Study Desk

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.

Remember the word that I spoke to you: 'No servant is greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well.

However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come.

Then some of His disciples asked one another, "Why is He telling us, 'In a little while you will not see Me, and then after a little while you will see Me' and 'Because I am going to the Father'?"

His disciples said, "See, now You are speaking plainly and without figures of speech.

"Look, an hour is coming and has already come when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and you will leave Me all alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

When Jesus had spoken these things, He lifted up His eyes to heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son may glorify You.

When Jesus had spoken these words, He went out with His disciples across the Kidron Valley, where they entered a garden.

Now Judas, His betrayer, also knew the place, because Jesus had often met there with His disciples.

"Jesus of Nazareth," they answered. Jesus said, "I am He." And Judas, His betrayer, was standing there with them.

Then Simon Peter drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus.

Meanwhile, the high priest questioned Jesus about His disciples and His teaching.

Simon Peter was still standing and warming himself. So they asked him, "Aren't you also one of His disciples?" He denied it and said, "I am not."

The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns, put it on His head, and dressed Him in a purple robe.

Carrying His own cross, He went out to The Place of the Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha.

When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they divided His garments into four parts, one for each soldier, with the tunic remaining. It was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.

Near the cross of Jesus stood His mother and her sister, as well as Mary the wife of Clopas and Mary Magdalene.

When Jesus saw His mother and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, "Woman, here is your son."

Then He said to the disciple, "Here is your mother." So from that hour, this disciple took her into his home.