Study Desk

I pray for them now. I am not praying for the people in the world. But I am praying for these people you gave me, because they are yours.

Make them ready for your service through your truth. Your teaching is truth.

I am making myself completely ready to serve you. I do this for them, so that they also might be fully qualified for your service.

"I pray not only for these followers but also for those who will believe in me because of their teaching.

I showed them what you are like, and I will show them again. Then they will have the same love that you have for me, and I will live in them."

Judas, the one responsible for handing Jesus over, knew where this place was. He knew because Jesus often met there with his followers.

Jesus already knew everything that would happen to him. So he went out and asked them, "Who are you looking for?"

They answered, "Jesus from Nazareth." He said, "I am Jesus." (Judas, the one responsible for handing Jesus over, was standing there with them.)

He asked them again, "Who are you looking for?" They said, "Jesus from Nazareth."

Jesus said, "I told you that I am Jesus. So if you are looking for me, let these other men go free."

He was also the one who had told the other Jewish leaders that it would be better if one man died for all the people.

Then Pilate went back inside the palace. He called for Jesus and asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?"

Pilate said, "So you are a king." Jesus answered, "You are right to say that I am a king. I was born for this: to tell people about the truth. That is why I came into the world. And everyone who belongs to the truth listens to me."

But it is one of your customs for me to free one prisoner to you at the time of the Passover. Do you want me to free this ‘king of the Jews'?"

So the soldiers said to each other, "We should not tear this into parts. Let's throw lots to see who will get it." This happened to make clear the full meaning of what the Scriptures say: "They divided my clothes among them, and they threw lots for what I was wearing." So the soldiers did this.

Later, a man named Joseph from Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. (Joseph was a follower of Jesus, but he did not tell anyone, because he was afraid of the Jewish leaders.) Pilate said Joseph could take Jesus' body, so he came and took it away.

He asked her, "Woman, why are you crying? Who are you looking for?" She thought he was the man in charge of the garden. So she said to him, "Did you take him away, sir? Tell me where you put him. I will go and get him."

There are many other things that Jesus did. If every one of them were written down, I think the whole world would not be big enough for all the books that would be written.

The apostles were all together. They asked Jesus, "Lord, is this the time for you to give the people of Israel their kingdom again?"

Jesus said to them, "The Father is the only one who has the authority to decide dates and times. They are not for you to know.