Now just before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour was come when he should leave this world to go to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, showed forth his love to the end.

So I have good courage, and am well pleased rather, to be in banishment from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

I for my part am a libation already being poured in sacrifice; and the time of my unmooring is at hand.

With

But the man out of whom the demons had gone kept begging him that he might be with him. But Jesus sent him away saying,

"In solemn truth I tell you," said Jesus, "that this day you shall be with me in Paradise."

I will return and will take you to be with me, so that where I am you may be also.

"Father, it is my will that wherever I am these also, thy gift to me, may be with me, that they may see the glory, my glory which thou hast given me, because thou didst love me before the foundations of the world.

So they stoned Stephen while he prayed, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."

So I have good courage, and am well pleased rather, to be in banishment from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

And afterwards we who are alive, who remain, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

And I heard a voice from heaven, saying, "Write, Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord from henceforth! Yea, says the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors, For their deeds do follow them."

Far

And I said to him, "You know, my Lord." And he said to me, "These are those who have come out of the great persecution, and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

General references

Blessed is that slave whom his Master, when he comes, shall find so doing.

"If you love me, you will obey my commandments,

For not one of us lives unto himself, and not one dies unto himself.