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1/21/26 Matthew 21:21 LSV: And Jesus answering said to them, “Truly I say to you, if you may have faith and may not doubt, not only will you do this of the fig tree, but even if you may say to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and be cast into the sea,’ it will come to pass.” Jesus…

1/20/26 Matthew 20:18 LSV: “Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn Him to death.” Jesus is on the road to Jerusalem for the final time, privately warning His disciples about His coming…

1/19/26 John 19:30 LSV: When, therefore, Jesus received the vinegar, He said, “It has been finished,” and having bowed the head, gave up the spirit. After hours of agony on the cross, Jesus received sour wine on a sponge. With His final breath, He declared the mission complete.…

1/18/26 Matthew 18:18 LSV: “Truly I say to you, whatever things you may bind on the earth will be having been bound in the heavens, and whatever things you may loose on the earth will be having been loosed in the heavens.” Jesus is teaching His disciples about handling sin and…

1/17/26 John 17:1 LSV: Jesus spoke these things, and having lifted up His eyes to the heaven, said, “Father, the hour has come, glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You.” This is the opening of Jesus’ High Priestly Prayer—the longest recorded prayer of Jesus in the…

1/16/26 Mark 16:16 LSV: “He who has believed and has been baptized will be saved; but he who has disbelieved will be condemned.” These are among Jesus’ final words after His resurrection, part of the Great Commission to His disciples before ascending. Jesus makes the promise…

1/28/26 Matthew 28:18-20 LSV: And having come near, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,…

1/14/26 John 14:1 LSV: “Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also believe in Me.” Jesus is in the upper room at the Last Supper, preparing His disciples for His imminent death, resurrection, and departure. They are troubled by His words about leaving them; He…

1/13/26 John 13:26 LSV: Jesus answers, “He it is to whom I, having dipped the morsel, will give it”; and having dipped the morsel, He takes and gives to Judas Iscariot, son of Simon. At the Last Supper, Jesus has just announced that one of the Twelve would betray Him. The…

1/12/26 John 12:26 LSV: “If anyone may serve Me, let him follow Me, and where I am, there also My servant will be; and if anyone may serve Me, the Father will honor him.” Jesus is speaking during His final week in Jerusalem, just after predicting His coming death and…

1/11/26 Matthew 11:11 LSV: “Truly I say to you, among those born of women there has not risen a greater than John the Baptist, yet he who is least in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than he.” Jesus is praising John the Baptist as the greatest prophet ever born, while…

1/10/26 Matthew 10:26 LSV: “So, do not fear them, for there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, and hid that will not be known.” Jesus is preparing His twelve disciples for the mission ahead, warning them of coming persecution and hatred, then encouraging them not to…

1/9/26 Mark 9:1 LSV: And He said to them, “Truly I say to you, that there are certain of those standing here who may not taste of death till they may see the kingdom of God having come in power.” Jesus had just spoken about the cost of following Him and the coming judgment.…

1/8/26 Matthew 8:26 LSV: And He says to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then having risen, He rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. Jesus and His disciples were crossing the Sea of Galilee when a fierce storm hit. The disciples panicked,…

1/7/26 Matthew 7:3 LSV: “And why do you behold the mote that [is] in your brother’s eye, and the beam that [is] in your own eye do not consider?” Jesus is teaching in the Sermon on the Mount about judging others, using a humorous exaggeration: a tiny speck in someone else’s eye…

1/6/26 Matthew 6:1-4 LSV: “Take heed your righteousness not to do before men, to be seen by them, and if not — you have no reward from your Father who is in the heavens. Therefore when you may do kindness, you may not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do, in the…

1/5/26 Matthew 5:5 LSV: “Blessed the meek, because they will inherit the earth.” Jesus is delivering the Sermon on the Mount, beginning with the Beatitudes—describing the character of those who belong to God’s kingdom. The meek aren’t weak—they’re strong enough to trust God…

1/4/26 Mark 4:26-29 LSV: And He said, “Thus is the kingdom of God: as if a man may cast the seed on the earth, and may sleep, and may rise night and day, and the seed may sprout and may lengthen—how he has not known; the earth bears fruit of itself—first a blade, then an ear,…

1/3/26 Matthew 3:15 LSV: And Jesus answering said to him, “Permit it now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he permits Him. John the Baptist hesitated to baptize Jesus, saying he needed to be baptized by Jesus instead. Jesus insisted, showing…

1/2/26 Matthew 26:2 LSV: “You have known that after two days the Passover comes, and the Son of Man is delivered up to be crucified.” Jesus is in the final days before the cross, privately warning His disciples what is about to happen. Jesus knew the suffering ahead, yet He…