Bible Reading for June 2nd and 3rd
World English Bible
June
2
Ruth
1, 2
Rth
1:1 It happened in the days when the judges judged, that there was a
famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to sojourn
in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
Rth
1:2 The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife
Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites
of Bethlehem Judah. They came into the country of Moab, and continued
there.
Rth
1:3 Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died; and she was left, and her two
sons.
Rth
1:4 They took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one
was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they lived there about
ten years.
Rth
1:5 Mahlon and Chilion both died, and the woman was bereaved of her
two children and of her husband.
Rth
1:6 Then she arose with her daughters-in-law, that she might return
from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab
how that Yahweh had visited his people in giving them bread.
Rth
1:7 She went forth out of the place where she was, and her two
daughters-in-law with her; and they went on the way to return to the
land of Judah.
Rth
1:8 Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, Go, return each of you
to her mother's house: Yahweh deal kindly with you, as you have dealt
with the dead, and with me.
Rth
1:9 Yahweh grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the
house of her husband. Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their
voice, and wept.
Rth
1:10 They said to her, No, but we will return with you to your
people.
Rth
1:11 Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why do you want to go
with me? Do I still have sons in my womb, that they may be your
husbands?
Rth
1:12 Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have
a husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should even have a
husband tonight, and should also bear sons;
Rth
1:13 would you therefore wait until they were grown? would you
therefore stay from having husbands? nay, my daughters, for it
grieves me much for your sakes, for the hand of Yahweh is gone forth
against me.
Rth
1:14 They lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed
her mother-in-law, but Ruth joined with her.
Rth
1:15 She said, Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her
people, and to her god: return after your sister-in-law.
Rth
1:16 Ruth said, "Don't entreat me to leave you, and to return
from following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you
lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my
God;
Rth
1:17 where you die, will I die, and there will I be buried: Yahweh
do so to me, and more also, if anything but death part you and me."
Rth
1:18 When she saw that she was steadfastly minded to go with her,
she left off speaking to her.
Rth
1:19 So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. It happened,
when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about
them, and the women
said, Is this Naomi?
Rth
1:20 She said to them, "Don't call me Naomi, call me Mara; for
the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
Rth
1:21 I went out full, and Yahweh has brought me home again empty;
why do you call me Naomi, seeing Yahweh has testified against me, and
the Almighty has afflicted me?"
Rth
1:22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law,
with her, who returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to
Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.
Rth
2:1 Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of wealth, of
the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.
Rth
2:2 Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, Let me now go to the field,
and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall
find favor. She said to her, Go, my daughter.
Rth
2:3 She went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers:
and she happened to come to the portion of the field belonging to
Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.
Rth
2:4 Behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers,
Yahweh be with you. They answered him, Yahweh bless you.
Rth
2:5 Then said Boaz to his servant who was set over the reapers,
Whose young lady is this?
Rth
2:6 The servant who was set over the reapers answered, It is the
Moabite lady who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab:
Rth
2:7 She said, Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among
the sheaves. So she came, and has continued even from the morning
until now, except that she stayed a little in the house.
Rth
2:8 Then said Boaz to Ruth, Don't you hear, my daughter? Don't go to
glean in another field, neither pass from hence, but abide here fast
by my maidens.
Rth
2:9 Let your eyes be on the field that they reap, and go after them:
haven't I commanded the young men not to touch you? and when you are
thirsty, go to the vessels, and drink of that which the young men
have drawn.
Rth
2:10 Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and
said to him, Why have I found favor in your sight, that you should
take knowledge of me, seeing I am a foreigner?
Rth
2:11 Boaz answered her, It has fully been shown me, all that you
have done to your mother-in-law since the death of your husband; and
how you have left your father and your mother, and the land of your
birth, and have come to a people that you didn't know before.
Rth
2:12 May Yahweh repay your work, and a full reward be given you from
Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take
refuge.
Rth
2:13 Then she said, Let me find favor in your sight, my lord,
because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken kindly to
your handmaid, though I am not as one of your handmaidens.
Rth
2:14 At meal time Boaz said to her, Come here, and eat of the bread,
and dip your morsel in the vinegar. She sat beside the reapers, and
they reached her parched grain, and she ate, and was sufficed, and
left of it.
Rth
2:15 When she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men,
saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and don't reproach her.
Rth
2:16 Also pull out some for her from the bundles, and leave it, and
let her glean, and don't rebuke her.
Rth
2:17 So she gleaned in the field until even; and she beat out that
which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.
Rth
2:18 She took it up, and went into the city; and her mother-in-law
saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth and gave to her that
which she had left after she was sufficed.
Rth
2:19 Her mother-in-law said to her, Where have you gleaned today?
and where have you worked? blessed be he who did take knowledge of
you. She showed her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, and said,
The man's name with whom I worked today is Boaz.
Rth
2:20 Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, Blessed be he of Yahweh, who
has not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. Naomi
said to her, The man is a close relative to us, one of our near
kinsmen.
Rth
2:21 Ruth the Moabitess said, Yes, he said to me, You shall stay
close to my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.
Rth
2:22 Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, It is good, my
daughter, that you go out with his maidens, and that they not meet
you in any other field.
Rth
2:23 So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz, to glean to the end of
barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she lived with her
mother-in-law.
June
3
Ruth
3
Rth
3:1 Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, My daughter, shall I not
seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?
Rth
3:2 Now isn't Boaz our kinsman, with whose maidens you were? Behold,
he winnows barley tonight in the threshing floor.
Rth
3:3 Wash yourself therefore, and anoint yourself, and put your
clothing on yourself, and go down to the threshing floor, but don't
make yourself known to the man, until he has finished eating and
drinking.
Rth
3:4 It shall be, when he lies down, that you shall mark the place
where he shall lie, and you shall go in, and uncover his feet, and
lay down; then he will tell you what you shall do.
Rth
3:5 She said to her, All that you say I will do.
Rth
3:6 She went down to the threshing floor, and did according to all
that her mother-in-law told her.
Rth
3:7 When Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went
to lie down at the end of the heap of grain: and she came softly, and
uncovered his feet, and laid her down.
Rth
3:8 It happened at midnight, that the man was afraid, and turned
himself; and behold, a woman lay at his feet.
Rth
3:9 He said, Who are you? She answered, I am Ruth your handmaid:
spread therefore your skirt over your handmaid; for you are a near
kinsman.
Rth
3:10 He said, Blessed are you by Yahweh, my daughter: you have shown
more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as
you didn't follow young men, whether poor or rich.
Rth
3:11 Now, my daughter, don't be afraid; I will do to you all that
you say; for all the city of my people does know that you are a
worthy woman.
Rth
3:12 Now it is true that I am a near kinsman; however there is a
kinsman nearer than I.
Rth
3:13 Stay this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he
will perform for you the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the
kinsman's part: but if he will not do the part of a kinsman for you,
then will I do the part of a kinsman for you, as Yahweh lives: lie
down until the morning.
Rth
3:14 She lay at his feet until the morning. She rose up before one
could discern another. For he said, Let it not be known that the
woman came to the threshing floor.
Rth
3:15 He said, Bring the mantle that is on you, and hold it; and she
held it; and he measured six measures
of barley, and laid it on her: and he went into the city.
Rth
3:16 When she came to her mother-in-law, she said, Who are you, my
daughter? She told her all that the man had done to her.
Rth
3:17 She said, These six measures
of barley gave he me; for he said, "Don't go empty to your
mother-in-law."
Rth
3:18 Then she said, "Sit still, my daughter, until you know how
the matter will fall; for the man will not rest, until he has
finished the thing this day."
Rth
4:1 Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat him down there: and
behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by; to whom he said,
Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. He turned aside, and sat
down.
Rth
4:2 He took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit down
here. They sat down.
Rth
4:3 He said to the near kinsman, Naomi, who has come back out of the
country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land, which was our brother
Elimelech's:
Rth
4:4 I thought to disclose it to you, saying, Buy it before those who
sit here, and before the elders of my people. If you will redeem it,
redeem it: but if you will not redeem it, then tell me, that I may
know; for there is none to redeem it besides you; and I am after you.
He said, I will redeem it.
Rth
4:5 Then said Boaz, On the day you buy the field from the hand of
Naomi, you must buy it also from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the
dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance.
Rth
4:6 The near kinsman said, I can't redeem it for myself, lest I mar
my own inheritance: take my right of redemption on you; for I can't
redeem it.
Rth
4:7 Now this was the custom
in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning
exchanging, to confirm all things: a man drew off his shoe, and gave
it to his neighbor; and this was the manner
of attestation in Israel.
Rth
4:8 So the near kinsman said to Boaz, Buy it for yourself. He drew
off his shoe.
Rth
4:9 Boaz said to the elders, and to all the people, You are
witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and
all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, of the hand of Naomi.
Rth
4:10 Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I
purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his
inheritance, that the name of the dead not be cut off from among his
brothers, and from the gate of his place: you are witnesses this day.
Rth
4:11 All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, We
are witnesses. Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house
like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel: and
treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem:
Rth
4:12 and let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore
to Judah, of the seed which Yahweh shall give you of this young
woman.
Rth
4:13 So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife; and he went in to
her, and Yahweh gave her conception, and she bore a son.
Rth
4:14 The women said to Naomi, Blessed be Yahweh, who has not left
you this day without a near kinsman; and let his name be famous in
Israel.
Rth
4:15 He shall be to you a restorer of life, and sustain you in your
old age, for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to
you than seven sons, has borne him.
Rth
4:16 Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became
nurse to it.
Rth
4:17 The women her neighbors gave it a name, saying, There is a son
born to Naomi; and they named him Obed: he is the father of Jesse,
the father of David.
Rth
4:18 Now this is the history of the generations of Perez: Perez
became the father of Hezron,
Rth
4:19 and Hezron became the father of Ram, and Ram became the father
of Amminadab,
Rth
4:20 and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon became
the father of Salmon,
Rth
4:21 and Salmon became the father of Boaz, and Boaz became the
father of Obed,
Rth
4:22 and Obed became the father of Jesse, and Jesse became the
father of David.
Jun.
2
John 9
Joh 9:1
As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.
Joh 9:2
His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his
parents, that he was born blind?"
Joh 9:3
Jesus answered, "Neither did this man sin, nor his parents;
but, that the works of God might be revealed in him.
Joh 9:4
I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night
is coming, when no one can work.
Joh 9:5
While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
Joh 9:6
When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the
saliva, anointed the blind man's eyes with the mud,
Joh 9:7
and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which
means "Sent"). So he went away, washed, and came back
seeing.
Joh 9:8
The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before,
said, "Isn't this he who sat and begged?"
Joh 9:9
Others were saying, "It is he." Still others were saying,
"He looks like him." He said, "I am he."
Joh
9:10 They therefore were asking him, "How were your eyes
opened?"
Joh
9:11 He answered, "A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my
eyes, and said to me, 'Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash.' So I went
away and washed, and I received sight."
Joh
9:12 Then they asked him, "Where is he?" He said, "I
don't know."
Joh
9:13 They brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees.
Joh
9:14 It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.
Joh
9:15 Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received
his sight. He said to them, "He put mud on my eyes, I washed,
and I see."
Joh
9:16 Some therefore of the Pharisees said, "This man is not
from God, because he doesn't keep the Sabbath." Others said,
"How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" There was
division among them.
Joh
9:17 Therefore they asked the blind man again, "What do you say
about him, because he opened your eyes?" He said, "He is a
prophet."
Joh
9:18 The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him, that he had
been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents
of him who had received his sight,
Joh
9:19 and asked them, "Is this your son, who you say was born
blind? How then does he now see?"
Joh
9:20 His parents answered them, "We know that this is our son,
and that he was born blind;
Joh
9:21 but how he now sees, we don't know; or who opened his eyes, we
don't know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself."
Joh
9:22 His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for
the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as
Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.
Joh
9:23 Therefore his parents said, "He is of age. Ask him."
Joh
9:24 So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to
him, "Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner."
Joh
9:25 He therefore answered, "I don't know if he is a sinner.
One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see."
Joh
9:26 They said to him again, "What did he do to you? How did he
open your eyes?"
Joh
9:27 He answered them, "I told you already, and you didn't
listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don't also want to
become his disciples, do you?"
Joh
9:28 They insulted him and said, "You are his disciple, but we
are disciples of Moses.
Joh
9:29 We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we
don't know where he comes from."
Joh
9:30 The man answered them, "How amazing! You don't know where
he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.
Joh
9:31 We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but if anyone is a
worshipper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.
Joh
9:32 Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone
opened the eyes of someone born blind.
Joh
9:33 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."
Joh
9:34 They answered him, "You were altogether born in sins, and
do you teach us?" They threw him out.
Joh
9:35 Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he
said, "Do you believe in the Son of God?"
Joh
9:36 He answered, "Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?"
Joh
9:37 Jesus said to him, "You have both seen him, and it is he
who speaks with you."
Joh
9:38 He said, "Lord, I believe!" and he worshiped him.
Joh
9:39 Jesus said, "I came into this world for judgment, that
those who don't see may see; and that those who see may become
blind."
Joh
9:40 Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things,
and said to him, "Are we also blind?"
Joh
9:41 Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no
sin; but now you say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remains.
Jun. 3
John 10
Joh
10:1 "Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn't enter by the
door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a
thief and a robber.
Joh
10:2 But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
Joh
10:3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to
his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.
Joh
10:4 Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and
the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
Joh
10:5 They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from
him; for they don't know the voice of strangers."
Joh
10:6 Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn't understand
what he was telling them.
Joh
10:7 Jesus therefore said to them again, "Most certainly, I
tell you, I am the sheep's door.
Joh
10:8 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep
didn't listen to them.
Joh
10:9 I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and
will go in and go out, and will find pasture.
Joh
10:10 The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that
they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
Joh
10:11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life
for the sheep.
Joh
10:12 He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn't own
the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The
wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.
Joh
10:13 The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn't
care for the sheep.
Joh
10:14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I'm known by my
own;
Joh
10:15 even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down
my life for the sheep.
Joh
10:16 I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring
them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock
with one shepherd.
Joh
10:17 Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life,
that I may take it again.
Joh
10:18 No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I
have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I
received this commandment from my Father."
Joh
10:19 Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of
these words.
Joh
10:20 Many of them said, "He has a demon, and is insane! Why do
you listen to him?"
Joh
10:21 Others said, "These are not the sayings of one possessed
by a demon. It isn't possible for a demon to open the eyes of the
blind, is it?"
Joh
10:22 It was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem.
Joh
10:23 It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in
Solomon's porch.
Joh
10:24 The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, "How
long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us
plainly."
Joh
10:25 Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you don't believe.
The works that I do in my Father's name, these testify about me.
Joh
10:26 But you don't believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I
told you.
Joh
10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
Joh
10:28 I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no
one will snatch them out of my hand.
Joh
10:29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No
one is able to snatch them out of my Father's hand.
Joh
10:30 I and the Father are one."
Joh
10:31 Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him.
Joh
10:32 Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works
from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?"
Joh
10:33 The Jews answered him, "We don't stone you for a good
work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself
God."
Joh
10:34 Jesus answered them, "Isn't it written in your law, 'I
said, you are gods?'
Joh
10:35 If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the
Scripture can't be broken),
Joh
10:36 do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the
world, 'You blaspheme,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God?'
Joh
10:37 If I don't do the works of my Father, don't believe me.
Joh
10:38 But if I do them, though you don't believe me, believe the
works; that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I
in the Father."
Joh
10:39 They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.
Joh
10:40 He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John
was baptizing at first, and there he stayed.
Joh
10:41 Many came to him. They said, "John indeed did no sign,
but everything that John said about this man is true."
Joh
10:42 Many believed in him there.
The
A.M. Turing Award is one of, if not the, highest awards that can be
given to those in the computing field. It was named after British
mathematician Alan M. Turing, and awarded to those who are believed to
have made breakthrough advancements in computing technology (Robertson,
2011). The most recent recipient of the Turing award was Harvard
University professor Leslie Valiant. He received the award based on his
contributions to the field of “computer learning.” Jordan Robertson, AP
Technology Writer, noted that Valiant’s efforts “paved the way for
computers that more closely mimic how humans think” (2011). Robertson
quoted ACM President Alain Chesnais as saying that Valiant’s work, “has
produced modeling that offers computationally inspired answers on
fundamental questions like how the brain ‘computes’” (2011).
On
April 4, 2014 I debated Dr. Bart Ehrman on the campus of the University
of North Alabama in Florence, Alabama. Approximately 1,500 people
attended the event live, and an estimated 70-80 thousand people viewed
the debate on-line or via television on the Gospel Broadcasting Network.
Since the recording of the debate was uploaded onto Youtube, it has
been viewed almost 7,000 times. All told, the best estimates we have
indicate that between 90-100 thousand people have viewed the debate.
