January 2026

READ: Jn. 16:16–33: … I have overcome the world … Only a little while and they will not see Jesus, when He is buried after the cross. Then they will see Him again after His resurrection until His ascension. His absence will be short; they will only sorrow for a few days. The disciples, still […]

READ: Jn. 16:1–15: … It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you … when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment … He will guide you into all truth … Jesus

READ: Jn. 15:18–27: If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you … He who hates Me hates My Father also … They hated Me without a cause … the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me … Precisely when the disciples answer

READ: Jn. 15:9–17: … Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends … I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit … that you love one another. Jesus’ love for His followers is like the love of the Father for Him (v.9;

READ: Jn. 15:1–8: … He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing … Jesus tells this parable on the night before Good Friday. The last Passover meal has taken place, and Judas has departed. Then He institutes the Holy Supper for His disciples. He

READ: Jn. 14:15–31: … Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you … The Lord Jesus shows that loving Him means following His words, His commandments. We think of the Sermon on the Mount, the new commandment to love one another, and Matt. 22:37ff. with the double commandment of love as the

READ: Jn. 14:1–14: … And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself … I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me … Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in

READ: Jn. 13:31–38: … Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in Him … if you have love for one another … By sending Judas away, the Lord Jesus sets in motion His own path to death. The Sanhedrin, enraged because of Lazarus’s resurrection, already wants to kill Him. Now Judas

READ: Jn. 13:21–30: … Now after the piece of bread, Satan entered him. Then Jesus said to him, ‘What you do, do quickly’ … Having received the piece of bread, he then went out immediately. And it was night. Jesus is deeply troubled by what He has just said to Judas. He is moved as

READ: Jn. 13:1–20: … For I have given you an example … Before John describes the Last Supper in the coming chapters, he shows what Jesus intends to accomplish. He has been sent to earth to complete His work of love for His own and then return to the Father. That work of love will