Bible Studies

“After saying this Jesus was troubled in spirit, and declared, ‘Very truly I tell you, one of you will betray me.’ The disciples looked at one another, uncertain of whom he was speaking.” (vv. 21-22)

“Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was tied around him … ‘… I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.’” (vv. 5, 34-35)

“He was despised and rejected by others; a man of suffering and acquainted with infirmity; and as one from whom others hide their faces he was despised, and held him of no account.” (v. 3)

“After these things, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, though a secret one because of his fear of the Jews, asked Pilate to let him take away the body of Jesus. Pilate gave his permission; so he came and removed the body. Nicodemus, who had at first come to Jesus by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, weighing about one hundred pounds. They took the body of Jesus and wrapped it with the spices in linen cloths, according to the burial custom of the Jews. Now there was a garden in the place where he was crucified, and in the garden there was a new tomb in which no one had ever been laid And so, because it was the Jewish day of Preparation, and the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.” (vv. 38-42)

“Accordingly, though Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus, after having heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was.” (vv. 5-6)

“My beloved is mine and I am his; he pastures his flock among the lilies.” (v. 16)

“I will rise now and go about the city, in the streets and the squares; I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but found him not.” (v. 2)

“Making their rounds of the city the sentinels found me; they beat me, they wounded me, they took away my mantle, those sentinels of the walls.” (v. 7)

“I am my beloved’s, and his desire is for me.” (v. 10)

“O that you were like a brother to me, who nursed at my mother’s breast!” (v. 1)

“Many waters cannot quench love, neither can flood drown it. If one offered for love all the wealth of one’s house it would be utterly scorned.” (v. 7)

“And a sword will pierce your own soul too.” (v. 35)