John 17:1-5
17 After saying all these things, Jesus looked up to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has
come. Glorify your Son so he can give glory back to you. 2 For you have given him
authority over everyone. He gives eternal life to each one you have given him. 3 And this
is the way to have eternal life—to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the one
you sent to earth. 4 I brought glory to you here on earth by completing the work you gave
me to do. 5 Now, Father, bring me into the glory we shared before the world began.
Matthew 26:36-46
36 Then Jesus went with them to the olive grove called Gethsemane, and he said, “Sit
here while I go over there to pray.” 37 He took Peter and Zebedee’s two sons, James and
John, and he became anguished and distressed. 38 He told them, “My soul is crushed
with grief to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.”
39 He went on a little farther and bowed with his face to the ground, praying, “My
Father! If it is possible, let this cup of suffering be taken away from me. Yet I want your
will to be done, not mine.”
40 Then he returned to the disciples and found them asleep. He said to Peter, “Couldn’t
you watch with me even one hour? 41 Keep watch and pray, so that you will not give in
to temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak!”
42 Then Jesus left them a second time and prayed, “My Father! If this cup cannot be
taken away[a] unless I drink it, your will be done.” 43 When he returned to them again,
he found them sleeping, for they couldn’t keep their eyes open.
44 So he went to pray a third time, saying the same things again. 45 Then he came to the
disciples and said, “Go ahead and sleep. Have your rest. But look—the time has come.
The Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. 46 Up, let’s be going. Look, my
betrayer is here!”
John 18:1-14
18 After saying these things, Jesus crossed the Kidron Valley with his disciples and
entered a grove of olive trees. 2 Judas, the betrayer, knew this place, because Jesus had
often gone there with his disciples. 3 The leading priests and Pharisees had given Judas a
contingent of Roman soldiers and Temple guards to accompany him. Now with blazing
torches, lanterns, and weapons, they arrived at the olive grove.
4 Jesus fully realized all that was going to happen to him, so he stepped forward to meet
them. “Who are you looking for?” he asked.
5 “Jesus the Nazarene,”[a] they replied.
“I AM he,”[b] Jesus said. (Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them.) 6 As Jesus
said “I AM he,” they all drew back and fell to the ground! 7 Once more he asked them,
“Who are you looking for?”
And again they replied, “Jesus the Nazarene.”
8 “I told you that I AM he,” Jesus said. “And since I am the one you want, let these others
go.” 9 He did this to fulfill his own statement: “I did not lose a single one of those you
have given me.”[c]
10 Then Simon Peter drew a sword and slashed off the right ear of Malchus, the high
priest’s slave. 11 But Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword back into its sheath. Shall I not
drink from the cup of suffering the Father has given me?”
12 So the soldiers, their commanding officer, and the Temple guards arrested Jesus and
tied him up. 13 First they took him to Annas, since he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas,
the high priest at that time.[d]14 Caiaphas was the one who had told the other Jewish
leaders, “It’s better that one man should die for the people.”
John 18:19-24
19 Inside, the high priest began asking Jesus about his followers and what he had been
teaching them. 20 Jesus replied, “Everyone knows what I teach. I have preached regularly
in the synagogues and the Temple, where the people[a] gather. I have not spoken in
secret. 21 Why are you asking me this question? Ask those who heard me. They know
what I said.”
22 Then one of the Temple guards standing nearby slapped Jesus across the face. “Is that
the way to answer the high priest?” he demanded.
23 Jesus replied, “If I said anything wrong, you must prove it. But if I’m speaking the
truth, why are you beating me?”
24 Then Annas bound Jesus and sent him to Caiaphas, the high priest.
John 18:28-40
28 Jesus’ trial before Caiaphas ended in the early hours of the morning. Then he was
taken to the headquarters of the Roman governor.[a] His accusers didn’t go inside
because it would defile them, and they wouldn’t be allowed to celebrate the Passover. 29
So Pilate, the governor, went out to them and asked, “What is your charge against this
man?”
30 “We wouldn’t have handed him over to you if he weren’t a criminal!” they retorted.
31 “Then take him away and judge him by your own law,” Pilate told them.
“Only the Romans are permitted to execute someone,” the Jewish leaders replied. 32
(This fulfilled Jesus’ prediction about the way he would die.[b])
33 Then Pilate went back into his headquarters and called for Jesus to be brought to him.
“Are you the king of the Jews?” he asked him.
34 Jesus replied, “Is this your own question, or did others tell you about me?”
35 “Am I a Jew?” Pilate retorted. “Your own people and their leading priests brought you
to me for trial. Why? What have you done?”
36 Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not an earthly kingdom. If it were, my followers
would fight to keep me from being handed over to the Jewish leaders. But my Kingdom
is not of this world.”
37 Pilate said, “So you are a king?”
Jesus responded, “You say I am a king. Actually, I was born and came into the world to
testify to the truth. All who love the truth recognize that what I say is true.”
38 “What is truth?” Pilate asked. Then he went out again to the people and told them, “He
is not guilty of any crime. 39 But you have a custom of asking me to release one prisoner
each year at Passover. Would you like me to release this ‘King of the Jews’?”
40 But they shouted back, “No! Not this man. We want Barabbas!” (Barabbas was a
revolutionary.)
John 19:1-15
19 Then Pilate had Jesus flogged with a lead-tipped whip. 2 The soldiers wove a crown of
thorns and put it on his head, and they put a purple robe on him. 3 “Hail! King of the
Jews!” they mocked, as they slapped him across the face.
4 Pilate went outside again and said to the people, “I am going to bring him out to you
now, but understand clearly that I find him not guilty.”5 Then Jesus came out wearing the
crown of thorns and the purple robe. And Pilate said, “Look, here is the man!”
6 When they saw him, the leading priests and Temple guards began shouting, “Crucify
him! Crucify him!”
“Take him yourselves and crucify him,” Pilate said. “I find him not guilty.”
7 The Jewish leaders replied, “By our law he ought to die because he called himself the
Son of God.”
8 When Pilate heard this, he was more frightened than ever. 9 He took Jesus back into the
headquarters[a] again and asked him, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave no answer.
10 “Why don’t you talk to me?” Pilate demanded. “Don’t you realize that I have the
power to release you or crucify you?”
11 Then Jesus said, “You would have no power over me at all unless it were given to you
from above. So the one who handed me over to you has the greater sin.”
12 Then Pilate tried to release him, but the Jewish leaders shouted, “If you release this
man, you are no ‘friend of Caesar.’[b] Anyone who declares himself a king is a rebel
against Caesar.”
13 When they said this, Pilate brought Jesus out to them again. Then Pilate sat down on
the judgment seat on the platform that is called the Stone Pavement (in Hebrew,
Gabbatha). 14 It was now about noon on the day of preparation for the Passover. And
Pilate said to the people,[c]“Look, here is your king!”
15 “Away with him,” they yelled. “Away with him! Crucify him!”
“What? Crucify your king?” Pilate asked.
“We have no king but Caesar,” the leading priests shouted back.
Isaiah 53:1-8
53 Who has believed our message?
To whom has the LORD revealed his powerful arm?
2 My servant grew up in the LORD’s presence like a tender green shoot,
like a root in dry ground.
There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance,
nothing to attract us to him.
3 He was despised and rejected—
a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief.
We turned our backs on him and looked the other way.
He was despised, and we did not care.
4 Yet it was our weaknesses he carried;
it was our sorrows[a] that weighed him down.
And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God,
a punishment for his own sins!
5 But he was pierced for our rebellion,
crushed for our sins.
He was beaten so we could be whole.
He was whipped so we could be healed.
6 All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.
We have left God’s paths to follow our own.
Yet the LORD laid on him
the sins of us all.
7 He was oppressed and treated harshly,
yet he never said a word.
He was led like a lamb to the slaughter.
And as a sheep is silent before the shearers,
he did not open his mouth.
8 Unjustly condemned,
he was led away.[b]
No one cared that he died without descendants,
that his life was cut short in midstream.[c]
But he was struck down
for the rebellion of my people.
John 19:16-27
16 Then Pilate turned Jesus over to them to be crucified.
So they took Jesus away. 17 Carrying the cross by himself, he went to the place called
Place of the Skull (in Hebrew, Golgotha). 18 There they nailed him to the cross. Two
others were crucified with him, one on either side, with Jesus between them. 19 And
Pilate posted a sign on the cross that read, “Jesus of Nazareth,[a] the King of the Jews.”
20 The place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in
Hebrew, Latin, and Greek, so that many people could read it.
21 Then the leading priests objected and said to Pilate, “Change it from ‘The King of the
Jews’ to ‘He said, I am King of the Jews.’”
22 Pilate replied, “No, what I have written, I have written.”
23 When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they divided his clothes among the four of
them. They also took his robe, but it was seamless, woven in one piece from top to
bottom. 24 So they said, “Rather than tearing it apart, let’s throw dice[b] for it.” This
fulfilled the Scripture that says, “They divided my garments among themselves and threw
dice for my clothing.”[c] So that is what they did.
25 Standing near the cross were Jesus’ mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary (the wife of
Clopas), and Mary Magdalene. 26 When Jesus saw his mother standing there beside the
disciple he loved, he said to her, “Dear woman, here is your son.” 27 And he said to this
disciple, “Here is your mother.” And from then on this disciple took her into his home.
2 Corinthians 5:21
21 For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin,[a] so that we
could be made right with God through Christ.
John 19:28-37
28 Jesus knew that his mission was now finished, and to fulfill Scripture he said, “I am
thirsty.”[a] 29 A jar of sour wine was sitting there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put it on
a hyssop branch, and held it up to his lips. 30 When Jesus had tasted it, he said, “It is
finished!” Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
31 It was the day of preparation, and the Jewish leaders didn’t want the bodies hanging
there the next day, which was the Sabbath (and a very special Sabbath, because it was
Passover week). So they asked Pilate to hasten their deaths by ordering that their legs be
broken. Then their bodies could be taken down. 32 So the soldiers came and broke the
legs of the two men crucified with Jesus. 33 But when they came to Jesus, they saw that
he was already dead, so they didn’t break his legs. 34 One of the soldiers, however,
pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water flowed out. 35 (This
report is from an eyewitness giving an accurate account. He speaks the truth so that you
also may continue to believe.[b]) 36 These things happened in fulfillment of the
Scriptures that say, “Not one of his bones will be broken,”[c] 37 and “They will look on
the one they pierced.”
Matthew 27:57-61
57 As evening approached, Joseph, a rich man from Arimathea who had become a
follower of Jesus, 58 went to Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body. And Pilate issued an order
to release it to him. 59 Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a long sheet of clean linen
cloth. 60 He placed it in his own new tomb, which had been carved out of the rock. Then
he rolled a great stone across the entrance and left. 61 Both Mary Magdalene and the
other Mary were sitting across from the tomb and watching.
Matthew 28:1-6
28 Early on Sunday morning,[a] as the new day was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the
other Mary went out to visit the tomb.
2 Suddenly there was a great earthquake! For an angel of the Lord came down from
heaven, rolled aside the stone, and sat on it. 3 His face shone like lightning, and his
clothing was as white as snow. 4 The guards shook with fear when they saw him, and
they fell into a dead faint.
5 Then the angel spoke to the women. “Don’t be afraid!” he said. “I know you are
looking for Jesus, who was crucified. 6 He isn’t here! He is risen from the dead, just as he
said would happen. Come, see where his body was lying.
1 Corinthians 15:1-6
15 Let me now remind you, dear brothers and sisters,[a] of the Good News I preached to
you before. You welcomed it then, and you still stand firm in it. 2 It is this Good News
that saves you if you continue to believe the message I told you—unless, of course, you
believed something that was never true in the first place.[b]
3 I passed on to you what was most important and what had also been passed on to me.
Christ died for our sins, just as the Scriptures said.4 He was buried, and he was raised
from the dead on the third day, just as the Scriptures said. 5 He was seen by Peter[c] and
then by the Twelve.6 After that, he was seen by more than 500 of his followers[d] at one
time, most of whom are still alive, though some have died.
John 20:1-9
20 Early on Sunday morning,[a] while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the
tomb and found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance. 2 She ran and
found Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved. She said, “They
have taken the Lord’s body out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put
him!”
3 Peter and the other disciple started out for the tomb. 4 They were both running, but the
other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first.5 He stooped and looked in and saw
the linen wrappings lying there, but he didn’t go in. 6 Then Simon Peter arrived and went
inside. He also noticed the linen wrappings lying there, 7 while the cloth that had covered
Jesus’ head was folded up and lying apart from the other wrappings. 8 Then the disciple
who had reached the tomb first also went in, and he saw and believed— 9 for until then
they still hadn’t understood the Scriptures that said Jesus must rise from the dead.
1 Corinthians 15:17-23
17 And if Christ has not been raised, then your faith is useless and you are still guilty of
your sins. 18 In that case, all who have died believing in Christ are lost! 19 And if our
hope in Christ is only for this life, we are more to be pitied than anyone in the world.
20 But in fact, Christ has been raised from the dead. He is the first of a great harvest of all
who have died.
21 So you see, just as death came into the world through a man, now the resurrection
from the dead has begun through another man. 22 Just as everyone dies because we all
belong to Adam, everyone who belongs to Christ will be given new life. 23 But there is
an order to this resurrection: Christ was raised as the first of the harvest; then all who
belong to Christ will be raised when he comes back.
Colossians 1:18-22
18 Christ is also the head of the church,
which is his body.
He is the beginning,
supreme over all who rise from the dead.[a]
So he is first in everything.
19 For God in all his fullness
was pleased to live in Christ,
20 and through him God reconciled
everything to himself.
He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth
by means of Christ’s blood on the cross.
21 This includes you who were once far away from God. You were his enemies,
separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions. 22 Yet now he has reconciled you
to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body. As a result, he has brought
you into his own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him
without a single fault.
Romans 8:31-39
31 What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can
ever be against us? 32 Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all,
won’t he also give us everything else?33 Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for
his own? No one—for God himself has given us right standing with himself. 34 Who
then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us,
and he is sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us.
35 Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us
if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or
threatened with death? 36 (As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day;
we are being slaughtered like sheep.”[a]) 37 No, despite all these things, overwhelming
victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.
38 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death
nor life, neither angels nor demons,[b] neither our fears for today nor our worries about
tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. 39 No power in
the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to
separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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