Archives for April 2022

John 17 The High Priestly Prayer When Jesus had spoken these words,he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said,"Father,the hour has come;glorify your Son that the Son mayglorify you,2sinceyou have given him authority over all flesh,to give eternal life to allwhom you have given him.3And this is eternal life,that they know you,the onlytrue God, andJesus Chri...

John 16 "I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away.2They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed,the hour is coming whenwhoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.3And they will do these thingsbecause they have not known the Father, nor me.4ButI have said these things to you, that whentheir hour comes you may reme...

John 15 I Am the True Vine "I am thetrue vine, and my Father isthe vinedresser.2Every branch in me that does not bear fruithe takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes,that it may bear more fruit.3Alreadyyou are cleanbecause of the word that I have spoken to you.4Abidein me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless...

John 14 I Am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life "Let not your hearts be troubled.Believe in God;a]"[a]believe also in me.2Inmy Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you thatI go to prepare a place for you?b]"[b]3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take youto myself, thatwhere I am you may be ...

John 13 Jesus Washes the Disciples' Feet Nowbeforethe Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew thathis hour had cometo depart out of this world to the Father,having lovedhis own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.2During supper, whenthe devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,3Jesus, knowingthat the...

John 12 Mary Anoints Jesus at Bethany Six days beforethe Passover,Jesus therefore came to Bethany,where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.2So they gave a dinner for him there.Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table.3Mary therefore took a pound[a]of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet...

John 11 The Death of Lazarus Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village ofMary and her sister Martha.2It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.3So the sisters sent to him, saying, "Lord,he whom you love is ill."4But when Jesus heard it he said,"This illness does not lea...

John 10 I Am the Good Shepherd "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber.2But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.3To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.4When he has bro...

John 9 Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.2And his disciples asked him,"Rabbi,who sinned,this man orhis parents, that he was born blind?"3Jesus answered,"It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, butthat the works of God might be displayed in him.4We mustwork the works of him who sent mewhile it is day; nigh...

John 8 1but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.2Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, andhe sat down and taught them.3The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst4they said to him, "Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery.5Nowin the Law,...

John 7 Jesus at the Feast of Booths After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, becausethe Jews[a]were seeking to kill him.2Nowthe Jews' Feast ofBooths was at hand.3So his brothers[b]said to him, "Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing.4For no one works in secret if he seeks to be k...

John 6 Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand After thisJesus went away to the other side ofthe Sea of Galilee, which isthe Sea of Tiberias.2And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick.3Jesus went up onthe mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples.4Nowthe Passover, thefeast of the Jews, was at hand.5Liftin...

John 5 The Healing at the Pool on the Sabbath After this there was afeast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2Now there is in Jerusalem bythe Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic[a]called Bethesda,[b]which has five roofed colonnades.3In these lay a multitude of invalidsblind, lame, andparalyzed.[c]5One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-...

John 4 Jesus and the Woman of Samaria Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making andbaptizing more disciples than John2(although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples),3he left Judea and departedagain for Galilee.4And he had to pass through Samaria.5So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the fiel...

John 3 You Must Be Born Again Now there was a man of the Pharisees namedNicodemus,a ruler of the Jews.2This man came to Jesus[a]by night and said to him,"Rabbi,we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you dounless God is with him."3Jesus answered him,"Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one isbornagain[b]he cannotsee...

John 2 The Wedding at Cana Onthe third day there was a wedding atCana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.2Jesus also was invited to the wedding withhis disciples.3When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine."4And Jesus said to her,"Woman,what does this have to do with me?My hour has not yet come."5His mother said ...

John 1 The Word Became Flesh In the beginning wasthe Word, andthe Word was with God, andthe Word was God.2He was in the beginning with God.3All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.4In him was life,[a]andthe life was the light of men.5The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. 6Th...

Luke 24 The Resurrection But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb,taking the spices they had prepared.2And they foundthe stone rolled away from the tomb,3but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.4While they were perplexed about this, behold,twomen stood by them in dazzling apparel.5And as they werefr...

Luke 23 Jesus Before Pilate Then the whole company of them arose and brought him before Pilate.2And they began to accuse him, saying, "We found this manmisleading our nation andforbidding us to give tribute toCaesar, and saying that he himself is Christ,a king."3And Pilate asked him,"Are you the King of the Jews?" And he answered him,"You have said so."4T...

Luke 22 The Plot to Kill Jesus Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread drew near, which is calledthe Passover.2And the chief priests and the scribeswere seeking how to put him to death, for they feared the people. Judas to Betray Jesus 3ThenSatan entered intoJudas called Iscariot, who was of the number of the twelve.4He went away and conferred with the chief ...

Luke 21 The Widow's Offering Jesus[a]looked up and saw the richputting their gifts intothe offering box,2and he saw a poor widow put in twosmall copper coins.[b]3And he said,"Truly, I tell you,this poor widow has put in more than all of them.4For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of herpoverty put in allshe had to live on." Jesus F...