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John 18
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John 18
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Jesus Arrested(A)
18 When he had finished praying, Jesus left with his disciples and crossed the Kidron Valley.(B) On the other side there was a garden,(C) and he and his disciples went into it.(D)
2 Now Judas, who betrayed him, knew the place, because Jesus had often met there with his disciples.(E) 3 So Judas came to the garden, guiding(F) a detachment of soldiers and some officials from the chief priests and the Pharisees.(G) They were carrying torches, lanterns and weapons.
4 Jesus, knowing all that was going to happen to him,(H) went out and asked them, “Who is it you want?”(I)
5 “Jesus of Nazareth,”(J) they replied.
“I am he,” Jesus said. (And Judas the traitor was standing there with them.) 6 When Jesus said, “I am he,” they drew back and fell to the ground.
7 Again he asked them, “Who is it you want?”(K)
“Jesus of Nazareth,” they said.
8 Jesus answered, “I told you that I am he. If you are looking for me, then let these men go.” 9 This happened so that the words he had spoken would be fulfilled: “I have not lost one of those you gave me.”[a](L)
10 Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the high priest’s servant, cutting off his right ear. (The servant’s name was Malchus.)
11 Jesus commanded Peter, “Put your sword away! Shall I not drink the cup(M) the Father has given me?”
12 Then the detachment of soldiers with its commander and the Jewish officials(N) arrested Jesus. They bound him 13 and brought him first to Annas, who was the father-in-law of Caiaphas,(O) the high priest that year. 14 Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jewish leaders that it would be good if one man died for the people.(P)
Peter’s First Denial(Q)
15 Simon Peter and another disciple were following Jesus. Because this disciple was known to the high priest,(R) he went with Jesus into the high priest’s courtyard,(S) 16 but Peter had to wait outside at the door. The other disciple, who was known to the high priest, came back, spoke to the servant girl on duty there and brought Peter in.
17 “You aren’t one of this man’s disciples too, are you?” she asked Peter.
He replied, “I am not.”(T)
18 It was cold, and the servants and officials stood around a fire(U) they had made to keep warm. Peter also was standing with them, warming himself.(V)
The High Priest Questions Jesus(W)
19 Meanwhile, the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and his teaching.
20 “I have spoken openly to the world,” Jesus replied. “I always taught in synagogues(X) or at the temple,(Y) where all the Jews come together. I said nothing in secret.(Z) 21 Why question me? Ask those who heard me. Surely they know what I said.”
22 When Jesus said this, one of the officials(AA) nearby slapped him in the face.(AB) “Is this the way you answer the high priest?” he demanded.
23 “If I said something wrong,” Jesus replied, “testify as to what is wrong. But if I spoke the truth, why did you strike me?”(AC) 24 Then Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas(AD) the high priest.
Peter’s Second and Third Denials(AE)
25 Meanwhile, Simon Peter was still standing there warming himself.(AF) So they asked him, “You aren’t one of his disciples too, are you?”
He denied it, saying, “I am not.”(AG)
26 One of the high priest’s servants, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off,(AH) challenged him, “Didn’t I see you with him in the garden?”(AI) 27 Again Peter denied it, and at that moment a rooster began to crow.(AJ)
Jesus Before Pilate(AK)
28 Then the Jewish leaders took Jesus from Caiaphas to the palace of the Roman governor.(AL) By now it was early morning, and to avoid ceremonial uncleanness they did not enter the palace,(AM) because they wanted to be able to eat the Passover.(AN) 29 So Pilate came out to them and asked, “What charges are you bringing against this man?”
30 “If he were not a criminal,” they replied, “we would not have handed him over to you.”
31 Pilate said, “Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law.”
“But we have no right to execute anyone,” they objected. 32 This took place to fulfill what Jesus had said about the kind of death he was going to die.(AO)
33 Pilate then went back inside the palace,(AP) summoned Jesus and asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?”(AQ)
34 “Is that your own idea,” Jesus asked, “or did others talk to you about me?”
35 “Am I a Jew?” Pilate replied. “Your own people and chief priests handed you over to me. What is it you have done?”
36 Jesus said, “My kingdom(AR) is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders.(AS) But now my kingdom is from another place.”(AT)
37 “You are a king, then!” said Pilate.
Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth.(AU) Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.”(AV)
38 “What is truth?” retorted Pilate. With this he went out again to the Jews gathered there and said, “I find no basis for a charge against him.(AW) 39 But it is your custom for me to release to you one prisoner at the time of the Passover. Do you want me to release ‘the king of the Jews’?”
40 They shouted back, “No, not him! Give us Barabbas!” Now Barabbas had taken part in an uprising.(AX)
Footnotes
- John 18:9 John 6:39
Isaiah 17-21
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Isaiah 17-21
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A Prophecy Against Damascus
17 A prophecy(A) against Damascus:(B)
“See, Damascus will no longer be a city
but will become a heap of ruins.(C)
2 The cities of Aroer(D) will be deserted
and left to flocks,(E) which will lie down,(F)
with no one to make them afraid.(G)
3 The fortified(H) city will disappear from Ephraim,
and royal power from Damascus;
the remnant of Aram will be
like the glory(I) of the Israelites,”(J)
declares the Lord Almighty.
4 “In that day(K) the glory(L) of Jacob will fade;
the fat of his body will waste(M) away.
5 It will be as when reapers harvest the standing grain,
gathering(N) the grain in their arms—
as when someone gleans heads of grain(O)
in the Valley of Rephaim.(P)
6 Yet some gleanings will remain,(Q)
as when an olive tree is beaten,(R)
leaving two or three olives on the topmost branches,
four or five on the fruitful boughs,”
declares the Lord, the God of Israel.
7 In that day(S) people will look(T) to their Maker(U)
and turn their eyes to the Holy One(V) of Israel.
8 They will not look to the altars,(W)
the work of their hands,(X)
and they will have no regard for the Asherah poles[a](Y)
and the incense altars their fingers(Z) have made.
9 In that day their strong cities, which they left because of the Israelites, will be like places abandoned to thickets and undergrowth.(AA) And all will be desolation.
10 You have forgotten(AB) God your Savior;(AC)
you have not remembered the Rock,(AD) your fortress.(AE)
Therefore, though you set out the finest plants
and plant imported vines,(AF)
11 though on the day you set them out, you make them grow,
and on the morning(AG) when you plant them, you bring them to bud,
yet the harvest(AH) will be as nothing(AI)
in the day of disease and incurable(AJ) pain.(AK)
12 Woe to the many nations that rage(AL)—
they rage like the raging sea!(AM)
Woe to the peoples who roar(AN)—
they roar like the roaring of great waters!(AO)
13 Although the peoples roar(AP) like the roar of surging waters,
when he rebukes(AQ) them they flee(AR) far away,
driven before the wind like chaff(AS) on the hills,
like tumbleweed before a gale.(AT)
14 In the evening, sudden(AU) terror!(AV)
Before the morning, they are gone!(AW)
This is the portion of those who loot us,
the lot of those who plunder us.
A Prophecy Against Cush
18 Woe(AX) to the land of whirring wings[b]
along the rivers of Cush,[c](AY)
2 which sends envoys(AZ) by sea
in papyrus(BA) boats over the water.
Go, swift messengers,
to a people tall and smooth-skinned,(BB)
to a people feared far and wide,
an aggressive(BC) nation of strange speech,
whose land is divided by rivers.(BD)
3 All you people of the world,(BE)
you who live on the earth,
when a banner(BF) is raised on the mountains,
you will see it,
and when a trumpet(BG) sounds,
you will hear it.
4 This is what the Lord says to me:
“I will remain quiet(BH) and will look on from my dwelling place,(BI)
like shimmering heat in the sunshine,(BJ)
like a cloud of dew(BK) in the heat of harvest.”
5 For, before the harvest, when the blossom is gone
and the flower becomes a ripening grape,
he will cut off(BL) the shoots with pruning knives,
and cut down and take away the spreading branches.(BM)
6 They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey(BN)
and to the wild animals;(BO)
the birds will feed on them all summer,
the wild animals all winter.
7 At that time gifts(BP) will be brought to the Lord Almighty
from a people tall and smooth-skinned,(BQ)
from a people feared(BR) far and wide,
an aggressive nation of strange speech,
whose land is divided by rivers(BS)—
the gifts will be brought to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the Lord Almighty.(BT)
A Prophecy Against Egypt
19 A prophecy(BU) against Egypt:(BV)
See, the Lord rides on a swift cloud(BW)
and is coming to Egypt.
The idols of Egypt tremble before him,
and the hearts of the Egyptians melt(BX) with fear.
2 “I will stir up Egyptian against Egyptian—
brother will fight against brother,(BY)
neighbor against neighbor,
city against city,
kingdom against kingdom.(BZ)
3 The Egyptians will lose heart,(CA)
and I will bring their plans(CB) to nothing;(CC)
they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead,
the mediums and the spiritists.(CD)
4 I will hand the Egyptians over
to the power of a cruel master,
and a fierce king(CE) will rule over them,”
declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.
5 The waters of the river will dry up,(CF)
and the riverbed will be parched and dry.(CG)
6 The canals will stink;(CH)
the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up.(CI)
The reeds(CJ) and rushes will wither,(CK)
7 also the plants(CL) along the Nile,
at the mouth of the river.
Every sown field(CM) along the Nile
will become parched, will blow away and be no more.(CN)
8 The fishermen(CO) will groan and lament,
all who cast hooks(CP) into the Nile;
those who throw nets on the water
will pine away.
9 Those who work with combed flax(CQ) will despair,
the weavers of fine linen(CR) will lose hope.
10 The workers in cloth will be dejected,
and all the wage earners will be sick at heart.
11 The officials of Zoan(CS) are nothing but fools;
the wise counselors(CT) of Pharaoh give senseless advice.(CU)
How can you say to Pharaoh,
“I am one of the wise men,(CV)
a disciple of the ancient kings”?
12 Where are your wise men(CW) now?
Let them show you and make known
what the Lord Almighty
has planned(CX) against Egypt.
13 The officials of Zoan(CY) have become fools,
the leaders of Memphis(CZ) are deceived;
the cornerstones(DA) of her peoples
have led Egypt astray.
14 The Lord has poured into them
a spirit of dizziness;(DB)
they make Egypt stagger in all that she does,
as a drunkard staggers(DC) around in his vomit.
15 There is nothing Egypt can do—
head or tail, palm branch or reed.(DD)
16 In that day(DE) the Egyptians will become weaklings.(DF) They will shudder with fear(DG) at the uplifted hand(DH) that the Lord Almighty raises against them. 17 And the land of Judah will bring terror to the Egyptians; everyone to whom Judah is mentioned will be terrified,(DI) because of what the Lord Almighty is planning(DJ) against them.
18 In that day(DK) five cities(DL) in Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance(DM) to the Lord Almighty. One of them will be called the City of the Sun.[d](DN)
19 In that day(DO) there will be an altar(DP) to the Lord in the heart of Egypt,(DQ) and a monument(DR) to the Lord at its border. 20 It will be a sign and witness(DS) to the Lord Almighty in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the Lord because of their oppressors, he will send them a savior(DT) and defender, and he will rescue(DU) them. 21 So the Lord will make himself known to the Egyptians, and in that day they will acknowledge(DV) the Lord. They will worship(DW) with sacrifices and grain offerings; they will make vows to the Lord and keep them.(DX) 22 The Lord will strike(DY) Egypt with a plague;(DZ) he will strike them and heal them. They will turn(EA) to the Lord, and he will respond to their pleas and heal(EB) them.
23 In that day(EC) there will be a highway(ED) from Egypt to Assyria.(EE) The Assyrians will go to Egypt and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship(EF) together. 24 In that day(EG) Israel will be the third, along with Egypt and Assyria,(EH) a blessing[e](EI) on the earth. 25 The Lord Almighty will bless(EJ) them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people,(EK) Assyria my handiwork,(EL) and Israel my inheritance.(EM)”
A Prophecy Against Egypt and Cush
20 In the year that the supreme commander,(EN) sent by Sargon king of Assyria, came to Ashdod(EO) and attacked and captured it— 2 at that time the Lord spoke through Isaiah son of Amoz.(EP) He said to him, “Take off the sackcloth(EQ) from your body and the sandals(ER) from your feet.” And he did so, going around stripped(ES) and barefoot.(ET)
3 Then the Lord said, “Just as my servant(EU) Isaiah has gone stripped and barefoot for three years,(EV) as a sign(EW) and portent(EX) against Egypt(EY) and Cush,[f](EZ) 4 so the king(FA) of Assyria will lead away stripped(FB) and barefoot the Egyptian captives(FC) and Cushite(FD) exiles, young and old, with buttocks bared(FE)—to Egypt’s shame.(FF) 5 Those who trusted(FG) in Cush(FH) and boasted in Egypt(FI) will be dismayed and put to shame.(FJ) 6 In that day(FK) the people who live on this coast will say, ‘See what has happened(FL) to those we relied on,(FM) those we fled to for help(FN) and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?(FO)’”
A Prophecy Against Babylon
21 A prophecy(FP) against the Desert(FQ) by the Sea:
Like whirlwinds(FR) sweeping through the southland,(FS)
an invader comes from the desert,
from a land of terror.
2 A dire(FT) vision has been shown to me:
The traitor betrays,(FU) the looter takes loot.
Elam,(FV) attack! Media,(FW) lay siege!
I will bring to an end all the groaning she caused.
3 At this my body is racked with pain,(FX)
pangs seize me, like those of a woman in labor;(FY)
I am staggered by what I hear,
I am bewildered(FZ) by what I see.
4 My heart(GA) falters,
fear makes me tremble;(GB)
the twilight I longed for
has become a horror(GC) to me.
5 They set the tables,
they spread the rugs,
they eat, they drink!(GD)
Get up, you officers,
oil the shields!(GE)
6 This is what the Lord says to me:
“Go, post a lookout(GF)
and have him report what he sees.
7 When he sees chariots(GG)
with teams of horses,
riders on donkeys
or riders on camels,(GH)
let him be alert,
fully alert.”
8 And the lookout[g](GI) shouted,
“Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower;
every night I stay at my post.
9 Look, here comes a man in a chariot(GJ)
with a team of horses.
And he gives back the answer:
‘Babylon(GK) has fallen,(GL) has fallen!
All the images of its gods(GM)
lie shattered(GN) on the ground!’”
10 My people who are crushed on the threshing floor,(GO)
I tell you what I have heard
from the Lord Almighty,
from the God of Israel.
A Prophecy Against Edom
11 A prophecy against Dumah[h]:(GP)
Someone calls to me from Seir,(GQ)
“Watchman, what is left of the night?
Watchman, what is left of the night?”
12 The watchman replies,
“Morning is coming, but also the night.
If you would ask, then ask;
and come back yet again.”
A Prophecy Against Arabia
13 A prophecy(GR) against Arabia:(GS)
You caravans of Dedanites,(GT)
who camp in the thickets of Arabia,
14 bring water for the thirsty;
you who live in Tema,(GU)
bring food for the fugitives.
15 They flee(GV) from the sword,(GW)
from the drawn sword,
from the bent bow
and from the heat of battle.
16 This is what the Lord says to me: “Within one year, as a servant bound by contract(GX) would count it, all the splendor(GY) of Kedar(GZ) will come to an end. 17 The survivors of the archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be few.(HA)” The Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken.(HB)
Footnotes
- Isaiah 17:8 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah
- Isaiah 18:1 Or of locusts
- Isaiah 18:1 That is, the upper Nile region
- Isaiah 19:18 Some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Dead Sea Scrolls, Symmachus and Vulgate; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text City of Destruction
- Isaiah 19:24 Or Assyria, whose names will be used in blessings (see Gen. 48:20); or Assyria, who will be seen by others as blessed
- Isaiah 20:3 That is, the upper Nile region; also in verse 5
- Isaiah 21:8 Dead Sea Scrolls and Syriac; Masoretic Text A lion
- Isaiah 21:11 Dumah, a wordplay on Edom, means silence or stillness.
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