Refreshing Our Spirits With Scripture

John 14. 5  Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” 6  Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7  If you really know me, you will know [ b ] my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.” 8  Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.” 9  Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10  Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 11  Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves. 12  Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I h

John 14 14  “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God [ a ] ; believe also in me. 2  My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4  You know the way to the place where I am going.”

John 13. 31  When he was gone, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified and God is glorified in him. 32  If God is glorified in him, [ c ] God will glorify the Son in himself, and will glorify him at once. 33  “My children, I will be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so I tell you now: Where I am going, you cannot come. 34  “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35  By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” 36  Simon Peter asked him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus replied, “Where I am going, you cannot follow now, but you will follow later.” 37  Peter asked, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.” 38  Then Jesus answered, “Will you really lay down your life for me? Very truly I tell you, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times!

John 13. 21  After he had said this, Jesus was troubled in spirit and testified, “Very truly I tell you, one of you is going to betray me.” 22  His disciples stared at one another, at a loss to know which of them he meant. 23  One of them, the disciple whom Jesus loved, was reclining next to him. 24  Simon Peter motioned to this disciple and said, “Ask him which one he means.” 25  Leaning back against Jesus, he asked him, “Lord, who is it?” 26  Jesus answered, “It is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish.” Then, dipping the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. 27  As soon as Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him. So Jesus told him, “What you are about to do, do quickly.” 28  But no one at the meal understood why Jesus said this to him. 29  Since Judas had charge of the money, some thought Jesus was telling him to buy what was needed for the festival, or to give something to the poor. 30  As soo

John 13. 18  “I am not referring to all of you; I know those I have chosen. But this is to fulfill this passage of Scripture: ‘He who shared my bread has turned [ a ] against me.’ [ b ] 19  “I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am who I am. 20  Very truly I tell you, whoever accepts anyone I send accepts me; and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me.”

John 13. 9  “Then, Lord,” Simon Peter replied, “not just my feet but my hands and my head as well!” 10  Jesus answered, “Those who have had a bath need only to wash their feet; their whole body is clean. And you are clean, though not every one of you.” 11  For he knew who was going to betray him, and that was why he said not every one was clean. 12  When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. “Do you understand what I have done for you?” he asked them. 13  “You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and rightly so, for that is what I am. 14  Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. 15  I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. 16  Very truly I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. 17  Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

John 13. 13  It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 2  The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already prompted Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus. 3  Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God; 4  so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. 5  After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him. 6  He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?” 7  Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.” 8  “No,” said Peter, “you shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.”

John 12. 41  Isaiah said this because he saw Jesus’ glory and spoke about him. Isaiah 7.14 For example.

John 12 41  Isaiah said this because he saw Jesus’ glory and spoke about him. 42  Yet at the same time many even among the leaders believed in him. But because of the Pharisees they would not openly acknowledge their faith for fear they would be put out of the synagogue; 43  for they loved human praise more than praise from God. 44  Then Jesus cried out, “Whoever believes in me does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me. 45  The one who looks at me is seeing the one who sent me. 46  I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness. 47  “If anyone hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge that person. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. 48  There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; the very words I have spoken will condemn them at the last day. 49  For I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me to say all that I have spo