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John
12:12-16
Isaiah
50:4-9a
Psalm
31:9-16
Philippians
2:5-11
Mark
15:1-39
John
12:12-16
12:12 The next day the great crowd that had come to the festival
heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.
12:13
So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him,
shouting, "Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name
of the Lord-- the King of Israel!"
12:14
Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it; as it is written:
12:15
"Do not be afraid, daughter of Zion. Look, your king is
coming, sitting on a donkey's colt!"
12:16
His disciples did not understand these things at first; but when
Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had
been written of him and had been done to him.
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Isaiah
50:4-9a
50:4 The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of a teacher, that I may
know how to sustain the weary with a word. Morning by morning he
wakens-- wakens my ear to listen as those who are taught.
50:5
The Lord GOD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, I did
not turn backward.
50:6
I gave my back to those who struck me, and my cheeks to those who
pulled out the beard; I did not hide my face from insult and
spitting.
50:7
The Lord GOD helps me; therefore I have not been disgraced;
therefore I have set my face like flint, and I know that I shall
not be put to shame;
50:8
he who vindicates me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us
stand up together. Who are my adversaries? Let them confront me.
50:9
It is the Lord GOD who helps me; who will declare me guilty? All
of them will wear out like a garment; the moth will eat them up.
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Psalm
31:9-16
31:9 Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eye
wastes away from grief, my soul and body also.
31:10
For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my
strength fails because of my misery, and my bones waste away.
31:11
I am the scorn of all my adversaries, a horror to my neighbors, an
object of dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the
street flee from me.
31:12
I have passed out of mind like one who is dead; I have become like
a broken vessel.
31:13
For I hear the whispering of many-- terror all around!-- as they
scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.
31:14
But I trust in you, O LORD; I say, "You are my God."
31:15
My times are in your hand; deliver me from the hand of my enemies
and persecutors.
31:16
Let your face shine upon your servant; save me in your steadfast
love.
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Philippians
2:5-11
2:5 Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus,
2:6
who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality
with God as something to be exploited,
2:7
but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in
human likeness. And being found in human form,
2:8
he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death--
even death on a cross.
2:9
Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that
is above every name,
2:10
so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and
on earth and under the earth,
2:11
and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the
glory of God the Father.
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Mark
15:1-39
15:1 As soon as it was morning, the chief priests held a
consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council.
They bound Jesus, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate.
15:2
Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He
answered him, "You say so."
15:3
Then the chief priests accused him of many things.
15:4
Pilate asked him again, "Have you no answer? See how many
charges they bring against you."
15:5
But Jesus made no further reply, so that Pilate was amazed.
15:6
Now at the festival he used to release a prisoner for them, anyone
for whom they asked.
15:7
Now a man called Barabbas was in prison with the rebels who had
committed murder during the insurrection.
15:8
So the crowd came and began to ask Pilate to do for them according
to his custom.
15:9
Then he answered them, "Do you want me to release for you the
King of the Jews?"
15:10
For he realized that it was out of jealousy that the chief priests
had handed him over.
15:11
But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release
Barabbas for them instead.
15:12
Pilate spoke to them again, "Then what do you wish me to do
with the man you call the King of the Jews?"
15:13
They shouted back, "Crucify him!"
15:14
Pilate asked them, "Why, what evil has he done?" But
they shouted all the more, "Crucify him!"
15:15
So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released Barabbas for
them; and after flogging Jesus, he handed him over to be
crucified.
15:16
Then the soldiers led him into the courtyard of the palace (that
is, the governor's headquarters); and they called together the
whole cohort.
15:17
And they clothed him in a purple cloak; and after twisting some
thorns into a crown, they put it on him.
15:18
And they began saluting him, "Hail, King of the Jews!"
15:19
They struck his head with a reed, spat upon him, and knelt down in
homage to him.
15:20
After mocking him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put
his own clothes on him. Then they led him out to crucify him.
15:21
They compelled a passer-by, who was coming in from the country, to
carry his cross; it was Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander
and Rufus.
15:22
Then they brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha (which means
the place of a skull).
15:23
And they offered him wine mixed with myrrh; but he did not take
it.
15:24
And they crucified him, and divided his clothes among them,
casting lots to decide what each should take.
15:25
It was nine o'clock in the morning when they crucified him.
15:26
The inscription of the charge against him read, "The King of
the Jews."
15:27
And with him they crucified two bandits, one on his right and one
on his left.
15:29
Those who passed by derided him, shaking their heads and saying,
"Aha! You who would destroy the temple and build it in three
days,
15:30
save yourself, and come down from the cross!"
15:31
In the same way the chief priests, along with the scribes, were
also mocking him among themselves and saying, "He saved
others; he cannot save himself.
15:32
Let the Messiah, the King of Israel, come down from the cross now,
so that we may see and believe." Those who were crucified
with him also taunted him.
15:33
When it was noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in
the afternoon.
15:34
At three o'clock Jesus cried out with a loud voice, "Eloi,
Eloi, lema sabachthani?" which means, "My God, my God,
why have you forsaken me?"
15:35
When some of the bystanders heard it, they said, "Listen, he
is calling for Elijah."
15:36
And someone ran, filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a
stick, and gave it to him to drink, saying, "Wait, let us see
whether Elijah will come to take him down."
15:37
Then Jesus gave a loud cry and breathed his last.
15:38
And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom.
15:39
Now when the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that in this way
he breathed his last, he said, "Truly this man was God's
Son!"
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