Jesus Prays for Himself, His Disciples, and His Church 17 1 After saying this, Yeshua looked up to heaven and said, "Father, the time is here. Give your Son glory so that your Son can give you glory. 2 After all, you've given him authority over all humanity so that he can give eternal life to all those you gave to him. 3 This is eternal life: to know you, the only true God, and Yeshua Christ, whom you sent. 4 On earth I have given you glory by finishing the work you gave me to do. 5 Now, Father, give me glory in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world existed.
6 "I made your name known to the people you gave me. They are from this world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me. They did what you told them. 7 Now they know that everything you gave me comes from you, 8 because I gave them the message that you gave me. They have accepted this message, and they know for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.
9 "I pray for them. I'm not praying for the world but for those you gave me, because they are yours. 10 Everything I have is yours, and everything you have is mine. I have been given glory by the people you have given me. 11 I won't be in the world much longer, but they are in the world, and I'm coming back to you. Holy Father, keep them safe by the power of your name, the name that you gave me, so that their unity may be like ours. 12 While I was with them, I kept them safe by the power of your name, the name that you gave me. I watched over them, and none of them, except one person, became lost. So Scripture came true.
13 "But now, Father, I'm coming back to you. I say these things while I'm still in the world so that they will have the same joy that I have. 14 I have given them your message. But the world has hated them because they don't belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. 15 I'm not asking you to take them out of the world but to protect them from the evil one. 16 They don't belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.
17 "Use the truth to make them holy. Your words are truth. 18 I have sent them into the world the same way you sent me into the world. 19 I'm dedicating myself to this holy work I'm doing for them so that they, too, will use the truth to be holy.
20 "I'm not praying only for them. I'm also praying for those who will believe in me through their message. 21 I pray that all of these people continue to have unity in the way that you, Father, are in me and I am in you. I pray that they may be united with us so that the world will believe that you have sent me. 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me. I did this so that they are united in the same way we are. 23 I am in them, and you are in me. So they are completely united. In this way the world knows that you have sent me and that you have loved them in the same way you have loved me.
24 "Father, I want those you have given to me to be with me, to be where I am. I want them to see my glory, which you gave me because you loved me before the world was made. 25 Righteous Father, the world didn't know you. Yet, I knew you, and these disciple have known that you sent me. 26 I have made your name known to them, and I will make it known so that the love you have for me will be in them and I will be in them."
Jesus Is Arrested-Matthew 26:47-56; Mark 14:43-52; Luke 22:47-54a 18 1 After Yeshua finished his prayer, he went with his disciples to the other side of the Kidron Valley. They entered the garden that was there.
2 Judas, who betrayed him, knew the place because Yeshua and his disciples often gathered there. 3 So Judas took a troop of soldiers and the guards from the chief priests and Pharisees and went to the garden. They were carrying lanterns, torches, and weapons.
4 Yeshua knew everything that was going to happen to him. So he went to meet them and asked, "Who are you looking for?"
5 They answered him, "Yeshua from Nazareth."
Yeshua told them, "I am he."
Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with the crowd. 6 When Yeshua told them, "I am he," the crowd backed away and fell to the ground.
7 Yeshua asked them again, "Who are you looking for?"
They said, "Yeshua from Nazareth."
8 Yeshua replied, "I told you that I am he. So if you are looking for me, let these other men go." 9 In this way what Yeshua had said came true: "I lost none of those you gave me."
10 Simon Peter had a sword. He drew it, attacked the chief priest's servant, and cut off the servant's right ear. (The servant's name was Malchus.) 11 Yeshua told Peter, "Put your sword away. Shouldn't I drink the cup of suffering that my Father has given me?"
12 Then the army officer and the Jewish guards arrested Yeshua. They tied Yeshua up 13 and took him first to Annas, the father-in-law of Caiaphas. Caiaphas, the chief priest that year, 14 was the person who had advised the Jews that it was better to have one man die for the people.
Peter Denies Jesus-Matthew 26:69-75; Mark 14:66-72; Luke 22:54b-62 15 Simon Peter and another disciple followed Yeshua. The other disciple was well-known to the chief priest. So that disciple went with Yeshua into the chief priest's courtyard. 16 Peter, however, was standing outside the gate. The other disciple talked to the woman who was the gatekeeper and brought Peter into the courtyard.
17 The gatekeeper asked Peter, "Aren't you one of this man's disciples too?"
Peter answered, "No, I'm not!"
18 The servants and the guards were standing around a fire they had built and were warming themselves because it was cold. Peter was standing there, too, and warming himself with the others.
The Chief Priest Questions Jesus 19 The chief priest questioned Yeshua about his disciples and his teachings.
20 Yeshua answered him, "I have spoken publicly for everyone to hear. I have always taught in synagogues or in the temple courtyard, where all the Jews gather. I haven't said anything in secret. 21 Why do you question me? Question those who heard what I said to them. They know what I've said."
22 When Yeshua said this, one of the guards standing near Yeshua slapped his face and said, "Is that how you answer the chief priest?"
23 Yeshua replied to him, "If I've said anything wrong, tell me what it was. But if I've told the truth, why do you hit me?"
24 Annas sent Yeshua to Caiaphas, the chief priest. Yeshua was still tied up.
Peter Denies Jesus Again-Matthew 26:69-75; Mark 14:66-72; Luke 22:54b-62 25 Simon Peter continued to stand and warm himself by the fire. Some men asked him, "Aren't you, too, one of his disciples?"
Peter denied it by saying, "No, I'm not!"
26 One of the chief priest's servants, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked him, "Didn't I see you with Yeshua in the garden?"
27 Peter again denied it, and just then a rooster crowed.
Pilate Questions Jesus-Matthew 27:11-14; Mark 15:1-5; Luke 23:1-4 28 Early in the morning, Yeshua was taken from Caiaphas' house to the governor's palace.
The Jews wouldn't go into the palace. They didn't want to become unclean,a since they wanted to eat the Passover. 29 So Pilate came out to them and asked, "What accusation are you making against this man?"
30 The Jews answered Pilate, "If he weren't a criminal, we wouldn't have handed him over to you."
31 Pilate told the Jews, "Take him, and try him by your law."
The Jews answered him, "We're not allowed to execute anyone." 32 In this way what Yeshua had predicted about how he would die came true.
33 Pilate went back into the palace, called for Yeshua, and asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?"
34 Yeshua replied, "Did you think of that yourself, or did others tell you about me?"
35 Pilate answered, "Am I a Jew? Your own people and the chief priests handed you over to me. What have you done?"
36 Yeshua answered, "My kingdom doesn't belong to this world. If my kingdom belonged to this world, my followers would fight to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. My kingdom doesn't have its origin on earth."
37 Pilate asked him, "So you are a king?"
Yeshua replied, "You're correct in saying that I'm a king. I have been born and have come into the world for this reason: to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to me."
38 Pilate said to him, "What is truth?"
After Pilate said this, he went out to the Jews again and told them, "I don't find this man guilty of anything. 39 You have a custom that I should free one person for you at Passover. Would you like me to free the king of the Jews for you?"
40 The Jews shouted again, "Don't free this man! Free Barabbas!" (Barabbas was a political revolutionary.) The Soldiers Make Fun of Jesus-Matthew 27:27-30; Mark 15:16-19 19 1 Then Pilate had Yeshua taken away and whipped. 2 The soldiers twisted some thorny branches into a crown, placed it on his head, and put a purple cape on him. 3 They went up to him, said, "Long live the king of the Jews!" and slapped his face.
The People Want Jesus Crucified 4 Pilate went outside again and told the Jews, "I'm bringing him out to you to let you know that I don't find this man guilty of anything." 5 Yeshua went outside. He was wearing the crown of thorns and the purple cape. Pilate said to the Jews, "Look, here's the man!"
6 When the chief priests and the guards saw Yeshua, they shouted, "Crucify him! Crucify him!"
Pilate told them, "You take him and crucify him. I don't find this man guilty of anything."
7 The Jews answered Pilate, "We have a law, and by that law he must die because he claimed to be the Son of God."
8 When Pilate heard them say that, he became more afraid than ever. 9 He went into the palace again and asked Yeshua, "Where are you from?" But Yeshua didn't answer him.
10 So Pilate said to Yeshua, "Aren't you going to answer me? Don't you know that I have the authority to free you or to crucify you?"
11 Yeshua answered Pilate, "You wouldn't have any authority over me if it hadn't been given to you from above. That's why the man who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin."
12 When Pilate heard what Yeshua said, he wanted to free him. But the Jews shouted, "If you free this man, you're not a friend of the emperor. Anyone who claims to be a king is defying the emperor."
13 When Pilate heard what they said, he took Yeshua outside and sat on the judge's seat in a place called Stone Pavement. (In Hebrew it is called Gabbatha.) 14 The time was about six o'clock in the morning on the Friday of the Passover festival.
Pilate said to the Jews, "Look, here's your king!"
15 Then the Jews shouted, "Kill him! Kill him! Crucify him!"
Pilate asked them, "Should I crucify your king?"
The chief priests responded, "The emperor is the only king we have!"
16 Then Pilate handed Yeshua over to them to be crucified.
The Crucifixion-Matthew 27:31-44; Mark 15:20-32; Luke 23:26-38 So the soldiers took Yeshua. 17 He carried his own cross and went out of the city to a location called The Skull. (In Hebrew this place is called Golgotha.) 18 The soldiers crucified Yeshua and two other men there. Yeshua was in the middle.
19 Pilate wrote a notice and put it on the cross. The notice read, "Yeshua from Nazareth, the king of the Jews." 20 Many Jews read this notice, because the place where Yeshua was crucified was near the city. The notice was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.
21 The chief priests of the Jewish people told Pilate, "Don't write, 'The king of the Jews!' Instead, write, 'He said that he is the king of the Jews.'"
22 Pilate replied, "I have written what I've written."
23 When the soldiers had crucified Yeshua, they took his clothes and divided them four ways so that each soldier could have a share. His robe was left over. It didn't have a seam because it had been woven in one piece from top to bottom. 24 The soldiers said to each other, "Let's not rip it apart. Let's throw dice to see who will get it." In this way the Scripture came true: "They divided my clothes among themselves. They threw dice for my clothing." So that's what the soldiers did.
25 Yeshua's mother, her sister, Mary (the wife of Clopas), and Mary from Magdala were standing beside Yeshua's cross. 26 Yeshua saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing there. He said to his mother, "Look, here's your son!" 27 Then he said to the disciple, "Look, here's your mother!"
From that time on she lived with that disciple in his home.
Jesus Dies on the Cross-Matthew 27:45-56; Mark 15:33-41; Luke 23:44-49 28 After this, when Yeshua knew that everything had now been finished, he said, "I'm thirsty." He said this so that Scripture could finally be concluded.
29 A jar filled with vinegar was there. So the soldiers put a sponge soaked in the vinegar on a hyssop stick and held it to his mouth.
30 After Yeshua had taken the vinegar, he said, "It is finished!"
Then he bowed his head and died.
31 Since it was Friday and the next day was an especially important day of worship, the Jews didn't want the bodies to stay on the crosses. So they asked Pilate to have the men's legs broken and their bodies removed. 32 The soldiers broke the legs of the first man and then of the other man who had been crucified with Yeshua.
33 When the soldiers came to Yeshua and saw that he was already dead, they didn't break his legs. 34 However, one of the soldiers stabbed Yeshua's side with his spear, and blood and water immediately came out. 35 The one who saw this is an eyewitness. What he says is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth so that you, too, will believe.
36 This happened so that the Scripture would come true: "None of his bones will be broken." 37 Another Scripture passage says, "They will look at the person whom they have stabbed."
Jesus Is Placed in a Tomb-Matthew 27:57-61;Mark 15:42-47; Luke 23:50-56 38 Later Joseph from the city of Arimathea asked Pilate to let him remove Yeshua's body. (Joseph was a disciple of Yeshua but secretly because he was afraid of the Jews). Pilate gave him permission to remove Yeshua's body. So Joseph removed it. 39 Nicodemus, the one who had first come to Yeshua at night, went with Joseph and brought 75 pounds of a myrrh and aloe mixture.
40 These two men took the body of Yeshua and bound it with strips of linen. They laced the strips with spices. This was the Jewish custom for burial.
41 A garden was located in the place where Yeshua was crucified. In that garden was a new tomb in which no one had yet been placed. 42 Joseph and Nicodemus put Yeshua in that tomb, since that day was the Jewish day of preparation and since the tomb was nearby.
Jesus Comes Back to Life-Matthew 28:1-10; Mark 16:1-8; Luke 24:1-12 20 1 Early on Sunday morning, while it was still dark, Mary from Magdala went to the tomb. She saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb's entrance. 2 So she ran to Simon Peter and the other disciple, whom Yeshua loved. She told them, "They have removed the Lord from the tomb, and we don't know where they've put him."
3 So Peter and the other disciple headed for the tomb. 4 The two were running side by side, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and came to the tomb first. 5 He bent over and looked inside the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there but didn't go inside.
6 Simon Peter arrived after him and went into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there. 7 He also saw the cloth that had been on Yeshua's head. It wasn't lying with the strips of linen but was rolled up separately. 8 Then the other disciple, who arrived at the tomb first, went inside. He saw and believed. 9 They didn't know yet what Scripture meant when it said that Yeshua had to come back to life. 10 So the disciples went back home.
Jesus Appears to Mary from Magdala 11 Mary, however, stood there and cried as she looked at the tomb. As she cried, she bent over and looked inside. 12 She saw two angels in white clothes. They were sitting where the body of Yeshua had been lying. One angel was where Yeshua's head had been, and the other was where his feet had been. 13 The angels asked her why she was crying.
Mary told them, "They have removed my Lord, and I don't know where they've put him."
14 After she said this, she turned around and saw Yeshua standing there. However, she didn't know that it was Yeshua. 15 Yeshua asked her, "Why are you crying? Who are you looking for?"
Mary thought it was the gardener speaking to her. So she said to him, "Sir, if you carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I'll remove him."
16 Yeshua said to her, "Mary!"
Mary turned around and said to him in Hebrew, "Rabboni!" (This word means "teacher.") 17 Yeshua told her, "Don't hold on to me. I have not yet gone to the Father. But go to my brothers and sisters and tell them, 'I am going to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"
18 Mary from Magdala went to the disciples and told them, "I have seen the Lord." She also told them what he had said to her.
Jesus Appears to the Disciples-Luke 24:36-48 19 That Sunday evening, the disciples were together behind locked doors because they were afraid of the Jews. Yeshua stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you!" 20 When he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples were glad to see the Lord.
21 Yeshua said to them again, "Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, so I am sending you." 22 After he had said this, he breathed on the disciples and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 Whenever you forgive sins, they are forgiven. Whenever you don't forgive them, they are not forgiven."
Jesus Appears to Thomas 24 Thomas, one of the twelve apostles, who was called Didymus, wasn't with them when Yeshua came. 25 The other disciples told him, "We've seen the Lord."
Thomas told them, "I refuse to believe this unless I see the nail marks in his hands, put my fingers into them, and put my hand into his side."
26 A week later Yeshua's disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them. Even though the doors were locked, Yeshua stood among them and said, "Peace be with you!" 27 Then Yeshua said to Thomas, "Put your finger here, and look at my hands. Take your hand, and put it into my side. Stop doubting, and believe."
28 Thomas responded to Yeshua, "My Lord and my God!"
29 Yeshua said to Thomas, "You believe because you've seen me. Blessed are those who haven't seen me but believe."
30 Yeshua performed many other miracles that his disciples saw. Those miracles are not written in this book. 31 But these miracles have been written so that you will believe that Yeshua is the Messiah, the Son of God, and so that you will have life by believing in him.
Jesus Appears to His Disciples Again 21 1 Later, by the Sea of Tiberias, Yeshua showed himself again to the disciples. This is what happened. 2 Simon Peter, Thomas (called Didymus), Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, Zebedee's sons, and two other disciples of Yeshua were together. 3 Simon Peter said to the others, "I'm going fishing."