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Three denials by a charcoal fire in a courtyard. Three questions by a charcoal fire on a beach.

Day 55 of 55 — the last one — through the Gospel of John. We're in John 21:15-25: Jesus using Peter's old name, a restoration that hands out a job instead of a pardon, a plain word about how Peter will die, and the same two words Jesus said at the very beginning.

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Professional fishermen, exhausted after a wasted night, taking fishing advice from a stranger a hundred yards away. They do it anyway.

Day 54 of 55 through the Gospel of John. We're in John 21:1-14: back to the old boat, a net they can't haul in, Peter going over the side, and a charcoal fire that appears only twice in this Gospel.

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Thomas asked for exactly what the others had already been given. A week later, Jesus came back through locked doors to give it to him.

Day 53 of 55 through the Gospel of John. We're in John 20:19-31: a locked room, scars offered as proof, a week of holding out, and the clearest confession in the entire Gospel from the man who doubted longest.

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Peter and John looked in the empty tomb and went home. Mary stayed. That's why she was there when He said her name.

Day 52 of 55 through the Gospel of John. We're in John 20:1-18: grave clothes that don't look like a robbery, a woman who mistook Him for the gardener, one word that changed everything, and the first witness to the resurrection.

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Two men who'd kept it quiet for years came out into the open on the day it looked most finished.

Day 51 of 55 through the Gospel of John. We're in John 19:31-42: legs unbroken, a spear, an eyewitness stopping the story to swear to it, and seventy-five pounds of spices — a burial fit for a king.

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John gives the crucifixion four words and no description. He assumes we know.

Day 50 of 55 through the Gospel of John. We're in John 19:17-30: a sign in three languages that Pilate refused to change, a man arranging His mother's care while suffocating, and a Greek word that was stamped across a bill paid in full.

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Pilate says it as humiliation. John knows it's the title Jesus has used for Himself all along.

Day 49 of 55 through the Gospel of John. We're in John 19:1-16: a crown of thorns and a purple robe, a governor who three separate times says he finds no charge, and the one sentence that makes him fold.

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They won't cross the threshold, because it would make them unclean — on the morning they're arranging a judicial murder.

Day 48 of 55 through the Gospel of John. We're in John 18:28-40: a charge that isn't a charge, the difference between a kingdom held by force and one that isn't, and the best question in the Gospel asked by a man who doesn't wait for the answer.

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Not a Roman officer. Not a member of the council. A girl minding a gate, asking in passing.

Day 47 of 55 through the Gospel of John. We're in John 18:15-27: John cutting between two rooms on purpose, a man who'd drawn a sword hours earlier, a fire he chose to stand at, and three denials.

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A small army arrives in the dark, carrying torches and weapons, to arrest the light of the world.

Day 46 of 55 through the Gospel of John. We're in John 18:1-14: a garden Judas knew well, two words that put a detachment of soldiers on the ground, and an arrest where Jesus negotiates cover for His friends on the way down.

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