Read at the Sunday Service on 12 June 2011

Passage John 20:19-23:

¹⁹Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.

²⁰And when he had so said, he shewed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the LORD.

²¹Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.

²²And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:

²³Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.

Read at the Sunday service on 5 May 2011

Passage John 17:1-11:

John 17

¹These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:

²As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.

³And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

⁴I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

⁵And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.

⁶I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.

⁷Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.

⁸For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.

⁹I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.

¹⁰And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.

¹¹And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.

From Sunday service, 29 May

Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

^15(A) “If you love me, you will^(B) keep my commandments. ¹⁶And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another^(C) Helper,^[a] to be with you forever, ¹⁷even^(D) the Spirit of truth,^(E) whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and^(F) will be in you.

¹⁸“I will not leave you as orphans;^(G) I will come to you. ^19(H) Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but^(I) you will see me.^(J) Because I live, you also will live. ^20(K)In that day you will know that^(L) I am in my Father, and^(M) you in me, and^(N) I in you. ^21(O)Whoever has my commandments and^(P) keeps them, he it is who loves me. And^(Q) he who loves me^(R) will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and^(S) manifest myself to him.”

Read at the Sunday service on 22 May 2011

^1(A) “Let not your hearts be troubled.^(B) Believe in God;^[a] believe also in me. ²In^(C) my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that^(D) I go to prepare a place for you?^{[b] 3}And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you^(E) to myself, that^(F) where I am you may be also. ⁴And you know the way to where I am going.”^{[c] 5(G)} Thomas said to him, “Lord,^(H) we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” ⁶Jesus said to him, “I am^(I) the way, and^(J) the truth, and^(K) the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. ^7(L) If you had known me, you would have^(M) known my Father also.^[d] From now on you do know him and^(N) have seen him.”

^8(O) Philip said to him, “Lord,^(P) show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” ⁹Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip?^(Q) Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? ¹⁰Do you not believe that^(R) I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you^(S) I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.¹¹Believe me that^(T) I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else^(U) believe on account of the works themselves.

¹²“Truly, truly, I say to you,^(V) whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I^(W) am going to the Father. ^13(X)Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that^(Y) the Father may be glorified in the Son.^14(Z) If you ask me^[e] anything in my name, I will do it.

Read at the Sunday Service on 15 May 2011

¹“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. ²But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. ³To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. ⁴When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. ^5(A) A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.” ⁶This figure of speech Jesus^(B) used with them, but they^(C) did not understand what he was saying to them.

⁷So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you,^(D) I am the door of the sheep.⁸All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. ⁹I am the door. If anyone enters by me,^(E) he will be saved and will go in and out and^(F) find pasture. ¹⁰The thief comes only to steal and^(G) kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.