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New Testament in 90 Days

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Best for: A season-length commitment (a quarter, or Epiphany to Easter) that covers the whole New Testament.

Every chapter of the New Testament in three months, two or three chapters a day in canonical order: the four Gospels, Acts, the letters, and Revelation. A steady pace that keeps each book's argument in view.

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  1. Day 1

    Matthew 1-3

    Matthew opens with a genealogy tying Jesus to David and Abraham. Magi arrive, the family flees to Egypt, and by chapter 3 John is baptizing in the Jordan and heaven opens.

  2. Day 2

    Matthew 4-6

    Jesus is tested in the wilderness, calls the first fishermen, and begins the Sermon on the Mount: the Beatitudes, salt and light, a deeper reading of the law, and prayer without performance.

  3. Day 3

    Matthew 7-9

    The sermon closes with two builders, wise and foolish. Then Matthew gathers a run of miracles: a leper, a centurion's servant, a calmed storm, a paralyzed man, and a tax collector named Matthew called.

  4. Day 4

    Matthew 10-12

    The twelve are sent out with sober warnings. John asks from prison whether Jesus is the one, Sabbath disputes sharpen, and the Pharisees decide his power comes from Beelzebul.

  5. Day 5

    Matthew 13-14

    Chapter 13 gathers the kingdom parables: the sower, the weeds, the mustard seed, the hidden treasure. Then Nazareth rejects him, John is beheaded, five thousand are fed, and Peter sinks on the water.

  6. Day 6

    Matthew 15-17

    A dispute over clean hands, a Canaanite mother who will not be turned away, and Peter's confession at Caesarea Philippi. Jesus then predicts his death and is transfigured on the mountain.

  7. Day 7

    Matthew 18-20

    Teaching on community: greatness like a child, the lost sheep, and the servant who would not forgive. On the road to Jerusalem come the rich young man, the vineyard workers, and two blind men at Jericho.

  8. Day 8

    Matthew 21-23

    Jesus enters Jerusalem, clears the temple, and curses a fig tree. Parables of two sons, wicked tenants, and a wedding feast answer his challengers, and chapter 23 ends with seven woes and a lament over the city.

  9. Day 9

    Matthew 24-26

    The Olivet discourse looks to the temple's fall and the end, followed by the ten virgins, the talents, and the sheep and goats. Then the anointing, the Last Supper, Gethsemane, and Peter's denial.

  10. Day 10

    Matthew 27-28; Mark 1

    Matthew ends with the crucifixion, the empty tomb, and the commission to make disciples of all nations. Mark then opens with no birth story at all: John, the baptism, and Jesus already moving through Galilee.

  11. Day 11

    Mark 2-4

    A paralyzed man is lowered through a roof, Levi is called, and Sabbath disputes begin. The twelve are appointed, Jesus's own family thinks him out of his mind, and he stills a storm that terrifies his disciples.

  12. Day 12

    Mark 5-7

    Mark weaves stories together: the man called Legion, a bleeding woman healed on the way to Jairus's dying daughter. Then John's death, five thousand fed, a quarrel over tradition, and a Syrophoenician woman's answer.

  13. Day 13

    Mark 8-10

    The hinge of Mark. Peter confesses Jesus as the Christ, then three times Jesus predicts his death and three times the disciples misunderstand. Two healings of blind men frame the section.

  14. Day 14

    Mark 11-12

    Jesus rides into Jerusalem, curses a fig tree, and clears the temple, and the two scenes interpret each other. Questions on authority, taxes, and resurrection follow, and a poor widow gives everything.

  15. Day 15

    Mark 13-15

    The discourse on the temple's coming fall, then the anointing at Bethany, the Passover meal, Gethsemane, and the trial. At the cross it is a Roman centurion who names Jesus the Son of God.

  16. Day 16

    Mark 16; Luke 1-2

    Mark ends at the empty tomb with frightened women; the earliest manuscripts stop at 16:8. Luke then opens with an orderly account for Theophilus: Zechariah, Mary, Elizabeth, the birth in Bethlehem, and the boy in the temple.

  17. Day 17

    Luke 3-5

    John preaches repentance, and Luke traces Jesus's genealogy back to Adam. After the temptation, Jesus reads Isaiah in Nazareth and is nearly thrown off a cliff; then come the great catch of fish and Levi's call.

  18. Day 18

    Luke 6-8

    The Sermon on the Plain, a centurion's faith, and a widow's son raised at Nain. A sinful woman anoints Jesus's feet at a Pharisee's table, and Luke names the women who supported his ministry.

  19. Day 19

    Luke 9-11

    Peter's confession and the transfiguration, then a turn at 9:51: Jesus sets his face toward Jerusalem. The journey brings the seventy-two, the good Samaritan, Martha and Mary, and teaching on prayer.

  20. Day 20

    Luke 12-14

    Warnings about greed in the rich fool, a call to watchfulness, and a bent woman healed on the Sabbath. Jesus laments over Jerusalem, tells of a banquet the invited refuse, and counts the cost of discipleship.

  21. Day 21

    Luke 15-17

    Three parables of lost things, the third about two sons and a waiting father. Then a shrewd manager, the rich man and Lazarus, and ten lepers healed, of whom only a Samaritan returns.

  22. Day 22

    Luke 18-20

    A persistent widow, a Pharisee and a tax collector at prayer, and a rich ruler who walks away. Zacchaeus climbs a tree, Jesus weeps over Jerusalem, and the temple debates begin.

  23. Day 23

    Luke 21-22

    A widow's small offering and the discourse on Jerusalem's fall. At the Last Supper the disciples argue about greatness; then the Mount of Olives, the arrest, and Peter's denial in the courtyard.

  24. Day 24

    Luke 23-24; John 1

    Luke ends with Pilate and Herod, the criminal promised paradise, the Emmaus road, and the ascension. John then begins before time, with the Word who became flesh, and moves to the Baptist and the first disciples.

  25. Day 25

    John 2-4

    Water becomes wine at Cana and Jesus clears the temple. Nicodemus comes at night, a Samaritan woman meets Jesus at noon by a well, and an official's son is healed from a distance.

  26. Day 26

    John 5-7

    A Sabbath healing at Bethesda leads to a long defense of the Son's work with the Father. After the feeding of five thousand comes the bread of life discourse, and many walk away. At Tabernacles the crowd is divided.

  27. Day 27

    John 8-10

    Jesus speaks as the light of the world and claims existence before Abraham. A man born blind is healed and expelled from the synagogue, and Jesus describes himself as the good shepherd. Note that 7:53-8:11 is absent from the earliest manuscripts.

  28. Day 28

    John 11-13

    Lazarus is raised, and that act seals the plot against Jesus. Mary anoints him, he enters Jerusalem, and at the supper he washes the disciples' feet. Judas goes out, and John notes it was night.

  29. Day 29

    John 14-16

    The farewell discourse. Jesus speaks of his Father's house, promises the Spirit as Helper, calls himself the vine, and warns the disciples the world will hate them, though their grief will turn to joy.

  30. Day 30

    John 17-19

    Jesus prays for his disciples and for those who will believe through them. Then the arrest, Peter's denials, Pilate's question about truth, the crucifixion, and burial by Joseph and Nicodemus.

  31. Day 31

    John 20-21; Acts 1

    Mary Magdalene at the tomb, Thomas's doubt, and a breakfast by the lake where Peter is restored three times. Acts, Luke's second volume, then opens with the ascension and the choosing of Matthias.

  32. Day 32

    Acts 2-3

    Pentecost: the Spirit comes, Peter preaches, and three thousand are baptized into a community that shares its goods. In chapter 3 a lame man is healed at the temple gate and Peter preaches again.

  33. Day 33

    Acts 4-6

    Peter and John stand before the council and refuse to be silenced. Ananias and Sapphira lie about a gift, the apostles are jailed and released, Gamaliel urges caution, and seven are chosen to serve, Stephen among them.

  34. Day 34

    Acts 7-9

    Stephen retells Israel's history and is stoned while Saul watches. Persecution scatters the church; Philip preaches in Samaria and to an Ethiopian official; and Saul is stopped on the Damascus road.

  35. Day 35

    Acts 10-12

    Peter's vision and the Spirit falling on Cornelius's household open the door to the gentiles. The church at Antioch grows, James is killed, Peter is freed from prison, and Herod dies.

  36. Day 36

    Acts 13-15

    Barnabas and Saul are sent out on the first journey: Cyprus, Pisidian Antioch, Lystra. Then the Jerusalem council settles whether gentiles must be circumcised, and Paul and Barnabas part over Mark.

  37. Day 37

    Acts 16-18

    The second journey: Timothy joins, a vision calls Paul to Macedonia, Lydia believes, and a jailer at Philippi is baptized. Then Thessalonica, Berea, the Areopagus in Athens, and eighteen months in Corinth.

  38. Day 38

    Acts 19-21

    Two years in Ephesus end in a silversmiths' riot. Paul says farewell to the Ephesian elders at Miletus, is warned by Agabus, and is seized in the Jerusalem temple.

  39. Day 39

    Acts 22-24

    Paul tells his conversion story to a hostile crowd, uses his Roman citizenship, and divides the council over the resurrection. A plot sends him to Caesarea, where Felix keeps him waiting two years.

  40. Day 40

    Acts 25-27

    Before Festus, Paul appeals to Caesar, then gives his defense to Agrippa. Chapter 27 is a detailed sea voyage: a winter storm, Paul's steadiness, and a shipwreck in which every person reaches land.

  41. Day 41

    Acts 28; Romans 1

    Acts ends with Paul in Rome under guard, still preaching without hindrance; the story stops rather than concludes. Romans, written earlier to that same church, opens with the gospel and then humanity's exchange of truth for idols.

  42. Day 42

    Romans 2-4

    Paul turns to the moral critic and to his own people: all stand accountable. Righteousness comes through faith apart from the law, and Abraham is the test case, counted righteous before circumcision.

  43. Day 43

    Romans 5-7

    Peace with God, and Adam and Christ as two heads of humanity. Paul then answers whether grace licenses sin, uses baptism and marriage as pictures, and ends chapter 7 with the divided self.

  44. Day 44

    Romans 8-10

    Chapter 8 moves from no condemnation through the Spirit and a groaning creation to nothing separating us from God's love. Then Paul grieves over Israel and works through election, the potter, and faith that confesses.

  45. Day 45

    Romans 11-13

    Paul insists God has not rejected Israel, using the olive tree and its grafted branches, and breaks into doxology. Chapter 12 turns to practice: a living sacrifice, gifts, sincere love, governing authorities.

  46. Day 46

    Romans 14-16

    The weak and the strong disagree over food and holy days; Paul asks them to welcome one another. He shares his plans for Jerusalem, Rome, and Spain, and closes with a long list of names, Phoebe first.

  47. Day 47

    1 Corinthians 1-3

    Corinth is split behind Paul, Apollos, and Cephas. Paul answers with the foolishness of the cross, a wisdom given by the Spirit, and the church as God's field and temple.

  48. Day 48

    1 Corinthians 4-6

    Paul contrasts the apostles' hardship with Corinthian pride and writes as their father. Then three hard cases: a man living with his father's wife, lawsuits among believers, and the body as a temple.

  49. Day 49

    1 Corinthians 7-9

    Paul begins answering their letter: marriage, singleness, and staying in one's calling. Food sacrificed to idols raises the question of knowledge and love, and Paul explains why he gave up his own rights.

  50. Day 50

    1 Corinthians 10-11

    Israel's wilderness failures stand as a warning against idolatry, with practical rules for meals in pagan homes. Chapter 11 addresses head coverings and a Lord's Supper where the rich ate while the poor went hungry.

  51. Day 51

    1 Corinthians 12-14

    Spiritual gifts and the church as one body with many parts. Chapter 13 sets love above every gift, and chapter 14 orders tongues and prophecy so the gathered church is built up.

  52. Day 52

    1 Corinthians 15-16; 2 Corinthians 1

    Paul's long argument for the resurrection: the witnesses, Christ as firstfruits, and the raised body. After notes on the collection, Second Corinthians opens with comfort in affliction and an account of changed travel plans.

  53. Day 53

    2 Corinthians 2-4

    Paul explains the painful letter and asks them to forgive the offender. He contrasts the new covenant with Moses' veiled face and describes his ministry as treasure carried in jars of clay.

  54. Day 54

    2 Corinthians 5-7

    The earthly tent and the hope beyond it, then the ministry of reconciliation and the new creation. Paul urges separation from idols, and Titus arrives with news that their grief has led to repentance.

  55. Day 55

    2 Corinthians 8-10

    Chapters 8-9 appeal for the Jerusalem collection, pointing to the Macedonians and to Christ who became poor. In chapter 10 the tone shifts sharply as Paul answers critics who call him weak in person.

  56. Day 56

    2 Corinthians 11-13

    Paul, against his preference, boasts as a fool: not in credentials but in beatings, shipwrecks, and anxiety for the churches. A thorn in the flesh teaches him power made perfect in weakness.

  57. Day 57

    Galatians 1-3

    Paul skips his usual thanksgiving and goes straight to alarm. He defends his gospel's origin, recounts confronting Peter at Antioch, and argues from Abraham that the Spirit comes by faith, not law.

  58. Day 58

    Galatians 4-6

    Heirs, not slaves; then the allegory of Hagar and Sarah. Paul calls them to freedom used for love, contrasts the works of the flesh with the fruit of the Spirit, and signs off in large letters.

  59. Day 59

    Ephesians 1-2

    A long opening blessing for adoption and redemption in Christ, and a prayer for understanding. Chapter 2 moves from dead in sin to alive by grace, and the dividing wall between Jew and gentile comes down.

  60. Day 60

    Ephesians 3-5

    Paul describes the mystery entrusted to him and prays they grasp the breadth of Christ's love. Then the call to unity, gifts for building up the body, the new self, and household relationships under Christ.

  61. Day 61

    Ephesians 6; Philippians 1-2

    Ephesians closes with households and the armor of God. Philippians, also written from prison, opens in gratitude and joy, weighs living and dying, and sets out the hymn of Christ who emptied himself.

  62. Day 62

    Philippians 3-4; Colossians 1

    Paul counts his credentials as loss and presses on; he urges two women to agree and thanks the church for its gift. Colossians then opens with a hymn to Christ as the image of the invisible God.

  63. Day 63

    Colossians 2-4

    Warnings against hollow philosophy, food rules, and angel worship, since the fullness is already in Christ. Then setting minds above, putting off and on, a household code, and greetings that include Onesimus.

  64. Day 64

    1 Thessalonians 1-3

    Paul thanks God that they turned from idols, recalls caring for them like a nurse and a father, and explains sending Timothy when he could not bear the silence. Timothy's good report brings relief.

  65. Day 65

    1 Thessalonians 4-5; 2 Thessalonians 1

    Paul addresses grief for believers who have died and the day of the Lord coming like a thief. Second Thessalonians follows, encouraging a persecuted church that God's justice is sure.

  66. Day 66

    2 Thessalonians 2-3; 1 Timothy 1

    Paul corrects the claim that the day of the Lord has come and warns against idleness. First Timothy then opens with charges against false teachers and Paul calling himself the foremost of sinners shown mercy.

  67. Day 67

    1 Timothy 2-4

    Prayer for rulers and one mediator, instructions for worship, and the qualifications for overseers and deacons. Paul tells Timothy to train himself in godliness and let no one despise his youth.

  68. Day 68

    1 Timothy 5-6

    Practical care for widows, honor and discipline for elders, and a word to slaves. Paul warns that the love of money uproots faith, urges Timothy to fight the good fight, and charges the rich to be generous.

  69. Day 69

    2 Timothy 1-3

    Often read as Paul's last letter, written from prison. He urges Timothy to rekindle his gift, endure like a soldier, athlete, and farmer, handle the word rightly, and hold to the scriptures through hard days.

  70. Day 70

    2 Timothy 4; Titus 1-2

    Paul says his race is finished and asks for his cloak and parchments. The letter to Titus follows: appoint elders in Crete and teach each age group the conduct that fits sound doctrine.

  71. Day 71

    Titus 3; Philemon 1; Hebrews 1

    Titus ends with grace and good works. Philemon is a short appeal to receive Onesimus back as a brother. Hebrews opens with God speaking through his Son, who is shown superior to the angels.

  72. Day 72

    Hebrews 2-4

    The first warning: do not drift. The Son was made lower than the angels to share our flesh, is greater than Moses, and offers a rest the wilderness generation missed, as a sympathetic high priest.

  73. Day 73

    Hebrews 5-7

    Christ is a priest in the order of Melchizedek. The writer rebukes immaturity, gives the sternest warning about falling away, and then explains the strange figure from Genesis 14.

  74. Day 74

    Hebrews 8-10

    The new covenant promised in Jeremiah, the tabernacle and the Day of Atonement, and Christ's sacrifice offered once for all. Chapter 10 urges drawing near, then warns again, then calls for endurance.

  75. Day 75

    Hebrews 11-13

    The roll call of faith from Abel to the prophets, people who died still looking ahead. Then running with endurance, discipline as a mark of sons, Sinai and Zion, and going to Jesus outside the camp.

  76. Day 76

    James 1-3

    Trials and wisdom, and the difference between hearing the word and doing it. James confronts favoritism toward the rich, argues that faith without works is dead, and warns about the tongue.

  77. Day 77

    James 4-5

    Quarrels come from desires within; friendship with the world is set against God. James warns against presuming on tomorrow, condemns rich oppressors, and closes with patience, prayer for the sick, and Elijah.

  78. Day 78

    1 Peter 1-3

    Peter writes to believers as exiles with a living hope. They are living stones and a priesthood, called to good conduct under authority and to follow Christ when they suffer unjustly.

  79. Day 79

    1 Peter 4-5; 2 Peter 1

    First Peter closes with the fiery trial, a charge to elders, and the adversary prowling like a lion. Second Peter opens with virtues added to faith and Peter's eyewitness memory of the transfiguration.

  80. Day 80

    2 Peter 2-3; 1 John 1

    False teachers are measured against the flood and Sodom, and scoffers ask where the promised coming is; the answer is God's patience. First John then opens with what was seen and touched, and with walking in the light.

  81. Day 81

    1 John 2-4

    An advocate with the Father, an old and new commandment, and antichrists who left the community. John calls for love in action, tests for spirits, and rests it all on God's love shown first.

  82. Day 82

    1 John 5; 2 John 1; 3 John 1

    First John ends with faith that overcomes and assurance of life. Second John warns a church against welcoming deceivers; Third John praises Gaius for hospitality and names Diotrephes, who loves to be first.

  83. Day 83

    Jude 1; Revelation 1-2

    Jude warns against intruders using Cain, Balaam, and Korah, then ends in doxology. Revelation opens with John on Patmos, a vision of the risen Christ among lampstands, and letters to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, and Thyatira.

  84. Day 84

    Revelation 3-5

    Letters to Sardis, Philadelphia, and lukewarm Laodicea. Then a door opens in heaven: the throne room, a sealed scroll no one can open, and a Lion who turns out to be a slain Lamb.

  85. Day 85

    Revelation 6-8

    The Lamb opens six seals: four riders, martyrs under the altar, and cosmic upheaval. An interlude shows the sealed servants and a multitude from every nation; then the seventh seal, silence, and the first trumpets.

  86. Day 86

    Revelation 9-10

    The fifth and sixth trumpets bring locusts and a vast army, and still those who survive do not repent. A mighty angel gives John a little scroll to eat, sweet in the mouth and bitter in the stomach.

  87. Day 87

    Revelation 11-13

    Two witnesses prophesy, die, and rise, and the seventh trumpet sounds. Then the woman, the child, and the dragon, war in heaven, and two beasts from sea and land who demand worship.

  88. Day 88

    Revelation 14-16

    The Lamb stands on Mount Zion with his people, three angels announce judgment, and the earth is harvested. The song of Moses and the Lamb precedes seven bowls of wrath and the gathering at Armageddon.

  89. Day 89

    Revelation 17-19

    Babylon appears as a prostitute riding the beast, then falls while kings and merchants lament. Heaven answers with hallelujahs, the marriage supper of the Lamb, and a rider on a white horse.

  90. Day 90

    Revelation 20-22

    The thousand years, the final defeat of the devil, and judgment at the great white throne. Then a new heaven and earth, the holy city, the river and tree of life, and a closing invitation to come.

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