¹⁵These are the ones by the road, where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes away the word which has been sown in them. ¹⁶These in like manner are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy. ¹⁷They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble. ¹⁸Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word, ¹⁹and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. ²⁰These are those which were sown on the good ground: such as hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times." ²¹He said to them, "Is the lamp brought to be put under a basket{Literally, a modion, a dry measuring basket containing about a peck (about 9 litres)} or under a bed? Isn't it put on a lampstand? ²²For there is nothing hidden, except that it should be made known; neither was anything made secret, but that it should come to light. ²³If any man has ears to hear, let him hear." ²⁴He said to them, "Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and more will be given to you who hear. ²⁵For whoever has, to him will more be given, and he who doesn't have, from him will be taken away even that which he has." ²⁶He said, "The Kingdom of God is as if a man should cast seed on the earth, ²⁷and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he doesn't know how. ²⁸For the earth bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. ²⁹But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts forth the sickle, because the harvest has come." ³⁰He said, "How will we liken the Kingdom of God? Or with what parable will we illustrate it? ³¹It's like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth, ³²yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow." ³³With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it. ³⁴Without a parable he didn't speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained all things. ³⁵On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, "Let's go over to the other side." ³⁶Leaving the multitude, they took him with them, even as he was, in the boat. Other small boats were also with him. ³⁷There arose a great wind storm, and the waves beat into the boat, so much that the boat was already filled. ³⁸He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, "Teacher, don't you care that we are dying?" ³⁹He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace! Be still!" The wind ceased, and there was a great calm. ⁴⁰He said to them, "Why are you so afraid? How is it that you have no faith?" ⁴¹They were greatly afraid, and said to one another, "Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?"