Friday, October 7, 2016
John 3
Changing Water into Wine (2:1-11)Cleansing the Temple (2:12-25)- Jesus Teaches Nicodemus (3:1-21)
- John the Baptist's Final Testimony about Jesus (3:22-36)
Jesus and the Samaritans (4:1-42)Healing of the Official's Son (4:43-54)Jesus' Visit to Jerusalem at an Annual Feast (ch. 5)Feeding the 5,000 and Jesus' Claim to Be the Bread of Life (ch. 6)Jesus at the Feast of Tabernacles and Disputes over Who He Is (chs. 7-8)Healing of the Man Born Blind (ch. 9)Jesus is the Good Shepherd (10:1-21)Conflict at the Feast of Dedication over Jesus' Identity (10:22-42)The Raising of Lazarus (ch. 11)
John3 NLT
1 There was a man named Nicodemus, a
Jewish religious leader who was a Pharisee.
2 After dark one evening, he came to speak
with Jesus. “Rabbi,” he said, “we all know that God has sent you to teach us.
Your miraculous signs are evidence that God is with you.”
3 Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth,
unless you are born again, you cannot see the Kingdom of God.”
4 “What do you mean?” exclaimed Nicodemus.
“How can an old man go back into his mother’s womb and be born again?”
5 Jesus replied, “I assure you, no one can
enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit.
6Humans can reproduce only human life, but the
Holy Spirit gives birth to spiritual life.
7 So don’t be surprised when I say, ‘You
must be born again.’
8The wind blows wherever it wants. Just as you
can hear the wind but can’t tell where it comes from or where it is going, so
you can’t explain how people are born of the Spirit.”
9 “How are these things possible?”
Nicodemus asked.
10Jesus replied, “You are a respected Jewish
teacher, and yet you don’t understand these things?
11 I assure you, we tell you what we know
and have seen, and yet you won’t believe our testimony.
12 But if you don’t believe me when I tell
you about earthly things, how can you possibly believe if I tell you about
heavenly things?
13 No one has ever gone to heaven and
returned. But the Son of Man has come down from heaven.
14 And as Moses lifted up the bronze snake
on a pole in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,
15 so that everyone who believes in him
will have eternal life.
16 “For this is how God loved the world: He
gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish
but have eternal life.
17 God sent his Son into the world not to
judge the world, but to save the world through him.
18 “There is no judgment against anyone who
believes in him. But anyone who does not believe in him has already been judged
for not believing in God’s one and only Son.
19 And the judgment is based on this fact:
God’s light came into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the
light, for their actions were evil.
20 All who do evil hate the light and
refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed.
21But those who do what is right come to the
light so others can see that they are doing what God wants. ”
22 Then Jesus and his disciples left
Jerusalem and went into the Judean countryside. Jesus spent some time with them
there, baptizing people.
23 At this time John the Baptist was
baptizing at Aenon, near Salim, because there was plenty of water there; and
people kept coming to him for baptism.
24 (This was before John was thrown into
prison.)
25 A debate broke out between John’s
disciples and a certain Jew over ceremonial cleansing.
26 So John’s disciples came to him and
said, “Rabbi, the man you met on the other side of the Jordan River, the one
you identified as the Messiah, is also baptizing people. And everybody is going
to him instead of coming to us.”
27 John replied, “No one can receive
anything unless God gives it from heaven.
28 You yourselves know how plainly I told
you, ‘I am not the Messiah. I am only here to prepare the way for him.’
29 It is the bridegroom who marries the
bride, and the best man is simply glad to stand with him and hear his vows.
Therefore, I am filled with joy at his success.
30 He must become greater and greater, and
I must become less and less.
31 “He has come from above and is greater
than anyone else. We are of the earth, and we speak of earthly things, but he
has come from heaven and is greater than anyone else.
32 He testifies about what he has seen and
heard, but how few believe what he tells them!
33 Anyone who accepts his testimony can
affirm that God is true.
34 For he is sent by God. He speaks God’s
words, for God gives him the Spirit without limit.
35 The Father loves his Son and has put
everything into his hands.
36 And anyone who believes in God’s Son has
eternal life. Anyone who doesn’t obey the Son will never experience eternal
life but remains under God’s angry judgment.”
Thursday, October 6, 2016
John 2
- Changing Water into Wine (2:1-11)
- Cleansing the Temple (2:12-25)
Jesus Teaches Nicodemus (3:1-21)John the Baptist's Final Testimony about Jesus (3:22-36)Jesus and the Samaritans (4:1-42)Healing of the Official's Son (4:43-54)Jesus' Visit to Jerusalem at an Annual Feast (ch. 5)Feeding the 5,000 and Jesus' Claim to Be the Bread of Life (ch. 6)Jesus at the Feast of Tabernacles and Disputes over Who He Is (chs. 7-8)Healing of the Man Born Blind (ch. 9)Jesus is the Good Shepherd (10:1-21)Conflict at the Feast of Dedication over Jesus' Identity (10:22-42)The Raising of Lazarus (ch. 11)
John 2 NLT
1 The next day
there was a wedding celebration in the village of Cana in Galilee. Jesus’
mother was there,
2 and Jesus and his disciples were also
invited to the celebration.
3 The wine supply ran out during the
festivities, so Jesus’ mother told him, “They have no more wine.”
4 “Dear woman, that’s not our problem,”
Jesus replied. “My time has not yet come.”
5 But his mother told the servants, “Do
whatever he tells you.”
6 Standing nearby were six stone water
jars, used for Jewish ceremonial washing. Each could hold twenty to thirty
gallons.
7 Jesus told the servants, “Fill the jars
with water.” When the jars had been filled,
8 he said, “Now dip some out, and take it
to the master of ceremonies.” So the servants followed his instructions.
9 When the master of ceremonies tasted the
water that was now wine, not knowing where it had come from (though, of course,
the servants knew), he called the bridegroom over.
10 “A host always serves the best wine
first,” he said. “Then, when everyone has had a lot to drink, he brings out the
less expensive wine. But you have kept the best until now!”
11 This miraculous sign at Cana in Galilee
was the first time Jesus revealed his glory. And his disciples believed in him.
12 After the wedding he went to Capernaum
for a few days with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples.
13 It was nearly time for the Jewish
Passover celebration, so Jesus went to Jerusalem.
14 In the Temple area he saw merchants
selling cattle, sheep, and doves for sacrifices; he also saw dealers at tables
exchanging foreign money.
15 Jesus made a whip from some ropes and
chased them all out of the Temple. He drove out the sheep and cattle, scattered
the money changers’ coins over the floor, and turned over their tables.
16 Then, going over to the people who sold
doves, he told them, “Get these things out of here. Stop turning my Father’s
house into a marketplace!”
17 Then his disciples remembered this
prophecy from the Scriptures: “Passion for God’s house will consume me.”
18 But the Jewish leaders demanded, “What
are you doing? If God gave you authority to do this, show us a miraculous sign
to prove it.”
19 “All right,” Jesus replied. “Destroy
this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
20 “What!” they exclaimed. “It has taken
forty-six years to build this Temple, and you can rebuild it in three
days?”
21 But when Jesus said “this temple,” he
meant his own body.
22After he was raised from the dead, his
disciples remembered he had said this, and they believed both the Scriptures
and what Jesus had said.
23 Because of the miraculous signs Jesus
did in Jerusalem at the Passover celebration, many began to trust in him.
24 But Jesus didn’t trust them, because he
knew all about people.
25 No one needed to tell
him about human nature, for he knew what was in each Wednesday, October 5, 2016
John 1
- The Beginning of Jesus' Ministry (1:19-51)
John 1 NLT
1 In the beginning the Word already
existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 He existed in the beginning with
God.
3 God created everything through him, and
nothing was created except through him.
4 The Word gave life to everything that
was created, and his life brought light to everyone.
5 The light shines in the darkness, and
the darkness can never extinguish it.
6 God sent a man, John the Baptist,
7 to tell about the light so that everyone
might believe because of his testimony.
8 John himself was not the light; he was
simply a witness to tell about the light.
9 The one who is the true light, who gives
light to everyone, was coming into the world.
10 He came into the very world he created,
but the world didn’t recognize him.
11He came to his own people, and even they
rejected him.
12 But to all who believed him and accepted
him, he gave the right to become children of God.
13 They are reborn—not with a physical
birth resulting from human passion or plan, but a birth that comes from
God.
14 So the Word became human and made his
home among us. He was full of unfailing love and faithfulness. And we have seen
his glory, the glory of the Father’s one and only Son.
15John testified about him when he shouted to
the crowds, “This is the one I was talking about when I said, ‘Someone is
coming after me who is far greater than I am, for he existed long before
me.’”
16 From his abundance we have all received
one gracious blessing after another.
17 For the law was given through Moses, but
God’s unfailing love and faithfulness came through Jesus Christ.
18 No one has ever seen God. But the unique
One, who is himself God, is near to the Father’s heart. He has revealed God to
us.
19 This was John’s testimony when the
Jewish leaders sent priests and Temple assistants from Jerusalem to ask John,
“Who are you?”
20 He came right out and said, “I am not
the Messiah.”
21 “Well then, who are you?” they asked.
“Are you Elijah?” “No,” he replied. “Are you the Prophet we are expecting?”
“No.”
22“Then who are you? We need an answer for those
who sent us. What do you have to say about yourself?”
23 John replied in the words of the prophet
Isaiah: “I am a voice shouting in the wilderness, ‘Clear the way for the LORD
’s coming!’”
24 Then the Pharisees who had been
sent
25 asked him, “If you aren’t the Messiah or
Elijah or the Prophet, what right do you have to baptize?”
26 John told them, “I baptize with water,
but right here in the crowd is someone you do not recognize.
27 Though his ministry follows mine, I’m
not even worthy to be his slave and untie the straps of his sandal.”
28 This encounter took place in Bethany, an
area east of the Jordan River, where John was baptizing.
29 The next day John saw Jesus coming
toward him and said, “Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the
world!
30He is the one I was talking about when I said,
‘A man is coming after me who is far greater than I am, for he existed long
before me.’
31 I did not recognize him as the Messiah,
but I have been baptizing with water so that he might be revealed to
Israel.”
32 Then John testified, “I saw the Holy
Spirit descending like a dove from heaven and resting upon him.
33 I didn’t know he was the one, but when
God sent me to baptize with water, he told me, ‘The one on whom you see the
Spirit descend and rest is the one who will baptize with the Holy
Spirit.’
34 I saw this happen to Jesus, so I testify
that he is the Chosen One of God. ”
35 The following day John was again
standing with two of his disciples.
36 As Jesus walked by, John looked at him
and declared, “Look! There is the Lamb of God!”
37 When John’s two disciples heard this,
they followed Jesus.
38 Jesus looked around and saw them
following. “What do you want?” he asked them. They replied, “Rabbi” (which
means “Teacher”), “where are you staying?”
39 “Come and see,” he said. It was about
four o’clock in the afternoon when they went with him to the place where he was
staying, and they remained with him the rest of the day.
40 Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one
of these men who heard what John said and then followed Jesus.
41 Andrew went to find his brother, Simon,
and told him, “We have found the Messiah” (which means “Christ” ).
42 Then Andrew brought Simon to meet Jesus.
Looking intently at Simon, Jesus said, “Your name is Simon, son of John—but you
will be called Cephas” (which means “Peter” ).
43 The next day Jesus decided to go to
Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, “Come, follow me.”
44 Philip was from Bethsaida, Andrew and
Peter’s hometown.
45 Philip went to look for Nathanael and
told him, “We have found the very person Moses and the prophets wrote about!
His name is Jesus, the son of Joseph from Nazareth.”
46 “Nazareth!” exclaimed Nathanael. “Can
anything good come from Nazareth?” “Come and see for yourself,” Philip
replied.
47 As they approached, Jesus said, “Now
here is a genuine son of Israel—a man of complete integrity.”
48 “How do you know about me?” Nathanael
asked. Jesus replied, “I could see you under the fig tree before Philip found
you.”
49 Then Nathanael exclaimed, “Rabbi, you
are the Son of God—the King of Israel!”
50 Jesus asked him, “Do you believe this
just because I told you I had seen you under the fig tree? You will see greater
things than this.”
51 Then he said, “I tell you the truth, you
will all see heaven open and the angels of God going up and down on the Son of
Man, the one who is the stairway between heaven and earth. ”
Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Luke 22,23 and 24
VIII. His Last Days: Sacrifice and Triumph (19:28;24:53)
The Triumphal Entry (19:28-44)The Cleansing of the Temple (19:45-48)The Last Controversies with the Jewish Leaders (ch. 20)The Olivet Discourse (ch. 21)- The Last Supper (22:1-38)
- Jesus Praying in Gethsemane (22:39-46)
- Jesus' Arrest (22:47-65)
- Jesus on Trial (22:66;23:25)
- The Crucifixion (23:26-56)
- The Resurrection (24:1-12)
- The Post-Resurrection Ministry (24:13-49)
- The Ascension (24:50-53)
Luke
22 NLT
1 The Festival of Unleavened Bread, which
is also called Passover, was approaching.
2 The leading priests and teachers of
religious law were plotting how to kill Jesus, but they were afraid of the
people’s reaction.
3Then Satan entered into Judas Iscariot, who
was one of the twelve disciples,
4 and he went to the leading priests and
captains of the Temple guard to discuss the best way to betray Jesus to
them.
5 They were delighted, and they promised
to give him money.
6 So he agreed and began looking for an
opportunity to betray Jesus so they could arrest him when the crowds weren’t
around.
7 Now the Festival of Unleavened Bread
arrived, when the Passover lamb is sacrificed.
8 Jesus sent Peter and John ahead and
said, “Go and prepare the Passover meal, so we can eat it together.”
9 “Where do you want us to prepare it?”
they asked him.
10 He replied, “As soon as you enter
Jerusalem, a man carrying a pitcher of water will meet you. Follow him. At the
house he enters,
11 say to the owner, ‘The Teacher asks:
Where is the guest room where I can eat the Passover meal with my
disciples?’
12 He will take you upstairs to a large
room that is already set up. That is where you should prepare our meal.”
13 They went off to the city and found
everything just as Jesus had said, and they prepared the Passover meal
there.
14 When the time came, Jesus and the
apostles sat down together at the table.
15 Jesus said, “I have been very eager to
eat this Passover meal with you before my suffering begins.
16 For I tell you now that I won’t eat this
meal again until its meaning is fulfilled in the Kingdom of God.”
17 Then he took a cup of wine and gave
thanks to God for it. Then he said, “Take this and share it among
yourselves.
18 For I will not drink wine again until
the Kingdom of God has come.”
19 He took some bread and gave thanks to
God for it. Then he broke it in pieces and gave it to the disciples, saying,
“This is my body, which is given for you. Do this to remember me.”
20 After supper he took another cup of wine
and said, “This cup is the new covenant between God and his people—an agreement
confirmed with my blood, which is poured out as a sacrifice for you.
21 “But here at this table, sitting among
us as a friend, is the man who will betray me.
22 For it has been determined that the Son
of Man must die. But what sorrow awaits the one who betrays him.”
23 The disciples began to ask each other
which of them would ever do such a thing.
24 Then they began to argue among
themselves about who would be the greatest among them.
25 Jesus told them, “In this world the
kings and great men lord it over their people, yet they are called ‘friends of
the people.’
26 But among you it will be different.
Those who are the greatest among you should take the lowest rank, and the
leader should be like a servant.
27 Who is more important, the one who sits
at the table or the one who serves? The one who sits at the table, of course.
But not here! For I am among you as one who serves.
28 “You have stayed with me in my time of
trial.
29 And just as my Father has granted me a
Kingdom, I now grant you the right
30 to eat and drink at my table in my
Kingdom. And you will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of
Israel.
31 “Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift
each of you like wheat.
32 But I have pleaded in prayer for you,
Simon, that your faith should not fail. So when you have repented and turned to
me again, strengthen your brothers.”
33 Peter said, “Lord, I am ready to go to
prison with you, and even to die with you.”
34 But Jesus said, “Peter, let me tell you
something. Before the rooster crows tomorrow morning, you will deny three times
that you even know me.”
35 Then Jesus asked them, “When I sent you
out to preach the Good News and you did not have money, a traveler’s bag, or an
extra pair of sandals, did you need anything?” “No,” they replied.
36“But now,” he said, “take your money and a
traveler’s bag. And if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy
one!
37 For the time has come for this prophecy
about me to be fulfilled: ‘He was counted among the rebels.’ Yes, everything
written about me by the prophets will come true.”
38 “Look, Lord,” they replied, “we have two
swords among us.” “That’s enough,” he said.
39Then, accompanied by the disciples, Jesus left
the upstairs room and went as usual to the Mount of Olives.
40 There he told them, “Pray that you will
not give in to temptation.”
41 He walked away, about a stone’s throw,
and knelt down and prayed,
42 “Father, if you are willing, please take
this cup of suffering away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not
mine.”
43 Then an angel from heaven appeared and
strengthened him.
44 He prayed more fervently, and he was in
such agony of spirit that his sweat fell to the ground like great drops of
blood.
45 At last he stood up again and returned
to the disciples, only to find them asleep, exhausted from grief.
46 “Why are you sleeping?” he asked them.
“Get up and pray, so that you will not give in to temptation.”
47 But even as Jesus said this, a crowd approached,
led by Judas, one of the twelve disciples. Judas walked over to Jesus to greet
him with a kiss.
48 But Jesus said, “Judas, would you betray
the Son of Man with a kiss?”
49 When the other disciples saw what was
about to happen, they exclaimed, “Lord, should we fight? We brought the
swords!”
50 And one of them struck at the high
priest’s slave, slashing off his right ear.
51 But Jesus said, “No more of this.” And
he touched the man’s ear and healed him.
52Then Jesus spoke to the leading priests, the
captains of the Temple guard, and the elders who had come for him. “Am I some
dangerous revolutionary,” he asked, “that you come with swords and clubs to
arrest me?
53 Why didn’t you arrest me in the Temple?
I was there every day. But this is your moment, the time when the power of
darkness reigns.”
54 So they arrested him and led him to the
high priest’s home. And Peter followed at a distance.
55 The guards lit a fire in the middle of
the courtyard and sat around it, and Peter joined them there.
56 A servant girl noticed him in the
firelight and began staring at him. Finally she said, “This man was one of
Jesus’ followers!”
57But Peter denied it. “Woman,” he said, “I
don’t even know him!”
58 After a while someone else looked at him
and said, “You must be one of them!” “No, man, I’m not!” Peter retorted.
59 About an hour later someone else
insisted, “This must be one of them, because he is a Galilean, too.”
60 But Peter said, “Man, I don’t know what
you are talking about.” And immediately, while he was still speaking, the
rooster crowed.
61 At that moment the Lord turned and
looked at Peter. Suddenly, the Lord’s words flashed through Peter’s mind:
“Before the rooster crows tomorrow morning, you will deny three times that you
even know me.”
62 And Peter left the courtyard, weeping
bitterly.
63The guards in charge of Jesus began mocking
and beating him.
64 They blindfolded him and said, “Prophesy
to us! Who hit you that time?”
65 And they hurled all sorts of terrible
insults at him.
66 At daybreak all the elders of the people
assembled, including the leading priests and the teachers of religious law.
Jesus was led before this high council,
67 and they said, “Tell us, are you the
Messiah?” But he replied, “If I tell you, you won’t believe me.
68 And if I ask you a question, you won’t
answer.
69 But from now on the Son of Man will be
seated in the place of power at God’s right hand. ”
70They all shouted, “So, are you claiming to be
the Son of God?” And he replied, “You say that I am.”
71 “Why do we need other witnesses?” they
said. “We ourselves heard him say it.”
Luke
23 NLT
1 Then the entire council took Jesus to
Pilate, the Roman governor.
2 They began to state their case: “This
man has been leading our people astray by telling them not to pay their taxes
to the Roman government and by claiming he is the Messiah, a king.”
3 So Pilate asked him, “Are you the king
of the Jews?” Jesus replied, “You have said it.”
4 Pilate turned to the leading priests and
to the crowd and said, “I find nothing wrong with this man!”
5 Then they became insistent. “But he is
causing riots by his teaching wherever he goes—all over Judea, from Galilee to
Jerusalem!”
6 “Oh, is he a Galilean?” Pilate
asked.
7 When they said that he was, Pilate sent
him to Herod Antipas, because Galilee was under Herod’s jurisdiction, and Herod
happened to be in Jerusalem at the time.
8 Herod was delighted at the opportunity
to see Jesus, because he had heard about him and had been hoping for a long
time to see him perform a miracle.
9 He asked Jesus question after question,
but Jesus refused to answer.
10 Meanwhile, the leading priests and the
teachers of religious law stood there shouting their accusations.
11 Then Herod and his soldiers began
mocking and ridiculing Jesus. Finally, they put a royal robe on him and sent
him back to Pilate.
12 (Herod and Pilate, who had been enemies
before, became friends that day.)
13 Then Pilate called together the leading
priests and other religious leaders, along with the people,
14 and he announced his verdict. “You
brought this man to me, accusing him of leading a revolt. I have examined him
thoroughly on this point in your presence and find him innocent.
15 Herod came to the same conclusion and
sent him back to us. Nothing this man has done calls for the death
penalty.
16 So I will have him flogged, and then I
will release him.”
17
18 Then a mighty roar rose from the crowd,
and with one voice they shouted, “Kill him, and release Barabbas to us!”
19 (Barabbas was in prison for taking part
in an insurrection in Jerusalem against the government, and for murder.)
20 Pilate argued with them, because he
wanted to release Jesus.
21 But they kept shouting, “Crucify him!
Crucify him!”
22 For the third time he demanded, “Why?
What crime has he committed? I have found no reason to sentence him to death.
So I will have him flogged, and then I will release him.”
23 But the mob shouted louder and louder,
demanding that Jesus be crucified, and their voices prevailed.
24 So Pilate sentenced Jesus to die as they
demanded.
25 As they had requested, he released
Barabbas, the man in prison for insurrection and murder. But he turned Jesus
over to them to do as they wished.
26 As they led Jesus away, a man named
Simon, who was from Cyrene, happened to be coming in from the countryside. The
soldiers seized him and put the cross on him and made him carry it behind
Jesus.
27 A large crowd trailed behind, including
many grief-stricken women.
28 But Jesus turned and said to them,
“Daughters of Jerusalem, don’t weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for
your children.
29 For the days are coming when they will
say, ‘Fortunate indeed are the women who are childless, the wombs that have not
borne a child and the breasts that have never nursed.’
30People will beg the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’
and plead with the hills, ‘Bury us.’
31 For if these things are done when the
tree is green, what will happen when it is dry? ”
32 Two others, both criminals, were led out
to be executed with him.
33 When they came to a place called The
Skull, they nailed him to the cross. And the criminals were also crucified—one
on his right and one on his left.
34 Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for
they don’t know what they are doing.” And the soldiers gambled for his clothes
by throwing dice.
35 The crowd watched and the leaders
scoffed. “He saved others,” they said, “let him save himself if he is really
God’s Messiah, the Chosen One.”
36 The soldiers mocked him, too, by
offering him a drink of sour wine.
37 They called out to him, “If you are the
King of the Jews, save yourself!”
38 A sign was fastened above him with these
words: “This is the King of the Jews.”
39 One of the criminals hanging beside him
scoffed, “So you’re the Messiah, are you? Prove it by saving yourself—and us,
too, while you’re at it!”
40 But the other criminal protested, “Don’t
you fear God even when you have been sentenced to die?
41 We deserve to die for our crimes, but
this man hasn’t done anything wrong.”
42 Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when
you come into your Kingdom.”
43 And Jesus replied, “I assure you, today
you will be with me in paradise.”
44 By this time it was about noon, and
darkness fell across the whole land until three o’clock.
45 The light from the sun was gone. And suddenly,
the curtain in the sanctuary of the Temple was torn down the middle.
46 Then Jesus shouted, “Father, I entrust
my spirit into your hands!” And with those words he breathed his last.
47 When the Roman officer overseeing the
execution saw what had happened, he worshiped God and said, “Surely this man
was innocent. ”
48 And when all the crowd that came to see
the crucifixion saw what had happened, they went home in deep sorrow.
49 But Jesus’ friends, including the women
who had followed him from Galilee, stood at a distance watching.
50 Now there was a good and righteous man
named Joseph. He was a member of the Jewish high council,
51 but he had not agreed with the decision
and actions of the other religious leaders. He was from the town of Arimathea
in Judea, and he was waiting for the Kingdom of God to come.
52 He went to Pilate and asked for Jesus’
body.
53 Then he took the body down from the
cross and wrapped it in a long sheet of linen cloth and laid it in a new tomb
that had been carved out of rock.
54 This was done late on Friday afternoon,
the day of preparation, as the Sabbath was about to begin.
55 As his body was taken away, the women
from Galilee followed and saw the tomb where his body was placed.
56 Then they went home and prepared spices
and ointments to anoint his body. But by the time they were finished the
Sabbath had begun, so they rested as required by the law.
Luke
24 NLT
1 But very early on Sunday morning the
women went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared.
2 They found that the stone had been
rolled away from the entrance.
3 So they went in, but they didn’t find
the body of the Lord Jesus.
4 As they stood there puzzled, two men
suddenly appeared to them, clothed in dazzling robes.
5 The women were terrified and bowed with
their faces to the ground. Then the men asked, “Why are you looking among the
dead for someone who is alive?
6 He isn’t here! He is risen from the
dead! Remember what he told you back in Galilee,
7 that the Son of Man must be betrayed into
the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and that he would rise again on the
third day.”
8 Then they remembered that he had said
this.
9 So they rushed back from the tomb to
tell his eleven disciples—and everyone else—what had happened.
10 It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the
mother of James, and several other women who told the apostles what had
happened.
11 But the story sounded like nonsense to
the men, so they didn’t believe it.
12 However, Peter jumped up and ran to the
tomb to look. Stooping, he peered in and saw the empty linen wrappings; then he
went home again, wondering what had happened.
13 That same day two of Jesus’ followers
were walking to the village of Emmaus, seven miles from Jerusalem.
14 As they walked along they were talking
about everything that had happened.
15 As they talked and discussed these
things, Jesus himself suddenly came and began walking with them.
16 But God kept them from recognizing
him.
17 He asked them, “What are you discussing
so intently as you walk along?” They stopped short, sadness written across
their faces.
18Then one of them, Cleopas, replied, “You must
be the only person in Jerusalem who hasn’t heard about all the things that have
happened there the last few days.”
19 “What things?” Jesus asked. “The things
that happened to Jesus, the man from Nazareth,” they said. “He was a prophet
who did powerful miracles, and he was a mighty teacher in the eyes of God and
all the people.
20 But our leading priests and other
religious leaders handed him over to be condemned to death, and they crucified
him.
21 We had hoped he was the Messiah who had
come to rescue Israel. This all happened three days ago.
22 “Then some women from our group of his
followers were at his tomb early this morning, and they came back with an
amazing report.
23They said his body was missing, and they had
seen angels who told them Jesus is alive!
24 Some of our men ran out to see, and sure
enough, his body was gone, just as the women had said.”
25 Then Jesus said to them, “You foolish
people! You find it so hard to believe all that the prophets wrote in the
Scriptures.
26 Wasn’t it clearly predicted that the
Messiah would have to suffer all these things before entering his glory?”
27 Then Jesus took them through the writings
of Moses and all the prophets, explaining from all the Scriptures the things
concerning himself.
28 By this time they were nearing Emmaus
and the end of their journey. Jesus acted as if he were going on,
29but they begged him, “Stay the night with us,
since it is getting late.” So he went home with them.
30 As they sat down to eat, he took the
bread and blessed it. Then he broke it and gave it to them.
31 Suddenly, their eyes were opened, and
they recognized him. And at that moment he disappeared!
32 They said to each other, “Didn’t our
hearts burn within us as he talked with us on the road and explained the
Scriptures to us?”
33 And within the hour they were on their
way back to Jerusalem. There they found the eleven disciples and the others who
had gathered with them,
34 who said, “The Lord has really risen! He
appeared to Peter. ”
35 Then the two from Emmaus told their
story of how Jesus had appeared to them as they were walking along the road,
and how they had recognized him as he was breaking the bread.
36And just as they were telling about it, Jesus
himself was suddenly standing there among them. “Peace be with you,” he
said.
37 But the whole group was startled and
frightened, thinking they were seeing a ghost!
38 “Why are you frightened?” he asked. “Why
are your hearts filled with doubt?
39 Look at my hands. Look at my feet. You
can see that it’s really me. Touch me and make sure that I am not a ghost,
because ghosts don’t have bodies, as you see that I do.”
40 As he spoke, he showed them his hands
and his feet.
41 Still they stood there in disbelief,
filled with joy and wonder. Then he asked them, “Do you have anything here to
eat?”
42 They gave him a piece of broiled
fish,
43and he ate it as they watched.
44 Then he said, “When I was with you
before, I told you that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the
prophets and in the Psalms must be fulfilled.”
45 Then he opened their minds to understand
the Scriptures.
46 And he said, “Yes, it was written long
ago that the Messiah would suffer and die and rise from the dead on the third
day.
47 It was also written that this message
would be proclaimed in the authority of his name to all the nations, beginning
in Jerusalem: ‘There is forgiveness of sins for all who repent.’
48 You are witnesses of all these
things.
49 “And now I will send the Holy Spirit,
just as my Father promised. But stay here in the city until the Holy Spirit
comes and fills you with power from heaven.”
50Then Jesus led them to Bethany, and lifting
his hands to heaven, he blessed them.
51 While he was blessing them, he left them
and was taken up to heaven.
52 So they worshiped him and then returned
to Jerusalem filled with great joy.
53 And they spent all of
their time in the Temple,
praising God.
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