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"Granny's Chapters" (on Scriptural Subjects)

"Granny's Chapters" (on Scriptural Subjects) by Mary, Lady Ross is available here as the complete text, split into 1144 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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"Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects) The New Testament, with a Sketch of the Subsequent History of the Jews. by Mary, Lady Ross. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #38557.

40 chaptersComplete chronicle
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  1. Chapter I 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  2. Chapter II Flight into Egypt 16 readings five lines each Open chapter
  3. Chapter III Baptism of Jesus 28 readings five lines each Open chapter
  4. Chapter IV Nicodemus Comes by Night to Jesus 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  5. Chapter V Calling of Simon and Others 28 readings five lines each Open chapter
  6. Chapter VI The Pharisees' Pretended Zeal for the Sabbath 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  7. Chapter VII Jesus in Simon's House 31 readings five lines each Open chapter
  8. Chapter VIII The Woman of Tyre 29 readings five lines each Open chapter
  9. Chapter IX Return of the Seventy 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  10. Chapter X Healing of the Man Born Blind 31 readings five lines each Open chapter
  11. Chapter XI Jesus in the House of Simon the Leper 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  12. Chapter XII The Voice from Heaven 36 readings five lines each Open chapter
  13. Chapter XIII Mode of Celebrating the Passover 25 readings five lines each Open chapter
  14. Chapter XIV Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane 34 readings five lines each Open chapter
  15. Chapter XV 41 readings five lines each Open chapter
  16. Chapter XVI Jesus Condemned 28 readings five lines each Open chapter
  17. Chapter XVII Jesus Crucified 35 readings five lines each Open chapter
  18. Chapter XVIII Jesus Rises from the Sepulchre 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  19. Chapter XIX Jesus Appears to the Disciples 38 readings five lines each Open chapter
  20. Chapter XX The Gift of the Holy Ghost 32 readings five lines each Open chapter
  21. Chapter XXI Appointment of Deacons 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  22. Chapter XXII Conversion of Saul 35 readings five lines each Open chapter
  23. Chapter XXIII Peter Delivered from Prison 28 readings five lines each Open chapter
  24. Chapter XXIV Saul's Name Changed to Paul 34 readings five lines each Open chapter
  25. Chapter XXV Paul and Silas at Philippi 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  26. Chapter XXVI St. Paul Before the Areopagus 36 readings five lines each Open chapter
  27. Chapter XXVII St. Paul at Ephesus 35 readings five lines each Open chapter
  28. Chapter XXVIII Tumult at Jerusalem 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  29. Chapter XXIX St. Paul Sent to Caesarea 33 readings five lines each Open chapter
  30. Chapter XXX St. Paul Before Agrippa 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  31. Chapter XXXI The Ship Runs Aground 30 readings five lines each Open chapter
  32. Chapter XXXII St. Paul Set at Liberty 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  33. Chapter XXXIII Vespasian Sent into Judaea 36 readings five lines each Open chapter
  34. Chapter XXXIV The Death of St. John 42 readings five lines each Open chapter
  35. Chapter XXXV State of the Jews to the End of the Third Century 24 readings five lines each Open chapter
  36. Chapter XXXVI Fifth and Sixth Centuries 32 readings five lines each Open chapter
  37. Chapter XXXVII Twelfth Century 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  38. Chapter XXXVIII Thirteenth Century in England and France 31 readings five lines each Open chapter
  39. Chapter XXXIX The Jews and the Inquisition 24 readings five lines each Open chapter
  40. Chapter XL Separation in the Church 28 readings five lines each Open chapter

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