Study Desk

I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. You will have suffering in this world. Be courageous! I have conquered the world.”

Jesus spoke these things, looked up to heaven, and said: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son so that the Son

Now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy completed in them.

I sanctify myself for them, so that they also may be sanctified by the truth.

So Judas took a company of soldiers and some officials from the chief priests and the Pharisees and came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.

Simon Peter was following Jesus, as was another disciple. That disciple was an acquaintance of the high priest; so he went with Jesus into the high priest’s courtyard.

But Peter remained standing outside by the door. So the other disciple, the one known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the girl who was the doorkeeper and brought Peter in.

So Pilate came out to them and said, “What charge do you bring against this man?”

They said this so that Jesus’s words might be fulfilled indicating what kind of death he was going to die.

You have a custom that I release one prisoner to you at the Passover. So, do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”

So Pilate said to him, “Do you refuse to speak to me? Don’t you know that I have the authority to release you and the authority to crucify you?”

So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Don’t write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that he said, ‘I am the King of the Jews.’”

So they said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it, to see who gets it.” This happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled that says: They divided my clothes among themselves, and they cast lots for my clothing. This is what the soldiers did.

A jar full of sour wine was sitting there; so they fixed a sponge full of sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it up to his mouth.

So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man and of the other one who had been crucified with him.

He who saw this has testified so that you also may believe. His testimony is true, and he knows he is telling the truth.

For these things happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: Not one of his bones will be broken.

After this, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus—but secretly because of his fear of the Jews—asked Pilate that he might remove Jesus’s body. Pilate gave him permission; so he came and took his body away.

So she went running to Simon Peter and to the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said to them, “They’ve taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they’ve put him!”

Having said this, he showed them his hands and his side. So the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.