In Loving Memory
April 29, 1947 - September 5, 2020
Update: On Saturday, September 5th, 2020, the founder, administrator, and head moderator of this forum, Valerie S., went Home to be with the Lord. Her obituary can be found on https://memorials.demarcofuneralhomes.com/valerie-skrzyniak/4321619/index.php.
1 Thessalonians 4:15-18
For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
2 Timothy 4:7-8
For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing .
Jhn 12:1 Jesus, therefore, six days before the Passover, came to Bethany where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.
Jhn 12:2 So they made Him a supper there, and Martha was serving; but Lazarus was one of those reclining at the table with Him.
Jhn 12:3 Mary then took a pound of very costly perfume of pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped His feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
Jhn 12:4 But Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples, who was intending to betray Him, said,
Jhn 12:5 "Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and given to poor people?"
Jhn 12:6 Now he said this, not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief, and as he had the money box, he used to pilfer what was put into it.
Jhn 12:7 Therefore Jesus said, "Let her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of My burial.
Jhn 12:8 "For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me."
Jhn 12:9 The large crowd of the Jews then learned that He was there; and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might also see Lazarus, whom He raised from the dead.
Jhn 12:10 But the chief priests planned to put Lazarus to death also;
Jhn 12:11 because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and were believing in Jesus.
Jhn 12:12 On the next day the large crowd who had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
Jhn 12:13 took the branches of the palm trees and went out to meet Him, and began to shout, "Hosanna! BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, even the King of Israel."
Jhn 12:14 Jesus, finding a young donkey, sat on it; as it is written,
Jhn 12:15 "FEAR NOT, DAUGHTER OF ZION; BEHOLD, YOUR KING IS COMING, SEATED ON A DONKEY'S COLT."
Jhn 12:16 These things His disciples did not understand at the first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of Him, and that they had done these things to Him.
Jhn 12:17 So the people, who were with Him when He called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead, continued to testify about Him.
Jhn 12:18 For this reason also the people went and met Him, because they heard that He had performed this sign.
Jhn 12:19 So the Pharisees said to one another, "You see that you are not doing any good; look, the world has gone after Him."
Jhn 12:20 Now there were some Greeks among those who were going up to worship at the feast;
Jhn 12:21 these then came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and began to ask him, saying, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus."
Jhn 12:22 Philip came and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip came and told Jesus.
Jhn 12:23 And Jesus answered them, saying, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
Jhn 12:24 "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
Jhn 12:25 "He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal.
Jhn 12:26 "If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also; if anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.
Jhn 12:27 "Now My soul has become troubled; and what shall I say, 'Father, save Me from this hour'? But for this purpose I came to this hour.
Jhn 12:28 "Father, glorify Your name." Then a voice came out of heaven: "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again."
Jhn 12:29 So the crowd of people who stood by and heard it were saying that it had thundered; others were saying, "An angel has spoken to Him."
Jhn 12:30 Jesus answered and said, "This voice has not come for My sake, but for your sakes.
Jhn 12:31 "Now judgment is upon this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out.
Jhn 12:32 "And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself."
Jhn 12:33 But He was saying this to indicate the kind of death by which He was to die.
Jhn 12:34 The crowd then answered Him, "We have heard out of the Law that [fn]the Christ is to remain forever; and how can You say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up'? Who is this Son of Man?"
Jhn 12:35 So Jesus said to them, "For a little while longer the Light is among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you; he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes.
Jhn 12:36 "While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of Light." These things Jesus spoke, and He went away and hid Himself from them.
Jhn 12:37 But though He had performed so many signs before them, yet they were not believing in Him.
Jhn 12:38 This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet which he spoke: "LORD, WHO HAS BELIEVED OUR REPORT? AND TO WHOM HAS THE ARM OF THE LORD BEEN REVEALED?"
Jhn 12:39 For this reason they could not believe, for Isaiah said again,
Jhn 12:40 "HE HAS BLINDED THEIR EYES AND HE HARDENED THEIR HEART, SO THAT THEY WOULD NOT SEE WITH THEIR EYES AND PERCEIVE WITH THEIR HEART, AND BE CONVERTED AND I HEAL THEM."
Jhn 12:41 These things Isaiah said because he saw His glory, and he spoke of Him.
Jhn 12:42 Nevertheless many even of the rulers believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing Him, for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue;
Jhn 12:43 for they loved the approval of men rather than the approval of God.
Jhn 12:44 And Jesus cried out and said, "He who believes in Me, does not believe in Me but in Him who sent Me.
Jhn 12:45 "He who sees Me sees the One who sent Me.
Jhn 12:46 "I have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness.
Jhn 12:47 "If anyone hears My sayings and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.
Jhn 12:48 "He who rejects Me and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day.
Jhn 12:49 "For I did not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a commandment as to what to say and what to speak.
Jhn 12:50 "I know that His commandment is eternal life; therefore the things I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me."
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Jhn 13:1 Now before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come that He would depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.
Jhn 13:2 During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray Him,
Jhn 13:3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come forth from God and was going back to God,
Jhn 13:4 got up from supper, and laid aside His garments; and taking a towel, He girded Himself.
Jhn 13:5 Then He poured water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded.
Jhn 13:6 So He came to Simon Peter. He said to Him, "Lord, do You wash my feet?"
Jhn 13:7 Jesus answered and said to him, "What I do you do not realize now, but you will understand hereafter."
Jhn 13:8 Peter said to Him, "Never shall You wash my feet!" Jesus answered him, "If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me."
Jhn 13:9 Simon Peter said to Him, "Lord, then wash not only my feet, but also my hands and my head."
Jhn 13:10 Jesus said to him, "He who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you."
Jhn 13:11 For He knew the one who was betraying Him; for this reason He said, "Not all of you are clean."
Jhn 13:12 So when He had washed their feet, and taken His garments and reclined at the table again, He said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you?
Jhn 13:13 "You call Me Teacher and Lord; and you are right, for so I am.
Jhn 13:14 "If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.
Jhn 13:15 "For I gave you an example that you also should do as I did to you.
Jhn 13:16 "Truly, truly, I say to you, a slave is not greater than his master, nor is one who is sent greater than the one who sent him.
Jhn 13:17 "If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.
Jhn 13:18 "I do not speak of all of you. I know the ones I have chosen; but it is that the Scripture may be fulfilled, 'HE WHO EATS MY BREAD HAS LIFTED UP HIS HEEL AGAINST ME.'
Jhn 13:19 "From now on I am telling you before it comes to pass, so that when it does occur, you may believe that I am He.
Jhn 13:20 "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who receives whomever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me."
Jhn 13:21 When Jesus had said this, He became troubled in spirit, and testified and said, "Truly, truly, I say to you, that one of you will betray Me."
Jhn 13:22 The disciples began looking at one another, at a loss to know of which one He was speaking.
Jhn 13:23 There was reclining on Jesus' bosom one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved.
Jhn 13:24 So Simon Peter gestured to him, and said to him, "Tell us who it is of whom He is speaking."
Jhn 13:25 He, leaning back thus on Jesus' bosom, said to Him, "Lord, who is it?"
Jhn 13:26 Jesus then answered, "That is the one for whom I shall dip the morsel and give it to him." So when He had dipped the morsel, He took and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.
Jhn 13:27 After the morsel, Satan then entered into him. Therefore Jesus said to him, "What you do, do quickly."
Jhn 13:28 Now no one of those reclining at the table knew for what purpose He had said this to him.
Jhn 13:29 For some were supposing, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus was saying to him, "Buy the things we have need of for the feast"; or else, that he should give something to the poor.
Jhn 13:30 So after receiving the morsel he went out immediately; and it was night.
Jhn 13:31 Therefore when he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him;
Jhn 13:32 if God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself, and will glorify Him immediately.
Jhn 13:33 "Little children, I am with you a little while longer. You will seek Me; and as I said to the Jews, now I also say to you, 'Where I am going, you cannot come.'
Jhn 13:34 "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
Jhn 13:35 "By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."
Jhn 13:36 Simon Peter said to Him, "Lord, where are You going?" Jesus answered, "Where I go, you cannot follow Me now; but you will follow later."
Jhn 13:37 Peter said to Him, "Lord, why can I not follow You right now? I will lay down my life for You."
Jhn 13:38 Jesus answered, "Will you lay down your life for Me? Truly, truly, I say to you, a rooster will not crow until you deny Me three times.
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Jhn 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.
Jhn 18:2 Now Judas also, who was betraying Him, knew the place, for Jesus had often met there with His disciples.
Jhn 18:3 Judas then, having received the Roman cohort and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns and torches and weapons.
Jhn 18:4 So Jesus, knowing all the things that were coming upon Him, went forth and said to them, "Whom do you seek?"
Jhn 18:5 They answered Him, "Jesus the Nazarene." He said to them, "I am He." And Judas also, who was betraying Him, was standing with them.
Jhn 18:6 So when He said to them, "I am He," they drew back and fell to the ground.
Jhn 18:7 Therefore He again asked them, "Whom do you seek?" And they said, "Jesus the Nazarene."
Jhn 18:8 Jesus answered, "I told you that I am He; so if you seek Me, let these go their way,"
Jhn 18:9 to fulfill the word which He spoke, "Of those whom You have given Me I lost not one."
Jhn 18:10 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.
Jhn 18:11 So Jesus said to Peter, "Put the sword into the sheath; the cup which the Father has given Me, shall I not drink it?"
Jhn 18:12 So the Roman cohort and the commander and the officers of the Jews, arrested Jesus and bound Him,
Jhn 18:13 and led Him to Annas first; for he was father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.
Jhn 18:14 Now Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jews that it was expedient for one man to die on behalf of the people.
Jhn 18:15 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,
Jhn 18:16 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.
Jhn 18:17 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."
Jhn 18:18 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.
Jhn 18:19 The high priest then questioned Jesus about His disciples, and about His teaching.
Jhn 18:20 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.
Jhn 18:21 "Why do you question Me? Question those who have heard what I spoke to them; they know what I said."
Jhn 18:22 When He had said this, one of the officers standing nearby struck Jesus, saying, "Is that the way You answer the high priest?"
Jhn 18:23 Jesus answered him, "If I have spoken wrongly, testify of the wrong; but if rightly, why do you strike Me?"
Jhn 18:24 So Annas sent Him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.
Jhn 18:25 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."
Jhn 18:26 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?"
Jhn 18:27 Peter then denied it again, and immediately a rooster crowed.
Jhn 18:28 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.
Jhn 18:29 Therefore Pilate went out to them and said, "What accusation do you bring against this Man?"
Jhn 18:30 They answered and said to him, "If this Man were not an evildoer, we would not have delivered Him to you."
Jhn 18:31 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,"
Jhn 18:32 to fulfill the word of Jesus which He spoke, signifying by what kind of death He was about to die.
Jhn 18:33 Therefore Pilate entered again into the Praetorium, and summoned Jesus and said to Him, "Are You the King of the Jews?"
Jhn 18:34 Jesus answered, "Are you saying this on your own initiative, or did others tell you about Me?"
Jhn 18:35 Pilate answered, "I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered You to me; what have You done?"
Jhn 18:36 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."
Jhn 18:37 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."
Jhn 18:38 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.
Jhn 18:39 "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?"
Jhn 18:40 So they cried out again, saying, "Not this Man, but Barabbas." Now Barabbas was a robber.
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Jhn 19:1 Pilate then took Jesus and scourged Him.
Jhn 19:2 And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and put a purple robe on Him;
Jhn 19:3 and they began to come up to Him and say, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and to give Him slaps in the face.
Jhn 19:4 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."
Jhn 19:5 Jesus then came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, "Behold, the Man!"
Jhn 19:6 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."
Jhn 19:7 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."
Jhn 19:8 Therefore when Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid;
Jhn 19:9 and he entered into the Praetorium again and said to Jesus, "Where are You from?" But Jesus gave him no answer.
Jhn 19:10 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?"
Jhn 19:11 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."
Jhn 19:12 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."
Jhn 19:13 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.
Jhn 19:14 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!"
Jhn 19:15 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."
Jhn 19:16 So he then handed Him over to them to be crucified.
Jhn 19:17 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.
Jhn 19:18 There they crucified Him, and with Him two other men, one on either side, and Jesus in between.
Jhn 19:19 Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It was written, "JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS."
Jhn 19:20 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.
Jhn 19:21 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.'"
Jhn 19:22 Pilate answered, "What I have written I have written."
Jhn 19:23 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.
Jhn 19:24 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."
Jhn 19:25 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.
Jhn 19:26 When Jesus then saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, "Woman, behold, your son!"
Jhn 19:27 Then He said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" From that hour the disciple took her into his own household.
Jhn 19:28 After this, Jesus, knowing that all things had already been accomplished, to fulfill the Scripture, said, "I am thirsty."
Jhn 19:29 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.
Jhn 19:30 Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, "It is finished!" And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit.
Jhn 19:31 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.
Jhn 19:32 So the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first man and of the other who was crucified with Him;
Jhn 19:33 but coming to Jesus, when they saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs.
Jhn 19:34 But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.
Jhn 19:35 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.
Jhn 19:36 For these things came to pass to fulfill the Scripture, "NOT A BONE OF HIM SHALL BE [fn]BROKEN."
Jhn 19:37 And again another Scripture says, "THEY SHALL LOOK ON HIM WHOM THEY PIERCED."
Jhn 19:38 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.
Jhn 19:39 Nicodemus, who had first come to Him by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds weight.
Jhn 19:40 So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen wrappings with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.
Jhn 19:41 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.
Jhn 19:42 Therefore because of the Jewish day of preparation, since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.
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Jhn 20:1 Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came early to the tomb, while it was still dark, and saw the stone already taken away from the tomb.
Jhn 20:2 So she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him."
Jhn 20:3 So Peter and the other disciple went forth, and they were going to the tomb.
Jhn 20:4 The two were running together; and the other disciple ran ahead faster than Peter and came to the tomb first;
Jhn 20:5 and stooping and looking in, he saw the linen wrappings lying there; but he did not go in.
Jhn 20:6 And so Simon Peter also came, following him, and entered the tomb; and he saw the linen wrappings lying there,
Jhn 20:7 and the face-cloth which had been on His head, not lying with the linen wrappings, but rolled up in a place by itself.
Jhn 20:8 So the other disciple who had first come to the tomb then also entered, and he saw and believed.
Jhn 20:9 For as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that He must rise again from the dead.
Jhn 20:10 So the disciples went away again to their own homes.
Jhn 20:11 But Mary was standing outside the tomb weeping; and so, as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb;
Jhn 20:12 and she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had been lying.
Jhn 20:13 And they said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid Him."
Jhn 20:14 When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, and did not know that it was Jesus.
Jhn 20:15 Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?" Supposing Him to be the gardener, she said to Him, "Sir, if you have carried Him away, tell me where you have laid Him, and I will take Him away."
Jhn 20:16 Jesus said to her, "Mary!" She turned and said to Him in Hebrew, "Rabboni!" (which means, Teacher).
Jhn 20:17 Jesus said to her, "Stop clinging to Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, 'I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.'"
Jhn 20:18 Mary Magdalen came, announcing to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord," and that He had said these things to her.
Jhn 20:19 So when it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, " Peace be with you."
Jhn 20:20 And when He had said this, He showed them both His hands and His side. The disciples then rejoiced when they saw the Lord.
Jhn 20:21 So Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you; as the Father has sent Me, I also send you."
Jhn 20:22 And when He had said this, He breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit.
Jhn 20:23 "If you forgive the sins of any, their sins have been forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they have been retained."
Jhn 20:24 But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.
Jhn 20:25 So the other disciples were saying to him, "We have seen the Lord!" But he said to them, "Unless I see in His hands the imprint of the nails, and put my finger into the place of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe."
Jhn 20:26 After eight days His disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors having been shut, and stood in their midst and said, "Peace be with you."
Jhn 20:27 Then He said to Thomas, "Reach here with your finger, and see My hands; and reach here your hand and put it into My side; and do not be unbelieving, but believing."
Jhn 20:28 Thomas answered and said to Him, "My Lord and my God!"
Jhn 20:29 Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen Me, have you believed? Blessed are they who did not see, and yet believed."
Jhn 20:30 Therefore many other signs Jesus also performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book;
Jhn 20:31 but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name.
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This is holy week, and I believe it's a good time to bring this back up to the top for all to read.
The picture you see here has a special meaning to me, as I had a personal experience recently with the Lord, therefore, let me share this picture, to let you know what is on my heart.
God loves each and everyone of you, and the Lord proved it by sending Jesus to die on the cross for our sins. Thanks be to God for Jesus! Amen!
In Jesus' Love,
Valerie
Jhn 12:1 Jesus, therefore, six days before the Passover, came to Bethany where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.
Jhn 12:2 So they made Him a supper there, and Martha was serving; but Lazarus was one of those reclining at the table with Him.
Jhn 12:3 Mary then took a pound of very costly perfume of pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped His feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
Jhn 12:4 But Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples, who was intending to betray Him, said,
Jhn 12:5 "Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and given to poor people?"
Jhn 12:6 Now he said this, not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief, and as he had the money box, he used to pilfer what was put into it.
Jhn 12:7 Therefore Jesus said, "Let her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of My burial.
Jhn 12:8 "For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me."
Jhn 12:9 The large crowd of the Jews then learned that He was there; and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might also see Lazarus, whom He raised from the dead.
Jhn 12:10 But the chief priests planned to put Lazarus to death also;
Jhn 12:11 because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and were believing in Jesus.
Jhn 12:12 On the next day the large crowd who had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
Jhn 12:13 took the branches of the palm trees and went out to meet Him, and began to shout, "Hosanna! BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, even the King of Israel."
Jhn 12:14 Jesus, finding a young donkey, sat on it; as it is written,
Jhn 12:15 "FEAR NOT, DAUGHTER OF ZION; BEHOLD, YOUR KING IS COMING, SEATED ON A DONKEY'S COLT."
Jhn 12:16 These things His disciples did not understand at the first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of Him, and that they had done these things to Him.
Jhn 12:17 So the people, who were with Him when He called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead, continued to testify about Him.
Jhn 12:18 For this reason also the people went and met Him, because they heard that He had performed this sign.
Jhn 12:19 So the Pharisees said to one another, "You see that you are not doing any good; look, the world has gone after Him."
Jhn 12:20 Now there were some Greeks among those who were going up to worship at the feast;
Jhn 12:21 these then came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and began to ask him, saying, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus."
Jhn 12:22 Philip came and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip came and told Jesus.
Jhn 12:23 And Jesus answered them, saying, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
Jhn 12:24 "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
Jhn 12:25 "He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal.
Jhn 12:26 "If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also; if anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.
Jhn 12:27 "Now My soul has become troubled; and what shall I say, 'Father, save Me from this hour'? But for this purpose I came to this hour.
Jhn 12:28 "Father, glorify Your name." Then a voice came out of heaven: "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again."
Jhn 12:29 So the crowd of people who stood by and heard it were saying that it had thundered; others were saying, "An angel has spoken to Him."
Jhn 12:30 Jesus answered and said, "This voice has not come for My sake, but for your sakes.
Jhn 12:31 "Now judgment is upon this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out.
Jhn 12:32 "And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself."
Jhn 12:33 But He was saying this to indicate the kind of death by which He was to die.
Jhn 12:34 The crowd then answered Him, "We have heard out of the Law that [fn]the Christ is to remain forever; and how can You say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up'? Who is this Son of Man?"
Jhn 12:35 So Jesus said to them, "For a little while longer the Light is among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you; he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes.
Jhn 12:36 "While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of Light." These things Jesus spoke, and He went away and hid Himself from them.
Jhn 12:37 But though He had performed so many signs before them, yet they were not believing in Him.
Jhn 12:38 This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet which he spoke: "LORD, WHO HAS BELIEVED OUR REPORT? AND TO WHOM HAS THE ARM OF THE LORD BEEN REVEALED?"
Jhn 12:39 For this reason they could not believe, for Isaiah said again,
Jhn 12:40 "HE HAS BLINDED THEIR EYES AND HE HARDENED THEIR HEART, SO THAT THEY WOULD NOT SEE WITH THEIR EYES AND PERCEIVE WITH THEIR HEART, AND BE CONVERTED AND I HEAL THEM."
Jhn 12:41 These things Isaiah said because he saw His glory, and he spoke of Him.
Jhn 12:42 Nevertheless many even of the rulers believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing Him, for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue;
Jhn 12:43 for they loved the approval of men rather than the approval of God.
Jhn 12:44 And Jesus cried out and said, "He who believes in Me, does not believe in Me but in Him who sent Me.
Jhn 12:45 "He who sees Me sees the One who sent Me.
Jhn 12:46 "I have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness.
Jhn 12:47 "If anyone hears My sayings and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.
Jhn 12:48 "He who rejects Me and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day.
Jhn 12:49 "For I did not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a commandment as to what to say and what to speak.
Jhn 12:50 "I know that His commandment is eternal life; therefore the things I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me."
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Jhn 19:1 Pilate then took Jesus and scourged Him.
Jhn 19:2 And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and put a purple robe on Him;
Jhn 19:3 and they began to come up to Him and say, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and to give Him slaps in the face.
Jhn 19:4 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."
Jhn 19:5 Jesus then came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, "Behold, the Man!"
Jhn 19:6 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."
Jhn 19:7 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."
Jhn 19:8 Therefore when Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid;
Jhn 19:9 and he entered into the Praetorium again and said to Jesus, "Where are You from?" But Jesus gave him no answer.
Jhn 19:10 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?"
Jhn 19:11 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."
Jhn 19:12 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."
Jhn 19:13 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.
Jhn 19:14 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!"
Jhn 19:15 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."
Jhn 19:16 So he then handed Him over to them to be crucified.
Jhn 19:17 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.
Jhn 19:18 There they crucified Him, and with Him two other men, one on either side, and Jesus in between.
Jhn 19:19 Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It was written, "JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS."
Jhn 19:20 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.
Jhn 19:21 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.'"
Jhn 19:22 Pilate answered, "What I have written I have written."
Jhn 19:23 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.
Jhn 19:24 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."
Jhn 19:25 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.
Jhn 19:26 When Jesus then saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, "Woman, behold, your son!"
Jhn 19:27 Then He said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" From that hour the disciple took her into his own household.
Jhn 19:28 After this, Jesus, knowing that all things had already been accomplished, to fulfill the Scripture, said, "I am thirsty."
Jhn 19:29 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.
Jhn 19:30 Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, "It is finished!" And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit.
Jhn 19:31 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.
Jhn 19:32 So the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first man and of the other who was crucified with Him;
Jhn 19:33 but coming to Jesus, when they saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs.
Jhn 19:34 But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.
Jhn 19:35 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.
Jhn 19:36 For these things came to pass to fulfill the Scripture, "NOT A BONE OF HIM SHALL BE BROKEN."
Jhn 19:37 And again another Scripture says, "THEY SHALL LOOK ON HIM WHOM THEY PIERCED."
Jhn 19:38 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.
Jhn 19:39 Nicodemus, who had first come to Him by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds weight.
Jhn 19:40 So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen wrappings with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.
Jhn 19:41 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.
Jhn 19:42 Therefore because of the Jewish day of preparation, since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.
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1: The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it
was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from
the sepulchre.
2: Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other
disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away
the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.
3: Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulchre.
4: So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre.
5: And he stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in.
6: Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie,
7: And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.
8: Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed.
9: For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.
10: Then the disciples went away again unto their own home.
11: But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre,
12: And seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.
13: And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto
them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they
have laid him.
14: And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus.
15: Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou?
She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou
have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take
him away.
16: Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master.
17: Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my
Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my
Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.
18: Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her.
19: Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when
the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the
Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be
unto you.
20: And when he had so said, he shewed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord.
21: Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.
22: And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:
23: Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.
24: But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.
25: The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord.
But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the
nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my
hand into his side, I will not believe.
26: And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas
with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the
midst, and said, Peace be unto you.
27: Then saith he to Thomas, reach hither thy finger, and behold my
hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be
not faithless, but believing.
28: And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.
29: Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast
believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
30: And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book:
31: But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the
Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through
his name.
Happy Ressurection Sunday aka Easter and a very blessed day to all
Celebrate the Ressurection of our Lord Jesus with gratitude, and abundant thankfulness. For God sent His only begotten Son to die in our place, so that we could enjoy the present and future companionship of Jesus God's Son, for eternity in a place Jesus prepared for us. Soon Jesus will return to catch us up in the Rapture Flight to Heaven. Maranatha!
It was time to bump this up to the top once again for 2015.
Just in case the Rapture happens beforehand, I wanted to wish you all a blessed day. My hope is that everyone will spend more time in reading scripture during this week. These are some of the most important scripture for us, Christians, especially, of the day our lives were changed forevermore. Our Lord's willing sacrifice for sinners reconciled us to God through our Precious Lord. Jesus suffered, died, & rose again. HE'S ALIVE!!! HE'S COMING SOON!!!
Easter Sunday April 5th, we will celebrate in remembrance of the Ressurection of our Lord Jesus again this year, perhaps even in Heaven. Of course, if that is God's timing for the Ressurection of the dead in Christ, and we who are alive and in Christ, will be caught up together with the dead to meet Jesus in the Clouds; Marantaha!
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It's not what you call the day of the Lord's Ressurection, (Ressurection Sunday, or Easter Sunday) It's who you celebrate and follow as a faithful disciple. A follower of Jesus of Nazareth, one and only begotten Son of God.
Jhn 12:1 Jesus, therefore, six days before the Passover, came to Bethany where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.
Jhn 12:2 So they made Him a supper there, and Martha was serving; but Lazarus was one of those reclining at the table with Him.
Jhn 12:3 Mary then took a pound of very costly perfume of pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped His feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
Jhn 12:4 But Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples, who was intending to betray Him, said,
Jhn 12:5 "Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and given to poor people?"
Jhn 12:6 Now he said this, not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief, and as he had the money box, he used to pilfer what was put into it.
Jhn 12:7 Therefore Jesus said, "Let her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of My burial.
Jhn 12:8 "For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me."
Jhn 12:9 The large crowd of the Jews then learned that He was there; and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might also see Lazarus, whom He raised from the dead.
Jhn 12:10 But the chief priests planned to put Lazarus to death also;
Jhn 12:11 because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and were believing in Jesus.
Jhn 12:12 On the next day the large crowd who had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
Jhn 12:13 took the branches of the palm trees and went out to meet Him, and began to shout, "Hosanna! BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, even the King of Israel."
Jhn 12:14 Jesus, finding a young donkey, sat on it; as it is written,
Jhn 12:15 "FEAR NOT, DAUGHTER OF ZION; BEHOLD, YOUR KING IS COMING, SEATED ON A DONKEY'S COLT."
Jhn 12:16 These things His disciples did not understand at the first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of Him, and that they had done these things to Him.
Jhn 12:17 So the people, who were with Him when He called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead, continued to testify about Him.
Jhn 12:18 For this reason also the people went and met Him, because they heard that He had performed this sign.
Jhn 12:19 So the Pharisees said to one another, "You see that you are not doing any good; look, the world has gone after Him."
Jhn 12:20 Now there were some Greeks among those who were going up to worship at the feast;
Jhn 12:21 these then came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and began to ask him, saying, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus."
Jhn 12:22 Philip came and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip came and told Jesus.
Jhn 12:23 And Jesus answered them, saying, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
Jhn 12:24 "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
Jhn 12:25 "He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal.
Jhn 12:26 "If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also; if anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.
Jhn 12:27 "Now My soul has become troubled; and what shall I say, 'Father, save Me from this hour'? But for this purpose I came to this hour.
Jhn 12:28 "Father, glorify Your name." Then a voice came out of heaven: "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again."
Jhn 12:29 So the crowd of people who stood by and heard it were saying that it had thundered; others were saying, "An angel has spoken to Him."
Jhn 12:30 Jesus answered and said, "This voice has not come for My sake, but for your sakes.
Jhn 12:31 "Now judgment is upon this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out.
Jhn 12:32 "And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself."
Jhn 12:33 But He was saying this to indicate the kind of death by which He was to die.
Jhn 12:34 The crowd then answered Him, "We have heard out of the Law that [fn]the Christ is to remain forever; and how can You say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up'? Who is this Son of Man?"
Jhn 12:35 So Jesus said to them, "For a little while longer the Light is among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you; he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes.
Jhn 12:36 "While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of Light." These things Jesus spoke, and He went away and hid Himself from them.
Jhn 12:37 But though He had performed so many signs before them, yet they were not believing in Him.
Jhn 12:38 This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet which he spoke: "LORD, WHO HAS BELIEVED OUR REPORT? AND TO WHOM HAS THE ARM OF THE LORD BEEN REVEALED?"
Jhn 12:39 For this reason they could not believe, for Isaiah said again,
Jhn 12:40 "HE HAS BLINDED THEIR EYES AND HE HARDENED THEIR HEART, SO THAT THEY WOULD NOT SEE WITH THEIR EYES AND PERCEIVE WITH THEIR HEART, AND BE CONVERTED AND I HEAL THEM."
Jhn 12:41 These things Isaiah said because he saw His glory, and he spoke of Him.
Jhn 12:42 Nevertheless many even of the rulers believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing Him, for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue;
Jhn 12:43 for they loved the approval of men rather than the approval of God.
Jhn 12:44 And Jesus cried out and said, "He who believes in Me, does not believe in Me but in Him who sent Me.
Jhn 12:45 "He who sees Me sees the One who sent Me.
Jhn 12:46 "I have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness.
Jhn 12:47 "If anyone hears My sayings and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.
Jhn 12:48 "He who rejects Me and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day.
Jhn 12:49 "For I did not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a commandment as to what to say and what to speak.
Jhn 12:50 "I know that His commandment is eternal life; therefore the things I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me."
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Jhn 13:1 Now before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come that He would depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.
Jhn 13:2 During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray Him,
Jhn 13:3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come forth from God and was going back to God,
Jhn 13:4 got up from supper, and laid aside His garments; and taking a towel, He girded Himself.
Jhn 13:5 Then He poured water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded.
Jhn 13:6 So He came to Simon Peter. He said to Him, "Lord, do You wash my feet?"
Jhn 13:7 Jesus answered and said to him, "What I do you do not realize now, but you will understand hereafter."
Jhn 13:8 Peter said to Him, "Never shall You wash my feet!" Jesus answered him, "If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me."
Jhn 13:9 Simon Peter said to Him, "Lord, then wash not only my feet, but also my hands and my head."
Jhn 13:10 Jesus said to him, "He who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you."
Jhn 13:11 For He knew the one who was betraying Him; for this reason He said, "Not all of you are clean."
Jhn 13:12 So when He had washed their feet, and taken His garments and reclined at the table again, He said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you?
Jhn 13:13 "You call Me Teacher and Lord; and you are right, for so I am.
Jhn 13:14 "If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.
Jhn 13:15 "For I gave you an example that you also should do as I did to you.
Jhn 13:16 "Truly, truly, I say to you, a slave is not greater than his master, nor is one who is sent greater than the one who sent him.
Jhn 13:17 "If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.
Jhn 13:18 "I do not speak of all of you. I know the ones I have chosen; but it is that the Scripture may be fulfilled, 'HE WHO EATS MY BREAD HAS LIFTED UP HIS HEEL AGAINST ME.'
Jhn 13:19 "From now on I am telling you before it comes to pass, so that when it does occur, you may believe that I am He.
Jhn 13:20 "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who receives whomever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me."
Jhn 13:21 When Jesus had said this, He became troubled in spirit, and testified and said, "Truly, truly, I say to you, that one of you will betray Me."
Jhn 13:22 The disciples began looking at one another, at a loss to know of which one He was speaking.
Jhn 13:23 There was reclining on Jesus' bosom one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved.
Jhn 13:24 So Simon Peter gestured to him, and said to him, "Tell us who it is of whom He is speaking."
Jhn 13:25 He, leaning back thus on Jesus' bosom, said to Him, "Lord, who is it?"
Jhn 13:26 Jesus then answered, "That is the one for whom I shall dip the morsel and give it to him." So when He had dipped the morsel, He took and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.
Jhn 13:27 After the morsel, Satan then entered into him. Therefore Jesus said to him, "What you do, do quickly."
Jhn 13:28 Now no one of those reclining at the table knew for what purpose He had said this to him.
Jhn 13:29 For some were supposing, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus was saying to him, "Buy the things we have need of for the feast"; or else, that he should give something to the poor.
Jhn 13:30 So after receiving the morsel he went out immediately; and it was night.
Jhn 13:31 Therefore when he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him;
Jhn 13:32 if God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself, and will glorify Him immediately.
Jhn 13:33 "Little children, I am with you a little while longer. You will seek Me; and as I said to the Jews, now I also say to you, 'Where I am going, you cannot come.'
Jhn 13:34 "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
Jhn 13:35 "By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."
Jhn 13:36 Simon Peter said to Him, "Lord, where are You going?" Jesus answered, "Where I go, you cannot follow Me now; but you will follow later."
Jhn 13:37 Peter said to Him, "Lord, why can I not follow You right now? I will lay down my life for You."
Jhn 13:38 Jesus answered, "Will you lay down your life for Me? Truly, truly, I say to you, a rooster will not crow until you deny Me three times.
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Jhn 14:1 "Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me.
Jhn 14:2 "In My Father's house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you.
Jhn 14:3 "If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also.
Jhn 14:4 "And you know the way where I am going."
Jhn 14:5 Thomas said to Him, "Lord, we do not know where You are going, how do we know the way?"
Jhn 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.
Jhn 14:7 "If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; from now on you know Him, and have seen Him."
Jhn 14:8 Philip said to Him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us."
Jhn 14:9 Jesus said to him, "Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, 'Show us the Father'?
Jhn 14:10 "Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works.
Jhn 14:11 "Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise believe because of the works themselves.
Jhn 14:12 "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father.
Jhn 14:13 "Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
Jhn 14:14 "If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.
Jhn 14:15 "If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
Jhn 14:16 "I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever;
Jhn 14:17 that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.
Jhn 14:18 "I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
Jhn 14:19 " After a little while the world will no longer see Me, but you will see Me; because I live, you will live also.
Jhn 14:20 "In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.
Jhn 14:21 "He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him."
Jhn 14:22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, "Lord, what then has happened that You are going to disclose Yourself to us and not to the world?"
Jhn 14:23 Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him.
Jhn 14:24 "He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father's who sent Me.
Jhn 14:25 "These things I have spoken to you while abiding with you.
Jhn 14:26 "But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.
Jhn 14:27 "Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.
Jhn 14:28 "You heard that I said to you, 'I go away, and I will come to you.' If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced because I go to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.
Jhn 14:29 "Now I have told you before it happens, so that when it happens, you may believe.
Jhn 14:30 "I will not speak much more with you, for the ruler of the world is coming, and he has nothing in Me;
Jhn 14:31 but so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the Father commanded Me. Get up, let us go from here.
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