Study Desk

I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world."

"My prayer is not for the world, but for those you have given me, because they belong to you.

I have given them your word. And the world hates them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

Father, I want these whom you have given me to be with me where I am. Then they can see all the glory you gave me because you loved me even before the world began!

Judas, the betrayer, knew this place, because Jesus had often gone there with his disciples.

Because it was cold, the household servants and the guards had made a charcoal fire. They stood around it, warming themselves, and Peter stood with them, warming himself.

Jesus' trial before Caiaphas ended in the early hours of the morning. Then he was taken to the headquarters of the Roman governor. His accusers didn't go inside because it would defile them, and they wouldn't be allowed to celebrate the Passover.

The Jewish leaders replied, "By our law he ought to die because he called himself the Son of God."

It was the day of preparation, and the Jewish leaders didn't want the bodies hanging there the next day, which was the Sabbath (and a very special Sabbath, because it was Passover week). So they asked Pilate to hasten their deaths by ordering that their legs be broken. Then their bodies could be taken down.

Afterward Joseph of Arimathea, who had been a secret disciple of Jesus (because he feared the Jewish leaders), asked Pilate for permission to take down Jesus' body. When Pilate gave permission, Joseph came and took the body away.

And so, because it was the day of preparation for the Jewish Passover and since the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there.

"Dear woman, why are you crying?" the angels asked her. "Because they have taken away my Lord," she replied, "and I don't know where they have put him."

That Sunday evening the disciples were meeting behind locked doors because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. Suddenly, Jesus was standing there among them! "Peace be with you," he said.

Then Jesus told him, "You believe because you have seen me. Blessed are those who believe without seeing me."

Then he said, "Throw out your net on the right-hand side of the boat, and you'll get some!" So they did, and they couldn't haul in the net because there were so many fish in it.

are we being questioned today because we've done a good deed for a crippled man? Do you want to know how he was healed?

The council then threatened them further, but they finally let them go because they didn't know how to punish them without starting a riot. For everyone was praising God

There were no needy people among them, because those who owned land or houses would sell them

At this point everyone in the high council stared at Stephen, because his face became as bright as an angel's.

Crowds listened intently to Philip because they were eager to hear his message and see the miraculous signs he did.