John 13:21-38; 2 Chronicles 19; Psalms 78:38-55

John 13:21-38

21 When Jesus had said this, He was troubled in His spirit and testified, "I assure you: One of you will betray Me!"

22 The disciples started looking at one another-uncertain which one He was speaking about.

23 One of His disciples, the one Jesus loved, was reclining close beside Jesus.

24 Simon Peter motioned to him to find out who it was He was talking about.

25 So he leaned back against Jesus and asked Him, "Lord, who is it?"

26 Jesus replied, "He's the one I give the piece of bread to after I have dipped it." When He had dipped the bread, He gave it to Judas, Simon Iscariot's son.

27 After [Judas ate] the piece of bread, Satan entered him. Therefore Jesus told him, "What you're doing, do quickly."

28 None of those reclining at the table knew why He told him this.

29 Since Judas kept the money-bag, some thought that Jesus was telling him, "Buy what we need for the festival," or that he should give something to the poor.

30 After receiving the piece of bread, he went out immediately. And it was night.

31 When he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in Him.

32 If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself and will glorify Him at once.

33 "Children, I am with you a little while longer. You will look for Me, and just as I told the Jews, 'Where I am going you cannot come,' so now I tell you.

34 "I give you a new commandment: love one another. Just as I have loved you, you must also love one another.

35 By this all people will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."

36 "Lord," Simon Peter said to Him, "where are You going?" Jesus answered, "Where I am going you cannot follow Me now, but you will follow later."

37 "Lord," Peter asked, "why can't I follow You now? I will lay down my life for You!"

38 Jesus replied, "Will you lay down your life for Me? I assure you: A rooster will not crow until you have denied Me three times.

2 Chronicles 19

1 Jehoshaphat king of Judah returned to his home in Jerusalem in peace.

2 Then Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to confront him and said to King Jehoshaphat, "Do you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord? Because of this, the Lord's wrath is on you.

3 However, some good is found in you, for you have removed the Asherah poles from the land and have decided to seek God."

4 Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem, and once again he went out among the people from Beer-sheba to the hill country of Ephraim and brought them back to the Lord God of their ancestors.

5 He appointed judges in all the fortified cities of the land of Judah, city by city.

6 Then he said to the judges, "Consider what you are doing, for you do not judge for man, but for the Lord, who is with you in the matter of judgment.

7 And now, may the terror of the Lord be on you. Watch what you do, for there is no injustice or partiality or taking bribes with the Lord our God."

8 Jehoshaphat also appointed in Jerusalem some of the Levites and priests and some of the heads of the Israelite families for [rendering] the Lord's judgments and for [settling] disputes of the residents of Jerusalem.

9 He commanded them, saying, "In the fear of the Lord, with integrity, and with a whole heart, you are to do the following:

10 for every dispute that comes to you from your brothers who dwell in their cities-whether it regards differences of bloodguilt, law, commandment, statutes, or judgments-you are to warn them, so they will not incur guilt before the Lord and wrath will not come on you and your brothers. Do this, and you will not incur guilt.

11 "Note that Amariah, the chief priest, is over you in all matters related to the Lord, and Zebadiah son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, in all matters related to the king, and the Levites are officers in your presence. Be strong; may the Lord be with those who do what is good."

Psalms 78:38-55

38 Yet He was compassionate; He atoned for [their] guilt and did not destroy [them]. He often turned His anger aside and did not unleash all His wrath.

39 He remembered that they were [only] flesh, a wind that passes and does not return.

40 How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert.

41 They constantly tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

42 They did not remember His power [shown] on the day He redeemed them from the foe,

43 when He performed His miraculous signs in Egypt and His marvels in the region of Zoan.

44 He turned their rivers into blood, and they could not drink from their streams.

45 He sent among them swarms of flies, which fed on them, and frogs, which devastated them.

46 He gave their crops to the caterpillar and the fruit of their labor to the locust.

47 He killed their vines with hail and their sycamore-fig trees with a flood.

48 He handed over their livestock to hail and their cattle to lightning bolts.

49 He sent His burning anger against them: fury, indignation, and calamity- a band of deadly messengers.

50 He cleared a path for His anger. He did not spare them from death, but delivered their lives to the plague.

51 He struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the first progeny of the tents of Ham.

52 He led His people out like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.

53 He led them safely, and they were not afraid; but the sea covered their enemies.

54 He brought them to His holy land, to the mountain His right hand acquired.

55 He drove out nations before them. He apportioned their inheritance by lot and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.