Simon reads the Bible

Jeremiah 6 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1 “Run for your lives, you people of Benjamin!     Get out of Jerusalem! Sound the alarm in Tekoa!     Send up a signal at Beth-hakkerem! A powerful army is coming from the north,     coming with disaster and destruction. 2  O Jerusalem, you are my beautiful and delicate daughter—     but I will destroy you! 3  Enemies will surround you, like shepherd...

Jeremiah 5 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1 “Run up and down every street in Jerusalem,” says the Lord.     “Look high and low; search throughout the city! If you can find even one just and honest person,     I will not destroy the city. 2  But even when they are under oath,     saying, ‘As surely as the Lord lives,’     they are still telling lies!” 3  Lord, you are searching for honesty. Yo...

Jeremiah 4 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1 “O Israel,” says the Lord,     “if you wanted to return to me, you could. You could throw away your detestable idols     and stray away no more. 2  Then when you swear by my name, saying,     ‘As surely as the Lord lives,’ you could do so     with truth, justice, and righteousness. Then you would be a blessing to the nations of the world,     and al...

Jeremiah 3 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1 “If a man divorces a woman     and she goes and marries someone else, he will not take her back again,     for that would surely corrupt the land. But you have prostituted yourself with many lovers,     so why are you trying to come back to me?”     says the Lord. 2  “Look at the shrines on every hilltop.     Is there any place you have not been def...

Jeremiah 2 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1 The Lord gave me another message. He said,  2  “Go and shout this message to Jerusalem. This is what the Lord says: “I remember how eager you were to please me     as a young bride long ago, how you loved me and followed me     even through the barren wilderness. 3  In those days Israel was holy to the Lord,     the first of his children. All who ha...

Jeremiah 1 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1  These are the words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests from the town of Anathoth in the land of Benjamin.  2  The Lord first gave messages to Jeremiah during the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah.  3  The Lord’s messages continued throughout the reign of King Jehoiakim, Josiah’s son, until the eleventh ye...

John 21 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1  Later, Jesus appeared again to the disciples beside the Sea of Galilee. This is how it happened.  2  Several of the disciples were there—Simon Peter, Thomas (nicknamed the Twin), Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples. 3  Simon Peter said, “I’m going fishing.” “We’ll come, too,” they all said. So they went out in...

John 20 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1 Early on Sunday morning, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance.  2  She ran and found Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved. She said, “They have taken the Lord’s body out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!” 3  Peter and the ot...

John 19 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1  Then Pilate had Jesus flogged with a lead-tipped whip.  2  The soldiers wove a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they put a purple robe on him.  3  “Hail! King of the Jews!” they mocked, as they slapped him across the face. 4  Pilate went outside again and said to the people, “I am going to bring him out to you now, but understand clearly th...

John 18 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1  After saying these things, Jesus crossed the Kidron Valley with his disciples and entered a grove of olive trees.  2  Judas, the betrayer, knew this place, because Jesus had often gone there with his disciples.  3  The leading priests and Pharisees had given Judas a contingent of Roman soldiers and Temple guards to accompany him. Now with blazing torc...

John 17 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1  After saying all these things, Jesus looked up to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son so he can give glory back to you.  2  For you have given him authority over everyone. He gives eternal life to each one you have given him.  3  And this is the way to have eternal life—to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the on...

John 16 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1  “I have told you these things so that you won’t abandon your faith.  2  For you will be expelled from the synagogues, and the time is coming when those who kill you will think they are doing a holy service for God.  3  This is because they have never known the Father or me.  4  Yes, I’m telling you these things now, so that when they happen, you will...

John 15 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1  “I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the gardener.  2  He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more.  3  You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given you.  4  Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fr...

John 14 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1  “Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me.  2  There is more than enough room in my Father’s home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you?  3  When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am.  4  And you know the way to where I...

John 13 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1  Before the Passover celebration, Jesus knew that his hour had come to leave this world and return to his Father. He had loved his disciples during his ministry on earth, and now he loved them to the very end.  2  It was time for supper, and the devil had already prompted Judas, son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus.  3  Jesus knew that the Father had...

John 12 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. Six days before the Passover celebration began, Jesus arrived in Bethany, the home of Lazarus—the man he had raised from the dead.  2  A dinner was prepared in Jesus’ honor. Martha served, and Lazarus was among those who ate[ a ] with him.  3  Then Mary took a twelve-ounce jar[ b ] of expensive perfume made from essence of nard, and she anointed Jesus’ f...

John 11 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1  A man named Lazarus was sick. He lived in Bethany with his sisters, Mary and Martha.  2  This is the Mary who later poured the expensive perfume on the Lord’s feet and wiped them with her hair. Her brother, Lazarus, was sick.  3  So the two sisters sent a message to Jesus telling him, “Lord, your dear friend is very sick.” 4  But when Jesus heard abou...

John 10 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1  “I tell you the truth, anyone who sneaks over the wall of a sheepfold, rather than going through the gate, must surely be a thief and a robber!  2  But the one who enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.  3  The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep recognize his voice and come to him. He calls his own sheep by name and leads...

John 9 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1 As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man who had been blind from birth.  2  “Rabbi,” his disciples asked him, “why was this man born blind? Was it because of his own sins or his parents’ sins?” 3  “It was not because of his sins or his parents’ sins,” Jesus answered. “This happened so the power of God could be seen in him.  4  We must quickly carry out...

John 8 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1 Jesus returned to the Mount of Olives,  2  but early the next morning he was back again at the Temple. A crowd soon gathered, and he sat down and taught them.  3  As he was speaking, the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. They put her in front of the crowd. 4  “Teacher,” they said to J...

John 7 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1 After this, Jesus traveled around Galilee. He wanted to stay out of Judea, where the Jewish leaders were plotting his death.  2  But soon it was time for the Jewish Festival of Shelters,  3  and Jesus’ brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, where your followers can see your miracles!  4  You can’t become famous if you hide like this! If you...

John 6 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1 After this, Jesus crossed over to the far side of the Sea of Galilee, also known as the Sea of Tiberias.  2  A huge crowd kept following him wherever he went, because they saw his miraculous signs as he healed the sick.  3  Then Jesus climbed a hill and sat down with his disciples around him.  4  (It was nearly time for the Jewish Passover celebration.)...

John 5 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1 Afterward Jesus returned to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish holy days.  2  Inside the city, near the Sheep Gate, was the pool of Bethesda, with five covered porches.  3  Crowds of sick people—blind, lame, or paralyzed—lay on the porches.  5  One of the men lying there had been sick for thirty-eight years.  6  When Jesus saw him and knew he had been ill...

John 4 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1 Jesus knew the Pharisees had heard that he was baptizing and making more disciples than John  2  (though Jesus himself didn’t baptize them—his disciples did).  3  So he left Judea and returned to Galilee. 4  He had to go through Samaria on the way.  5  Eventually he came to the Samaritan village of Sychar, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Josep...

John 3 NLT read aloud by Simon MacFarlane. 1 There was a man named Nicodemus, a Jewish religious leader who was a Pharisee.  2  After dark one evening, he came to speak with Jesus. “Rabbi,” he said, “we all know that God has sent you to teach us. Your miraculous signs are evidence that God is with you.” 3  Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, unless you are born again, you cannot see the Kingdom...