Episode 490 TODAY’S READING Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus’ body. Then he took it down, wrapped it in linen cloth, and placed it in a tomb cut in the rock, one in which no one had yet been laid. It was Preparation Day, and the Sabbath was about to begin. The women who […]

Episode 489 TODAY’S READING One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: “Aren’t you the Messiah? Save yourself and us.  But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence. We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But […]

Episode 488 TODAY’S READING While he was still speaking, a crowd came up, and the man who was called Judas, one of the Twelve, was leading them. He approached Jesus to kiss him, but Jesus asked him, “Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?” When Jesus’ followers saw what was going […]

Episode 487 TODAY’S READING 40 On reaching the place, he said to them, “Pray that you will not fall into temptation.” 41 He withdrew about a stone’s throw beyond them, knelt down, and prayed, 42 “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.” 43 An […]

Episode 486 TODAY’S READING “And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way, after the supper, he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is […]

Episode 485 TODAY’S READING 37 Each day, Jesus was teaching at the temple, and each evening he went out to spend the night on the hill called the Mount of Olives, 38, and all the people came early in the morning to hear him at the temple. Luke 21:37-38   As I’m reading these verses […]

Episode 484 TODAY’S READING As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples,  2 saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you and at once you will find a donkey tied there, with her colt by her. Untie them and bring them to me.  3 […]

Episode 483 TODAY’S READING It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 2 The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had […]

Episode 482 TODAY’S READING 21 From that time on, Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests, and the teachers of the law and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to […]