Study Desk

But after I am raised to life, I will go to Galilee ahead of you."

"Father," he prayed, "my Father! All things are possible for you. Take this cup of suffering away from me. Yet not what I want, but what you want."

And he said to them, "Keep watch, and pray that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."

But one of those standing there drew his sword and struck at the High Priest's slave, cutting off his ear.

Day after day I was with you teaching in the Temple, and you did not arrest me. But the Scriptures must come true."

but he ran away naked, leaving the cloth behind.

The chief priests and the whole Council tried to find some evidence against Jesus in order to put him to death, but they could not find any.

Many witnesses told lies against Jesus, but their stories did not agree.

But Jesus kept quiet and would not say a word. Again the High Priest questioned him, "Are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed God?"

But he denied it. "I don't know … I don't understand what you are talking about," he answered, and went out into the passageway. Just then a rooster crowed.

But Peter denied it again. A little while later the bystanders accused Peter again, "You can't deny that you are one of them, because you, too, are from Galilee."

But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to ask, instead, that Pilate set Barabbas free for them.

"But what crime has he committed?" Pilate asked. They shouted all the louder, "Crucify him!"

There they tried to give him wine mixed with a drug called myrrh, but Jesus would not drink it.

In the same way the chief priests and the teachers of the Law made fun of Jesus, saying to one another, "He saved others, but he cannot save himself!

They returned and told the others, but these would not believe it.

But the angel said to him, "Don't be afraid, Zechariah! God has heard your prayer, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son. You are to name him John.

But you have not believed my message, which will come true at the right time. Because you have not believed, you will be unable to speak; you will remain silent until the day my promise to you comes true."

Remember your relative Elizabeth. It is said that she cannot have children, but she herself is now six months pregnant, even though she is very old.

But his mother said, "No! His name is to be John."