HIS LAST WORDS:
"Nevertheless
I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away:
for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but
if I depart, I will send him unto you. And when he (the Holy
Spirit) is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of
righteousness, and of judgment:
"Of sin, because
they believe not on me; Of righteousness, because I go
to my Father, and ye see me no more; Of judgment, because
the prince of this world (Satan) is judged.
"I have yet
many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit
when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak
of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak:
and he will shew you things to come. (John 16:7-13)
"These words
spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father,
the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify
thee: As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should
give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him… that
they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom
thou hast sent.
"I have glorified
thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest
me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self
with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. I
have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out
of the world… and they have kept thy word. …
"For I have
given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have
received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee,
and they have believed that thou didst send me. I pray for them:
I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast
given me; for they are thine.
"And all mine
are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. And
now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and
I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those
whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. While
I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those
that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but
the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
"And now come
I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might
have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them thy word;
and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world,
even as I am not of the world. I pray not that thou shouldest
take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them
from the evil. … Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word
is truth. As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I
also sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify
myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
"Neither pray
I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me
through their word; That they all may be one; as thou, Father,
art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that
the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which
thou gavest me I have given them; … that they may be made
perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent
me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
"Father, I
will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where
I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me:
for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
"O righteous
Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee,
and these have known that thou hast sent me. And I have declared
unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith
thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them." (John 17:1...26)
"When Jesus
had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples …
(John
18:1) Shortly
after he was taken prisoner by Pontius Pilate. "Then saith
Pilate unto him, Speakest thou not unto me? knowest thou not
that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release
thee? Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against
me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered
me unto thee hath the greater sin.
"And from
thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried
out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar's friend:
whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar. When
Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and
sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement,
but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha. And it was the preparation of the
passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews,
Behold your King!" (John 19:10-14)
"Where they
crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and
Jesus in the midst. And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the
cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE
JEWS." (John
19:18-19)
"After this,
Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the
scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. Now there was
set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar,
and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth. When Jesus therefore
had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed
his head, and gave up the ghost." (John 19:28-30)
"But when
they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake
not his legs: But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his
side, and forthwith came there out blood and water." (John 19:33-34)
"For these
things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone
of him shall not be broken." (John 19:36)
"Jesus saith
unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni;
which is to say, Master. Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not;
for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren,
and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father;
and to my God, and your God." (John 20:16-17)
"Then the
same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the
doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of
the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them,
Peace be unto you. And when he had so said, he shewed unto them
his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they
saw the Lord." (John
20:19-20)
"Then said
Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent
me, even so send I you. And when he had said this, he breathed
on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:"
(John
20:21-22)
"These things
I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the
world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have
overcome the world. " (John 16:33) Shalom, Rita Williams