Study Desk

As all the people listened to him, Jesus said to his disciples,

When the hour came, Jesus took his place at the table with the apostles.

Then Jesus asked his disciples, "When I sent you out that time without purse, bag, or shoes, did you lack anything?" "Not a thing," they answered.

"But now," Jesus said, "whoever has a purse or a bag must take it; and whoever does not have a sword must sell his coat and buy one.

In great anguish he prayed even more fervently; his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.

Rising from his prayer, he went back to the disciples and found them asleep, worn out by their grief.

And one of them struck the High Priest's slave and cut off his right ear.

But they insisted even more strongly, "With his teaching he is starting a riot among the people all through Judea. He began in Galilee and now has come here."

Herod and his soldiers made fun of Jesus and treated him with contempt; then they put a fine robe on him and sent him back to Pilate.

When they came to the place called "The Skull," they crucified Jesus there, and the two criminals, one on his right and the other on his left.

Jesus said, "Forgive them, Father! They don't know what they are doing." They divided his clothes among themselves by throwing dice.

Then the women remembered his words,

but could not find his body. They came back saying they had seen a vision of angels who told them that he is alive.

Was it not necessary for the Messiah to suffer these things and then to enter his glory?"

He said this and showed them his hands and his feet.

and in his name the message about repentance and the forgiveness of sins must be preached to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.

Then he led them out of the city as far as Bethany, where he raised his hands and blessed them.

God sent his messenger, a man named John,

He came to his own country, but his own people did not receive him.

The Word became a human being and, full of grace and truth, lived among us. We saw his glory, the glory which he received as the Father's only Son.