Luke 22:44
44And abeing in agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground. ▼▼Some manuscripts omit verses 43 and 44
John 12:24
24Truly, truly, I say to you, cunless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.John 12:27-32
The Son of Man Must Be Lifted Up
27 d“Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? ‘Father, esave me from fthis hour’? But gfor this purpose I have come to hthis hour. 28Father, glorify your name.” Then ia voice came from heaven: “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.” 29The crowd that stood there and heard it said that it had thundered. Others said, j“An angel has spoken to him.” 30Jesus answered, k“This voice has come for your sake, not mine. 31 lNow is the judgment of this world; now will mthe ruler of this world nbe cast out. 32And I, owhen I am lifted up from the earth, pwill draw qall people to myself.”John 16:21
21 rWhen a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.Galatians 4:19
19 smy little children, tfor whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ uis formed in you!Hebrews 12:2
2looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, vwho for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising wthe shame, and xis seated at the right hand of the throne of God.Revelation of John 5:9-10
9And they sang ya new song, saying,“Worthy are you to take the scroll
and to open its seals,
for zyou were slain, and by your blood aayou ransomed people for God
from abevery tribe and language and people and nation,
10and you have made them aca kingdom and priests to our God,
and they shall reign on the earth.”
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