When he arose, he took the young Child and His mother by night and departed for Egypt,

And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry.

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Now in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went to them, walking on the sea.

Jesus Predicts Peter’s Denial

Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of Me this night, for it is written: ‘I will strike the Shepherd, And the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

Jesus said to him, “Assuredly, I say to you that this night, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.”

Therefore command that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest His disciples come by night and steal Him away, and say to the people, ‘He has risen from the dead.’ So the last deception will be worse than the first.”

saying, “Tell them, ‘His disciples came at night and stole Him away while we slept.’

and should sleep by night and rise by day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he himself does not know how.

And always, night and day, he was in the mountains and in the tombs, crying out and cutting himself with stones.

Then He saw them straining at rowing, for the wind was against them. Now about the fourth watch of the night He came to them, walking on the sea, and would have passed them by.

Jesus Predicts Peter’s Denial

Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of Me this night, for it is written: ‘I will strike the Shepherd, And the sheep will be scattered.’

Jesus said to him, “Assuredly, I say to you that today, even this night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times.”

Glory in the Highest

Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night.

and this woman was a widow of about eighty-four years, who did not depart from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.

But Simon answered and said to Him, “Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing; nevertheless at Your word I will let down the net.”

The Twelve Apostles

Now it came to pass in those days that He went out to the mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.

But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?’

I tell you, in that night there will be two men in one bed: the one will be taken and the other will be left.

And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them?

And in the daytime He was teaching in the temple, but at night He went out and stayed on the mountain called Olivet.

This man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.”

Nicodemus (he who came to Jesus by night, being one of them) said to them,

I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work.

But if one walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”