Day 33: Luke 24 - John 1
New Testament in 90 days reading for day 33.
Luke 24
- 1 On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women came to the tomb, bringing the spices they had prepared.
- 2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb,
- 3 but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.
- 4 While they were puzzling over this, suddenly two men in radiant apparel stood beside them.
- 5 As the women bowed their faces to the ground in terror, the two men asked them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead?
- 6 He is not here; He has risen! Remember how He told you while He was still in Galilee:
- 7 ‘The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again.’”
- 8 Then they remembered His words.
- 9 And when they returned from the tomb, they reported all these things to the Eleven and to all the others.
- 10 It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them who told this to the apostles.
- 11 But their words seemed like nonsense to them, and they did not believe the women.
- 12 Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. And after bending down and seeing only the linen cloths, he went away, wondering to himself what had happened.
- 13 That same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem.
- 14 They were talking with each other about everything that had happened.
- 15 And as they talked and deliberated, Jesus Himself came up and walked along with them.
- 16 But their eyes were kept from recognizing Him.
- 17 He asked them, “What are you discussing so intently as you walk along?” They stood still, with sadness on their faces.
- 18 One of them, named Cleopas, asked Him, “Are You the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in recent days?”
- 19 “What things?” He asked. “The events involving Jesus of Nazareth,” they answered. “This man was a prophet, powerful in speech and action before God and all the people.
- 20 Our chief priests and rulers delivered Him up to the sentence of death, and they crucified Him.
- 21 But we were hoping He was the One who would redeem Israel. And besides all this, it is the third day since these things took place.
- 22 Furthermore, some of our women astounded us. They were at the tomb early this morning,
- 23 but they did not find His body. They came and told us they had seen a vision of angels, who said that Jesus was alive.
- 24 Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had described. But Him they did not see.”
- 25 Then Jesus said to them, “O foolish ones, how slow are your hearts to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
- 26 Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and then to enter His glory?”
- 27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them what was written in all the Scriptures about Himself.
- 28 As they approached the village where they were headed, He seemed to be going farther.
- 29 But they pleaded with Him, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening and the day is almost over.” So He went in to stay with them.
- 30 While He was reclining at the table with them, He took bread, spoke a blessing and broke it, and gave it to them.
- 31 Then their eyes were opened and they recognized Jesus—and He disappeared from their sight.
- 32 They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us as He spoke with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”
- 33 And they got up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, gathered together
- 34 and saying, “The Lord has indeed risen and has appeared to Simon!”
- 35 Then the two told what had happened on the road, and how they had recognized Jesus in the breaking of the bread.
- 36 While they were describing these events, Jesus Himself stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.”
- 37 But they were startled and frightened, thinking they had seen a spirit.
- 38 “Why are you troubled,” Jesus asked, “and why do doubts arise in your hearts?
- 39 Look at My hands and My feet. It is I Myself. Touch Me and see—for a spirit does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”
- 40 And when He had said this, He showed them His hands and feet.
- 41 While they were still in disbelief because of their joy and amazement, He asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?”
- 42 So they gave Him a piece of broiled fish,
- 43 and He took it and ate it in front of them.
- 44 Jesus said to them, “These are the words I spoke to you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms.”
- 45 Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.
- 46 And He told them, “This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,
- 47 and in His name repentance and forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.
- 48 You are witnesses of these things.
- 49 And behold, I am sending the promise of My Father upon you. But remain in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”
- 50 When Jesus had led them out as far as Bethany, He lifted up His hands and blessed them.
- 51 While He was blessing them, He left them and was carried up into heaven.
- 52 And they worshiped Him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,
- 53 praising God continually in the temple.
John 1
- 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
- 2 He was with God in the beginning.
- 3 Through Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made.
- 4 In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.
- 5 The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
- 6 There came a man who was sent from God. His name was John.
- 7 He came as a witness to testify about the Light, so that through him everyone might believe.
- 8 He himself was not the Light, but he came to testify about the Light.
- 9 The true Light who gives light to every man was coming into the world.
- 10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him.
- 11 He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.
- 12 But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—
- 13 children born not of blood, nor of the desire or will of man, but born of God.
- 14 The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
- 15 John testified concerning Him. He cried out, saying, “This is He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me because He was before me.’”
- 16 From His fullness we have all received grace upon grace.
- 17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
- 18 No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.
- 19 And this was John’s testimony when the Jews of Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him, “Who are you?”
- 20 He did not refuse to confess, but openly declared, “I am not the Christ.”
- 21 “Then who are you?” they inquired. “Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” He answered, “No.”
- 22 So they said to him, “Who are you? We need an answer for those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”
- 23 John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet: “I am a voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way for the Lord.’”
- 24 Then the Pharisees who had been sent
- 25 asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”
- 26 “I baptize with water,” John replied, “but among you stands One you do not know.
- 27 He is the One who comes after me, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.”
- 28 All this happened at Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
- 29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
- 30 This is He of whom I said, ‘A man who comes after me has surpassed me because He was before me.’
- 31 I myself did not know Him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that He might be revealed to Israel.”
- 32 Then John testified, “I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove and resting on Him.
- 33 I myself did not know Him, but the One who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The man on whom you see the Spirit descend and rest is He who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’
- 34 I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God.”
- 35 The next day John was there again with two of his disciples.