How to Read the Bible by John Follette

Trust the Lord to give each one his portion. I thought this morning instead of taking one text, the Lord didn’t lay that on my heart at all, I felt to read you something in the Word and show you how the Lord opens up the truth to me. Would that help you? Many people say, “I read the Bible and it doesn’t seem to mean anything. I just read it and I maybe get one or two thoughts.” But, you know its possible to read the word of God and when the Spirit of God moves with you, He will break it all to pieces and get you on several lines of truth just from one little passage of the word. So, that’s the way He’s been teaching me to read. Several years ago, I was reading the Word and the Lord stopped me and said, “How readest thou? How are you reading?” Well, I knew it was the Lord. I know when He gets after me cause I know how His voice sounds. It isn’t a real voice, but its something inside of you, it doesn’t have to be something you hear out here. How many know the voice inside? Of course. And how many know it has tones and inflections too? It has real tones and inflections. And He just said it quietly to me. He said, “How are you reading, how readest thou?” Well, I thought, I’m reading like I always do. I’m reading Your word and hoping you will speak to me through it and I want to be helped by it, and fill my heart and life with it. I thought, how should I read? Tell me how to read the Word. Well then, when I asked Him this question you know, He’s very courteous about it. He had no business to say, “How do you read the Word” unless He was willing to tell me how. So I said, “How should I read?” Well, He told me there were three methods of reading the Word of God. Now, there is one that is “perfunctory,” that is, you feel a certain obligation since you are a Christian to read the Word of God. Well, now, that’s a very good thing, but after all it doesn’t get you very far. You’ re doing it purely from a perfunctory act of being a Christian and, therefore, you think I must pray and I must read the Word. Well, that is good, but it isn’t the way He would have us to read because there’s no inspiration about it. It’s perfunctory. You are reading the Word and some people can’t rest unless they have read thus much. As I said the other night, some people even before they go to bed they have to read a certain bit of the Word or something or other or they’d probably have a nightmare. I don’t fuddle around with such stuff as that. And so they’ll get out of the bed and open the Bible, and still half asleep, read something in the Bible to kind of satisfy that superstitious thing in them. How many know what I mean? And then they feel they are clear, and can sleep. Well, how many can see there is nothing inspiring about that at all. There is nothing inspiring and there is nothing for God to work in a heart with that attitude. They are perfunctorily reading the Word because they’re supposed to read the Word. Every Christian is supposed to read the Word. Well, if that’s as far as you’re going to go, then go on. You won’t go to hell, but you won’t get anywhere near God, because you are doing it merely as a perfunctory act of being religious. Now every once in awhile I run across the “marathon” reader. You know what a “marathon” reader is? They read so many chapters a day and so many chapters on Sundays and six extra verses on Wednesday and then do it all over again and over again as long as they are reading the Bible. How many have ever heard of them? I run cross them every once in awhile. “Marathon” readers. Well, I ask them what in the world did you get out of it. They tell me, “Well, nothing, you know. I just read the Bible.” Well, I tell them, if your exercising reading, get the almanac and read that. It will be better, because that won’t do you the damage that you’re receiving reading the Bible this way. I think it’s right to have some kind of system about your reading. If God is leading you to read certain portions, certain books, let’s say we’re taking up Ephesians or taking up Philippians or something, stay in that book until the Lord finishes with you. Then take another portion that He wants to lay on your heart. Now, there is another fashion. It is what I call a “traditional pattern.” Having read the Word, and having read the stories, read the parables, read the gospels and you know the Epistles, by and by we have a general, very good conception of what they hold. That you can start the gospels, and you read a parable, and you can say that’s a parable as Matthew puts it. Now this is all technical. Then you read a little bit more and know that it is in John. Read some more and that’s Luke. Well, that’s good to have also. How many see the technical aspect of that right away? We are becoming letter conscious. You are becoming very conscious of the letter of the Word and its position. That is good, you must have that as a background, but don’t rest in that. That is not yet feeding you. And so when you read traditionally, you read all the while with an anticipation. When the Lord stopped me, I was reading the story of the raising of Lazarus. I was reading that wonderful story of the household of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus, and how Jesus came and the conversation between Martha first and then Mary. Martha made the first contact, Mary makes the second. But, if you make an analysis of it, both repeat the same, because they are both of the same attitude and the same mind. Well, I was reading along and waiting for something. Do you know what it was? “Lazarus come forth!” How many know that is the great climax of this story. Well everybody reads along hastily to get Lazarus out of the tomb. That’s really what they want to get, and so I don’t blame people. I’m not too harsh, I’m just amused at people that’s all. But, why do people read certain scriptures? You read certain scriptures because they bring a certain reaction to you. Now, if someone wants the inspirational thinking that there is the miracle and how wonderful it is that He wrought this miracle, you read the story of the raising of Lazarus from the dead and there is a miracle. Well, what do you really find? A great lift when He says, “Lazarus, come forth.” How many see the climax right away? Alright, now in your build up to that climax, you have left undone, unfinished, unattached at all, oh so many beautiful, wonderful bits of truth in there. In their conversation, in the way they approach, in the reason why one appeals to Jesus before the other. All of that is perfectly there and purposely designed and purposely arranged so that you read it before we come to “Lazarus come forth.” I got so interested in that chapter I don’t know how many days I was reading it. Days! Imagine spending days reading one chapter. Well, people would ask me what kind of a reader I am. Well, I’m a slow reader. I can take a chapter and I can move around in that chapter for days. I forgot all about Lazarus coming forth, I got so interested in what was going on in that chapter and how the Lord was handling these people and there little conversations and what He was saying. I got so enthralled because it was all spiritual. I was getting a terrific spiritual lift through it. Finally I thought, where is Lazarus, we better get him out of the tomb. So I read on a little farther and we got him out of the tomb. And I said, “Well, dear Lord, think of reading for days before you get him out.” Now you see, people can read traditionally because they get a certain reaction from the reading. Originally it gave you a lift and so you like to have that lift over again and so you read it again, repeating the same emotional reaction from it. Do you get it or don’t you? Yes, well people have found that out, they know how we’re made and so they have made little bookmarks. I’ve seen them, you have too. When you are blue, read so and so. And then when you are starved, read so and so. And when you are in difficulty, read so and so. How many know these little book marks like that. Well, how did anyone know how to make them? Because they know how people generally react to the truth. And so, in order to help they just say, well when you are blue and discouraged, press a button and out comes the truth. How many see it? That’s a kind of a mechanical way. It’s good. It will help you, but by and by you depend too much upon the mechanism of the thing without having anything that is original and inspiring and fresh. So the Lord said, “Well now, don’t read that way. It’s alright, you may read it, but don’t expect Me to meet you in it, because you have closed the avenues. By your attitude and anticipation, you have closed the door for me to come in with anything fresh because you knew just what was going to come anyway.” Do you get it? Well, knowing all that is coming, how do you know but what the Lord wants to stop you and say, here look at this verse. But no, we don’t. We just read along because that’s the way the story goes. I said, “Alright Lord, you’ve showed me about two ways NOT to read, how should I read?” He said, “When you approach this Word, it is your attitude that counts. Never approach it like any other literature in the world, because it isn’t anything like any other literature in the world. This book isn’t like any other book that’s ever been printed in this world, because its content is the Word of God. It is God speaking.” Well then, if I approach this word and I keep in mind this is God speaking, I must take a different attitude from merely reading it, because it is interesting. I must read it because the Holy Spirit who has written the Word is the interpreter of it and it is possible for Him to arrest my attention all along the way at any verse and call my attention to it. And the Holy Spirit then has time for what I call “inspiration in reading.” Christians have come to me so many times and told me they are Christians. Only a couple weeks ago a dear sister came to me and said, “I’m a Christian and I love the Lord and everything, but I don’t get anything out of the Bible. I read I suppose because I have to. I’m a Christian and I read it.” How many see the poor dear? She had never had any little instruction of how to read the Bible and to be open to God. Now let me help you here. In the reading of that Word, keep your heart open. It isn’t so much your mind that is now analyzing every third word. I know that technique too. We have to have that in scholarship and in study, but I never see the Word of God for a real help as I do in a study, because in a study you have to do analysis and word values and all that. A teacher should have that. I’ve had that for years, that’s my old methods. I know that. I can’t get out of the Word what I do unless I do that. But, I’m talking about my general reading, of my precious sheep who read. I have to be a shepherd over them and I do a different kind of work from you. I’m not expecting you to do my work at all and I don’t want you to be trying to do what I do. You just stay put in whatever little pattern you have and I stay in my little pattern and that is the only way through. So I find that it depends upon my attitude. Then the Lord showed me something else. He said, “It’s your attitude of heart that governs not only in your word but in your prayer life. When you come to seek me, it isn’t the prayers that you are making.” You have to have your prayers and say and repeat the prayers because that is a release to a certain urge and an emotional drive in you that wants life and truth and God. Now if that urge is really as it should be, the depths, I would say the core of the thing is inarticulate. That is, the real core of the prayer that should be birthed in you and in me is not articulate in words. It has to bind its expression as best we can through words and then Paul says it gets so intense that even words won’t do it, it has to go through groans and cries. How many see what I mean? I mean that the core of that prayer, the core of the desire in there, that is giving birth to what we call our prayers, “and now dear Lord you know how I am.” That goes on and He listens to it of course, that’ s alright but that doesn’t entertain Him too much. Well I said, “Why Lord is that?” He told me it isn’t your words that you are saying, it is your heart attitude. And in your heart attitude you either close me or you release me. How many can see that is quite possible. Even before your words are spoken, even before they are formed in any kind of a conscious sentence, the attitude of your heart, when you come into the Lord’s presence, the attitude of your heart is either releasing Him or it is closing Him in. Those are things I find as I walk with God. I discovered those facts and they are principles, they are things that pertain to our spiritual culture, to our spiritual education, to our development in grace, and to our growth in God. We have to know these things or we fumble along like children untaught. That is why we have teachers. To me a teacher is not just someone who studies the Bible and gives a Bible reading. The Lord helped me with this one time. I had to minister in conventions and camp meetings and I always dreaded it. They would introduce me as an evangelist and I had to ask them to please do not do that. I am not an evangelist, I have no special gifts as an evangelist and people come to hear me preach a revival when I’ ve never preached a revival. How many know you’ll hear about 10,000 evangelists and only hear about two teachers. That’s right. The proportion is all out of balance. People think, when a Bible teacher is coming, that he is some kind of an evangelist. No, not at all. His vocation isn’t that at all. Why has God said that He is placing in the church pastors, preachers and evangelists if there is no difference between them. Why didn’t He just say He was placing into the church a lot of Christian workers? He doesn’t do that because He says there is a specific ministry for each one of them. The evangelist comes to work on the unbelievers and the sinners to present Jesus to them and to bring them into the light and give the little lambs their birth and bring them into the fold and give them first a little elementary teaching. His work in the world is with sinners to try and bring them into a relationship with God. The pastor takes these sheep and begins to minister to them. He begins to feed them, direct them, guard them and guide them. Entirely different ministry, but very necessary. He has to be a shepherd over them, watching them, taking care of them. Well, then a teacher comes in. He’s not the preacher there and he’s not the evangelist. What is he then? He is what God has called teachers, who are to open the Word of God and bring Spiritual reality into a living consciousness in the hearts and lives of those who are hungry for it or who have capacity for it. Now, many Christians, hundreds of them, have no special capacity for anything past salvation, the baptism, healing and a few miracles, and then they are all finished. There are thousands of folks like that. Then there are others who have an urge and a desire for something more in God and they are trying to battle their way through these old patterns and trying to find, if there is a reality in the things of God, in the Spirit , in the Word. So some of us have to come in and help those who have a hunger and thirst for a deeper understanding of the things of God. Now all of us have a certain potential for spiritual gifts. Potential spiritual qualifications. We are not made the same. We are not geared the same. There are some who have a certain aptitude. The old French mystics, teachers and scholars entered into what I call the realm of spiritual living. We have a few scholars who have lived in that field. They are not recognized because they are called mystics or unpractical; some kind of doers that live around Moonies. Well, that shows the ignorance of people. They don’t know anything about them. When you don’t know anything about people like that, keep still. You only display your ignorance. Not long ago somebody said to me, “Have you ever heard of Follette? He’s kind of like a mystic, he’s not very practical.” That amused me. I thought, has he ever seen my hands? How many know I have very square hands, they are not tapering. Enough said for that, so you’ll know my language. I thought, you follow me around two weeks and you’ll find out if I’m practical or not. But you see, they have an idea that if you delve into anything of spiritual nature past the baptism, then you have become impractical and sort of mystical. Now listen, I’ve moved in this realm for over 50 years and I have never found one thing in there that contradicts the practical living life. Not at all. I’ve never found anything in that realm that contradicts the fact that we are still walking here in the flesh and eat potatoes and beans, and should be able to tell our right hand from our left. Do you know the trouble is, without knowing this field or knowing what these teachers are trying to do, to salvage out of Christendom, not out of the world, the evangelist salvages sinners out of the world, a teacher salvages spirits out of a church. How many get it or don’t you get it? I’m not salvaging sinners out of the world. I’m salvaging lovely spirits that I contact over the face of this earth out of Christianity to bring them into what God wants. I get some out of Pentecost and some out of churches. I get them from every region, because there’s that aptitude, the French word is “attray” and that’s a good word. And you will find that in a soul. I’ll say, “Oh, there’s a certain ‘attray’ in you.” How do you know? I know, we’ve talked about it and I just know. Now come on. I believe if you’re really honest with God, He will lead you and feed you and culture and bring that little potential spiritual life in you into the thing that He wants. Now don’t be frightened if you don’t turn out to be a Francis of Assisi or a Madame Guyon. Don’t be worried. You are supposed to be the person whom God sees you to be. That is all. Now when the Holy Spirit begins to work with you, offer to Him with all the abandonment that you have, that little “attray,” that aptitude, that urge, that little hunger, just that little flickering hunger for more of God, more of God. Cultivate that. That to me is the most choice thing in you. Why? Because it is the root, THE ROOT, of all the possibilities of the ages to come are hidden potentially in that little quivering urge in your heart. You know that, or don’t you know that? Well, that’s true. As I said yesterday, all we will carry over into the next realm is the amount of spiritual life, vision, understanding, the amount of spiritual opening, alertness, awareness - the amount of that spiritual life that we have, that’s what we carry over into the next age. God begins to work with us from that angle. When we are translated or brought in, we are not matured, He takes us exactly where we are now. If you were a babe in Christ, translation never makes you into a matured saint. Neither does death, because God has a law that governs in that field just as much as the law of gravitation. I want you to know that because it is scripture. That is why Paul taught so earnestly as he did. He’s called a great missionary, but how many know his great field was that of a teacher. Absolutely. I know he was a missionary but underneath all that there was the most profound urge and drive in that man that had been pushing its way even while he was yet in that old Judistic sect. That little curiosity that brought him down to see Stephen stoned and all that. How many can see yet there was a little urge in there. Though he’d had all that training he thought he’s go see what these Christians were like. How many know he got caught? Well, keep on and praise God and maybe you’ll get caught. It would be good if you got caught with this little hunger that is in your heart, this little urge. This has to be trained and educated. When we go, don’t let these funny feelings which are so deceptive side track you. When Jesus comes and takes us home, all He can possibly take home is what we have acquired here of spiritual value. Flesh and blood cannot enter or inherit the kingdom. It does not. It’s all of spiritual value. But, the fact that I am brought into heaven doesn’t mature me. I have all the eternal ages in which I may grow in God. Why? Because God is infinite. How many know what infinity means. How many think you’re going to get to the end of infinity. Do you think so? Well, the first one who gets there holler at me please. You can’t exhaust it, neither can you exhaust the revelation of light and truth which shines in God, the Ancient of Days, the God that I spoke of yesterday. He has been eternally God before that. This is the only conception we have of Him here in time. But what is the conception when we move out of time. What will be our conception of God? Did you ever stop to think. That’s why I love Him because He is infinite and we’re going home where we belong. Do you ever feel the restlessness in your spirit that you do not belong in this apparatus down here or don’t you? I don’t mean that you feel so holy that you want to get out of the world. I don’t mean that at all. I’m very human, thank God. I never want to be so spiritual that I can’t tell beans from buttons. I want you to be conscious of that. Why? Because we don’t belong here. How many remember the lovely quotation from St. Augustine, our early church father? “The heart was made for God, neither shall it find rest until it rests in Him.” That’s the epitome of our whole Christian concept isn’t it? That’s the little nutshell, that’s the whole story of what we call Christianity. Christianity has broken in upon us to give us our bearings. It comes to us in our darkness and ignorance saying, “You are not designed for this. You were made for the Glory of God. You bear His stand and image. You were made for eternal things.” This is a little time of schooling. Don’t become too satisfied with the seat you are holding in school while you are being taught. Don’t be worrying about your car, your dollars, a name and a reputation. That’s the mechanics that have operated in your heart and life and will push through even while you are a dynamic spirit, a conscious entity born of God, filled with Him and illuminated by Him. When that starts to push through, we should get back home, back to God. That should be our attitude. So God says when we come to read the word, when we come to Him in prayer and in seeking, we either block or we release Him by the attitude that we take. Everything depends upon the attitude of the heart. It’s not so much the language or the position of the body, but it is the attitude of the heart. “Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.” People will beat that. They are all concerned with the issues of life out here, trying to fix them and muddle with them and do a lot of funny things with them and correct them or adjust them. God says to let that alone please. You’re too conscious of the issues of life. It’s consequences, it’s comings and it’s goings. That is not life. that is a manifestation. You real life is here. “Guard your heart for out of it moves the issues which will be birthed over there.” Then you get into trouble. How many times I have to deal with people who come to me with disturbances. They say, “Well Brother Follette, you will think its bad of me.” Look, just tell me, I don’t care if you’ve committed murder last night. Tell me about it, you can’t scare me. I love you because you area soul and you belong to God. I don’t care if you’ve committed adultery and murder and stolen 70 million dollars. Let us sit down and talk. Talk! Let’s get the thing out. Well they say, “I’ve been saved several years and I’ve been baptized in the spirit and I used to have this and do that.” I tell them, “I know all about it.” I know their language before they speak it. I know what they’re coming to. So I tell them to just spill it out on the floor and look at it and get through this thing. Now, let me help you. You are disturbed because of a local disturbance, an unhappiness that has come. It’s registering in you. Your whole emotional life is all upset. But this isn’t your trouble. Your trouble goes farther back than that. And sometimes we have to go back weeks and months and years to find the beginning of that thing. Why? Because it is an issue of the heart which had projected itself out here and taken weeks or months. I have dealt with people that have had to go back years to find their difficulty. When we find the difficulty I tell them to get that straightened out and you know what will happen? The issue out here that they are all upset about, it will find an adjustment. Now that’s the way Jesus taught. That’s the way He taught and that’s the way He makes us to teach, because that’s the way it is. Sitting down and saying a lot of prayers, that won’t help. I had a Catholic woman come to me just this last winter. She was an educated woman, a Roman Catholic. But somewhere she had heard some of my teaching, either through tracts or something she’d read, and she asked for an appointment. She came to me for help and I told her you’re a Roman Catholic and I don’t know what your priest might say. I don’t want to get into trouble by having a disturbance. She tells me that she’s been to the priest. She’s had this problem for months and months and all he says is ‘confess your sins and pray harder.’ Confess your sins and then go pray to the virgin and all these other ones, and pray harder and harder. Can you see what a terrible deception this is. She told me, “I don’t get anywhere and I do pray harder.” She said, “I do just what the priest tells me, but you know, I don’t think our priest understands who we are.” I thought, my dear sister, you’ve hit the thing right on the head. The priest doesn’t know who she is. So I told her, if she felt it was alright, I would try to help her. So she’s been a couple times for real prayer and help and you know she’s coming right along in the Lord. A lovely little Catholic mother with her three children, hungry, but saying prayers to get help. How many know that for her to say a thousand prayers, it would not help her. It couldn’t help her. She had to have this analyzed. We went through it and found out what was the matter and it was something months ago. Well I said, “Lets go back and clear this up.” It was wonderful to see how she came along, a little old Catholic sister. But why? Because she was using the methods God uses. It isn’t psychology, it is just common sense. It’s just what God is doing. Jesus was the greatest psychologist and psychoanalyst that ever walked the earth and He used the principles in the most perfect fashion. They have stolen the principles which He has and they fumble around with them, with clumsy fingers of flesh. And then they get a partial result. They’re extremely wonderful in analysis, the psychoanalysis. But you know, they are very poor in synthesis. What’s the difference? Well, the analysis is to take the thing apart and to lay it out here and see all the different parts. Synthesis, is to put the thing together as it should properly belong so it can function. How many know the majority of the psychoanalysts are wonderfully clever in the analysis. But how many know they always fall down on the synthesis. Do you know why they fall down on the synthesis? Because they don’t approach it from a Christ angle, from a God angle. Personality, the life, should be adjusted about the Christ, not about the ego. Jesus has come to become the center of life and all your life should be orientated about that. All the orientation of your life, all of it, should be all centered about it. He is the center. But when you don’t do that, and you still have an ego which is fairly respectable, and you’re trying to build a life all about it, you see, without Christ you’ll fail. You have to go back to Him again. And then He puts you back on the couch and goes through another series. Oh, I know. Christ is the center, we were made for God, then let us go home and how will we go home? By the instructions which He’s left in His Word. Bible stories? But even in the simplest Bible story you’ll find enough spiritual light and illumination to carry us over all of these hard places. Over every one of them. And that’s the way we should read it. But we don’t have very many teachers. I was disturbed quite a while ago about this idea of teaching. When they put me down as an evangelist I asked them not to do that. They don’t do that any more. So now they say Bible teacher. Well, that’s pretty good. I do teach from the Word of God. I am supposed to be a Bible teacher, but this is what I want to ask you. I don’t know if I am going to answer it for you. The Lord answered it for me, maybe He will answer it for you. Now when the Lord God breathed upon those early disciples and organized what we call the little first apostolic group of people into what He called His Body, His Church, it said, “He placed in the Church,” not in the world, He placed in the Church these gifts, pastors, evangelists, teachers, prophets for the edification of the Body, not for the salvation of the world, for the edification of the Body. That’s where His interest is. But nobody wants to be interested where the Lord is. They’re all out there hollering and praying and yowling and banging around to get the Lord interested in something over there, when He’s interested here. How many know He’s interested in His Body? Well then why in the world do they keep hammering at Him to get over there and do something there. He says, “No, the work that needs to be done is here at home.” Nobody wants that. The difficulty is closer to home. Now this is what I want to ask you. If He placed teachers in that early church, in that little group of believers, what were they teaching when the Bible hadn’t been yet made. All they had were the Old Testament scrolls, the Bible as we know it had not been made. So what were the teachers teaching in that early church. All you who have great wisdom, I wish you would enlighten me on that. Well, the Lord told me about it and I’m quite satisfied with the way He spoke to me about it. But, I’ll give you that for homework since this is the school. Your homework is to try to get that thing together. I went up for a retreat in Wisconsin. When I went I told them I had come for information. All of them who were at the retreat were more or less mature Christians. I hadn’t any there who were beginners. They were people who had been following around for years and were advanced. So I said to them, “I want you to help me out.” So I presented three or four questions to them. I put this to them. God placed teachers in the early church to teach them, but the Bible was not compiled yet. What did they teach? Well, we won’t talk about that cause you’re awfully still this morning. But I want you to think about some things. I think about them and I want the Lord to help me with them. I see things in the Bible that I have read a hundred times and all of a sudden I stop and realize that I don’t know what it is. I thought I did, I thought I knew what that is and now I don’t know anything about it. I tell the Lord and He says, “You’re pushing over into this realm of the Spirit where you will have to put away some of these traditional things, and find out what the word says and not what your great grandmother says.” How many know our great grandmothers might have been mistaken about some things possibly? Now for a little while I want to read to you. It is a story that is given to us in Luke. Now this is Luke’s way of telling it. It is the story of Jesus going down by the seashore and seeing this multitude and feeling them press upon Him for the word, He puts out the boat and they have a wonderful time. It’s the 5th chapter of Luke verses 1-11. I’ll read it to you so those who haven’t Bibles may enter in, but if you have a Bible you might want to follow along. “And it came to pass that as the people pressed upon Him to hear the word of God, He stood by the lake of Gennesaret. And saw two ships standing by the lake but the fishermen were gone out of them and were washing their nets. And He entered into one of the ships which was Simon’s and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land. And He sat down and taught the people out of the ship. Now when He had left speaking, He said unto Simon, launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a draught. Simon answering said unto Him, Master, we have toiled all the night and have taken nothing. Nevertheless, at thy word, I will let down the net. And when this done, they enclosed a great multitude of fishes and their net brake. And they beaconed unto their partners, which were in the other ship, that they should come and help them. And they came and filled both the ships so that they began to sink. When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus knees saying, depart from me, for I am a sinful man, oh Lord, for he was astonished and all who were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken: And so was also James, and John, the sons of Zebedee, which were partners with Simon. And

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How to Read the Bible

John Follette

John Follette (1883 - 1966)

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