Study Desk

I have told you this so that you will have peace by being united to me. The world will make you suffer. But be brave! I have defeated the world!"

"I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those you gave me, for they belong to you.

And now I am coming to you; I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world. Holy Father! Keep them safe by the power of your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one just as you and I are one.

I do not ask you to take them out of the world, but I do ask you to keep them safe from the Evil One.

"I pray not only for them, but also for those who believe in me because of their message.

Righteous Father! The world does not know you, but I know you, and these know that you sent me.

Jesus answered him, "If I have said anything wrong, tell everyone here what it was. But if I am right in what I have said, why do you hit me?"

Peter was still standing there keeping himself warm. So the others said to him, "Aren't you also one of the disciples of that man?" But Peter denied it. "No, I am not," he said.

But according to the custom you have, I always set free a prisoner for you during the Passover. Do you want me to set free for you the king of the Jews?"

He went back into the palace and asked Jesus, "Where do you come from?" But Jesus did not answer.

When Pilate heard this, he tried to find a way to set Jesus free. But the crowd shouted back, "If you set him free, that means that you are not the Emperor's friend! Anyone who claims to be a king is a rebel against the Emperor!"

The chief priests said to Pilate, "Do not write ‘The King of the Jews,' but rather, ‘This man said, I am the King of the Jews.'"

But when they came to Jesus, they saw that he was already dead, so they did not break his legs.

After this, Joseph, who was from the town of Arimathea, asked Pilate if he could take Jesus' body. (Joseph was a follower of Jesus, but in secret, because he was afraid of the Jewish authorities.) Pilate told him he could have the body, so Joseph went and took it away.

The two of them were running, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and reached the tomb first.

He bent over and saw the linen cloths, but he did not go in.

and the cloth which had been around Jesus' head. It was not lying with the linen cloths but was rolled up by itself.

Then she turned around and saw Jesus standing there; but she did not know that it was Jesus.

"Do not hold on to me," Jesus told her, "because I have not yet gone back up to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them that I am returning to him who is my Father and their Father, my God and their God."

A week later the disciples were together again indoors, and Thomas was with them. The doors were locked, but Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you."