Monday 4th March - John 9:1-41
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As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
Jesus answered, “This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him. I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man’s eyes with the mud, and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing. The neighbours therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, “Isn’t this he who sat and begged?” Others were saying, “It is he.” Still others were saying, “He looks like him.”
He said, “I am he.” They therefore were asking him, “How were your eyes opened?”
He answered, “A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.’ So I went away and washed, and I received sight.”
Then they asked him, “Where is he?”
He said, “I don’t know.”
They brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees. It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see.”
Some therefore of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” So there was division among them. Therefore they asked the blind man again, “What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?”
He said, “He is a prophet.”
The Jews therefore didn’t believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight, and asked them, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”
His parents answered them, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; but how he now sees, we don’t know; or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself.” His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue. Therefore his parents said, “He is of age. Ask him.”
So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”
He therefore answered, “I don’t know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see.” They said to him again, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?” He answered them, “I told you already, and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t also want to become his disciples, do you?”
They insulted him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don’t know where he comes from.”
The man answered them, “How amazing! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes. We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshipper of God, and does his will, he listens to him. Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind. If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.” They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out.
Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of God?”He answered, “Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?”
Jesus said to him, “You have both seen him, and it is he who speaks with you.”
He said, “Lord, I believe!” and he worshipped him.
Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don
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Saturday 30th March - John 21:15-25
So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do
you love me more than these?”
He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.”
He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of
Jonah, do you love me?”
He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.”
He said to him, “Tend my sheep.” He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do
you have affection for me?”
Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He
said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.”
Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep. Most certainly I tell you, when you were young, you
dressed yourself and walked where you wanted to. But when you are old, you will stretch
out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you don’t want to go.”
Now he said this, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. When he had said
this, he said to him, “Follow me.”
Then Peter, turning around, saw a disciple following. This was the disciple whom Jesus
loved, the one who had also leaned on Jesus’ breast at the supper and asked, “Lord, who is
going to betray you?” Peter seeing him, said to Jesus, “Lord, what about this man?”
Jesus said to him, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you? You follow me.”
This saying therefore went out among the brothers, that this disciple wouldn’t die. Yet Jesus
didn’t say to him that he wouldn’t die, but, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is
that to you?” This is the disciple who testifies about these things, and wrote these things.
We know that his witness is true. There are also many other things which Jesus did, which
if they would all be written, I suppose that even the world itself wouldn’t have room for the
books that would be written.
Friday 29th March - John 21:1-14
After these things, Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias. He
revealed himself this way. Simon Peter, Thomas called Didymus, Nathanael of Cana in
Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together. Simon Peter
said to them, “I’m going fishing.”
They told him, “We are also coming with you.” They immediately went out, and entered
into the boat. That night, they caught nothing. But when day had already come, Jesus stood
on the beach, yet the disciples didn’t know that it was Jesus. Jesus therefore said to them,
“Children, have you anything to eat?”
They answered him, “No.”
He said to them, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.”
They cast it therefore, and now they weren’t able to draw it in for the multitude of fish.
That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It’s the Lord!”
So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he wrapped his coat around himself (for
he was naked), and threw himself into the sea. But the other disciples came in the little boat
(for they were not far from the land, but about two hundred cubits away), dragging the net
full of fish. So when they got out on the land, they saw a fire of coals there, with fish and
bread laid on it. Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish which you have just caught.”
Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land, full of one hundred fifty-three great fish.
Even though there were so many, the net wasn’t torn.
Jesus said to them, “Come and eat breakfast!”
None of the disciples dared inquire of him, “Who are you?” knowing that it was the Lord.
Then Jesus came and took the bread, gave it to them, and the fish likewise. This is now the
third time that Jesus was revealed to his disciples after he had risen from the dead.
Thursday 28th March - John 20:19-30
When therefore it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors
were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood
in the middle, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”
When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were
glad when they saw the Lord. Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the
Father has sent me, even so I send you.” When he had said this, he breathed on them, and
said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit! If you forgive anyone’s sins, they have been forgiven
them. If you retain anyone’s sins, they have been retained.”
But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, wasn’t with them when Jesus came. The
other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord!”
But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, put my finger into the
print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”
After eight days again his disciples were inside and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, the
doors being locked, and stood in the middle, and said, “Peace be to you.” Then he said to
Thomas, “Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into
my side. Don’t be unbelieving, but believing.”
Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”
Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have
not seen, and have believed.”
Therefore Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written
in this book;
Wednesday 27th March - John 20:1-18
Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the
tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb. Therefore she ran and came to Simon
Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away
the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have laid him!”
Therefore Peter and the other disciple went out, and they went toward the tomb. They
both ran together. The other disciple outran Peter, and came to the tomb first. Stooping
and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying, yet he didn’t enter in. Then Simon Peter came,
following him, and entered into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying, and the cloth that
had been on his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself. So
then the other disciple who came first to the tomb also entered in, and he saw and believed.
For as yet they didn’t know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead. So the disciples
went away again to their own homes.
But Mary was standing outside at the tomb weeping. So as she wept, she stooped and
looked into the tomb, and she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head, and one at
the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. They asked her, “Woman, why are you weeping?”
She said to them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I don’t know where they
have laid him.” When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, and
didn’t know that it was Jesus.
Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?”
She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell
me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.”
Jesus said to her, “Mary.”
She turned and said to him, “Rabboni!” which is to say, “Teacher!”
Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my
brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your
God.’”
Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had
said these things to her.