Study Desk

But I have told you this, so that when the time comes for it to happen, you will remember that I told you. I didn't tell you this at first, because I was with you.

Instead, because I have said these things to you, you are overcome with grief.

He will glorify me, because he will receive from what is mine and announce it to you.

When a woman is giving birth, she is in pain; because her time has come. But when the baby is born, she forgets her suffering out of joy that a child has come into the world.

for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

But a time is coming — indeed it has come already — when you will be scattered, each one looking out for himself; and you will leave me all alone. Yet I am not alone; because the Father is with me.

because the words you gave me I have given to them, and they have received them. They have really come to know that I came from you, and they have come to trust that you sent me.

"I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given to me, because they are yours.

"I have given them your word, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world — just as I myself do not belong to the world.

"I pray not only for these, but also for those who will trust in me because of their word,

"Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am; so that they may see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.

Now Y'hudah, who was betraying him, also knew the place; because Yeshua had often met there with his talmidim.

Now the slaves and guards had lit a fire because it was cold, and they were standing around it warming themselves; Kefa joined them and stood warming himself too.

They led Yeshua from Kayafa to the governor's headquarters. By now it was early morning. They did not enter the headquarters building because they didn't want to become ritually defiled and thus unable to eat the Pesach meal.

When the head cohanim and the Temple guards saw him they shouted, "Put him to death on the stake! Put him to death on the stake!" Pilate said to them, "You take him out yourselves and put him to death on the stake, because I don't find any case against him."

The Judeans answered him, "We have a law; according to that law, he ought to be put to death, because he made himself out to be the Son of God."

Many of the Judeans read this notice, because the place where Yeshua was put on the stake was close to the city; and it had been written in Hebrew, in Latin and in Greek.

So, because it was Preparation Day for the Judeans, and because the tomb was close by, that is where they buried Yeshua.

"Stop holding onto me," Yeshua said to her, "because I haven't yet gone back to the Father. But go to my brothers, and tell them that I am going back to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God."

Yeshua said to him, "Have you trusted because you have seen me? How blessed are those who do not see, but trust anyway!"