Professor Horner’s Reading Plan

Read through the Bible in one year by reading 10 chapters a day from 10 different sections of the Bible using the Professor Grant Horner Bible reading plan.

Today, we are reading John 11; Deuteronomy 6; 2 Corinthians 2; Titus 3; Job 36; Psalms 46; Proverbs 5; 2 Samuel 17; Jeremiah 30; Acts 10.

John 11

1	Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.
2	(It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
3	Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
4	When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.
5	Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
6	When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was.
7	Then after that saith he to his disciples, Let us go into Judea again.
8	His disciples say unto him, Master, the Jews of late sought to stone thee; and goest thou thither again?
9	Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.
10	But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.
11	These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
12	Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.
13	Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.
14	Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.
15	And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him.
16	Then said Thomas, which is called Didymus, unto his fellow disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.
17	Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already.
18	Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off:
19	And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.
20	Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house.
21	Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
22	But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee.
23	Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again.
24	Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
25	Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
26	And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
27	She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.
28	And when she had so said, she went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for thee.
29	As soon as she heard that, she arose quickly, and came unto him.
30	Now Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in that place where Martha met him.
31	The Jews then which were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up hastily and went out, followed her, saying, She goeth unto the grave to weep there.
32	Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
33	When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled.
34	And said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see.
35	Jesus wept.
36	Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him!
37	And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died?
38	Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.
39	Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.
40	Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?
41	Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.
42	And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.
43	And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.
44	And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
45	Then many of the Jews which came to Mary, and had seen the things which Jesus did, believed on him.
46	But some of them went their ways to the Pharisees, and told them what things Jesus had done.
47	Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.
48	If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
49	And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,
50	Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
51	And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation;
52	And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.
53	Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death.
54	Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews; but went thence unto a country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.
55	And the Jews' passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.
56	Then sought they for Jesus, and spake among themselves, as they stood in the temple, What think ye, that he will not come to the feast?
57	Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should show it, that they might take him.

Deuteronomy 6

1	Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
2	That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
3	Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.
4	Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
5	And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
6	And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
7	And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
8	And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
9	And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
10	And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,
11	And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;
12	Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
13	Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.
14	Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;
15	(For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.
16	Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
17	Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
18	And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD swore unto thy fathers,
19	To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken.
20	And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you?
21	Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:
22	And the LORD showed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes:
23	And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore unto our fathers.
24	And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.
25	And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.

2 Corinthians 2

1	But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
2	For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?
3	And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
4	For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
5	But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.
6	Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.
7	So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
8	Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.
9	For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.
10	To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ;
11	Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
12	Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,
13	I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.
14	Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savor of his knowledge by us in every place.
15	For we are unto God a sweet savor of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:
16	To the one we are the savor of death unto death; and to the other the savor of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
17	For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

Titus 3

1	Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,
2	To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, showing all meekness unto all men.
3	For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
4	But after that the kindness and love of God our Savior toward man appeared,
5	Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
6	Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior;
7	That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
8	This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.
9	But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
10	A man that is a heretic after the first and second admonition reject;
11	Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.
12	When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis: for I have determined there to winter.
13	Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently, that nothing be wanting unto them.
14	And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.
15	All that are with me salute thee. Greet them that love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.

Job 36

1	Elihu also proceeded, and said,
2	Suffer me a little, and I will show thee that I have yet to speak on God's behalf.
3	I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
4	For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.
5	Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.
6	He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.
7	He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them forever, and they are exalted.
8	And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;
9	Then he showeth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.
10	He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
11	If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
12	But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
13	But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.
14	They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
15	He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
16	Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.
17	But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.
18	Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
19	Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
20	Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
21	Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
22	Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?
23	Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?
24	Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.
25	Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.
26	Behold, God is great, and we know him not neither can the number of his years be searched out.
27	For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapor thereof:
28	Which the clouds do drop and distill upon man abundantly.
29	Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?
30	Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.
31	For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.
32	With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh between.
33	The noise thereof showeth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapor.

Psalms 46

1	To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
2	Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
3	Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
4	There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
5	God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
6	The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
7	The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
8	Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.
9	He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
10	Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
11	The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

Proverbs 5

1	My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
2	That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
3	For the lips of a strange woman drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
4	But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
5	Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
6	Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are movable, that thou canst not know them.
7	Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
8	Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
9	Lest thou give thine honor unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
10	Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labors be in the house of a stranger;
11	And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
12	And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
13	And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
14	I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
15	Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
16	Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
17	Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
18	Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
19	Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
20	And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
21	For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
22	His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
23	He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

2 Samuel 17

1	Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:
2	And I will come upon him while he is weary and weak handed, and will make him afraid: and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only:
3	And I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: so all the people shall be in peace.
4	And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
5	Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he saith.
6	And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spoke unto him, saying, Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner: shall we do after his saying? if not; speak thou.
7	And Hushai said unto Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel hath given is not good at this time.
8	For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.
9	Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place: and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom.
10	And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mighty man, and they which be with him are valiant men.
11	Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person.
12	So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the ground: and of him and of all the men that are with him there shall not be left so much as one.
13	Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there be not one small stone found there.
14	And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.
15	Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I counseled.
16	Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that are with him.
17	Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by En-rogel; for they might not be seen to come into the city: and a wench went and told them; and they went and told king David.
18	Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man's house in Bahurim, which had a well in his court; whither they went down.
19	And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.
20	And when Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.
21	And it came to pass, after they were departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David, and said unto David, Arise, and pass quickly over the water: for thus hath Ahithophel counseled against you.
22	Then David arose, and all the people that were with him, and they passed over Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not one of them that was not gone over Jordan.
23	And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and got him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulcher of his father.
24	Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.
25	And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man's son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother.
26	So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead.
27	And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,
28	Brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentils, and parched pulse,
29	And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.

Jeremiah 30

1	The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
2	Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.
3	For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
4	And these are the words that the LORD spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah.
5	For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
6	Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
7	Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
8	For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:
9	But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.
10	Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
11	For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.
12	For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous.
13	There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.
14	All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased.
15	Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.
16	Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.
17	For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.
18	Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwelling places; and the city shall be built upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.
19	And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
20	Their children also shall be as formerly, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them.
21	And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the LORD.
22	And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
23	Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.
24	The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it.

Acts 10

1	There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band,
2	A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God always.
3	He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius.
4	And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God.
5	And now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter:
6	He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea side: he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do.
7	And when the angel which spake unto Cornelius was departed, he called two of his household servants, and a devout soldier of them that waited on him continually;
8	And when he had declared all these things unto them, he sent them to Joppa.
9	On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:
10	And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance,
11	And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:
12	Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
13	And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.
14	But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.
15	And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
16	This was done thrice: and the vessel was received up again into heaven.
17	Now while Peter doubted in himself what this vision which he had seen should mean, behold, the men which were sent from Cornelius had made inquiry for Simon's house, and stood before the gate,
18	And called, and asked whether Simon, which was surnamed Peter, were lodged there.
19	While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said unto him, Behold, three men seek thee.
20	Arise therefore, and get thee down, and go with them, doubting nothing: for I have sent them.
21	Then Peter went down to the men which were sent unto him from Cornelius; and said, Behold, I am he whom ye seek: what is the cause wherefore ye are come?
22	And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by a holy angel to send for thee into his house, and to hear words of thee.
23	Then called he them in, and lodged them. And on the morrow Peter went away with them, and certain brethren from Joppa accompanied him.
24	And the morrow after they entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius waited for them, and had called together his kinsmen and near friends.
25	And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him.
26	But Peter took him up, saying, Stand up; I myself also am a man.
27	And as he talked with him, he went in, and found many that were come together.
28	And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath showed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.
29	Therefore came I unto you without gainsaying, as soon as I was sent for: I ask therefore for what intent ye have sent for me?
30	And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,
31	And said, Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and thine alms are had in remembrance in the sight of God.
32	Send therefore to Joppa, and call hither Simon, whose surname is Peter; he is lodged in the house of one Simon a tanner by the sea side: who, when he cometh, shall speak unto thee.
33	Immediately therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast well done that thou art come. Now therefore are we all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God.
34	Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
35	But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
36	The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all: )
37	That word, I say, ye know, which was published throughout all Judea, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;
38	How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
39	And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:
40	Him God raised up the third day, and showed him openly;
41	Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.
42	And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead.
43	To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.
44	While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word.
45	And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.
46	For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter,
47	Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?
48	And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.

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