New Testament Reading Plan

Instead of reading the New Testament in its canonical arrangement or even by chronological order, I like to format my New Testament reading according to a four Gospel structure. First, I take Matthew's Gospel, which is the most "Jewish" and attach to it the other "Jewish" New Testament books:

Matthew

Hebrews

James

Next, I take Mark's Gospel, who is said to be the understudy of Peter, and attach the two epistles of Peter,along with Jude, which has overlapping content with Peter's epistles:

Mark

1 Peter

2 Peter

Jude

Third, I take Luke's Gospel along with Acts and group them with the Pauline Epistles, since Luke was Paul's traveling companion on many of his missionary journeys. (Although, I believe the book of Hebrews was written by Paul, I place it in the Jewish section for a more balanced sectional reading):

Luke

Acts

Romans

1 Corinthians

2 Corinthians

Galatians

Ephesians

Philippians

Colossians

1 Thessalonians

2 Thessalonians

1 Timothy

2 Timothy

Titus

Philemon

 Finally, I read the Johannine books:

 

John

1 John

2 John

3 John

Revelation

In sum, I enjoy how this method spaces out the gospel readings and categorically groups like epistles.