John 19: 38-42

Today we complete our journey through the Gospel of John. Jesus asks Simon Peter three times if he loves him. Each time he responds in the affirmative. The third time, Simon Peter replies, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus says to him, “Feed my sheep. Truly, truly, I say to […]

Jesus reveals himself for the third time to the disciples after his death, by the Sea of the Tiberias. Just as the day was breaking, Jesus stood on the shore; yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to them, “Children, do you have any fish?” They answered him, “No.” He […]

Jesus appears to his disciples and shows them his hands and his side. He breathes on them and says, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld.” Reading John in Lent has become Reading John in Easter and concludes on Easter Friday. […]

In today’s episode, Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene. Jesus says to her, “Do not cling 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, to my God and your God’.” Reading John in Lent has […]

We continue reading the Gospel of John into Easter Week so Reading John in Lent has become Reading John in Easter for the final five episodes. Today, Mary Magdalene visits the tomb early and sees the stone had been taken away. She runs to Simon Peter and the other disciple and says, “They have taken […]

Jesus’s body is taken and bound in linen cloths with spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews. Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid. So because of the Jewish day of Preparation, since […]

In today’s episode, we experience the Death of our Saviour, Jesus. Knowing that all was now finished, Jesus said (to fulfil the Scripture), “I thirst.” So they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop brand and held it to his mouth. When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It […]

So they took Jesus, and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull. There there crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side and Jesus between them. Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister. When Jesus saw his […]

Pilate has Jesus flogged and the soldiers twist together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and struck him with their hands. During Lent, we’re reading the Gospel of John every weekday and Saturday of the season. In fact, the series […]

The officers of the Jews took Jesus to the governor’s headquarters. Pilate asked Jesus what it was he had done, to which he responded, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But […]