Lent Daily Reading
Lent Daily Reading – April 8 (English)
April 8, 2023 John 19:28-37 NIV Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.”A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant,...
Lent Daily Reading – April 7 (English)
April 7, 2023 John 19:16-27 NIV Finally Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified. The Crucifixion of Jesus So the soldiers took charge of Jesus. Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha). There they...
Lent Daily Reading – April 6 (English)
April 6, 2023 Luke 23:26-49 NIV As the soldiers led him away, they seized Simon from Cyrene, who was on his way in from the country, and put the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus. A large number of people followed him, including women who mourned and...
Lent Daily Reading – April 5 (English)
April 5, 2023 Matthew 27:32-44 NIV As they were going out, they met a man from Cyrene, named Simon, and they forced him to carry the cross. They came to a place called Golgotha (which means “the place of the skull”). There they offered Jesus wine to drink, mixed with...
Lent Daily Reading – April 4 (English)
April 4, 2023 Matthew 27:27-31 NIV Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company of soldiers around him. They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head....
Lent Daily Reading – April 3 (English)
April 3, 2023 John 19:1-16 NIV Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe and went up to him again and again, saying, “Hail, king of the Jews!” And they slapped...
Lent Daily Reading – April 2 (English)
April 2, 2023 John 18:19-40 NIV Meanwhile, the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and his teaching. “I have spoken openly to the world,”Jesus replied. “I always taught in synagogues or at the temple, where all the Jews come together. I said nothing in...
Lent Daily Reading – April 1 (English)
April 1, 2023 Luke 22:39-62 NIV Jesus went out as usual to the Mount of Olives, and his disciples followed him. On reaching the place, he said to them, “Pray that you will not fall into temptation.”He withdrew about a stone’s throw beyond them, knelt down and...
Lent Daily Reading – March 31 (English)
March 31, 2023 Mark 14:32-72 NIV They went to a place called Gethsemane, and Jesus said to his disciples, “Sit here while I pray.” He took Peter, James and John along with him, and he began to be deeply distressed and troubled. “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to...
Lent Daily Reading – March 30 (English)
March 30, 2023 John 18:1-18 NIV When he had finished praying, Jesus left with his disciples and crossed the Kidron Valley. On the other side there was a garden, and he and his disciples went into it. Now Judas, who betrayed him, knew the place, because Jesus had...
Lent Daily Reading – March 29 (English)
March 29, 2023 Matthew 26:47-56 NIV While he was still speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, arrived. With him was a large crowd armed with swords and clubs, sent from the chief priests and the elders of the people. Now the betrayer had arranged a signal with them:...
Lent Daily Reading – March 28 (English)
March 28, 2023 Matthew 26:36-46 NIV Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to them, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.” He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him, and he began to be sorrowful and...
Lent Daily Reading – March 27 (English)
March 27, 2023 John 17:1-26 NIV Jesus Prays to Be Glorified After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal...
Lent Daily Reading – March 26 (English)
March 26, 2023 John 16:5-33 NIV but now I am going to him who sent me. None of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ Rather, you are filled with grief because I have said these things. But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go...
Lent Daily Reading – March 25 (English)
March 25, 2023 John 16:1-4 NIV “All this I have told you so that you will not fall away. They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God. They will do such things because they...
Lent Daily Reading – March 24 (English)
March 24, 2023 John 15:1-27 NIV “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. You are already clean because of the word I...
Lent Daily Reading – March 23 (English)
March 23, 2023 John 14:15-31 NIV “If you love me, keep my commands. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But...
Lent Daily Reading – March 22 (English)
March 22, 2023 John 14:1-14 NIV “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God ; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place...
Lent Daily Reading – March 21 (English)
March 21, 2023 Matthew 26:31-35 NIV Then Jesus told them, “This very night you will all fall away on account of me, for it is written: “ ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’ But after I have risen, I will go ahead of you into...
Lent Daily Reading – March 20 (English)
March 20, 2023 Luke 22:24-38 NIV A dispute also arose among them as to which of them was considered to be greatest. Jesus said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them; and those who exercise authority over them call themselves Benefactors. But you are...
Lent Daily Reading – March 19 (English)
March 19, 2023 John 13:18-38 NIV “I am not referring to all of you; I know those I have chosen. But this is to fulfill this passage of Scripture: ‘He who shared my bread has turned against me.’ “I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you...
Lent Daily Reading – March 18 (English)
March 18, 2023 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 NIV For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you; do this in...
Lent Daily Reading – March 17 (English)
March 17, 2023 John 13:1-17 NIV It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. The evening meal was in progress, and...