Study Desk

I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you.

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

Now the servants and the officials had made a charcoal fire, because it was cold. They were standing there warming themselves, and Peter was standing with them, warming himself.

Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said to him, “You aren’t one of his disciples too, are you?”

Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the governor’s headquarters. It was early morning. They did not enter the headquarters themselves; otherwise they would be defiled and unable to eat the Passover.

And they kept coming up to him and saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and were slapping his face.

When the chief priests and the temple servants saw him, they shouted, “Crucify! Crucify!”

There they crucified him and two others with him, one on either side, with Jesus in the middle.

When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, a part for each soldier. They also took the tunic, which was seamless, woven in one piece from the top.

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.

Since it was the preparation day, the Jews did not want the bodies to remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special day). They requested that Pilate have the men’s legs broken and that their bodies be taken away.

They took Jesus’s body and wrapped it in linen cloths with the fragrant spices, according to the burial custom of the Jews.

They placed Jesus there because of the Jewish day of preparation and since the tomb was nearby.

When it was evening of that first day of the week, the disciples were gathered together with the doors locked because they feared the Jews. Jesus came, stood among them, and said to them, “Peace be with you.”

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

When they got out on land, they saw a charcoal fire there, with fish lying on it, and bread.

After he had said this, he was taken up as they were watching, and a cloud took him out of their sight.

While he was going, they were gazing into heaven, and suddenly two men in white clothes stood by them.

When they arrived, they went to the room upstairs where they were staying: Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.