Refreshing Our Spirits With Scripture

John 18. 28  Then the Jewish leaders took Jesus from Caiaphas to the palace of the Roman governor. By now it was early morning, and to avoid ceremonial uncleanness they did not enter the palace, because they wanted to be able to eat the Passover. 29  So Pilate came out to them and asked, “What charges are you bringing against this man?” 30  “If he were not a criminal,” they replied, “we would not have handed him over to you.” 31  Pilate said, “Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law.” “But we have no right to execute anyone,” they objected. 32  This took place to fulfill what Jesus had said about the kind of death he was going to die. 33  Pilate then went back inside the palace, summoned Jesus and asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?” 34  “Is that your own idea,” Jesus asked, “or did others talk to you about me?” 35  “Am I a Jew?” Pilate replied. “Your own people and chief priests handed you over to me. What is it you...

John 18. 25  Meanwhile, Simon Peter was still standing there warming himself. So they asked him, “You aren’t one of his disciples too, are you?” He denied it, saying, “I am not.” 26  One of the high priest’s servants, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, challenged him, “Didn’t I see you with him in the garden?” 27  Again Peter denied it, and at that moment a rooster began to crow.

John 18. 19  Meanwhile, the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and his teaching. 20  “I have spoken openly to the world,” Jesus replied. “I always taught in synagogues or at the temple, where all the Jews come together. I said nothing in secret. 21  Why question me? Ask those who heard me. Surely they know what I said.” 22  When Jesus said this, one of the officials nearby slapped him in the face. “Is this the way you answer the high priest?” he demanded. 23  “If I said something wrong,” Jesus replied, “testify as to what is wrong. But if I spoke the truth, why did you strike me?” 24  Then Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.

John 18. 15  Simon Peter and another disciple were following Jesus. Because this disciple was known to the high priest, he went with Jesus into the high priest’s courtyard, 16  but Peter had to wait outside at the door. The other disciple, who was known to the high priest, came back, spoke to the servant girl on duty there and brought Peter in. 17  “You aren’t one of this man’s disciples too, are you?” she asked Peter. He replied, “I am not.” 18  It was cold, and the servants and officials stood around a fire they had made to keep warm. Peter also was standing with them, warming himself.

John 18. 10  Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the high priest’s servant, cutting off his right ear. (The servant’s name was Malchus.) 11  Jesus commanded Peter, “Put your sword away! Shall I not drink the cup the Father has given me?” 12  Then the detachment of soldiers with its commander and the Jewish officials arrested Jesus. They bound him 13  and brought him first to Annas, who was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest that year. 14  Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jewish leaders that it would be good if one man died for the people.

John 18. 18  When he had finished praying, Jesus left with his disciples and crossed the Kidron Valley. On the other side there was a garden, and he and his disciples went into it. 2  Now Judas, who betrayed him, knew the place, because Jesus had often met there with his disciples. 3  So Judas came to the garden, guiding a detachment of soldiers and some officials from the chief priests and the Pharisees. They were carrying torches, lanterns and weapons. 4  Jesus, knowing all that was going to happen to him, went out and asked them, “Who is it you want?” 5  “Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied. “I am he,” Jesus said. (And Judas the traitor was standing there with them.) 6  When Jesus said, “I am he,” they drew back and fell to the ground. 7  Again he asked them, “Who is it you want?” “Jesus of Nazareth,” they said. 8  Jesus answered, “I told you that I am he. If you are looking for me, then let these men go.” 9  This happened s...

John 17. 20  “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21  that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22  I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23  I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. 24  “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. 25  “Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. 26  I have made you [ e ] known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may...