John 18:1

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John 18:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

1 After Jesus had spoken these words, He went out with His disciples across the Kidron Valley, where they entered a garden.

2 Now Judas His betrayer also knew the place, because Jesus had often met there with His disciples.

3 So Judas brought a band of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees. They arrived at the garden carrying lanterns, torches, and weapons.

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John 13:32

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John 13:33

Little children, I am with you only a little while longer. You will look for Me, and as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you: ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’

John 13:34

A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.

John 13:35

By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”

John 14:1

“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe in Me as well.

John 14:2

In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?

John 14:3

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and welcome you into My presence, so that you also may be where I am.

John 14:4

You know the way to the place where I am going.”

John 14:5

“Lord,” said Thomas, “we do not know where You are going, so how can we know the way?”

John 14:6

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

John 14:7

If you had known Me, you would know My Father as well. From now on you do know Him and have seen Him.”

John 14:8

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John 14:9

Jesus replied, “Philip, I have been with you all this time, and still you do not know Me? Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

John 14:10

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John 14:11

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John 14:12

Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever believes in Me will also do the works that I am doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.

John 14:13

And I will do whatever you ask in My name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

John 14:14

If you ask Me for anything in My name, I will do it.

John 14:15

If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

John 14:16

And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever—

John 14:17

the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you.

John 14:31

But I do exactly what the Father has commanded Me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up! Let us go on from here.

Matthew 26:36

At that time Jesus went with His disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and He told them, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.”

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He also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

2 Kings 23:6

He brought the Asherah pole from the house of the LORD to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem, and there he burned it, ground it to powder, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.

2 Kings 23:12

He pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.

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Genesis 3:23

Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.