Daily Text and Bible Reading: Monday, November 17 [Press play below]

"19.1 Pilate then took Jesus and scourged him.
19.2 And the soldiers braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head and clothed him with a purple robe,
19.3 and they kept coming up to him and saying: “Greetings, you King of the Jews!” They also kept slapping him in the face.
19.4 Pilate went outside again and said to them: “See! I bring him outside to you in order for you to know that I find no fault in him.”
19.5 So Jesus came outside, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And Pilate said to them: “Look! The man!”
19.6 However, when the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted: “To the stake with him! To the stake with him!” Pilate said to them: “Take him yourselves and execute him, for I do not find any fault in him.”
19.7 The Jews answered him: “We have a law, and according to the law he ought to die, because he made himself God’s son.”
19.8 When Pilate heard what they were saying, he became even more fearful,
19.9 and he entered the governor’s residence again and said to Jesus: “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.
19.10 So Pilate said to him: “Are you refusing to speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and I have authority to execute you?”
19.11 Jesus answered him: “You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been granted to you from above. This is why the man who handed me over to you has greater sin.”
19.12 For this reason Pilate kept trying to find a way to release him, but the Jews shouted: “If you release this man, you are not a friend of Caesar. Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar.”
19.13 Then Pilate, after hearing these words, brought Jesus outside, and he sat down on a judgment seat in a place called the Stone Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha.
19.14 Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover; it was about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews: “See! Your king!”
19.15 However, they shouted: “Take him away! Take him away! To the stake with him!” Pilate said to them: “Shall I execute your king?” The chief priests answered: “We have no king but Caesar.”
19.16 Then he handed him over to them to be executed on the stake. So they took charge of Jesus.
19.17 Bearing the torture stake for himself, he went out to the so-called Skull Place, which is called Golgotha in Hebrew.
19.18 There they nailed him to the stake alongside two other men, one on each side, with Jesus in the middle.
19.19 Pilate also wrote a title and put it on the torture stake. It was written: “Jesus the Nazarene the King of the Jews.”
19.20 Many of the Jews read this title, because the place where Jesus was nailed to the stake was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.
19.21 However, the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate: “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that he said, ‘I am King of the Jews.’”
19.22 Pilate answered: “What I have written, I have written.”
19.23 Now when the soldiers had nailed Jesus to the stake, they took his outer garments and divided them into four parts, one for each soldier, and they also took the inner garment. But the inner garment was without a seam, being woven from top to bottom.
19.24 So they said to one another: “Let us not tear it, but let us cast lots over it to decide whose it will be.” This was to fulfill the scripture: “They divided my garments among themselves, and they cast lots for my clothing.” So the soldiers actually did these things.
19.25 By the torture stake of Jesus, however, there were standing his mother and his mother’s sister; Mary the wife of Clopas and Mary Magdalene.
19.26 So when Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother: “Woman, see! Your son!”
19.27 Next he said to the disciple: “See! Your mother!” And from that hour on, the disciple took her into his own home.
19.28 After this, when Jesus knew that by now all things had been accomplished, in order to fulfill the scripture he said: “I am thirsty.”
19.29 A jar was sitting there full of sour wine. So they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop stalk and held it up to his mouth.
19.30 When he had received the sour wine, Jesus said: “It has been accomplished!” and bowing his head, he gave up his spirit.
19.31 Since it was the day of Preparation, so that the bodies would not remain on the torture stakes on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath day was a great one), the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken away.
19.32 So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man and those of the other man who was on a stake alongside him.
19.33 But on coming to Jesus, they saw that he was already dead, so they did not break his legs.
19.34 But one of the soldiers jabbed his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.
19.35 And the one who has seen it has given this witness, and his witness is true, and he knows that what he says is true, so that you also may believe.
19.36 In fact, these things took place for the scripture to be fulfilled: “Not a bone of his will be broken.”
19.37 And again, a different scripture says: “They will look to the one whom they pierced.”
19.38 Now after these things, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus but a secret one because of his fear of the Jews, asked Pilate if he could take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took the body away.
19.39 Nicodemus, the man who had come to him in the night the first time, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about a hundred pounds.
19.40 So they took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in linen cloths with the spices, according to the burial custom of the Jews.
19.41 Incidentally, there was a garden at the place where he was executed, and in the garden was a new tomb in which no one had ever yet been laid.
19.42 Because it was the day of Preparation of the Jews and the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.
20.1 On the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and she saw that the stone had already been taken away from the tomb.
20.2 So she came running to Simon Peter and to the other disciple, for whom Jesus had affection, and she said to them: “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.”
20.3 Then Peter and the other disciple set out for the tomb.
20.4 The two of them began running together, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and reached the tomb first.
20.5 Stooping forward, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in.
20.6 Then Simon Peter also came, following him, and he went into the tomb. And he saw the linen cloths lying there.
20.7 The cloth that had been on his head was not lying with the other cloth bands but was rolled up in a place by itself.
20.8 Then the other disciple who had reached the tomb first also went in, and he saw and believed.
20.9 For they did not yet understand the scripture that he must rise from the dead.
20.10 So the disciples went back to their homes.
20.11 Mary, however, kept standing outside near the tomb, weeping. While she was weeping, she stooped forward to look into the tomb,
20.12 and she saw two angels in white sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head and one at the feet.
20.13 And they said to her: “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them: “They have taken my Lord away, and I do not know where they have laid him.”
20.14 After saying this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus.
20.15 Jesus said to her: “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?” She, thinking it was the gardener, said to him: “Sir, if you have carried him off, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.”
20.16 Jesus said to her: “Mary!” On turning around, she said to him in Hebrew: “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher!”)
20.17 Jesus said to her: “Stop clinging to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father and to my God and your God.’”
20.18 Mary Magdalene came and brought the news to the disciples: “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them what he had said to her.
20.19 When it was late that day, the first day of the week, and the doors were locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them: “May you have peace.”
20.20 After saying this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples rejoiced at seeing the Lord.
20.21 Jesus said to them again: “May you have peace. Just as the Father has sent me, I also am sending you.”
20.22 After saying this he blew on them and said to them: “Receive holy spirit.
20.23 If you forgive the sins of anyone, they are forgiven; if you retain those of anyone, they are retained.”
20.24 But Thomas, one of the Twelve, who was called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came.
20.25 So the other disciples were telling him: “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them: “Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails and stick my finger into the print of the nails and stick my hand into his side, I will never believe it.”
20.26 Well, eight days later his disciples were again indoors, and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, although the doors were locked, and he stood in their midst and said: “May you have peace.”
20.27 Next he said to Thomas: “Put your finger here, and see my hands, and take your hand and stick it into my side, and stop doubting but believe.”
20.28 In answer Thomas said to him: “My Lord and my God!”
20.29 Jesus said to him: “Because you have seen me, have you believed? Happy are those who have not seen and yet believe.”
20.30 To be sure, Jesus also performed many other signs before the disciples, which are not written down in this scroll.
20.31 But these have been written down so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and because of believing, you may have life by means of his name.
21.1 After this Jesus manifested himself again to the disciples, at the Sea of Tiberias. He made the manifestation in this way.
21.2 There were together Simon Peter, Thomas (who was called the Twin), Nathanael from Cana of Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples.
21.3 Simon Peter said to them: “I am going fishing.” They said to him: “We are coming with you.” They went out and got aboard the boat, but during that night they caught nothing.
21.4 However, just as day was breaking, Jesus stood on the beach, but the disciples did not realize that it was Jesus.
21.5 Then Jesus said to them: “Children, you do not have anything to eat, do you?” They answered: “No!”
21.6 He said to them: “Cast the net on the right side of the boat and you will find some.” So they cast it, but they were not able to haul it in because of the large number of fish.
21.7 Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter: “It is the Lord!” Now Simon Peter, on hearing that it was the Lord, put on his outer garment, for he was naked, and plunged into the sea.
21.8 But the other disciples came in the small boat, dragging the net full of fish, for they were not a long way from land, only about 300 feet away.
21.9 When they came ashore, they saw there a charcoal fire with fish lying on it and bread.
21.10 Jesus said to them: “Bring some of the fish you just now caught.”
21.11 So Simon Peter went on board and hauled the net ashore full of big fish, 153 of them. And though there were so many, the net did not burst.
21.12 Jesus said to them: “Come, have your breakfast.” Not one of the disciples had the courage to ask him: “Who are you?” because they knew it was the Lord.
21.13 Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and the same with the fish.
21.14 This was now the third time that Jesus appeared to the disciples after being raised up from the dead.
21.15 When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter: “Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?” He replied to him: “Yes, Lord, you know I have affection for you.” He said to him: “Feed my lambs.”
21.16 Again he said to him a second time: “Simon son of John, do you love me?” He replied: “Yes, Lord, you know I have affection for you.” He said to him: “Shepherd my little sheep.”
21.17 He said to him a third time: “Simon son of John, do you have affection for me?” Peter became grieved that he asked him the third time: “Do you have affection for me?” So he said to him: “Lord, you are aware of all things; you know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him: “Feed my little sheep.
21.18 Most truly I say to you, when you were younger, you used to clothe yourself and walk about where you wanted. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands and another man will clothe you and carry you where you do not wish.”
21.19 He said this to indicate by what sort of death he would glorify God. After he said this, he said to him: “Continue following me.”
21.20 Peter turned around and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following, the one who at the evening meal had also leaned back on his chest and said: “Lord, who is the one betraying you?”
21.21 So when he caught sight of him, Peter said to Jesus: “Lord, what about this man?”
21.22 Jesus said to him: “If it is my will for him to remain until I come, of what concern is that to you? You continue following me.”
21.23 So the saying went out among the brothers that this disciple would not die. However, Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but he said: “If it is my will for him to remain until I come, of what concern is that to you?”
21.24 This is the disciple who gives this witness about these things and who wrote these things, and we know that his witness is true.
21.25 There are also, in fact, many other things that Jesus did, which if ever they were written in full detail, I suppose the world itself could not contain the scrolls written."