Zeph. 3:14–20

3:14 For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named. 16I pray that according to the wealth of his glory he will grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person, 17that Christ will dwell in your hearts through faith, so that, because you have been rooted and grounded in love, 18you will be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19and thus to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you will be filled up to all the fullness of God.

20Now to him who by the power that is working within us is able to do far beyond all that we ask or think, (NET Bible)

Ps. 119:65–72

119:65 ט (Tet)

You are good to your servant,

O Lord, just as you promised.

66Teach me proper discernment and understanding.

For I consider your commands to be reliable.

67Before I was afflicted I used to stray off,

but now I keep your instructions.

68You are good and you do good.

Teach me your statutes.

69Arrogant people smear my reputation with lies,

but I observe your precepts with all my heart.

70Their hearts are calloused,

but I find delight in your law.

71It was good for me to suffer

so that I might learn your statutes.

72The law you have revealed is more important to me

than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.

Luke 23:18–31

23:18 But they all shouted out together, “Take this man away! Release Barabbas for us!” 19(This was a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection started in the city, and for murder.) 20Pilate addressed them once again because he wanted to release Jesus. 21But they kept on shouting, “Crucify, crucify him!” 22A third time he said to them, “Why? What wrong has he done? I have found him guilty of no crime deserving death. I will therefore flog him and release him.” 23But they were insistent, demanding with loud shouts that he be crucified. And their shouts prevailed. 24So Pilate decided that their demand should be granted. 25He released the man they asked for, who had been thrown in prison for insurrection and murder. But he handed Jesus over to their will.

26As they led him away, they seized Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country. They placed the cross on his back and made him carry it behind Jesus. 27A great number of the people followed him, among them women who were mourning and wailing for him. 28But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. 29For this is certain: The days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that never nursed!’ 30Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us!’ 31For if such things are done when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?”