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 16; Exodus 34; Romans 6; Titus 1; Job 22; Psalms 84; Proverbs 22; 2 Samuel 4; Jeremiah 18; Acts 28.

John 16

1	These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.
2	They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
3	And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
4	But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you.
5	But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?
6	But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.
7	Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
8	And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
9	Of sin, because they believe not on me;
10	Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;
11	Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.
12	I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
13	Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come.
14	He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you.
15	All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall show it unto you.
16	A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father.
17	Then said some of his disciples among themselves, What is this that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me: and, Because I go to the Father?
18	They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? we cannot tell what he saith.
19	Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said unto them, Do ye inquire among yourselves of that I said, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me?
20	Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
21	A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
22	And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
23	And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.
24	Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
25	These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall show you plainly of the Father.
26	At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you:
27	For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
28	I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
29	His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb.
30	Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God.
31	Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe?
32	Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
33	These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

Exodus 34

1	And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou didst break.
2	And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.
3	And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.
4	And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.
5	And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
6	And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
7	Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
8	And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.
9	And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
10	And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the LORD: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.
11	Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
12	Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:
13	But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
14	For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
15	Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;
16	And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.
17	Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
18	The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.
19	All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male.
20	But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.
21	Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
22	And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.
23	Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
24	For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year.
25	Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.
26	The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
27	And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.
28	And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
29	And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses knew not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.
30	And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.
31	And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with them.
32	And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the LORD had spoken with him in mount Sinai.
33	And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.
34	But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out. And he came out, and spoke unto the children of Israel that which he was commanded.
35	And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone: and Moses put the veil upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.

Romans 6

1	What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2	God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
3	Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
4	Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
5	For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
6	Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
7	For he that is dead is freed from sin.
8	Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
9	Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
10	For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
11	Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
12	Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
13	Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
14	For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
15	What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
16	Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
17	But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
18	Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
19	I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
20	For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
21	What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
22	But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
23	For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Titus 1

1	Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;
2	In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
3	But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Savior;
4	To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.
5	For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:
6	If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
7	For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
8	But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
9	Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
10	For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, especially they of the circumcision:
11	Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
12	One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
13	This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;
14	Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
15	Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
16	They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

Job 22

1	Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
2	Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?
3	Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?
4	Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?
5	Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
6	For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for naught, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
7	Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withheld bread from the hungry.
8	But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honorable man dwelt in it.
9	Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
10	Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;
11	Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.
12	Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
13	And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
14	Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.
15	Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
16	Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
17	Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
18	Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
19	The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
20	Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
21	Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
22	Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.
23	If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
24	Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
25	Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defense, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.
26	For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.
27	Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
28	Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
29	When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.
30	He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.

Psalms 84

1	To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!
2	My soul longeth, yea even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
3	Yea, the sparrow hath found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.
4	Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.
5	Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.
6	Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.
7	They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
8	O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
9	Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.
10	For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
11	For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
12	O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.

Proverbs 22

1	A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold.
2	The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.
3	A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.
4	By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honor, and life.
5	Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.
6	Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
7	The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
8	He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
9	He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.
10	Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.
11	He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.
12	The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.
13	The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
14	The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
15	Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
16	He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
17	Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.
18	For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.
19	That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee.
20	Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,
21	That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?
22	Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
23	For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
24	Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
25	Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
26	Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
27	If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
28	Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
29	Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.

2 Samuel 4

1	And when Saul's son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.
2	And Saul's son had two men that were captains of bands: the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin: (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin:
3	And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.)
4	And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.
5	And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ish-bosheth, who lay on a bed at noon.
6	And they came thither into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth rib: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
7	For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and got them away through the plain all night.
8	And they brought the head of Ish-bosheth unto David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul thine enemy, which sought thy life; and the LORD hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.
9	And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
10	When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings:
11	How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?
12	And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth, and buried it in the sepulcher of Abner in Hebron.

Jeremiah 18

1	The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
2	Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.
3	Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
4	And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
5	Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
6	O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
7	At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
8	If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
9	And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;
10	If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
11	Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.
12	And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
13	Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.
14	Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?
15	Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
16	To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
17	I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
18	Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
19	Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.
20	Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
21	Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
22	Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
23	Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.

Acts 28

1	And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita.
2	And the barbarous people showed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.
3	And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand.
4	And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
5	And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm.
6	Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.
7	In the same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the island, whose name was Publius; who received us, and lodged us three days courteously.
8	And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him.
9	So when this was done, others also, which had diseases in the island, came, and were healed:
10	Who also honored us with many honors; and when we departed, they laded us with such things as were necessary.
11	And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux.
12	And landing at Syracuse, we tarried there three days.
13	And from thence we fetched a compass, and came to Rhegium: and after one day the south wind blew, and we came the next day to Puteoli:
14	Where we found brethren, and were desired to tarry with them seven days: and so we went toward Rome.
15	And from thence, when the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii Forum, and The Three Taverns: whom when Paul saw, he thanked God, and took courage.
16	And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him.
17	And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the chief of the Jews together: and when they were come together, he said unto them, Men and brethren, though I have committed nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.
18	Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of death in me.
19	But when the Jews spake against it, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had aught to accuse my nation of.
20	For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.
21	And they said unto him, We neither received letters out of Judea concerning thee, neither any of the brethren that came showed or spake any harm of thee.
22	But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, we know that every where it is spoken against.
23	And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.
24	And some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not.
25	And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Isaiah the prophet unto our fathers,
26	saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive:
27	For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
28	Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it.
29	And when he had said these words, the Jews departed, and had great reasoning among themselves.
30	And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him,
31	Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.

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