Jesus 365 - January

January 1

Why were you searching for me? Didn't you know I had to be in my Father's house?          L2:49 

January 2

It is written: 'Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'          Mt4:4 / L4:4 (Deuteronomy 8:3) 

January 3

It is also written: 'Do not put the Lord your God to the test.'          Mt4:7 / L4:12 (Deuteronomy 6:16) 

January 4

It is written: 'Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.'          Mt4:10 / L4:8 (Deuteronomy 6:13) 

January 5

What do you want?… Come, and you will see... Follow me.          J1:38, 39 & 43  d 

January 6

You believe... You shall see greater things... I tell you the truth, you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.   J1:50-51  d 

January 7

How dare you turn my Father's house into a market!           J2:16 & 17 ('Zeal for your house will consume me.' - Psalm 69:9) 

January 8

I tell you the truth, unless a man is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. You should not be surprised at my saying, 'You must be born again.'          J3:5-7 

January 9

The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.  J3:8 

January 10

I tell you the truth, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony. I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak to you of heavenly things? No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came down from heaven - the Son of Man.          J3:11-12 

January 11

Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.          J3:14-15

January 12

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.          J3:16 

January 13

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.          J3:17-18 

January 14

This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.           J3:19-21 

January 15

If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water. Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.           J4:10 & 13-14   

 January 16

Believe me... a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You... worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshippers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshippers must worship in spirit and in truth.          J4:21-24 

January 17

I who speak to you am he [the Messiah].          J4:26 (& 25) 

January 18

My food... is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.          J4:34  d 

January 19

Do you not say, 'Four months more and then the harvest'? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. Thus the saying 'One sows and another reaps' is true. I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labour.          J4:35-38  d 

January 20

Come follow me. Don't be afraid. I will make you fishers of men.          Mt4:19 / Mk1:17 / L5:10  d 

January 21

Surely you will quote this proverb to me: 'Physician, heal yourself! Do here in your home town what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.'  I tell you the truth... no prophet is accepted in his home town. I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah's time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years, and there was a severe famine throughout the land. Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon. And there were many in Israel with leprosy in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed - only Naaman the Syrian.        L4:23-27 (1 Kings 17 & 2 Kings 5)  m 

January 22

'The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favour.' Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.                             L4:18-19 & 21 (Isaiah 61:1-2)  m 

January 23

Which is easier: to say to the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Get up, take your mat and walk'? But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins... I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.          Mk2:9-11 / L5:23-24  h 

January 24

Follow me.          Mt9:9 / Mk2:14 / L5:27  d 

January 25

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.          Mt9:12-13 / Mk2:16 / L5:31-32 (Hosea 6:6)  h 

January 26

How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn and fast while he is with them? They cannot, so long as they have him with them. But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; and in those days they will fast.          Mt9:15 / Mk2:19-20 / L5:34-35  m 

January 27

No one tears a patch of unshrunk cloth from a new garment and sews it on an old one, for the patch will pull away from the old garment, making the tear worse, and the patch from the new will not match the old. And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins, the wine will run out and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins, and both are preserved. And no one after drinking old wine wants the new, for he says, 'The old is better.'          Mt9:16-17 / Mk2:21-22 / L5:36-39  m 

January 28

My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I, too, am working.          J5:16  h 

January 29

I tell you the truth, the Son of Man can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does.          J5:19-20  h 

January 30

To your amazement [the Father] will show [the Son] even greater things than these. For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it.          J5:20-21  h 

January 31

The Father judges no one, but he has entrusted all judgement to the Son, that all may honour the Son just as they honour the Father. He who does not honour the Son does not honour the Father, who sent  him.          J5:22-23  h