THE GOSPEL OF JOHN SECTION E 13:1-17:25

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18:1-9 After Jesus had said these things he went out with his disciples and crossed the torrent of Kedron to where there was a garden. He and his disciples went into it. Now Judas, the one who was betraying him, knew the place because Jesus and his disciples often gathered there. Therefore Judas on taking the band (of soldiers) from the chief priests and the attendants from the Pharisees comes there with lanterns and lamps and weapons. Jesus who knew all the things that were going to happen to him went forth and says to them "Who are you looking for?" They answered him "Jesus the Nazarene." He tells them "I am (he)." Now Judas the one betraying him stood there with them. When he (Jesus) told them "I am (he)" they drew back and fell onto the ground. Again therefore he (Jesus) questioned them "Who are you looking for?" They said "Jesus the Nazarene." Jesus answered "I told you that I am (he) if you are therefore looking for me, allow these others to go.” He said that, so that the word (in the Scriptures) may be fulfilled, "(As for) those whom you have given to me. I did not lose any one of them."

18:10-12 Simon who was called Peter had a sword. He drew it and smote the slave of the high priest cutting off his right ear. The name of this slave was Malchus. Jesus therefore said to Peter. "Put the sword (back) into the sheath. Should I not drink the cup that has been given to me by the Father?" Therefore the band and the chilliarch and the attendants of the Jews took hold of Jesus and bound him.

18:13 -27 And (those who had bound Jesus) first led him to Annas. He was the father-in-law of Caiaphas who was the high priest that year. Now Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jews (in their council) that it was expedient that one man should die on behalf of the people. (Meanwhile) Simon Peter and another disciple followed Jesus. That other disciple was known to the high priest and so he entered with Jesus into the court of the high priest. But Peter stood at the door outside. Therefore the other disciple, known to the high priest went and told the portress and brought Peter in. The maidservant who was the portress therefore says to Peter. "Are you not also a disciple of that man?" He says "I am not." Now the slaves and the attendants had made a fire because it was cold and they were standing around it warming themselves. Peter was also standing and warming himself with them. Meanwhile the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching. Jesus.answered him. "I have spoken to the world plainly. I have always taught in a synagogue and in the temple where all the Jews come together. I spoke nothing in secret. So why are you asking me questions? Ask those who have heard what I said to them. These people know what things I have said." As he was saying these things, one of the attendants standing by gave Jesus a blow saying "Do you answer the high priest like this?" Jesus answered him "If I have spoken ill, give evidence of it. But if well, then why do you beat me?" Annas therefore sent him (Jesus) still bound, to Caiaphas the high priest. Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him. "Are you not also one of his disciples?" That one denied this and said "I am not." One of the slaves of the high priest, a relative of the one whose ear Peter had cut off says "Did I not see you in the garden with him?" Again Peter denied it and immediately a cock crew.

18:28-40 They therefore led Jesus from Caiaphas to the Praetorium. It was (still) early in the morning. They did not actually go into the Praetorium in case they should be defiled and so be unable to eat the Passover (meal). Pilate therefore went outside to them and says "What accusation do you bring against this man?" They answered and said to him "If this man was not doing evil would we have brought him to you?" Pilate therefore said to them "You take him and judge him according to your own law." The Jews said to him. "It is not lawful for us to kill someone." (This was so) that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled when he spoke and signified by what death he was about to die. Pilate therefore went back into the Praetorium and called Jesus and said to him "Are you the king of the Jews?" Jesus answered "Are you saying this from yourself or according to what others have told you about me?" Plate answered "Do you think I am a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered you to me. What did you do?" Jesus answered "My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom was of this world my attendants would have fought to prevent my being delivered to the Jews. But my kingdom is not here." Pilate therefore said to him "Are you not really a king then?" Jesus answered "You say that I am a king. I have been born for this. I have come into the world for this, so that I might witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice." Pilate says to him "What is truth?" And, having said this he again went forth to the Jews and tells them "I do not find any crime in him. But there is a custom that I should release to you one (prisoner) at the Passover. Do you therefore want me to release the king of the Jews to you?" They therefore cried out again saying "Not this man but Barabbas." Barabbas was a robber.

19:1-16 Pilate therefore then took Jesus and scourged him. Also the soldiers plated a wreath out of thorns and put this on his head. They threw a purple garment around him and came (up) to him saying "Hail King of the Jews, and they hit him." (After this) Pilate went outside (of the Praetorium) again and says to them. "Behold I bring him out to you so that you may know that I find no crime in him." Jesus therefore (also) came outside wearing the wreath of thorns and the purple garment. He (Pilate) says to them "Behold the man." When the chief priests and the attendants saw him (Jesus) they shouted saying "Crucify (him), crucify (him)." Pilate says to them "You take him and crucify him for I do not find crime in him." The Jews answered him "We have a law and according to the law he ought to die because he made himself out to be the Son of God." When Pilate heard this word he was all the more afraid and going back into the Praetorium again he says to Jesus "Where do you come from?" But Jesus did not answer him. Pilate therefore says to him "Don't you want to speak to me? Do you realise that I have authority to release you and I have authority to crucify you?" (But) Jesus answered "You would not have any authority over me unless it had been given to you from above. Therefore the one who delivered me to you has the greater sin." From this (time on) Pilate sought to release him but the Jews shouted saying "If you release this man you are not a friend of Caesar. Everyone who makes himself out to be a king is speaking against Caesar." Therefore when Pilate heard these words he brought Jesus outside (again) and he sat on a judgment seat in a place called (the) Pavement which in Hebrew means Gabbatha. Now it was (the time) of preparation of the Passover as it was about the sixth hour (midday). He (Pilate) says to the Jews "Behold your king." Therefore they shouted "Take him away. Take him away and crucify him." Pilate says to them "Shall I crucify your king?" The chief priests answered "We do not have any king except for Caesar." He (Pilate) therefore then delivered him to them in order that he be crucified.

19:16-24 They (the high priests and attendants) therefore took Jesus. And so Jesus went out carrying his own cross, to the place called 'the skull' which in Hebrew is called Golgotha and there they crucufied him. There were two others with him on this side and on that, with Jesus in the middle. Pilate wrote a title and put it on the cross. On this was written "Jesus the Nazarene, the King of the Jews" There were many Jews that read this because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city. Also (the title) had been written in Hebrew, in therefore said to Pilate. "Do not write "The king of the Jews," but rather "this man said "I am the King of the Jews". Pilate answered "What I have written, I have written." When the soldiers crucified Jesus they took his garments and divided them into four parts, so that each soldier received one part. Now the tunic was seamless as it was woven from the top throughout. So they said to one another "Let is not tear it. (Rather) let us cast lots for it." This was so that the Scripture might be fulfilled "They divided my garments amongst them and they cast a lot over my outer garment." The soldiers therefore did this things (so Scripture would be fulfilled).

19:25-26 Standing by the cross of Jesus was his mother and her sister, Mary the wife of Clopas and also Mary the Magdalene. Jesus saw his mother and the disciple he loved standing by and he says to his mother ”Woman, behold your son .“

19:27 -30 Then he says to the disciple: "behold your mother" And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home. After this Jesus knew that everything had now been completed. (But) so that Scripture might be fulfilled he said "I thirst". There was a vessel there full of vinegar. They therefore filled a sponge and putting it round (a stick) they brought it up to his mouth. Therefore when Jesus had taken the vinegar he said “It has been finished” and bowing down his head he delivered up his spirit.

19:31-42 By then it was the Jewish preparation time (for the feast). The Jews did not want the bodies to remain on the cross during the great Sabbath day so they asked Pilate that the legs (of those crucified) might be broken so they could be taken away. The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first and the other one that was crucified with him (Jesus). But on coming to Jesus they saw that he had already died. They therefore did not break his legs but one of the soldiers pricked his side with his spear. Immediately blood and water came out. The one recounting this is a witness to it because he saw it and his witness is true. He is speaking the truth so that you (the reader) may believe. These things truly did happen so that Scripture might be fulfilled when it says "Not a bone of his shall be broken." And again another part of Scripture says "They shall look at him whom they have pierced." Now after these things Joseph from Arimathea approached Pilate. He had been a disciple of Jesus but was secret (about this) because of his fear of the Jews. He asked that he might take the body of Jesus. Pilate allowed this. He therefore came and took his body. Nicodemus, the one who had come to him (Jesus) by night earlier on, also came (forward). He brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes that weighed about a hundred pounds. They therefore took the body of Jesus and bound it into sheets with the spices according to the burial custom of the Jews. Now there was in the place where he was crucified a garden, and in the garden there was a new tomb. No one had ever been put there. It was there therefore, that because it was the preparation (time) for the Jews and because (this tomb) was nearby that they put Jesus.

20:1-18 Now on the first day of the week Mary the Magdalene comes to the tomb while it was still dark. She sees the stone has been taken out of the tomb (entrance). She therefore runs (away) and comes to Simon Peter and to the other disciple especially loved by Jesus and says to them: "They took the Lord out of the tomb and we do not know where they put him." Peter and the other disciple therefore went out (of the house) and came to the tomb. The two had run together but the other disciple had run more quickly than Peter and reached the tomb first. Stooping down he saw the sheets (that had been wrapped around the body) but he did not enter. Then Simon Peter arrived following him and went into the tomb. He saw the sheets lying and there and the kerchief which had been on his (Jesus') head. This was not lying with the sheets but was apart and had been folded up by itself. When therefore the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, went into it he saw the things there and believed. As yet they did not know that the Scripture says that it behoves him (the Christ) to rise again from the dead. The disciples therefore went away again back to their house. But Mary stood outside the tomb weeping. As she was weeping she stooped into the tomb and saw two angels sitting there dressed in white. One was at the head and the other at the feet of where the body of Jesus had lain. These (angels) say to her "Woman why are you weeping." She says to them "They took my Lord and I do not know where they put him." In saying these things she turned to look behind her and she saw Jesus standing (there). She did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus says to her "Woman why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?" That one (Mary Magdalene) thinking that it was the gardener says to him "Sir, if you carried him (away), tell me where you put him and I will take him." Jesus says to her "Mary". Turning around that one says to him in Hebrew "Rabboni" which means Teacher. Jesus says to her "Do not touch me for I have yet to ascend to the Father. But , go to my brothers and tell them "I am ascending to my Father and to your Father and to my God and to your God." Mary the Magdalene therefore comes to the disciples announcing "I have seen the Lord." And she told them what he (Jesus) had said to her.

20: 19-23 When it was early evening on the first day of the week, the doors where the disciples were assembled were shut because of fear of the Jews. Then Jesus came and stood in the midst of them and says to them "Peace be to you." In saying this he showed both his hands and his side to them. The disciples cheered on seeing the Lord. Jesus therefore said to them again "Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, so I also send you." In saying this he breathed in and says to them "Receive the Holy Spirit. If someone has sins and you forgive them then these sins will be forgiven. (But) if you withhold forgiveness for some sins then forgiveness for these sins will be withheld."

20:24-30 As it happened Thomas one of the twelve who was also called 'the Twin' was not with them when Jesus came. Therefore when the other disciples said to him "We have seen the Lord" he said to them "Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands and put my finger into the place of the nails and also put my hand into his side, I will definitely not believe." Then after eight days his (Jesus') disciples were again assembled within the room. Thomas was with them. The doors were shut but Jesus comes again. Standing in their midst he said "Peace to you." Then he says to Thomas. "Bring your finger here and see my hands." Bring your hand (here) and put it into my side. Do not be faithless but rather be full of faith." Thomas answered and said to him "My Lord and my God." Jesus says to him "Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed." Now there were many other signs that Jesus worked before the disciples which have not been written in this scroll. But these signs here, have been written about, so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.