Mark 4

• He said to them, “Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and more will be given to you who hear.

Matthew 6

• For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you don’t forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Matthew 7

• For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

John 1

• The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

John 8

• If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples. You will know The Truth, and The Truth will make you free.

Luke 12

• You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don’t interpret this time? Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?

John 14

• I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

John 14

• I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever,— the Spirit of Truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him, neither knows him.

John 16

• However when he, the Spirit of Truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak.

John 6

• Jesus therefore, perceiving that they were about to come and take him by force, to make him king, withdrew again to the mountain by himself.

Luke 14

• Everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

Matthew 18

• Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.

Luke 22

• I am among you as one who serves.

Mark 2

• As he passed by, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax office, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he arose and followed him.

John 8

• I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.

Matthew 19

• He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me, isn’t worthy of me.

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He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the book, and found the place where it was written, “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed, and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”

He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him. He began to tell them, “Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.” All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”

He said to them, 

“Doubtless you will tell me this parable, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.’” He said, “Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown. 

But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land. Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. 

There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian.”

They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things. They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.  But he, passing through the middle of them, went his way.

Leaving Nazareth, he lived in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, “The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, toward the sea, beyond the Jordan, the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned.” From that time; Jesus began to preach, and to say, 

 “Repent!

For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”

Source Text Prioritization:

1. Luke 4:16-30
2. Matthew 4:13-17

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After these things Jesus went out from there. As he passed by, he saw a man named Levi, (called Matthew the son of Alphaeus), sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, “Follow me!”

He got up, left everything, and rose up and followed him.

Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were with them. As Jesus sat reclining at the table in the house, behold, tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples (for there were many); and they followed him. 

When the scribes and the Pharisees saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they murmured against and said to his disciples, “Why is it that your teacher eats with tax collectors and sinners?”

When Jesus heard it he answered them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do. But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Then John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came to him and asked him, saying, “Why do we (John’s disciples) and disciples of the Pharisees fast and pray often, but your disciples don’t fast …yours eat and drink?”

Jesus said to them, “Can you make the groomsmen fast and mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they can’t fast. But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast, in those days.

He also told a parable to them.

• No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment; or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old, and a worse hole is made.
• No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined.

No man having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says, ‘The old is better.’ No, new wine must be put into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved.”

Source Text Prioritization:

1. Matthew 9:9-17
2. Mark 2:14-22
3. Luke 5:27-39

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After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand. His brothers therefore said to him, “Depart from here, and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do. For no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world.” For even his brothers didn’t believe in him.

      Jesus therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready. The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil. You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.” Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee. But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.

      The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, “Where is he?” There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, “He is a good man.” Others said, “Not so, but he leads the multitude astray.” Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews. But when it was now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught. The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How does this man know, having never been educated?”

Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself. He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”

The multitude answered, “You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?”

Jesus answered them, “I did one work, and you all marvel because of it. Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy. If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man completely healthy on the Sabbath? Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

Therefore; some of them of Jerusalem said, “Isn’t this he whom they seek to kill? Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ? However; we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from.”

Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don’t know. I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.”

They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, “When the Christ comes, he won’t do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?” The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

Then Jesus said, “I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me. You will seek me, and won’t find me; and where I am, you can’t come.”

The Jews therefore said among themselves, “Where will this man go that we won’t find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks? What is this word that he said, ‘You will seek me, and won’t find me; and where I am, you can’t come’?”

Source Text Prioritization:

1. John 7:1-36

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It was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem. It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon’s porch. The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, “How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.” Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me. But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand.  I and the Father are one.” Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?” The Jews answered him, “We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God.” Jesus answered them,  “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’ If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken), do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’ If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me. But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the works; that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”

They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand. He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and there he stayed. Many came to him. They said, “John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true.” Many believed in him there.

Source Text Prioritization:

1. John 10:22-42

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John 13:1-18:27

Matthew 26:17-75

Mark 14:12-72

Luke 22:7-65

Now on the first day of unleavened bread (when the Passover must be sacrificed), the disciples came to Jesus, asking to him, “Where do you want us to go and prepare for you that you may eat the Passover?” He sent two of his disciples (Peter and John), and said to them, “Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat.” They said to him, “Where do you want us to prepare?” He said to them, “Behold, when you have entered into the city, a man carrying a pitcher of water will meet you. Follow him into the house (wherever he enters in). Go to a certain person and tell the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says to you, “My time is at hand. Where is the guestroom where I will keep and eat the Passover at your house with my disciples?”’ He will, himself, show you a large furnished upper room; ready. Make preparations for us there.” The disciples went out, and came into the city, and found things as he had told them, and did as Jesus commanded them, and they prepared the Passover.

Source Text Prioritization:

1. Matthew 26:17-19
2. Mark 14:12-16
3. Luke 22:7-13

When the hour had come (when it was evening), he was reclining with the twelve at the table. As they sat down and before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him; Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came from God, and was going to God, arose from supper, and laid aside his outer garments. He took a towel, and wrapped a towel around his waist. Then he poured water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. 

      Then he came to Simon Peter. He said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?” Jesus answered him, “You don’t know what I am doing now, but you will understand later.” Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet!” Jesus answered him, “If I don’t wash you, you have no part with me.” Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!” Jesus said to him, “Someone who has bathed only needs to have his feet washed, but is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you.” For he knew him who would betray him, therefore he said, “You are not all clean.” So when he had washed their feet, put his outer garment back on, and sat down again, he said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you? You call me, ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord.’ You say so correctly, for so I am. If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you. Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither one who is sent greater than he who sent him. If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’ From now on, I tell you before it happens, that when it happens, you may believe that I am he. Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me.”

Source Text Prioritization:

1. John 13:1-20
2. Matthew 26:20
3. Mark 14:18a
4. Luke 22:14

When they were eating, Jesus said he was troubled in spirit, and testified, “Most certainly I tell you that one of you will betray me—he who eats with me. The hand of him who betrays me is with me on the table. The Son of Man indeed goes, as it has been determined, but woe to that man through whom he is betrayed! The disciples looked at one another. They began to be exceedingly sorrowful, and perplexed about whom he spoke. They began to question among themselves, which of them it was who would do this thing. Each began to ask him one by one, “It isn’t me, is it, Lord?” There arose also a contention among them, which of them was considered to be greatest. He said to them, “The kings of the nations lord it over them, and those who have authority over them are called ‘benefactors.’ But not so with you. But one who is the greater among you, let him become as the younger, and one who is governing, as one who serves. For who is greater, one who sits at the table, or one who serves? Isn’t it he who sits at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.

One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was at the table, leaning against Jesus’ breast. Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, and said to him, “Tell us who it is of whom he speaks.” He, leaning back, as he was, on Jesus’ breast, asked him, “Lord, who is it?” Jesus therefore answered them, “It is one of the twelve, he to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it (who dips with me in the dish), the same will betray me. The Son of Man goes, even as it is written about him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.” 

      So when he had dipped the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. After the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him. Judas, who betrayed him, answered, “It isn’t me, is it, Rabbi?” Then Jesus said to him, “You said it. What you do, do quickly.” Now no man at the table knew why he said this to him. For some thought, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus said to him, “Buy what things we need for the feast,” or that he should give something to the poor. Therefore; having received that morsel, he went out immediately. It was night.

Source Text Prioritization:

1. John 13:21-30
2. Matthew 26:21-25
3. Mark 14:18-21
4. Luke 22:21-30

When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him immediately. Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come,’ so now I tell you. A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Source Text Prioritization:

1. John 13:31-35

      Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus answered, “Where I am going, you can’t follow now, but you will follow afterwards.” Peter said to him, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.” Jesus answered him, “Will you lay down your life for me? Most certainly I tell you, the rooster won’t crow until you have denied me three times. “Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also. Where I go, you know, and you know the way.”

Source Text Prioritization:

1. John 13:36-14:4

      Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going. How can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him.”

Source Text Prioritization:

1. John 14:5-7

      Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’ Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works’ sake. Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father. Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.

Source Text Prioritization:

1. John 14:8-14

He said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer, for I tell you, I will no longer by any means eat of it until it is fulfilled in God’s Kingdom.” As they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks for and blessed it; broke it. He gave to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body which is given for you. Do this in memory of me.” Likewise, he took the cup after supper. When he had given thanks, gave to them; saying, “All of you… take this and share it among yourselves; drink it, for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for you, for many; for the remission of sins. Most certainly I tell you that I will not drink at all again from this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father’s Kingdom.” They all drank of it.

Source Text Prioritization:

1. Matthew 26:26-29
2. Mark 14:22-25
3. Luke 22:14b-20

If you love me, keep my commandments. I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever, — the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you. Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also. In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”

Source Text Prioritization:

1. John 14:15-21

      Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?” Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him. He who doesn’t love me doesn’t keep my words. The word which you hear isn’t mine, but the Father’s who sent me. I have said these things to you, while still living with you. But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you. Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful. You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I. Now I have told you before it happens so that, when it happens, you may believe. I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me. But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Rise, let us go our from here." 

Source Text Prioritization:

1. John 14:22-31
2. Matthew 26:30a
3. Mark 14:26

When Jesus had spoken these words, they sung a hymn, and they went out.

Jesus continued, " I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me. I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned. If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you. “In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples. Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love. I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full. This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. 

Source Text Prioritization:

1. John 15:1-3
2. Matthew 26:30b

You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you. You didn’t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you. “I command these things to you, that you may love one another. 

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also. But all these things will they do to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. He who hates me, hates my Father also. If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father. But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

Source Text Prioritization:

1. John 15:14-25

“When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me. You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning. These things have I spoken to you, so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble. They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God. They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me. But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you. But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart. Nevertheless; I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. 

When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment; about sin, because they don’t believe in me; about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you won’t see me anymore; about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged. I have yet many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now. However; when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming. He will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine, and will declare it to you. All things whatever the Father has are mine; therefore; I said that he takes of mine, and will declare it to you. A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.”

Source Text Prioritization:

1. John 15:26-16:6

      Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;’ and, ‘Because I go to the Father’?” They said therefore, “What is this that he says, ‘A little while’? We don’t know what he is saying.” Therefore; Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, “Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me?’ Most certainly I tell you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy. A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world. Therefore; you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

      In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full. I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father. In that day you will ask in my name; and I don’t say to you, that I will pray to the Father for you, for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God. I came from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.”

His disciples said to him, “Behold, now you speak plainly, and speak no figures of speech. Now we know that you know all things, and don’t need for anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came from God.”       Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe? Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up!  I have overcome the world.”

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1. John 16:17-33

Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you; even as you gave him authority over all flesh, he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him. This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ. I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do. Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed. I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word. Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me are from you, for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me. I pray for them.

      I don’t pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. Those whom you have given me I have kept. None of them is lost, except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves. I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one. 

      They are not of the world even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world. For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth. Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who believe in me through their word, that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me. The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even as we are one; I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me. Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world. Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me. I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

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1. John 17:1-26

His disciples followed him over the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered. Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’ However; after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee. But you are those who have continued with me in my trials. I confer on you a kingdom, even as my Father conferred on me, that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom. You will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”

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1. John 18:1
2. Matthew 26:31-32
3. Mark 4:27
4. Luke 22:28-30

The Lord said, “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat, but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers.” But Peter answered him,  “Even if all will be made to stumble because of you, I will never be made to stumble. Although all will be offended, yet I will not. Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!” Jesus said to him, “Most certainly I tell you, Peter, that tonight (even this night), the rooster will by no means crow twice …you will deny that you know me three times.”

      Peter spoke to him all the more, “Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you.” The disciples all said the same thing. He said to them, “When I sent you out without purse, and wallet, and shoes, did you lack anything?” They said, “Nothing.” Then he said to them, “But now, whoever has a purse, let him take it, and likewise a wallet. Whoever has none, let him sell his cloak, and buy a sword. For I tell you that this which is written must still be fulfilled in me: ‘He was counted with transgressors.’ For that which concerns me has an end.” They said, “Lord, behold, here are two swords.” He said to them, “That is enough.” He came out, and went, as his custom was, to the Mount of Olives. His disciples also followed him.

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1. Matthew 26:33-35
2. Mark 14:29-31
3. Luke 22:31-38

Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane. When he was at the place, he said to his disciples, “Sit here, while I go there and pray. Pray that you don’t enter into temptation.” He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee (James and John), and began to be greatly sorrowful, distressed and severely troubled. Then he said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me.” He went forward a little, and fell on his face on the ground. He was withdrawn from them about a stone’s throw, and prayed that the hour might pass away from him. He said, “My Abba Father; if it is possible, (if you are willing) let this cup pass away …remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire. All things are possible to you. Please remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not what I desire …but yours …but what you desire be done. An angel from heaven appeared to him, strengthening him. Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground. When he rose up from his prayer, he came to the disciples, and found them sleeping because of grief, and said to Peter, “What; Simon, are you sleeping? Why do you sleep? Couldn’t you watch with me for one hour? Rise and watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. Again, a second time he went away, and prayed, the same words, saying, “My Father, if this cup can’t pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done.” He came again and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy. He left them again, went away, and prayed a third time, saying the same words and they didn’t know what to answer him.  Then he came to his disciples, and said to them, “Sleep on now, and take your rest. It is enough. Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. “Arise, let’s be going. Behold, he who betrays me is at hand.”

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1. Matthew 26:36-46
2. Mark 14:32-42
3. Luke 22:40-46

      Immediately while he was still speaking; Judas came (one of the twelve, who betrayed him, also knew the place). Jesus often met there with his disciples; now, he who betrayed him had given them a sign, saying, “Whoever I will kiss, he is the one. Seize him, and lead him away safely.” When he had come, immediately he came to Jesus, and said, “Hail, Rabbi! Rabbi!” and came near to kiss him. But Jesus said to him, “Judas, do you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?” He kissed him. Jesus said to him, “Friend, why are you here?” 

      Judas then was leading them. Having taken a detachment of soldiers came, and with him a great multitude and officers with swords and clubs from the chief priests, the scribes, elders of the people and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons. Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were happening to him, went out, and said to them, Who are you looking for?” They answered him, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus said to them, “I am he.” Judas also, who betrayed him, was standing with them. When therefore he said to them, “I am he,” they went backward, and fell to the ground.

      In that hour Jesus answered the multitudes (the chief priests, captains of the temple, and elders); who had come against him, “Have you come out, as against a robber, with swords and clubs to seize me? When I sat daily with you in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness. But all this has happened, that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.”

Again therefore he asked them, “Who are you looking for?” They said, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus answered, “I told you that I am he. If therefore you seek me, let these go their way,” that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, “Of those whom you have given me, I have lost none.” When those who were around him saw what was about to happen, they said to him, “Lord, shall we strike with the sword?” Simon Peter therefore, having a sword, stretched out his hand, and drew it, and struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus. Then Jesus therefore said to Peter, “Put your sword into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword. Or do you think that I couldn’t ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels? How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so? The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it? Let me at least do this” —and he touched his ear, and healed him.

      So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Jews, came and laid their hands on Jesus, and seized and bound him, and led him away; took him to Annas first, for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas (who was high priest that year). Now it was Caiaphas who advised the Jews that it was expedient that one man should perish for the people, and brought him into the high priest’s house. But Peter followed from a distance. Then all the disciples left him, and fled. A certain young man followed him, having a linen cloth thrown around himself, over his naked body. The young men grabbed him, but he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.

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1. John 18:2-14
2. Matthew 26:47-56
3. Mark 14:43-52
4. Luke 22:47-54

Those who had taken Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where all the chief priests, the scribes and the elders were gathered together with him. But Simon Peter had followed Jesus from a distance, as did another disciple …until he came into the court of the high priest, and entered in and was sitting with the officers to see the end; warming himself in the light of the fire. Now that disciple was known to the high priest, and entered in with Jesus into the court of the high priest; but Peter was standing at the door outside. So the other disciple (who was known to the high priest) went out and spoke to her who kept the door, and brought in Peter. 

When the servants and the officers were standing there, they had kindled a fire of coals in the middle of the courtyard (for it was cold). They were warming themselves and had sat down together. Peter was standing and warming himself among them outside in the court. Then a certain servant girl (maid) who kept the door came and saw him as he sat in the light, and looking intently at him. She said to Peter, “Are you also one of Jesus, the Galilean’s disciples? (This man also was with him)” But he denied Jesus before them all; he said, “Woman, I am not! I don’t know him… I don’t know what you are talking about.”

The high priest therefore asked Jesus about his disciples, and about his teaching. Jesus answered him, “I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret. Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them. Behold, these know the things which I said.”

When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, “Do you answer the high priest like that?” Jesus answered him, “If I have spoken evil, testify of the evil; but if well, why do you beat me?” Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas, the high priest. Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, to put him to death; and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, their testimony didn’t agree with each other. But at last two false witnesses stood up, and came forward against him, and said, “We heard him say, ‘I am able to and will destroy this temple of God that is made with hands, and I will build another made without hands in three days.’” Even so, their testimony did not agree. The high priest stood up in the middle, and asked Jesus, “Have you no answer? What is this that these testify against you?” But Jesus held his peace, stayed quiet, and answered nothing. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.” Jesus said to him, “You have said it.” Again the high priest asked him, “Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?” Jesus said, “I am. Nevertheless, I tell you, after this you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of the sky.

Then the high priest tore his clothes, saying, “He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy. What do you think?” They answered, “He is worthy of death!” Then some began to spit in his face, and to cover his face, and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him, saying, “Prophesy! Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who hit you? What further need have we of witnesses? You have heard the blasphemy! What do you think?” The officers struck him with the palms of their hands. They all condemned him to be worthy of death.

Now as Simon Peter was standing in the courtyard below and warming himself. After a little while one of the maids of the high priest came, and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him, (when he had gone out onto the porch), and said “You were also with the Nazarene, Jesus!” …to those who were there, “This man also was with Jesus of Nazareth” They said therefore to him, “You aren’t also one of his disciples, are you?” Again he denied it, and Peter with an oath, saying, “Man, I am not. I don’t know the man. I neither know, nor understand what you are saying.” After a little while passed (about one hour), another of the servants of the high priest who stood by (being a relative of him whose ear Peter had cut off), came and confidently affirmed to Peter, “Surely you are also one of them, for your speech shows it. Didn’t I see you in the garden with him? (Truly this man also was with him, for he is a Galilean!)” The maid saw him, and began again to tell those who stood by, “This is one of them.” Then Peter began to curse and to swear (denied again), “Man, I don’t know this man of whom you speak! I don’t know what you are talking about!” Immediately (while he was still speaking) he went out on the porch, and the rooster crowed the second time. The Lord turned, and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said to him, “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” He went out and wept bitterly.  When he thought about that, he wept.

Source Text Prioritization:

1. John 18:15-27
2. Matthew 26:57-75
3. Mark 14:53-72
4. Luke 22:55-62