The Reading John 13:21-32 A t supper with his friends, 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. One of his disciples-- the one whom Jesus loved-- was reclining next to him; Simon Peter therefore motioned to him to ask Jesus of whom he was speaking. So while reclining next to Jesus, he asked him, "Lord, who is it?" Jesus answered, "It is the one to whom I give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish." So when he had dipped the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas son of Simon Iscariot. After he received the piece of bread, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, "Do quickly what you are going to do." Now no one at the table knew why he said this to him. Some thought that, because Judas had the common purse, Jesus was telling him, "Buy what we need for the festival"; or

The Reading John 12:20-36 Now among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks.   They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.”   Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.   Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.   Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.   Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.   Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there will my servant be also. Whoever serves me, the Father will honor. “Now my soul is troubled. And what should I say — ‘Father, save me from this hour’? No, it is for this reason that I have come to this hour.   Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again

The Reading John 12:1-11 Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him. Mary took a pound of costly perfume made of pure nard, anointed Jesus' feet, and wiped them with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was about to betray him), said, "Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?" (He said this not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief; he kept the common purse and used to steal what was put into it.) Jesus said, "Leave her alone. She bought it so that she might keep it for the day of my burial. You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me." When the great crowd of the Jews learned that he was there, they came not only because of J

The Reading John 11:45–53 M any of the Jews who had come with Mary and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him. But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what he had done. So the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the council, and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs. If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our holy place and our nation.” But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all! You do not understand that it is better for you to have one man die for the people than to have the whole nation destroyed.” He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for the nation, and not for the nation only, but to gather into one the dispersed children of God. So from that day on they planned to put him to death.  Christ Before Caiaphas , by Matthi

The Reading Jeremiah 20:7–13 O  Lord , you have enticed me,    and I was enticed; you have overpowered me,    and you have prevailed. I have become a laughing-stock all day long;    everyone mocks me. For whenever I speak, I must cry out,    I must shout, ‘Violence and destruction!’ For the word of the Lord has become for me    a reproach and derision all day long. If I say, ‘I will not mention him,    or speak any more in his name’, then within me there is something like a burning fire    shut up in my bones; I am weary with holding it in,    and I cannot. For I hear many whispering:    ‘Terror is all around! Denounce him! Let us denounce him!’    All my close friends    are watching for me to stumble. ‘Perhaps he can be enticed,    and we can prevail against him,    and take our revenge on him.’ But the Lord is with me like a dread warrior;    therefore my persecutors will stumble,    and they will not prevail. They will be greatly shamed,    for they will not succeed. Thei