John 18;37&38 37.  Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?”  Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king.  For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth.  Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice.”38.  Pilate...

John 18; 36 36.  Jesus answered, “My kingship is not of the world;  if my kingship were of this world, my servants would fight, that I might not be handed over to the Jews; but my kingship is not of this world.”   Three times in this reading Jesus uses the phrase,...

John 18;33-35 33.  Pilate entered the praetorium again and called Jesus, and said to him,  “Are you the King of the Jews?”34.  Jesus answered, “Do you say this of your own accord, or did others say it to you about me?”35.  Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew?  Your own nation and...

John 18;28-33 28.  Then they led him from the house of Caiaphas to the praetorium.  It was early.  They themselves did not enter the praetorium, so that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.29.  So Pilate went out to them and said, “What accusation do you bring against this...

(This account takes place at the house of Caiaphas the high priest, where the Council of Jewish elders also had gathered.  This reading is inserted into our study of John, because the Gospel of John does not give an account of Jesus before Caiaphas.) Matthew 26;59-68 59.  Now the chief priests and the whole council sought false...

John 18;25-27 25.  Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself.  They said to him, “Are not you also one of his disciples?”  He denied it and said, “I am not.”26.  One of the servants of the high priest, a kinsman of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked, “Did...

John 18;19-24 19.  The high priest (Annas) then questioned Jesus about his disciples and his teaching.20.  Jesus answered him, “ I have spoken openly to the world; I have always taught in the synagogues and in the temple, where all Jews come together; I have said nothing secretly.21.  Why do you...

John 18;17&18 17.  The maid who kept the door said to Peter, “Are not you also one of this man’s disciples?”        He said, “I am not.”18.  Now the servants and officers had made a charcoal fire, because it was cold, and they were standing and warming themselves; Peter...

John 18;15&16 15.  Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple.  As this disciple was known to the high priest, he entered the court of the high priest with Jesus,16.  While Peter stood outside at the door.  So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out...

John 18;12-14 12.  So the band of soldiers and their captain and the officers of the Jews seized Jesus and bound him.13.  First they led him to Annas; for he was father-in-law of Caiaphas; who was high priest that year.14.  It was Caiaphas who had given counsel to the Jews that...

John 18;10&11 10.  Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest’s slave and cut off his right ear.  The slave’s name was Manchus.11.  Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword into its sheath; shall I not drink the cup which the Father has given me?” Walking humbly with...

John 18;7-9 7.  Again he asked them, “Whom do you seek?”  And they said, “Jesus of Nazareth.”8.  Jesus answered, “I told you that I am he; so, if you seek me, let these men go.”9.  This was to fulfill the word which he had spoken, “Of those whom thou gavest me...

John 18;4–6 4.  Then Jesus, knowing all that was to befall him, came forward and said to them, “Whom do you seek?”5.  They answered him, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus said to them, “I am he.”  Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them.6.  When he said to them, “I am he,”...

John 18;1-3 1.  When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples across the Kidron valley, where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered.2.  Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place; for Jesus often met there with his disciples.3.  So Judas, procuring a...

John 17;25&26 25.  O righteous Father, the world has not known thee, but I have known thee; and these know that thou hast sent me.26.  I made known to them thy name, and I will make known, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and...

John 17;24 24. Father, I desire that they also, whom thou hast given me, may be with me where I am, to behold my glory which thou hast given me in they love for me before the foundation of the world. In Holy Baptism we often hear these words of promise, “He...

John 17;22&23 22.  The glory which thou hast given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,23.  I in them and thou in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved...

John 17; 20&21 20.  “I do not pray for these only, but also for those who believe in me through their word,21.  that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us, so that the world may...

John 17;18&19 18.  As thou didst send me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.19.  And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they may be consecrated in the truth. Jesus was sent into this world in holiness.  We have been made holy by the forgiveness of our...

John 17;17 17.  Sanctify them in the truth; thy word is truth. The word ‘sanctify’ means to be made holy, to be righteous in the sight of God. Scriptures uses the word sanctify in two different ways:  The first is a completed, finished, perfected sanctification. “Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom...

John 17;14-16 14.  I have given the thy 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 pray that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil...

John 2;11-13 11.  And now I am no more in the world, and I am coming to thee Holy Father, keep them in thy name, which thou hast given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.12. while I was with them, I kept them in thy name,...

John 17;9&10 9.  I am praying for them; I am not praying for the world but for those whom thou hast given me,  for they are thine;10.  all mine are thine, and thine are mine, and I am glorified in them. We are not ‘of’ this world.  We have a new birth...

John 17;7&8 7.  Now they (the disciples, more than just the twelve) know that everything thou hast given me is from thee;8.  for I have given them the words which Thou gavest me, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from thee; and they have believed that...

John 17;4-6 4.  I glorified thee on earth, having accomplished the work which thou gavest me to do;5.  and now, Father, glorify thou me in thy own presence with the glory which I had with thee before the world was made.6.  “I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou...

John 17;1-3 1.  When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify thy Son that the Son may glorify thee,2.  Since thou hast given him power over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom thou hast given...

John 16;29-33 29.  His disciples said, “Ah, now you are speaking plainly, not in any figure!30.  Now we know that you know all things, and need none to question you; by this we believe that you came from God.”31.  Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe?”32.  The hour is coming, when...

John 16;25-28 25.  “I have said this to you in figures; the hour is coming when I shall no longer speak to you in figures but tell you plainly of the Father.26.  In that day you will ask in my name; and I do not say to you that I shall...

 John 16;21-24 21.  When a woman is in travail she has sorrow, because her hour has come; but when she is delivered of the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a child is born into the world.22.  So you will have sorrow now, but I will see...

John 16;16-20 16.  “A little while, and you will see me no more; again a little while, and you will see me.”17.  Some of his disciples said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, ‘A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little...

John 16;12-15 12. “I have yet many things to say to you, but you can not bear them now.13.  When the Spirit of Truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he...