Study Desk

The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him, and let him go."

He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for the nation,

But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was about to betray him), said,

His disciples did not understand these things at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written of him and had been done to him.

Isaiah said this because he saw his glory and spoke about him.

And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I speak, therefore, I speak just as the Father has told me."

Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God,

got up from the table, took off his outer robe, and tied a towel around himself.

After he had washed their feet, had put on his robe, and had returned to the table, he said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you?

I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But it is to fulfill the scripture, ‘The one who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.'

One of his disciples—the one whom Jesus loved—was reclining next to him;

Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own; but the Father who dwells in me does his works.

If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own, but will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.

Then some of his disciples said to one another, "What does he mean by saying to us, ‘A little while, and you will no longer see me, and again a little while, and you will see me'; and ‘Because I am going to the Father'?"

His disciples said, "Yes, now you are speaking plainly, not in any figure of speech!

The hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each one to his home, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone because the Father is with me.

After Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples across the Kidron valley to a place where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered.

Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, because Jesus often met there with his disciples.