No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This commandment I received from my Father.”

This is why the Father loves me – because I lay down my life, so that I may take it back again.

He asked, “Where have you laid him?” They replied, “Lord, come and see.”

he got up from the meal, removed his outer clothes, took a towel and tied it around himself.

No one has greater love than this – that one lays down his life for his friends.

And so, because it was the Jewish day of preparation and the tomb was nearby, they placed Jesus’ body there.

and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the cheaper wine when the guests are drunk. You have kept the good wine until now!”

“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

just as the Father knows me and I know the Father – and I lay down my life for the sheep.

Peter said to him, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you!”

Jesus answered, “Will you lay down your life for me? I tell you the solemn truth, the rooster will not crow until you have denied me three times!

Pilate also had a notice written and fastened to the cross, which read: “Jesus the Nazarene, the king of the Jews.”

Now at the place where Jesus was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden was a new tomb where no one had yet been buried.

They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” Mary replied, “They have taken my Lord away, and I do not know where they have put him!”

So she went running to Simon Peter and the other disciple whom Jesus loved and told them, “They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that remains, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.

Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?” Because she thought he was the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him.”