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Look, a time is coming—and has come—when you will be scattered, each one to his own home, and I will be left alone. Yet I am not alone, because my Father is with me.

because I have given them the words you have given me. They accepted them and really understand that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.

I am praying on behalf of them. I am not praying on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those you have given me, because they belong to you.

I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

"Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they can see my glory that you gave me because you loved me before the creation of the world.

(Now Judas, the one who betrayed him, knew the place too, because Jesus had met there many times with his disciples.)

Then Jesus, because he knew everything that was going to happen to him, came and asked them, "Who are you looking for?"

(Now the slaves and the guards were standing around a charcoal fire they had made, warming themselves because it was cold. Peter also was standing with them, warming himself.)

The Jewish leaders replied, "We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die, because he claimed to be the Son of God!"

Thus many of the Jewish residents of Jerusalem read this notice, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the notice was written in Aramaic, Latin, and Greek.

Then, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies should not stay on the crosses on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was an especially important one), the Jewish leaders asked Pilate to have the victims' legs broken and the bodies taken down.

After this, Joseph of Arimathea, a disciple of Jesus (but secretly, because he feared the Jewish leaders), asked Pilate if he could remove the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission, so he went and took the body away.

And so, because it was the Jewish day of preparation and the tomb was nearby, they placed Jesus' body there.

Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?" Because she thought he was the gardener, she said to him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him."

On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the disciples had gathered together and locked the doors of the place because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you."

Jesus said to him, "Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are the people who have not seen and yet have believed."

He told them, "Throw your net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some." So they threw the net, and were not able to pull it in because of the large number of fish.

"Come, have breakfast," Jesus said. But none of the disciples dared to ask him, "Who are you?" because they knew it was the Lord.

When this sound occurred, a crowd gathered and was in confusion, because each one heard them speaking in his own language.

But God raised him up, having released him from the pains of death, because it was not possible for him to be held in its power.