Daily Text and Bible Reading: Saturday, November 16 [Press play below]

16.1 “I have said these things to you so that you may not be stumbled.
16.2 Men will expel you from the synagogue. In fact, the hour is coming when everyone who kills you will think he has offered a sacred service to God.
16.3 But they will do these things because they have not come to know either the Father or me.
16.4 Nevertheless, I have told you these things so that when the hour for them to happen arrives, you will remember that I told them to you. “I did not tell you these things at first, because I was with you.
16.5 But now I am going to the One who sent me; yet not one of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’
16.6 But because I have told you these things, grief has filled your hearts.
16.7 Nevertheless, I am telling you the truth, it is for your benefit that I am going away. For if I do not go away, the helper will not come to you; but if I do go, I will send him to you.
16.8 And when that one comes, he will give the world convincing evidence concerning sin and concerning righteousness and concerning judgment:
16.9 first concerning sin, because they are not exercising faith in me;
16.10 then concerning righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will see me no longer;
16.11 then concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.
16.12 “I still have many things to say to you, but you are not able to bear them now.
16.13 However, when that one comes, the spirit of the truth, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak of his own initiative, but what he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things to come.
16.14 That one will glorify me, because he will receive from what is mine and will declare it to you.
16.15 All the things that the Father has are mine. That is why I said he receives from what is mine and declares it to you.
16.16 In a little while you will see me no longer, and again, in a little while you will see me.”
16.17 At that some of his disciples said to one another: “What does he mean by saying to us, ‘In a little while you will not see me, and again, in a little while you will see me,’ and, ‘because I am going to the Father’?”
16.18 So they were saying: “What does he mean by saying, ‘a little while’? We do not know what he is talking about.”
16.19 Jesus knew they wanted to question him, so he said to them: “Are you asking one another this because I said: ‘In a little while you will not see me, and again, in a little while you will see me’?
16.20 Most truly I say to you, you will weep and wail, but the world will rejoice; you will be grieved, but your grief will be turned into joy.
16.21 When a woman is giving birth, she has grief because her hour has come, but when she has given birth to the child, she remembers the tribulation no more because of the joy that a man has been born into the world.
16.22 So you also, now you have grief; but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.
16.23 In that day you will ask me no question at all. Most truly I say to you, if you ask the Father for anything, he will give it to you in my name.
16.24 Until now you have not asked for a single thing in my name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.
16.25 “I have spoken these things to you in comparisons. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in comparisons, but I will tell you plainly about the Father.
16.26 In that day you will make request of the Father in my name; in saying this, I do not mean that I will make request for you.
16.27 For the Father himself has affection for you, because you have had affection for me and have believed that I came as God’s representative.
16.28 I came as the Father’s representative and have come into the world. Now I am leaving the world and am going to the Father.”
16.29 His disciples said: “See! Now you are speaking plainly and are not using comparisons.
16.30 Now we know that you know all things and you do not need to have anyone question you. By this we believe that you came from God.”
16.31 Jesus answered them: “Do you believe now?
16.32 Look! The hour is coming, indeed, it has come, when each one of you will be scattered to his own house and you will leave me alone. But I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
16.33 I have said these things to you so that by means of me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation, but take courage! I have conquered the world.”
17.1 Jesus spoke these things, and raising his eyes to heaven, he said: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your son so that your son may glorify you,
17.2 just as you have given him authority over all flesh, so that he may give everlasting life to all those whom you have given to him.
17.3 This means everlasting life, their coming to know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
17.4 I have glorified you on the earth, having finished the work you have given me to do.
17.5 So now, Father, glorify me at your side with the glory that I had alongside you before the world was.
17.6 “I have made your name manifest to the men whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have observed your word.
17.7 Now they have come to know that all the things you gave me are from you;
17.8 because I have given them the sayings that you gave me, and they have accepted them and have certainly come to know that I came as your representative, and they have believed that you sent me.
17.9 I make request concerning them; I make request, not concerning the world, but concerning those whom you have given me, because they are yours;
17.10 and all my things are yours and yours are mine, and I have been glorified among them.
17.11 “I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, watch over them on account of your own name, which you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one.
17.12 When I was with them, I used to watch over them on account of your own name, which you have given me; and I have protected them, and not one of them is destroyed except the son of destruction, so that the scripture might be fulfilled.
17.13 But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves.
17.14 I have given your word to them, but the world has hated them, because they are no part of the world, just as I am no part of the world.
17.15 “I do not request that you take them out of the world, but that you watch over them because of the wicked one.
17.16 They are no part of the world, just as I am no part of the world.
17.17 Sanctify them by means of the truth; your word is truth.
17.18 Just as you sent me into the world, I also sent them into the world.
17.19 And I am sanctifying myself in their behalf, so that they also may be sanctified by means of truth.
17.20 “I make request, not concerning these only, but also concerning those putting faith in me through their word,
17.21 so that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in union with me and I am in union with you, that they also may be in union with us, so that the world may believe that you sent me.
17.22 I have given them the glory that you have given me, in order that they may be one just as we are one.
17.23 I in union with them and you in union with me, in order that they may be perfected into one, so that the world may know that you sent me and that you loved them just as you loved me.
17.24 Father, I want those whom you have given me to be with me where I am, in order that they may look upon my glory that you have given me, because you loved me before the founding of the world.
17.25 Righteous Father, the world has, indeed, not come to know you, but I know you, and these have come to know that you sent me.
17.26 I have made your name known to them and will make it known, so that the love with which you loved me may be in them and I in union with them.”
18.1 After he said these things, Jesus went out with his disciples across the Kidron Valley to where there was a garden, and he and his disciples went into it.
18.2 Now Judas, his betrayer, also knew the place, because Jesus had often met there with his disciples.
18.3 So Judas brought the detachment of soldiers and officers of the chief priests and of the Pharisees and came there with torches and lamps and weapons.
18.4 Then Jesus, knowing all the things that were going to happen to him, stepped forward and said to them: “Whom are you looking for?”
18.5 They answered him: “Jesus the Nazarene.” He said to them: “I am he.” Now Judas, his betrayer, was also standing with them.
18.6 However, when Jesus said to them, “I am he,” they drew back and fell to the ground.
18.7 So he asked them again: “Whom are you looking for?” They said: “Jesus the Nazarene.”
18.8 Jesus answered: “I told you that I am he. So if you are looking for me, let these men go.”
18.9 This was to fulfill what he had said: “Of those whom you have given me, I have not lost a single one.”
18.10 Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the slave of the high priest, cutting off his right ear. The name of the slave was Malchus.
18.11 Jesus, however, said to Peter: “Put the sword into its sheath. Should I not drink the cup that the Father has given me?”
18.12 Then the soldiers and the military commander and the officers of the Jews seized Jesus and bound him.
18.13 They led him first to Annas, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.
18.14 Caiaphas was, in fact, the one who had advised the Jews that it was to their benefit for one man to die in behalf of the people.
18.15 Now Simon Peter, as well as another disciple, was following Jesus. That disciple was known to the high priest, and he went with Jesus into the courtyard of the high priest,
18.16 but Peter was standing outside at the door. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the doorkeeper and brought Peter in.
18.17 The servant girl who was the doorkeeper then said to Peter: “You are not also one of this man’s disciples, are you?” He said: “I am not.”
18.18 Now the slaves and the officers were standing around a charcoal fire they had made, because it was cold and they were warming themselves. Peter also was standing with them and warming himself.
18.19 So the chief priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.
18.20 Jesus answered him: “I have spoken to the world publicly. I always taught in a synagogue and in the temple, where all the Jews come together, and I said nothing in secret.
18.21 Why do you question me? Question those who have heard what I told them. See! These know what I said.”
18.22 After he said these things, one of the officers who was standing by gave Jesus a slap in the face and said: “Is that the way you answer the chief priest?”
18.23 Jesus answered him: “If I said something wrong, bear witness about the wrong; but if what I said was right, why do you hit me?”
18.24 Then Annas sent him away bound to Caiaphas the high priest.
18.25 Now Simon Peter was standing there warming himself. Then they said to him: “You are not also one of his disciples, are you?” He denied it and said: “I am not.”
18.26 One of the slaves of the high priest, who was a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said: “I saw you in the garden with him, did I not?”
18.27 However, Peter denied it again, and immediately a rooster crowed.
18.28 Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the governor’s residence. It was now early in the morning. But they themselves did not enter into the governor’s residence, so that they would not get defiled but could eat the Passover.
18.29 So Pilate came outside to them and said: “What accusation do you bring against this man?”
18.30 They answered him: “If this man were not a wrongdoer, we would not have handed him over to you.”
18.31 So Pilate said to them: “Take him yourselves and judge him according to your law.” The Jews said to him: “It is not lawful for us to kill anyone.”
18.32 This was to fulfill the word that Jesus had spoken to indicate what sort of death he was about to die.
18.33 So Pilate entered the governor’s residence again and called Jesus and said to him: “Are you the King of the Jews?”
18.34 Jesus answered: “Are you asking this of your own originality, or did others tell you about me?”
18.35 Pilate replied: “I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests handed you over to me. What did you do?”
18.36 Jesus answered: “My Kingdom is no part of this world. If my Kingdom were part of this world, my attendants would have fought that I should not be handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my Kingdom is not from this source.”
18.37 So Pilate said to him: “Well, then, are you a king?” Jesus answered: “You yourself are saying that I am a king. For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is on the side of the truth listens to my voice.”
18.38 Pilate said to him: “What is truth?” After saying this, he went out again to the Jews and said to them: “I find no fault in him.
18.39 Moreover, you have a custom that I should release a man to you at the Passover. So do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”
18.40 Again they shouted: “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber.