10 When
Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to
destroy the whole royal family of the house of Judah. 11 But
Jehosheba,[e] the
daughter of King Jehoram, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from
among the royal princes who were about to be murdered and put him and his nurse
in a bedroom. Because Jehosheba,[f] the
daughter of King Jehoram and wife of the priest Jehoiada, was Ahaziah’s sister,
she hid the child from Athaliah so she could not kill him. 12 He
remained hidden with them at the temple of God for six years while Athaliah
ruled the land.
The
people of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, Jehoram’s youngest son, king in his place,
since the raiders, who came with the Arabs into the camp, had killed all the
older sons. So Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah began to reign.
2 Ahaziah
was twenty-two[a] years old
when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother’s name
was Athaliah, a granddaughter of Omri.
3 He
too followed the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother encouraged him to
act wickedly. 4 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as the house of Ahab had done, for
after his father’s death they became his advisers, to his undoing. 5 He
also followed their counsel when he went with Joram[b] son of Ahab
king of Israel to wage war against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth Gilead. The
Arameans wounded Joram; 6 so he returned to Jezreel to recover
from the wounds they had inflicted on him at Ramoth[c] in his
battle with Hazael king of Aram.
Then
Ahaziah[d] son of
Jehoram king of Judah went down to Jezreel to see Joram son of Ahab because he
had been wounded.
7 Through
Ahaziah’s visit to Joram, God brought about Ahaziah’s downfall. When Ahaziah
arrived, he went out with Joram to meet Jehu son of Nimshi, whom the Lord had anointed to destroy the house
of Ahab. 8 While Jehu was executing judgment on the house of
Ahab, he found the officials of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah’s relatives, who
had been attending Ahaziah, and he killed them. 9 He then went
in search of Ahaziah, and his men captured him while he was hiding in Samaria.
He was brought to Jehu and put to death. They buried him, for they said, “He
was a son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the Lord
with all his heart.” So there was no one in the house of Ahaziah powerful
enough to retain the kingdom.
31 When
he was gone, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified and God is glorified
in him. 32 If God is glorified in him,[c] God will
glorify the Son in himself, and will glorify him at once.
33 “My
children, I will be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and
just as I told the Jews, so I tell you now: Where I am going, you cannot come.
34 “A
new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love
one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my
disciples, if you love one another.”
36 Simon
Peter asked him, “Lord, where are you going?”
Jesus
replied, “Where I am going, you cannot follow now, but you will follow later.”
37 Peter
asked, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”
38 Then
Jesus answered, “Will you really lay down your life for me? Very truly I tell
you, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times!
18 “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[a] against
me.’[b]
19 “I
am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will
believe that I am who I am. 20 Very truly I tell you, whoever
accepts anyone I send accepts me; and whoever accepts me accepts the one who
sent me.”
21 After
he had said this, Jesus was troubled in spirit and testified, “Very truly I
tell you, one of you is going to betray me.”
22 His
disciples stared at one another, at a loss to know which of them he meant. 23 One
of them, the disciple whom Jesus loved, was reclining next to him. 24 Simon
Peter motioned to this disciple and said, “Ask him which one he means.”
25 Leaning
back against Jesus, he asked him, “Lord, who is it?”
26 Jesus
answered, “It is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have
dipped it in the dish.” Then, dipping the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas,
the son of Simon Iscariot. 27 As soon as Judas took the bread,
Satan entered into him.
So
Jesus told him, “What you are about to do, do quickly.” 28 But
no one at the meal understood why Jesus said this to him. 29 Since
Judas had charge of the money, some thought Jesus was telling him to buy what
was needed for the festival, or to give something to the poor. 30 As
soon as Judas had taken the bread, he went out. And it was night.
