Study Desk

When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father's commandments and remain in his love.

I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn't confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me.

When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own but will tell you what he has heard. He will tell you about the future.

Then his disciples said, "At last you are speaking plainly and not figuratively.

But the time is coming—indeed it's here now—when you will be scattered, each one going his own way, leaving me alone. Yet I am not alone because the Father is with me.

After saying these things, Jesus crossed the Kidron Valley with his disciples and entered a grove of olive trees.

Judas, the betrayer, knew this place, because Jesus had often gone there with his disciples.

He did this to fulfill his own statement: "I did not lose a single one of those you have given me."

Inside, the high priest began asking Jesus about his followers and what he had been teaching them.

Meanwhile, as Simon Peter was standing by the fire warming himself, they asked him again, "You're not one of his disciples, are you?" He denied it, saying, "No, I am not."

Jesus' trial before Caiaphas ended in the early hours of the morning. Then he was taken to the headquarters of the Roman governor. His accusers didn't go inside because it would defile them, and they wouldn't be allowed to celebrate the Passover.

Then Pilate went back into his headquarters and called for Jesus to be brought to him. "Are you the king of the Jews?" he asked him.

The soldiers wove a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they put a purple robe on him.

When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they divided his clothes among the four of them. They also took his robe, but it was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.

Standing near the cross were Jesus' mother, and his mother's sister, Mary (the wife of Clopas), and Mary Magdalene.

When Jesus saw his mother standing there beside the disciple he loved, he said to her, "Dear woman, here is your son."

And he said to this disciple, "Here is your mother." And from then on this disciple took her into his home.

Jesus knew that his mission was now finished, and to fulfill Scripture he said, "I am thirsty."

A jar of sour wine was sitting there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put it on a hyssop branch, and held it up to his lips.

When Jesus had tasted it, he said, "It is finished!" Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.