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Key Bible Verse:  "He must increase, but I must decrease." John 3: 30

Key Bible Verse:  "Now in those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”"  Matthew 3: 1

Key Bible Verse:  "He came as a witness, to bear witness about the Light, that all might believe through him." John 1: 7

Key Bible Verse:  "but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and Samaria, and as far as the remotest part of the earth.”  Acts 1: 8 

Key Bible Verse(s):  "But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away...but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus...as the women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, the men (angels) said to them, “Why do you seek the living One among the dead?  “He is not here, but He has risen"" Luke 24: 1-5

Key Bible Verse(s):  "Now on the next day (Saturday)...the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered together with Pilate, and said, “Sir, we remember  when He was still alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I am to rise again.’  Therefore, give orders for the grave to be made secure until the third day, otherwise His disciples may come and steal Him away and say to the people, ‘He has risen from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”"  Matthew 27: 62-64

Key Bible Verse(s):  "And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit."  Matthew 27: 50

Key Bible Verse(s):  "If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.  For I gave you an example that you also should do as I did to you...If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them."  John 13: 14, 15, 17

Key Bible Verse(s):  Then one of the twelve, whose name was Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said,  “What will you give me if I deliver Him over to you?”  And they paid him thirty pieces of silver.  And from that moment (Judas) sought an opportunity to betray Him." Matthew 26:  14-16

Key Bible Verse(s):  "One day, as Jesus was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes with the elders came up and said to Him, “Tell us by what authority You do these things, or Who it is that gave You this authority."  Luke  20: 1-2

Key Bible Verse(s):  "And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all those who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves. And He said to them, “It is written, ‘MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER’; but you are making it a ROBBERS’ DEN.” "  Matthew 21: 12-13

Key Bible Verse(s):  "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, Humble, and mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey."   Zechariah 9: 9

Key Bible Verse: "All the ways of a person are clean in his own sight, but the Lord examines the motives."  Proverbs 16: 2

Key Bible Verse:  "For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.” 1 Samuel 16: 7b

Key Bible Verse: "If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed."  John 8: 36

Key Bible Verse:  "For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a bond-servant of Christ."  Galatians 1: 10 

Key Bible Verse:  "He must increase, but I must decrease." John 3: 30

Key Bible Verses: "...our God whom we serve is able to rescue us from the furnace of blazing fire...But even if He does not, let it be known to you, O king, that we are not going to serve your gods nor worship the golden statue that you have set up.”  from Daniel 3: 17-18

Key Bible Verses:  "Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me and know my anxious thoughts; And see if there be any hurtful way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way."  Psalm 139: 23-24

Key Bible Verse:  "I have not come to call the righteous to repentance, but sinners.”  Luke 5: 32