January 2026

READ: Jn. 21:15–25: … Yes, Lord; You know that I love You … the third time … do you love Me? … Follow Me … After breakfast, Jesus directs Himself to Simon Peter. The disciples have just seen their apostolic work symbolized in the miraculous catch, orchestrated by Jesus, yet carried out through them. But

READ: Jn. 21:1–14: … a fire of coals … bread and fish … 153 … the net was not broken … Jesus took the bread and gave it … A number of disciples, at Peter’s urging, go fishing at night on the Sea of Tiberias, but they catch nothing. Early in the morning, someone on

READ: Jn. 20:19–31: … Peace be with you … Receive the Holy Spirit … if you … are forgiven … are retained … Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed … Jesus appears in the evening of the day of His resurrection to His fearful disciples. He greets them with the

READ: Jn. 20:1–18: … and saw that the stone had been taken away … For as yet they did not know the Scripture, that He must rise … Do not cling to Me … your Father … It is striking that after Jesus’ death, His disciples and followers still lack faith in His resurrection. Their

READ: Jn. 19:31–42: … Then they took the body of Jesus, and bound it in strips of linen … a new tomb … So there they laid Jesus … The Passover Lamb has been slain—the Lamb who takes away the sin of the world (1:29)! But there is no feast yet—only deep sorrow. According to

READ: Jn. 19:17–30: … What I have written, I have written … How should we understand the inscription above the cross? Pilate has it written in three languages. The entire world must know his contempt for Jesus and the Jews. But there is more. It is God the Father who strikes His Son, yes crushes