Category: Teachings

³¹As soon as Judas left the room, Jesus said, “The time has come for the Son of Man to enter into his glory, and God will be glorified because of him.³²And since God receives glory because of the Son, he will soon give glory to the Son.³³Dear children, I will be with you only a little longer. And as I told the Jewish leaders, you …

²¹Now Jesus was deeply troubled, and he exclaimed, “I tell you the truth, one of you will betray me!”

²²The disciples looked at each other, wondering whom he could mean.²³The disciple Jesus loved was sitting next to Jesus at the table.²⁴Simon Peter motioned to him to ask, “Who’s he talking about?”²⁵So that disciple leaned over to Jesus and asked, “Lord, who is …

The Unbelief of the People

³⁷But despite all the miraculous signs Jesus had done, most of the people still did not believe in him.³⁸This is exactly what Isaiah the prophet had predicted:

“Lord, who has believed our message?  To whom has the Lord revealed his powerful arm?”

³⁹But the people couldn’t believe, for as Isaiah also said,

⁴⁰“The Lord has blinded their eyes and hardened …

Jesus Predicts His Death

²⁰Some Greeks who had come to Jerusalem for the Passover celebration²¹paid a visit to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee. They said, “Sir, we want to meet Jesus.”²²Philip told Andrew about it, and they went together to ask Jesus.

²³Jesus replied, “Now the time has come for the Son of Man to enter into his glory.²⁴I tell …

¹Six days before the Passover celebration began, Jesus arrived in Bethany, the home of Lazarus—the man he had raised from the dead.²A dinner was prepared in Jesus’ honor. Martha served, and Lazarus was among those who ate with him.³Then Mary took a twelve-ounce jar of expensive perfume made from essence of nard, and she ^banointed Jesus’ feet with it, wiping his feet with her …

³⁰Jesus had stayed outside the village, at the place where Martha met him.³¹When the people who were at the house consoling Mary saw her leave so hastily, they assumed she was going to Lazarus’s grave to weep. So they followed her there.³²When Mary arrived and saw Jesus, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if only you had been here, my brother would not …

¹⁷When Jesus arrived at Bethany, he was told that Lazarus had already been in his grave for four days.¹⁸Bethany was only a few miles down the road from Jerusalem,¹⁹and many of the people had come to console Martha and Mary in their loss.²⁰When Martha got word that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him. But Mary stayed in the house.²¹Martha …