Yet it pleased God to bruise Him. – Isaiah 53:10. Sorrowful unto death, under the burden of God’s wrath and curse, Jesus withdrew from His disciples, and went about a stone’s cast farther into the garden, and falling upon His …
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Third Sunday in Lent – Sunday
He hath made Him to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. – II Corinthians 5:21. Now they came to Gethsemane. Gethsemane was a garden where olive trees …
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Second Sunday in Lent – Saturday
Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd and against the Man that is My Fellow, saith the Lord of hosts. Smite the Shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered, and I will turn Mine hand upon the little ones. Zechariah 13:7. …
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Second Sunday in Lent – Friday
Father, I will that they also whom Thou hast given Me be with Me where I am. – John 17:24. Those who believe in Jesus Christ, through the Word preached by the apostles, and are sanctified to God through such …
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Second Sunday in Lent – Thursday
Sanctify them through Thy Truth; Thy Word is Truth. – John 17:17. And now the Lord prayed for His disciples, the apostles. He prayed thus: “I have manifested Thy name unto the men whom Thou gavest me out of the …
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Second Sunday in Lent – Wednesday
And this is life eternal, that they may know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent. – John 17:3. In the night in which He was betrayed, after the parting words, which John records, had been …
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Second Sunday in Lent – Tuesday
In the world ye shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer: I have overcome the world.– John 16:33. When the Lord conversed so kindly with His disciples, and promised them that later on they would fully understand His words, …
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Second Sunday in Lent – Monday
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, He will give it you. – John 16:23. Do you hear, O Christian, what the Lord assures you of here? Whatsoever you will ask in Jesus’ …
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Second Sunday in Lent – Sunday
Your sorrow shall be turned into joy. – John 16:20. In that night of parting, Jesus said to His disciples: “A little while, and ye shall not see Me, and again, a little while, and ye shall see Me, because …
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First Sunday in Lent – Saturday
He will guide you into all truth. – John 16:13. In the three years that He was with His disciples, Jesus had declared unto them the whole truth, and told them all things which they had to know for their …