Quotes About Faith

Be on your guard and stay alert! For you do not know when the appointed time will come.

Therefore keep watch, because you do not know when the master of the house will return—whether in the evening, at midnight, when the rooster crows, or in the morning.

While Jesus was in Bethany reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke open the jar and poured it on Jesusí head.

But Jesus said, “Leave her alone; why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful deed to Me.

The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them whenever you want. But you will not always have Me.

She has done what she could to anoint My body in advance of My burial.

And truly I tell you, wherever the gospel is preached in all the world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”

Then Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the chief priests to betray Jesus to them.

On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb was to be sacrificed, Jesusí disciples asked Him, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?”

So He sent two of His disciples and told them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a jug of water will meet you. Follow him,

and whichever house he enters, say to the owner, ëThe Teacher asks: Where is My guest room, where I may eat the Passover with My disciples?í

And he will show you a large upper room, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there.”

So the disciples left and went into the city, where they found everything as Jesus had described. And they prepared the Passover.

And while they were reclining and eating, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, one of you who is eating with Me will betray Me.”

They began to be grieved and to ask Him one after another, “Surely not I?”

The Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed! It would be better for him if he had not been born.”

While they were eating, Jesus took bread, spoke a blessing and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, saying, “Take it; this is My body.”

Then He took the cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, and they all drank from it.

He said to them, “This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.

Truly I tell you, I will no longer drink of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it anew in the kingdom of God.”

And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

Then Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away, for it is written: ëI will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.í

But after I have risen, I will go ahead of you into Galilee.”

Peter declared, “Even if all fall away, I never will.”