John 17
1 Jesus spoke these things; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, ``Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You,
2 even as You gave Him authority over all flesh, that to all whom You have given Him, He may give eternal life.
3 ``This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
4 ``I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do.
5 ``Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.
6 ``I have manifested Your name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world; they were Yours and You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.
7 ``Now they have come to know that everything You have given Me is from You;
8 for the words which You gave Me I have given to them; and they received them and truly understood that I came forth from You, and they believed that You sent Me.
9 ``I ask on their behalf; I do not ask on behalf of the world, but of those whom You have given Me; for they are Yours;
10 and all things that are Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I have been glorified in them.
11 ``I am no longer in the world; and yet they themselves are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name which You have given Me, that they may be one even as We are.
12 ``While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name which You have given Me; and I guarded them and not one of them perished but the son of perdition, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.
13 ``But now I come to You; and these things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves.
14 ``I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
15 ``I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one.
16 ``They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
17 ``Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth.
18 ``As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.
19 ``For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
20 ``I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word;
21 that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.
22 ``The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one;
23 I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me.
24 ``Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.
25 ``O righteous Father, although the world has not known You, yet I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me;
26 and I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them."
John 18
1 When Jesus had spoken these words, He went forth with His disciples over the ravine of the Kidron, where there was a garden, in which He entered with His disciples.
2 Now Judas also, who was betraying Him, knew the place, for Jesus had often met there with His disciples.
3 Judas then, having received the Roman cohort and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns and torches and weapons.
4 So Jesus, knowing all the things that were coming upon Him, went forth and said to them, ``Whom do you seek?"
5 They answered Him, ``Jesus the Nazarene." He said to them, ``I am He. " And Judas also, who was betraying Him, was standing with them.
6 So when He said to them, ``I am He, " they drew back and fell to the ground.
7 Therefore He again asked them, ``Whom do you seek?" And they said, ``Jesus the Nazarene."
8 Jesus answered, ``I told you that I am He; so if you seek Me, let these go their way,"
9 to fulfill the word which He spoke, ``Of those whom You have given Me I lost not one."
10 Simon Peter then, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's slave, and cut off his right ear; and the slave's name was Malchus.
11 So Jesus said to Peter, ``Put the sword into the sheath; the cup which the Father has given Me, shall I not drink it?"
12 So the Roman cohort and the commander and the officers of the Jews, arrested Jesus and bound Him,
13 and led Him to Annas first; for he was father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.
14 Now Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jews that it was expedient for one man to die on behalf of the people.
15 Simon Peter was following Jesus, and so was another disciple. Now that disciple was known to the high priest, and entered with Jesus into the court of the high priest,
16 but Peter was standing at the door outside. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the doorkeeper, and brought Peter in.
17 Then the slave-girl who kept the door said to Peter, ``You are not also one of this man's disciples, are you?" He said, ``I am not."
18 Now the slaves and the officers were standing there, having made a charcoal fire, for it was cold and they were warming themselves; and Peter was also with them, standing and warming himself.
19 The high priest then questioned Jesus about His disciples, and about His teaching.
20 Jesus answered him, ``I have spoken openly to the world; I always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where all the Jews come together; and I spoke nothing in secret.
21 ``Why do you question Me? Question those who have heard what I spoke to them; they know what I said."
22 When He had said this, one of the officers standing nearby struck Jesus, saying, ``Is that the way You answer the high priest?"
23 Jesus answered him, ``If I have spoken wrongly, testify of the wrong; but if rightly, why do you strike Me?"
24 So Annas sent Him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.
25 Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. So they said to him, ``You are not also one of His disciples, are you?" He denied it, and said, ``I am not."
26 One of the slaves of the high priest, being a relative of the one whose ear Peter cut off, said, ``Did I not see you in the garden with Him?"
27 Peter then denied it again, and immediately a rooster crowed.
28 Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas into the Praetorium, and it was early; and they themselves did not enter into the Praetorium so that they would not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.
29 Therefore Pilate went out to them and said, ``What accusation do you bring against this Man?"
30 They answered and said to him, ``If this Man were not an evildoer, we would not have delivered Him to you."
31 So Pilate said to them, ``Take Him yourselves, and judge Him according to your law." The Jews said to him, ``We are not permitted to put anyone to death,"
32 to fulfill the word of Jesus which He spoke, signifying by what kind of death He was about to die.
33 Therefore Pilate entered again into the Praetorium, and summoned Jesus and said to Him, ``Are You the King of the Jews?"
34 Jesus answered, ``Are you saying this on your own initiative, or did others tell you about Me?"
35 Pilate answered, ``I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered You to me; what have You done?"
36 Jesus answered, ``My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, then My servants would be fighting so that I would not be handed over to the Jews; but as it is, My kingdom is not of this realm."
37 Therefore Pilate said to Him, ``So You are a king?" Jesus answered, ``You say correctly that I am a king. For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice."
38 Pilate said to Him, ``What is truth?" And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews and said to them, ``I find no guilt in Him.
39 ``But you have a custom that I release someone for you at the Passover; do you wish then that I release for you the King of the Jews?"
40 So they cried out again, saying, ``Not this Man, but Barabbas." Now Barabbas was a robber.
John 19
1 Pilate then took Jesus and scourged Him.
2 And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and put a purple robe on Him;
3 and they began to come up to Him and say, ``Hail, King of the Jews!" and to give Him slaps in the face.
4 Pilate came out again and said to them, ``Behold, I am bringing Him out to you so that you may know that I find no guilt in Him."
5 Jesus then came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, ``Behold, the Man!"
6 So when the chief priests and the officers saw Him, they cried out saying, ``Crucify, crucify!" Pilate said to them, ``Take Him yourselves and crucify Him, for I find no guilt in Him."
7 The Jews answered him, ``We have a law, and by that law He ought to die because He made Himself out to be the Son of God."
8 Therefore when Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid;
9 and he entered into the Praetorium again and said to Jesus, ``Where are You from?" But Jesus gave him no answer.
10 So Pilate said to Him, ``You do not speak to me? Do You not know that I have authority to release You, and I have authority to crucify You?"
11 Jesus answered, ``You would have no authority over Me, unless it had been given you from above; for this reason he who delivered Me to you has the greater sin."
12 As a result of this Pilate made efforts to release Him, but the Jews cried out saying, ``If you release this Man, you are no friend of Caesar; everyone who makes himself out to be a king opposes Caesar."
13 Therefore when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha.
14 Now it was the day of preparation for the Passover; it was about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, ``Behold, your King!"
15 So they cried out, ``Away with Him, away with Him, crucify Him!" Pilate said to them, ``Shall I crucify your King?" The chief priests answered, ``We have no king but Caesar."
16 So he then handed Him over to them to be crucified.
17 They took Jesus, therefore, and He went out, bearing His own cross, to the place called the Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha.
18 There they crucified Him, and with Him two other men, one on either side, and Jesus in between.
19 Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It was written, ``JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS."
20 Therefore many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Latin and in Greek.
21 So the chief priests of the Jews were saying to Pilate, ``Do not write, `The King of the Jews'; but that He said, `I am King of the Jews.'"
22 Pilate answered, ``What I have written I have written."
23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took His outer garments and made four parts, a part to every soldier and also the tunic; now the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece.
24 So they said to one another, ``Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, to decide whose it shall be"; this was to fulfill the Scripture: ``THEY DIVIDED MY OUTER GARMENTS AMONG THEM, AND FOR MY CLOTHING THEY CAST LOTS."
25 Therefore the soldiers did these things. But standing by the cross of Jesus were His mother, and His mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
26 When Jesus then saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, ``Woman, behold, your son!"
27 Then He said to the disciple, ``Behold, your mother!" From that hour the disciple took her into his own household.
28 After this, Jesus, knowing that all things had already been accomplished, to fulfill the Scripture, said, ``I am thirsty."
29 A jar full of sour wine was standing there; so they put a sponge full of the sour wine upon a branch of hyssop and brought it up to His mouth.
30 Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, ``It is finished!" And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit.
31 Then the Jews, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
32 So the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first man and of the other who was crucified with Him;
33 but coming to Jesus, when they saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs.
34 But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.
35 And he who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true; and he knows that he is telling the truth, so that you also may believe.
36 For these things came to pass to fulfill the Scripture, ``NOT A BONE OF HIM SHALL BE BROKEN."
37 And again another Scripture says, ``THEY SHALL LOOK ON HIM WHOM THEY PIERCE."
38 After these things Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but a secret one for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate granted permission. So he came and took away His body.
39 Nicodemus, who had first come to Him by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds weight.
40 So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen wrappings with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.
41 Now in the place where He was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid.
42 Therefore because of the Jewish day of preparation, since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.
