Longest ever Reading

[ChrisB]

What's the longest ever reading you've heard in church?

I remember we once read the whole book of Jonah (only 4 chapters but it is a whole book ;) ) which was then preached on. I'm sure someone can beat that.........................

[muffler dragon]

I never stayed there to listen to it, but one church I attended read the entire Bible straight through non-stop. I think they had people coming every hour to continue. I can't remember the amount of time it took.

I don't quite know what the whole purpose was, but they did it.

[BarbB]

Wow, muffler dragon. I like that idea! Imagine sitting there (with breaks, of course :D ) and just luxuriating in the Word! :bow: I'm going to suggest that at my church. :clap:

At a Sunday service at my house we read the Book of Ruth! I love Ruth!

[ChrisB]

I never stayed there to listen to it, but one church I attended read the entire Bible straight through non-stop. I think they had people coming every hour to continue. I can't remember the amount of time it took.

I don't quite know what the whole purpose was, but they did it.

Ezekiel 40-48 must have been particularly gripping ;)

[Polycarp1]

In the Episcopal Church, for what it's worth, the Gospel lesson every Palm Sunday is the complete Passion narrative: Matthew 26:36-27:66, Mark 14:32-15:47, or Luke 22:39-23:56 -- we rotate through those three Gospels in a three-year cycle. And this is after three other lessons: the Gospel story of the Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem, an Old Testament lesson, and an Epistle lesson.

Owing to the length of the passage, many congregations choose to do it as a "dramatic narrative" with one person reading the Gospel writer's narrative account and others reading the words of Jesus, Peter, Pilate, and so on.