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 \v 1 It was now the day before the Passover Festival was to begin. Jesus knew it was time for him to leave this world and to return to his Father. He showed how much he loved those who were with him here in this world, and he loved them until the end of his life.
 \v 2 Before Jesus and the disciples had their evening meal, the devil had already put the thought into the mind of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, that he would hand Jesus over to his enemies.
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 \v 16 I am telling you the truth: A servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who has sent him.
-\v 17 If you know these things, how fortunate you will be if you do them."
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-\v 18 "I am not saying this about all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. However, what is written in scripture must come true: 'The one who ate my food with me as a friend, he has turned against me and treated me like an enemy.'
+\v 17 If you know these things, how fortunate you will be if you do them.
+\v 18 I am not saying this about all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. However, what is written in scripture must come true: 'The one who ate my food with me as a friend, he has turned against me and treated me like an enemy.'
 
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-\v 19 I am telling you this now before he hands me over so that when it does happen, you may believe that I am God.
+\v 19 "I am telling you this now before he hands me over so that when it does happen, you may believe that I am God.
 \v 20 I am telling you the truth: Whoever receives the one I send also receives me; and whoever receives me also receives my Father who sent me."
 
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 \v 34 I will give you this new command: You must love one another, just as I have loved you.
 \v 35 If you love one another, all people will know that you are my disciples."
 
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 \v 36 Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus replied, "Where I am going, you cannot come with me now; but you will come later."
 \v 37 Peter said, "Lord, why can I not come with you now? I would lay down my life for you!"
 \v 38 Jesus answered, "Would you really lay down your life for me, Peter? I am telling you the truth: The rooster will not crow in the morning before you will say three times that you do not know me!"
 
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 \v 1 "Do not be upset or anxious. You are trusting in God; trust also in me.
 \v 2 Where my Father lives there are many places to live. If that were not true, I would have told you. I go there to prepare a place for you.
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 \v 1 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.
 \v 2 Every branch in me that does not grow fruit—my Father cuts it off and takes it away. As for every branch that gives good fruit, he makes it clean by pruning it so that it may produce even more fruit.
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 \v 38 Pilate asked him, "What is true?"
 \p After Pilate asked that question, he went outside and talked to the Jewish leaders again. He said to them, "I find he has broken no law.
 \v 39 However, you Jews have a custom where every year during the Passover Festival, you ask me to release one man who is in prison. So would you like for me to release to you the King of the Jews?"
-\v 40 They shouted again, "No, do not release this man, but release Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a revolutionary.
+\v 40 They shouted again, "No, do not release this man, but release Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a leader in a rebellion.
 
 
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 \v 1 Then Pilate sent for Jesus. He had his soldiers beat him severely using whips.
 \v 2 The soldiers also twisted together a crown and they put it on his head. They also put a purple robe on him.
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 \v 4 Pilate came outside again and said to the people, "Look, I am bringing him out to you so that you can know that I find no reason to punish him."
 \v 5 So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, "Look, here is the man!"
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 \v 6 When the chief priests and temple guards saw him, they shouted, "Crucify him! Crucify him!"
-\q Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and crucify him! As for me, I find no reason to punish him."
+\p Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and crucify him! As for me, I find no reason to punish him."
 
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 \v 7 The Jewish leaders replied to Pilate, "We have a certain law that says he ought to die because he claimed to be the Son of God."
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 \v 8 When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid.
 \v 9 He entered his headquarters once more and called the soldiers to bring Jesus back inside. Then he said to Jesus, "From where do you come?" However, Jesus gave him no answer.
 
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 \v 12 From that moment on, Pilate kept trying to release Jesus. However, the Jewish leaders cried out, "If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar! Anyone who makes himself a king, stands opposed to Caesar."
-\v 13 When Pilate heard that, he brought Jesus out. Then Pilate sat down before him in the judgment seat, the place where he usually pronounced verdicts. This was called "The Stone Pavement," and in Aramaic it was "Gabbatha."
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+\v 13 When Pilate heard that, he brought Jesus out. Then Pilate sat down before him in the judgment seat, the place where he usually pronounced verdicts. This was called "The Stone Pavement," and in the Hebrew language it was "Gabbatha."
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 \v 14 Now it was the day before the Passover Festival, the day of preparation. It was almost noontime when Pilate said to the Jews, "See, here is your king!"
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 \v 15 They shouted, "Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!" 
-\q Pilate said to them, "Should I crucify your king?" 
-\q The chief priests replied, "We have no king but Caesar!"
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+\p The chief priests replied, "We have no king but Caesar!"
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 \v 16 So Pilate handed Jesus over to them, and they took him away.
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-\v 17 He went out, carrying his own cross by himself to the place called "The Place of a Skull," which in Aramaic is called "Golgotha."
+\v 17 He went out, carrying his own cross by himself to the place called "The Place of a Skull," which in the Hebrew language is called "Golgotha."
 \v 18 There they crucified him, and at the same time they also nailed two other criminals to their crosses. One was on either side, with Jesus in the middle.
 
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 \v 20 Many Jews read this sign, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in three languages: Aramaic, Latin, and Greek.
 
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 \v 21 The chief priests went back to Pilate and said, "You should not have written, 'King of the Jews', but rather, this man said, 'I am King of the Jews.'"
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 \v 22 Pilate replied, "You must leave the sign exactly as I have written it."
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 \v 23 After the soldiers had put Jesus on the cross, they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, one part for each soldier. However, they kept his tunic separate. This tunic had been woven from top to bottom from one piece of cloth.
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 \v 28 A little later, Jesus knew that everything that God sent him to do had now been done, and in order to make come true one final thing that the scriptures had foretold, he said, "I am thirsty!"
 \v 29 A jar of sour wine stood there, so they took a short branch from a hyssop plant and put a sponge on it, and they dipped in the sour wine and held it up to Jesus' mouth.
 \v 30 After Jesus drank the sour wine, he said, "It is finished," and he bowed his head and died.
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 \v 34 Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus' side with a spear, and right away blood and water poured out of his body.
 \v 35 The one who saw this bears witness—his testimony is true, and he knows he is telling the truth—so that you may put your trust in Jesus.
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 \v 36 These things happened in order to fulfill what was written in scripture: "No one will break any of his bones."
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 \v 37 And they fulfilled another scripture that read: 'They will look on the one whom they have pierced.'
 
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 \v 38 After these things, Joseph of Arimathea, a disciple of Jesus, but a secret disciple because he was afraid of the Jews, went to Pilate and asked him if he might take away Jesus' body. Pilate gave Joseph permission, so he came and took away the body of Jesus.