Luke 23 Cross References - MNT

¹ Then the whole company rose up and brought him to Pilate, ² and began to accuse him. "We have found this fellow perverting our nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, and proclaiming that he is the Messiah and King." ³ Then Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" And he answered him saying, "Certainly I am." ⁴ And Pilate said to the chief priest and the crowd, "I find no harm in this man." ⁵ But they repeatedly insisted, "He is stirring up the people throughout all Judea with his teaching which started from Galilee." ⁶ When Pilate heard the word "Galilee" he asked if the man were a Galilean, ⁷ and when he learned that he belonged to Herod's jurisdiction he sent him to Herod, who himself happened to be in Jerusalem during those days. ⁸ Now when Herod saw Jesus he was exceedingly glad. He had long been wanting to see him, because he had heard so much about him, and was hoping to see some miracles performed by him. ⁹ So he had been asking him many questions, but Jesus made no answers. ¹⁰ Meanwhile the high priests and Scribes were standing around, and continually making accusations to him against him. ¹¹ Then Herod and his soldiers set him at naught, and mocked him, and throwing about him a gorgeous robe, sent him back to Pilate. ¹² Herod and Pilate became friends again from that very day; for before they had been at enmity between themselves. ¹³ So Pilate called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people, ¹⁴ and said to them. "You brought before me this man as one who incited the people to rebellion. I have examined him in your presence, and I find no fault in this man regarding the charges that you brought against him. ¹⁵ Neither does Herod; for he sent him back to us. You see that he has done nothing worthy of death. ¹⁶ I will therefore, after flogging him, release him." ¹⁷ "Now he had to release to them at the feast one prisoner." ¹⁸ Then the whole crowd shouted out, "Away with this man, and release to us Barabbas." ¹⁹ (This was a man who had been thrown in prison on account of a riot which had occurred in the city, and for murder.) ²⁰ Then Pilate spoke to them again, because he wished to release Jesus; ²¹ but they continued to shout out and say, "Crucify! Crucify him!" ²² For the third time he appealed to them. "But what crime has he committed? I have found in him nothing that deserves death. I will therefore flog him, and let him go." ²³ But they kept shouting the more insistently, demanding that he should be crucified, and their shouts won the day. ²⁴ So Pilate gave sentence what they wished should be done. ²⁵ He released the man who had been put in prison for riot and murder, the man whom they asked for; but Jesus he handed over to their will. ²⁶ And when they led him away they took hold of Simon, a Cyrenean, who was coming in from the country, and laid the cross on him to carry it behind Jesus. ²⁷ He was also followed by a great crowd of people, and of women too, who were beating their breast and lamenting him. ²⁸ But Jesus turned and said: "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; ²⁹ "but weep for yourselves and for your children. For behold, the days are coming when they shall say, 'Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that have never bore children, and the breasts that never suckled.' ³⁰ "Then they will begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall on us!' and to the hills, 'Cover us!' ³¹ "For if this is what they do in the green tree, what will they do in the dry?" ³² And there were led out with him to be executed, two criminals also. ³³ When they came to the place called "The Skull," there they crucified him and the criminals also, one upon his right hand, and one upon his left. ³⁴ Jesus kept saying, "Father forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." And they divided his garments among them, casting lots for them, ³⁵ and the people stood looking on. Even the rulers repeatedly taunted him, saying, "He saved others, let him save himself, if this fellow is indeed the Christ of God, His Chosen One!" ³⁶ Even the soldiers made sport of him by coming up and offering him sour wine, ³⁷ saying, "If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself." ³⁸ For there was an inscription over his head, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS. ³⁹ And one of the criminals who had been hung there kept reviling him, saying. "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us." ⁴⁰ But the other, answering, reproved him, saying. "Have you no fear of God even? When you are suffering the same punishment as he? ⁴¹ "We indeed justly, for we are receiving due retribution for what we have done. But he has done no wrong." ⁴² Then he added, "Jesus, remember me when you come in your kingdom." ⁴³ "In solemn truth I tell you," said Jesus, "that this day you shall be with me in Paradise." ⁴⁴ It was now about the sixth hour, and a darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour. ⁴⁵ And the sun was darkened, and the curtain of the sanctuary was torn in two in the Temple. ⁴⁶ Then with a loud cry, Jesus said, "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit!" And after uttering these words, he yielded up his spirit. ⁴⁷ When the army captain saw what had happened, he glorified God, saying, "This man was really innocent!" ⁴⁸ And all the crowds who had assembled to see this spectacle, after witnessing what had been done, were returning beating upon their breast. ⁴⁹ But all his acquaintances and the women who had been his followers continued to stand at a distance, looking on. ⁵⁰ Now there was a man named Joseph, a member of the Council, a good man and a righteous, ⁵¹ he who came from the Jewish town of Arimathea, and who was on the watch for the kingdom of God. He had not concurred in the designs and deed of the council. ⁵² This man went to Pilate, and begged for the body of Jesus. ⁵³ Then taking it down, he wrapped it in linen, and placed it in a tomb hewn in the rock, where no man has ever been laid. ⁵⁴ And it was the day of preparation and the Sabbath was near at hand. ⁵⁵ Then the women who had accompanied him out of Galilee followed after, and noted the tomb, and how his body was placed. ⁵⁶ Then they returned and prepared spices and perfumes.

¹ And when the morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, how they might put him to death. ² After they had bound him, they led him away, and handed him over to Pilate, the Roman Governor.

¹¹ Now Jesus stood before the Governor, and the Governor questioned him. "Are you the King of the Jews?" he asked. ¹² "It is as you say," answered Jesus; but while he was being accused by the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing. ¹³ Then Pilate said to him, "Do you not hear what they are testifying against you?" ¹⁴ But he made no answer, not even to one charge; insomuch that the Governor was greatly astonished.

¹ As soon as it was down, after the high priests had conferred with the elders and the whole Sanhedrin, they bound Jesus, and took him away, and handed him over to Pilate. ² Pilate questioned him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" In reply Jesus said, "It is as you say." ³ When the chief priests continued making many accusations against him, Pilate repeatedly questioned him. ⁴ "Do you make no answer?" he said, ⁵ "See, how many accusations they are making." But Jesus no longer made any answer, at which Pilate wondered.

⁶⁶ When it became the day the elders if the people met with the high priests and the Scribes and had brought before the Sanhedrin, saying.

²⁸ From the house of Caiaphas they took Jesus to the Praetorium, and it was dawn. They themselves would not enter the Praetorium, in order that they might not be ceremonially defiled, but might be able to eat the Passover. ²⁹ So Pilate came outside to them and asked, "What charge do you bring against this man?" ³⁰ In reply they said, "If he had not been a criminal, we should not have handed him over you." ³¹ "Take him yourselves," answered Pilate, "and judge him according to your law." ³² The Jews answered him, "We are not allowed to put anyone to death" (that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled in which he predicted the kind of death he was to die). ³³ So Pilate went into the Praetorium again, and summoned Jesus. "Are you the King of the Jews?" he said. ³⁴ Jesus answered, "Are you saying this of your own accord, or did others say it to you about me?" ³⁵ "I am not a Jew, am I?" replied Pilate; "It is your own nation and the high priests who have handed you over to me. What have you done?" ³⁶ Jesus answered him. "My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants have fought hard that I should not be handed the Jews; but in reality my kingdom is not of such origins." ³⁷ "You are a king, then? You!" said Pilate. "You say truly that I am a king." answered Jesus, "for this purpose I was born, and to this end came I into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Every man who is of the truth listens to my voice." ³⁸ Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" As he said this, he went outside again to the Jews and said to them.

²⁷ "Nevertheless, that we may not give offense, go to the seaside, throw in your hook; take the first fish that rises, and when you have opened its mouth, you will find a shekel in it. Take it and give it to them for us both."

²¹ "Caesar's," they answered. Then he said to them, "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's."

⁵⁹ And the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were trying to get false evidence against Jesus, in order that they might have him executed; ⁶⁰ but they found none, although many false witnesses came forward.

¹⁷ And Jesus said, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God, the things that are God's." They were amazed at him.

⁵⁵ Meanwhile the high priests and all of the Sanhedrin were trying to get evidence against Jesus, so as to have him put to death, but they found none; ⁵⁶ for though many gave false witness against him, their testimony did not agree.

⁶¹ But he remained silent, and answered nothing. Again the high priest questioned him. "Are you the Christ," he said, "the Son of the Blessed?" ⁶² "I am," Jesus answered, "and you all shall see the Son of man seated on the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven."

²⁰ So they watched him, and sent spies who pretended to be honest men, in order to seize on his speech, and to deliver him up to authority and jurisdiction of the governor. ²¹ So they put a question to him saying. "Rabbi, we know that you speak and teach what is right, and that you do not regard any man's person, but teach the way of God honestly. ²² "Is it lawful for us to pay tribute to Caesar or not?" ²³ But he perceived their knavery and answered. ²⁴ "Show me a shilling. Whose image and superscription does it bear?" "Caesar's," they replied. ²⁵ "Then give to Caesar what belongs to him," he said, "to God give what is God's."

⁶⁹ "But from henceforth the Son of man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God." ⁷⁰ Then they all said, "Are you then the Son of God."

⁵ But they repeatedly insisted, "He is stirring up the people throughout all Judea with his teaching which started from Galilee."

¹⁴ and said to them. "You brought before me this man as one who incited the people to rebellion. I have examined him in your presence, and I find no fault in this man regarding the charges that you brought against him.

³⁰ In reply they said, "If he had not been a criminal, we should not have handed him over you."

³³ So Pilate went into the Praetorium again, and summoned Jesus. "Are you the King of the Jews?" he said. ³⁴ Jesus answered, "Are you saying this of your own accord, or did others say it to you about me?" ³⁵ "I am not a Jew, am I?" replied Pilate; "It is your own nation and the high priests who have handed you over to me. What have you done?" ³⁶ Jesus answered him. "My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants have fought hard that I should not be handed the Jews; but in reality my kingdom is not of such origins." ³⁷ "You are a king, then? You!" said Pilate. "You say truly that I am a king." answered Jesus, "for this purpose I was born, and to this end came I into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Every man who is of the truth listens to my voice."

¹² After that Pilate began to seek to release him, but the Jews shouted out. "If you release this man you are no friend of the Emperor. Any man who makes himself out to be king is a rebel against the Emperor."

²⁰ Then they brought them before the praetors, saying. "These fellows are Jews, who are making a great disturbance in our city. ²¹ "They are teaching customs which it is not lawful for us as Romans to adopt or practise."

⁶ And when they had failed to find Paul and Silas, they began to drag Jason and some of the brethren before the politarchs, shouting. "These fellows who have upset the habitable earth are come hither also. ⁷ "Jason has received them, and they all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus."

⁵ "For we have found this fellow a pest, an inciter of insurrection among all the Jews of the empire, and a ringleader in the heresy of the Nazarenes.

¹³ "Nor can they prove the charges which they are now bringing against me.

¹⁶ See that you have a clear conscience, so that, although they speak of you as evil-doers, these libelers of your good Christian lives may be ashamed. ¹⁷ For it is better that you suffer for doing right, if such be God's will, than for doing wrong; ¹⁸ because Christ also once for all suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but make alive in spirit.

¹¹ Now Jesus stood before the Governor, and the Governor questioned him. "Are you the King of the Jews?" he asked.

² Pilate questioned him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" In reply Jesus said, "It is as you say."

¹⁸ Then they began to salute him. "Hail, King of the Jews," they said.

³² The Christ! The King of Israel! Let him now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe." They also who had been crucified with Jesus kept reviling him.

³² "He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Most High. "And the Lord God will give him the throne of his forefather David, ³³ "and he shall reign over the House of Jacob forever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end."

³⁸ They cried, "Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in Heaven and glory in the Highest" ³⁹ And some of the Pharisees said to them out of the crowd, "Teacher reprove your disciples!" ⁴⁰ "I tell you," he answered, "that if these should hold their peace, the very stones would cry out."

⁷⁰ Then they all said, "Are you then the Son of God."

³⁸ For there was an inscription over his head, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.

⁴⁹ "Rabbi," answered Nathanael, "you are the Son of God; you are King of Israel."

³ saying, "Hail! King of the Jews!" They also gave him blow after blow with their hands.

¹⁹ And Pilate moreover wrote an inscription and placed it above the cross. What he wrote was, "JESUS, THE NAZARENE, KING OF THE JEWS" ²⁰ This inscription was read by many of the Jews, because the place where they crucified Jesus was near the city, and the inscription was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek. ²¹ So the high priests of the Jews said to Pilate, "Do not write 'King of the Jews,' but 'He said, I am King of the Jews.'"

¹³ In the presence of God who gives life to all, and of Christ Jesus who bore witness to the good confession before Pontius Pilate,

¹⁹ And while he was seated upon the judgment-seat, his wife had sent to him, saying, "Have nothing to do with that innocent man, for I have suffered many things today, in a dream, because of him."

²³ But Pilate said, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they kept shouting the more fiercely, "Let him be crucified!" ²⁴ So when Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but that on the contrary a riot was threatening, he took water and washed his hands in the presence of the crowd, saying. "I am innocent of the blood of this man; you must answer for it."

¹⁴ "Why, what wrong has he done?" Pilate kept saying. But they shouted furiously, "Crucify him!"

¹⁴ and said to them. "You brought before me this man as one who incited the people to rebellion. I have examined him in your presence, and I find no fault in this man regarding the charges that you brought against him. ¹⁵ Neither does Herod; for he sent him back to us. You see that he has done nothing worthy of death.

²² For the third time he appealed to them. "But what crime has he committed? I have found in him nothing that deserves death. I will therefore flog him, and let him go."

³⁸ Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" As he said this, he went outside again to the Jews and said to them.

⁴ Pilate again came forth and said to the people, "See, I am going to bring his out to you, that you may clearly know that I find no crime in him," ⁵ Then as Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, "BEHOLD, THE MAN!" ⁶ So when the chief priests and the police saw him, they shouted. "Crucify him! Crucify him!" "Take him yourselves and crucify him," said Pilate, "for I find no crime in him."

²⁶ For we needed just such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens;

¹⁹ but with precious blood, like that of a lamb without spot or blemish, even the blood of Christ.

²² He committed no sin, Neither was guile found in his mouth.

¹⁸ because Christ also once for all suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but make alive in spirit.

¹² Now when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee. ¹³ He left Nazareth, and settled in Capernaum-by-the-Lake, near the borders of Zebulun and Naphtali, ¹⁴ in order that these words spoken through Isaiah the prophet, might be fulfilled: ¹⁵ Land of Zebulun, land of Naphtali; The road by the Lake; the country beyond Jordan; Galilee of the Gentiles! ¹⁶ The people who were dwelling in darkness Have seen a great light; And on those who were dwelling in the land of the shadows of death Light has dawned.

²³ Then Jesus went about through Galilee, teaching in the synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and infirmity among the people.

²⁴ So when Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but that on the contrary a riot was threatening, he took water and washed his hands in the presence of the crowd, saying. "I am innocent of the blood of this man; you must answer for it."

¹⁴ After John had been thrown into prison Jesus came into Galilee preaching the gospel of God.

¹⁴ Then Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and his fame spread throughout all the surrounding country, ¹⁵ and he began to teach in their synagogues, and was glorified by all.

⁵³ After he had gone away, the Scribes and the Pharisee began to set themselves vehemently against him, and to cross-question him upon many points,

²³ But they kept shouting the more insistently, demanding that he should be crucified, and their shouts won the day.

⁴³ Next day Jesus decided to go into Galilee; and he found Philip and said to him, "Follow me."

¹¹ This beginning of signs Jesus performed in Cana of Galilee, and showed forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him there.

⁴¹ Other said, "He is the Christ." But others were saying. "Surely the Christ is not to come out of Galilee, is he?

⁵² In answer they said to him. "You are not from Galilee, are you? Search for yourself, and see that from Galilee arises no prophet."

¹⁵ Then they shouted. "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!" "Crucify your King?" said Pilate. The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar!"

³³ When they heard this they were infuriated, and were minded to kill the apostles;

⁵⁴ As they heard these words they became furious and gnashed their teeth at him.

⁵⁷ With a loud outcry they stopped their ears, and rushed upon Stephen in a body,

³⁷ "you know the message spread throughout all Judea, beginning in Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;

¹⁰ But when the dissension became violent, the tribune, fearing that they would tear Paul in pieces, ordered the troops to march down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.

¹ Now there were some present at that very season who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.

³⁷ "After him Judas of Galilee rose up in the days of the enrollment, and drew away some of the people after him. He also perished, and all his followers were scattered.

¹ Just then Herod, the Tetrarch, heard of Jesus' fame, and said to his courtiers.

¹ Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip, tetrarch of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias, tetrarch of Abilene;

³¹ That very day there came some Pharisees to him, saying, "Get out of here and go away, for Herod wishes to kill you."

¹⁴ King Herod heard it, for the name of Jesus had become well known, People were saying, "John the Baptist is risen from the dead, and on that account these powers are working in him."

²³ Jesus answered. "Doubtless you will quote the proverb to me, 'Physician, heal thyself!' Do also here in your own country all that we hear that you have done in Capernaum."

⁷ Now Herod, the Tetrarch, heard of all that was happening; and he was perplexed because of its being said by someone that John was risen from the dead; ⁸ and by some that Elijah had appeared; and by others that one of the ancient prophets was risen again. ⁹ So Herod said, "I beheaded John, but who is this of whom I am hearing such reports," And he kept seeking to see him.

¹⁹ "Give me, too, this power, so that on whomever I lay my hands, he may receive the Holy Spirit."

⁶ "Do not give what is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before swine; lest in turn they trample them under their feet, and then turn and attack you.

¹⁴ But he made no answer, not even to one charge; insomuch that the Governor was greatly astonished.

³² "Go, tell that fox," he answered, "'Lo, today and tomorrow I am continuing to cast out demons and perform cures, and on the third day I finish my course.'

³² Now the portion of Scripture which he was reading was as follows. He was led a sheep to the slaughter; And as a lamb before its shearer is dumb, So he opened not his mouth.

²³ He was reviled, and reviled not back. When he suffered he never threatened but always committed his cause to the One who judges rightly.

² and began to accuse him. "We have found this fellow perverting our nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, and proclaiming that he is the Messiah and King."

²⁷ Then the soldiers of the Governor took Jesus into the Praetorium, and gathered all the battalion together. ²⁸ They stripped him and put on him a scarlet robe. ²⁹ And they twisted a thorny crown for him, and put it on his head, and placed a reed in his right hand. Then they knelt before him, in mockery, crying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" ³⁰ And they spit upon him, and took the reed and struck him on the head, again and again.

¹² "Elijah does indeed first come," he said, "and restores all things, But how is it written about the Son of Man, that he will endure great suffering, and be rejected?

¹⁶ The soldiers then led him away into the courtyard (Praetorium), and called together the whole battalion. ¹⁷ They clothed Jesus in purple, and plaited a crown of thorns, and placed it on his head. ¹⁸ Then they began to salute him. "Hail, King of the Jews," they said. ¹⁹ They kept striking him on the head with a rod, and spitting upon him; and on bended knee they did him homage. ²⁰ And after their sport with him, they stripped off the purple robe, and put on his own clothes, and led him out to crucify him.

⁶⁴ They would blindfold him and ask him. "Prophesy! Tell who struck you!" ⁶⁵ And they said many other insulting things against him.

⁵ Then as Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, "BEHOLD, THE MAN!"

²⁷ "In this very city they did gather together against thy holy Servant, Jesus whom thou hast anointed—Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and also the tribes of Israel— ²⁸ "to do all that thy power and thy will had predetermined should be done.

¹ Then the Pharisees and Sadducees came to him, and in order to test him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

²⁷ "In this very city they did gather together against thy holy Servant, Jesus whom thou hast anointed—Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and also the tribes of Israel—

¹³ These kings have one mind, and they give their power and authority to the beast. ¹⁴ These will make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is the Lord of lords, and King of kings. And they who are with him are called and faithful and chosen."

²¹ So when Pilate said to them, "Which of the two do you want me to release unto you?" they said, "Barabbas." ²² And Pilate asked, "What then shall I do with Jesus, who is called Christ?" What one voice they shouted, "Let him be crucified!" ²³ But Pilate said, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they kept shouting the more fiercely, "Let him be crucified!"

⁴ Pilate again came forth and said to the people, "See, I am going to bring his out to you, that you may clearly know that I find no crime in him,"

⁴ "I have sinned," he said, "in betraying innocent blood!" "What is that to us?" they answered; "you must see to that."

⁵⁴ When the Roman captain and the soldiers who were with him, guarding Jesus, saw the earthquake and all that happened, they were greatly terrified and said, "Certainly this man must have been God's Son."

¹ Then the whole company rose up and brought him to Pilate, ² and began to accuse him. "We have found this fellow perverting our nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, and proclaiming that he is the Messiah and King."

⁴ And Pilate said to the chief priest and the crowd, "I find no harm in this man." ⁵ But they repeatedly insisted, "He is stirring up the people throughout all Judea with his teaching which started from Galilee."

²⁸ "Though they found no cause of death in him, yet they asked Pilate to put him to death.

²⁶ Then he released Barabbas to them, but Jesus he scourged, and delivered to be crucified.

¹⁵ So Pilate, who wished to make himself strong with the crowd, released Barabbas to them, and gave Jesus over for crucifixion, after he had scourged him.

¹ After that Pilate took Jesus and had him scourged; ² and the soldiers plaited a crown of thorns, placed it on his head, and threw a purple cloak about him, and kept marching up to him, ³ saying, "Hail! King of the Jews!" They also gave him blow after blow with their hands. ⁴ Pilate again came forth and said to the people, "See, I am going to bring his out to you, that you may clearly know that I find no crime in him,"

⁴⁰ They gave in to him; and called the apostles in, and after flogging them, released them, with instructions not to speak about the name of Jesus. ⁴¹ So they left Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been deemed worthy to suffer disgrace for the sake of the Name;

³⁷ But Paul said: "They have flogged us publicly, uncondemned, men that are Roman citizens; and have thrown us into prison. Are they now going to get rid of us secretly? No, indeed! Let them come here, themselves and take us out."

¹⁵ Now it was the Governor's custom, during the Passover, to release to the people any one prisoner whom they selected.

⁶ Now at the time of the feast it was customary to release to them a prisoner, whatever one they asked for.

³⁹ "I find no crime in this man. Now it is a custom of yours that I release one prisoner to you at the time of the Passover feast. Do you wish me to release to you the King of the Jews?"

¹⁵ Now it was the Governor's custom, during the Passover, to release to the people any one prisoner whom they selected. ¹⁶ At that time they had a notorious prisoner named Barabbas. ¹⁷ So when they had assembled, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to release to you, Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?" ¹⁸ He knew well that it was because of enmity that they had brought Jesus before him. ¹⁹ And while he was seated upon the judgment-seat, his wife had sent to him, saying, "Have nothing to do with that innocent man, for I have suffered many things today, in a dream, because of him." ²⁰ But the chief priests and the elders urged the crowds to ask for Barabbas, and to destroy Jesus. ²¹ So when Pilate said to them, "Which of the two do you want me to release unto you?" they said, "Barabbas." ²² And Pilate asked, "What then shall I do with Jesus, who is called Christ?" What one voice they shouted, "Let him be crucified!" ²³ But Pilate said, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they kept shouting the more fiercely, "Let him be crucified!" ²⁴ So when Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but that on the contrary a riot was threatening, he took water and washed his hands in the presence of the crowd, saying. "I am innocent of the blood of this man; you must answer for it." ²⁵ All the people answered, "His blood be upon us and upon our children." ²⁶ Then he released Barabbas to them, but Jesus he scourged, and delivered to be crucified.

⁶ Now at the time of the feast it was customary to release to them a prisoner, whatever one they asked for. ⁷ A man named Barabbas was there in prison, with some rioters who had committed murder during an uprising. ⁸ So when the crowd went up and began asking Pilate to follow his usual custom, ⁹ he asked them, "Do you wish me to release the King of the Jews?" ¹⁰ For he recognized that it was through spite that the high priests had handed him over. ¹¹ But the chief priests incited the crowds to have Barabbas released to them, instead. ¹² So Pilate spoke to them once more, "What them shall I do to him you call 'King of the Jews'?" ¹³ Then they shouted again, "Crucify him!" ¹⁴ "Why, what wrong has he done?" Pilate kept saying. But they shouted furiously, "Crucify him!" ¹⁵ So Pilate, who wished to make himself strong with the crowd, released Barabbas to them, and gave Jesus over for crucifixion, after he had scourged him.

³⁹ "I find no crime in this man. Now it is a custom of yours that I release one prisoner to you at the time of the Passover feast. Do you wish me to release to you the King of the Jews?" ⁴⁰ Then they all shouted again. "No, not him! Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber.

¹⁵ Then they shouted. "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!" "Crucify your King?" said Pilate. The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar!" ¹⁶ So then he gave him over to them to be crucified.

¹⁴ "but you disowned the holy and righteous One, and asked as a favor the release of a murderer.

³⁶ for the whole mass of the people were following him, shouting, "Away with him!"

²² Until they heard this last statement, the people were listening to Paul, but now they roared out. "Away with such a fellow from the earth! He is not fit to live!"

⁸ So, prompted by her mother, the girl said, "Give me at once, upon a dish, the head of John the Baptist." ⁹ The king was displeased because of this, but because of his oaths and his guests he ordered it to be given her.

²² And Pilate asked, "What then shall I do with Jesus, who is called Christ?" What one voice they shouted, "Let him be crucified!" ²³ But Pilate said, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they kept shouting the more fiercely, "Let him be crucified!" ²⁴ So when Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but that on the contrary a riot was threatening, he took water and washed his hands in the presence of the crowd, saying. "I am innocent of the blood of this man; you must answer for it." ²⁵ All the people answered, "His blood be upon us and upon our children."

¹³ Then they shouted again, "Crucify him!"

¹⁶ I will therefore, after flogging him, release him."

²⁰ Then Pilate spoke to them again, because he wished to release Jesus;

¹ After that Pilate took Jesus and had him scourged;

⁶ Now at the time of the feast it was customary to release to them a prisoner, whatever one they asked for. ⁷ A man named Barabbas was there in prison, with some rioters who had committed murder during an uprising.

⁴⁰ Then they all shouted again. "No, not him! Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber.

³² And as they went out they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, whom they compelled to go with them to carry his cross. ³³ And when they came to a place called Golgotha (the word means "Place of a Skull"), ³⁴ they gave Jesus wine to drink, mingled with gall. But after tasting it he refused to drink it. ³⁵ After crucifying him, they parted his garments among them by casting lots. ³⁶ Then they sat and watched him there. ³⁷ They also placed above his head his accusation written, This is Jesus The King of the Jews ³⁸ At that time two robbers, also, were crucified with him; one on his right hand, the other on his left. ³⁹ Those who passed by reviled him, wagging their heads saying. ⁴⁰ "You who were going to destroy the Temple and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!" ⁴¹ In like manner the chief priests, too, with the Scribes and elders, kept taunting him. ⁴² "He saved other," they said, "himself he cannot save. He, the King of Israel! Let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe on him! ⁴³ He put his trust in God. let Him deliver him now, if He cares for him. For he said, 'I am the Son of God!'" ⁴⁴ In the same way the robbers also who were being crucified with him, dept reviling him.

²¹ Simon a Cyrenian, a passer-by, who was coming from the country (the father of Alexander and Rufus), they commandeered to carry the cross of Jesus. ²² So they led him to the place called Golgotha—a name which means "the place of a skull." ²³ There they attempted to give him wine mingled with myrrh; but he refused it. ²⁴ Then they crucified him, and divided his garments among them, casting lots upon them to see what each should take. ²⁵ It was nine o'clock in the morning when they crucified him. ²⁶ Over his head there was written the words of the charge against him. "The King of the Jews" ²⁷ Now with him they crucified two robbers, one on his right hand and one on his left. ²⁸ OMITTED TEXT. ²⁹ And the passers-by kept jeering at him, wagging their heads and saying. "Ah! you who were to 'destroy the sanctuary and rebuild it in three days,' save yourself! ³⁰ Come down from the cross! ³¹ In the same way the high priests also, as well as the Scribes, kept on mocking him to themselves. "He saved others," they said, "but himself he cannot save. ³² The Christ! The King of Israel! Let him now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe." They also who had been crucified with Jesus kept reviling him.

²³ And he said to all. "If any man wills to follow me, Let him renounce self and take up his cross daily and follow me.

²⁷ "Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me, cannot be a disciple of mine.

¹⁶ So then he gave him over to them to be crucified. ¹⁷ So they took Jesus, who went forth bearing his own cross, to a place called The Place of a Skull—in the Hebrew tongue, Golgotha.

¹⁰ in Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, and the district of Lybia around Cretans and Arabians,

⁶ These men they presented to the apostles who, when they had prayed, laid their hands upon them.

⁹ But certain men from the so-called "Synagogue of the Freedmen" and certain Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, Cilicians, and men from Roman Asia, started to dispute with Stephen,

¹ Now there were in the church in Antioch prophets and teachers; Barnabas and Symeon, surnamed "the Black," Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen, the foster-brother of Herod the Tetrarch, and Saul.

⁵⁵ And there were present several women who were looking on from a distance; they had followed Jesus from a Galilee, ministering to him.

⁴⁰ There were some women also watching from a distance. Among them were both Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome,

² The twelve were with him, and certain women whom he had delivered from evil spirits and various diseases. Mary of Magdala, out of whom seven demons have been driven,

⁵² The people were weeping and bewailing her, but he said: "Stop your wailing; for she is not dead, but asleep."

⁵⁵ Then the women who had accompanied him out of Galilee followed after, and noted the tomb, and how his body was placed.

¹⁹ Alas for thee women who are with child, and for the nursing mothers in those days!

¹⁷ And alas for the pregnant women, and for those that are nursing their infants in those days! ¹⁸ Pray that it may not come in the winter. ¹⁹ For those will be days of suffering the like of which has never been from the beginning of God's creation until now, and never shall be.

²³ "Woe to women with child and to those who are nursing infants in those days! For sore anguish will come upon the land, and wrath upon all his people. ²⁴ "They shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led captive among the Gentiles, and Jerusalem shall be trampled under foot by the Gentiles, until the appointed times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

¹⁶ And they began to say to the mountains and to the rocks. "Fall upon us and hide us From the face of him who is seated upon the throne, And from the wrath of the Lamb;

⁶ In those days men will seek death, and will not find it; they will long to die, but death ever flees from them.

¹² His winnowing-fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse the threshing-floor. He will store his wheat in the granary, but will burn up the chaff in unquenchable fire."

⁶ "If any one does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers. Such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire and burned.

⁸ but if it produces thorns and thistles, it is considered worthless, and is in danger of being cursed, and its end will be to be burned.

¹⁷ It is time for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it first begin with us, what shall be the end of those who are disobedient to the gospel? ¹⁸ If the righteous man is scarcely saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

¹² These are they who are stains upon your love-feasts; when they feast sumptuously without scruple, looking after none but themselves. They are clouds without water, driven along by the winds; trees of autumn, fruitless, doubly dead, torn up by the roots,

³⁸ At that time two robbers, also, were crucified with him; one on his right hand, the other on his left.

²⁷ Now with him they crucified two robbers, one on his right hand and one on his left.

³⁷ "For I say to you that this word of Scripture must find it's fulfilment in me. "And he was numbered among the transgressors, For that which concerns me has its accomplishment."

¹⁸ There they crucified him; and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them.

² looking unto Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured a cross, despising shame, and has now taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

¹⁹ "and hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and scourged and crucified; and on the third day he will rise from the grave."

² "You know that the Passover is coming in two days, and the Son of man will be delivered up to be crucified."

³³ And when they came to a place called Golgotha (the word means "Place of a Skull"), ³⁴ they gave Jesus wine to drink, mingled with gall. But after tasting it he refused to drink it.

³³ "See," said he, "we are going up to Jerusalem and the Son of man will be betrayed to the high priests and the Scribes. They will condemn him to death, and will hand him over to the Gentiles, ³⁴ who will mock him, spit upon him, flog him, and put him to death; and after three days he will rise again."

²² So they led him to the place called Golgotha—a name which means "the place of a skull." ²³ There they attempted to give him wine mingled with myrrh; but he refused it.

⁷ that the Son of man had to be betrayed into the hands of sinful men, and to be crucified, and to rise on the third day?"

¹⁴ And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up,

³³ (In saying this he was signifying by what kind of death he was to die.) ³⁴ Then the people answered. "We have heard out of the Law that the Christ abides forever. What do you mean by 'The Son of man must be lifted up'? Who is this Son of man?"

³² The Jews answered him, "We are not allowed to put anyone to death" (that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled in which he predicted the kind of death he was to die).

¹⁷ So they took Jesus, who went forth bearing his own cross, to a place called The Place of a Skull—in the Hebrew tongue, Golgotha. ¹⁸ There they crucified him; and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them.

²³ him, delivered up by the settled purpose and fore-knowledge of God, you crucified and killed at the hands of lawless men;

³⁰ "We must obey God rather than man. The God of our fathers has raised up Jesus, whom you slew by hanging him on a tree.

²⁹ "And when they had fulfilled everything which had been written concerning him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a tomb.

¹³ Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse for us (for it is written, Cursed is every one who is hanged upon a tree),

¹² and so Jesus suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people by his own blood. ¹³ Let us then go forth to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.

²⁴ He bore our sins in his own body upon the tree, in order that we might become dead to sins, and be alive unto righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

⁴⁴ "But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you.

²⁵ At that time Jesus answered and said: "I praise thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hidden these things from the wise and wary, and hast revealed them to the children.

³⁵ After crucifying him, they parted his garments among them by casting lots. ³⁶ Then they sat and watched him there.

²⁴ Then they crucified him, and divided his garments among them, casting lots upon them to see what each should take.

²⁷ "But to you who are listening to me I say, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, ²⁸ Bless those who curse you, pray for those who calumniate you.

⁴⁷ "The slave who knew his Lord's will, and made not ready, nor did according to his will, will be beaten with many lashes, ⁴⁸ "but he who did not know, but did things worthy of a beating, will receive few lashes. To whom much has been given, from him much will be required, and to whom much is entrusted, of him they will ask the more.

⁴⁷ When the army captain saw what had happened, he glorified God, saying, "This man was really innocent!" ⁴⁸ And all the crowds who had assembled to see this spectacle, after witnessing what had been done, were returning beating upon their breast.

²² "If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³ "He who hates me hates my Father also. ²⁴ "If I had not done among them such works as none ever did, they would have had no sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

¹¹ "You would have no power over me," answered Jesus, "unless it had been given you from above. For this reason he who has betrayed me to you has the greater sin."

²³ After the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts, to each soldier a part, and the tunic. Now the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom; ²⁴ so the soldiers said one to another. "Let us not tear it. Let us draw lots, to see whose it shall be"—that the Scripture might be fulfilled. They divided my garments among them, For my raiment did they cast lots. This was what the soldiers did.

¹⁷ "And now, brothers, I know that you did it in ignorance, as did also your rulers.

⁶⁰ Then he knelt down and cried aloud, "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge."

¹⁴ Bless your persecutors, bless, and curse not.

⁸ None of the rulers of the present age understands it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory.

¹² Homeless men, we toil, working with our own hands.

¹³ although I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a doer of outrage. But I obtained mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief.

²⁰ For what credit is it if, when you are struck for a fault, you take it patiently? But if when you are doing well and suffer for it, you always take it patiently, this is acceptable with God. ²¹ For this is your calling; because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you should follow in his footsteps; ²² He committed no sin, Neither was guile found in his mouth. ²³ He was reviled, and reviled not back. When he suffered he never threatened but always committed his cause to the One who judges rightly.

⁹ not paying back evil for evil or abuse for abuse, but on the contrary giving a blessing. Because for this you have been called—to inherit a blessing.

¹⁷ while a voice from heaven said, "This is my son, the beloved, In whom I delight."

¹⁸ Behold my servant whom I have chosen, My beloved, in whom my soul delights; I will breathe my spirit upon him, and he shall announce justice to the Gentiles.

³⁸ At that time two robbers, also, were crucified with him; one on his right hand, the other on his left. ³⁹ Those who passed by reviled him, wagging their heads saying. ⁴⁰ "You who were going to destroy the Temple and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!" ⁴¹ In like manner the chief priests, too, with the Scribes and elders, kept taunting him. ⁴² "He saved other," they said, "himself he cannot save. He, the King of Israel! Let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe on him! ⁴³ He put his trust in God. let Him deliver him now, if He cares for him. For he said, 'I am the Son of God!'"

¹⁴ Now the Pharisees who loved money listened to all this and they jeered at him.

⁶⁷ "Are you the Christ? Tell us!" "If I tell you," he answered, "you will not believe; ⁶⁸ "And if I ask you, you will not answer.

⁴ Come to him then, that living Stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, and precious.

³⁴ they gave Jesus wine to drink, mingled with gall. But after tasting it he refused to drink it.

⁴⁸ At once, one of them ran, and took a sponge, and filling it with vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.

³⁶ Then a man ran and filled a sponge full of sour wine, and put it on a stick, and offered it to him to drink, saying, "Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down!"

¹¹ Then Herod and his soldiers set him at naught, and mocked him, and throwing about him a gorgeous robe, sent him back to Pilate.

²⁸ After that, when Jesus knew that everything was now accomplished, he said in fulfilment of the words of Scripture, "I am thirsty." ²⁹ There was a jar full of vinegar standing there; and they filled a sponge with vinegar, and put it upon a stalk of hyssop, and put it to his lips. ³⁰ Then after he had taken the vinegar, Jesus said, "IT IS FINISHED!" And bowing his head, he yielded up his spirit.

³⁷ They also placed above his head his accusation written, This is Jesus The King of the Jews

²⁶ Over his head there was written the words of the charge against him. "The King of the Jews"

³ Then Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" And he answered him saying, "Certainly I am."

¹⁹ And Pilate moreover wrote an inscription and placed it above the cross. What he wrote was, "JESUS, THE NAZARENE, KING OF THE JEWS" ²⁰ This inscription was read by many of the Jews, because the place where they crucified Jesus was near the city, and the inscription was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek. ²¹ So the high priests of the Jews said to Pilate, "Do not write 'King of the Jews,' but 'He said, I am King of the Jews.'" ²² Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written!"

⁴⁴ In the same way the robbers also who were being crucified with him, dept reviling him.

³⁴ "I tell you that in one night there shall be two men in one bed; one shall be taken and the other left. ³⁵ "There shall be two women grinding together; the one shall be taken and the other left."

³⁵ and the people stood looking on. Even the rulers repeatedly taunted him, saying, "He saved others, let him save himself, if this fellow is indeed the Christ of God, His Chosen One!"

³⁷ saying, "If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself."

⁵ "I will warn you whom you ought to fear. Fear him who, after he was after he has killed, has power to throw you into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear him.

¹¹ and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness, but rather expose them.

⁴ Who shall not fear, O Lord, And glorify thy name? For thou only art holy. For all the nations shall come and worship before thee; For thy righteous acts have been made evident."

¹¹ and they blasphemed the God of heaven, because of their pains and their sores; yet of their deeds they did not repent.

¹⁸ "'I will rise and go to my father, and say to him. "Father, I have sinned against Heaven and in your sight, ¹⁹ "'"I am no more worthy to be called your son; only make me like one of your hired men."'

⁷ So then ever be subject to God, Ever resist the devil and he will flee from you.

⁸ If we say, "We have no sin," we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. ⁹ But if we confess our sins, faithful is he and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all wrong-doing.

⁸ "And I tell you that whoever confesses me before men, the Son of man will confess him before the angels of God;

¹³ "But the tax-gatherer, standing far back, would not lift up so much as his eyes to heaven, but kept beating his breast and saying, "'O God be merciful to me, the sinner!'

²⁶ "Behooved it not the Christ to suffer thus, and then to enter into his glory?"

²⁸ Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!"

³¹ "Believe on the Lord Jesus," they answered, "and you will be saved, you and all your household."

²¹ testifying both to Jews and Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹ Confess with your mouth "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God actually raised him from the dead, and you will be saved. ¹⁰ For with the heart man believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. ¹¹ The Scriptures say, Whoever believes in Him will not be put to shame. ¹² For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile, because the same Lord Jesus is all over, and is rich unto all who call upon Him; ¹³ for Whoever will call upon the name of the Lord will be saved. ¹⁴ How then shall thy call upon Him in whom they do not believe? And how are they to believe in One of whom they have never heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?

¹⁰ or thieves, or avaricious men, or drunkards, or foul-mouthed men, or extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ Such were some of you, but you have washed away your stains, you have been consecrated, you have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.

¹¹ They were searching to know to what time, or to what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them kept pointing, when he ever testified beforehand concerning the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow.

⁶ For, as Scripture says. Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner-stone, elect, precious, And he who believes on Him shall never be put to shame. ⁷ For you, then, that believe, is the preciousness; but for those who do not believe, A stone which the builders rejected, The same has become the head stone of the corner,

¹ Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God; and every one who loves the Father, loves him also who is the Father's Child.

¹¹ And the testimony is this, "God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son." ¹² He who has the Son has the life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life. ¹³ I have written these words to you so that you may know that you have eternal life, you who believe in the name of the Son of God.

¹⁵ "Have I not the right to do what I choose with my own property? Or is your eye evil because I am generous?' ¹⁶ "So the last shall be first, and the first, last."

⁴ "Which one of you men, if he has a hundred sheep, and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety and nine in the desert and go after the lost one until he finds it? ⁵ "And after he has found it, he lays it on his shoulder, rejoicing.

²⁰ "So he arose and went to his father; but while he was yet a great way off, his father saw him and was moved with compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. ²¹ "The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight and am no more worthy to be called your son.' ²² "'Fetch the best robe, quick,' said the father to his slaves, 'and put it on him, and give him a ring on his finger, and shoes on his feet. ²³ "'Bring that fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry, ²⁴ "'for this son of mine was dead and is alive again—he was lost and is found.'

¹⁰ "For the Son of man is come to seek and to save the lost."

³ I will return and will take you to be with me, so that where I am you may be also.

²⁴ "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.

²⁰ Now law was brought in so that transgression might abound; but where sin abounded, grace super-abounded; ²¹ in order that as sin has ruled as king in death, so also grace might rule as king in righteousness which issues in eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord,—ours!

⁸ 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.

³ And I know such a man (whether in the body or apart from the body I know not, God knows), ⁴ who was caught up into Paradise, and heard unutterable words which no human being is permitted to utter.

²³ but am in a quandary between the two. I am perplexed. I have a strong desire to break camp and to be with Christ, which is far better;

¹⁵ Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners"! And there is no greater sinner than I! ¹⁶ Yet for this very cause I obtained mercy, so that in me, the chief of sinners, Jesus Christ might display all his boundless patience as an illustration for those who should later believe in him, and so gain life eternal.

²⁵ Hence also he is able to continue saving to the uttermost those who are ever drawing near to God through him, seeing that he is ever living to intercede for them.

⁷ He who has an ear, let him listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To him that overcomes, to him will I give to eat from the tree of life which is in the garden of God.

⁴⁵ Now from noon darkness fell upon the whole land, until three o'clock in the afternoon.

⁵² the earth quaked; the rocks split; the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised.

³³ At noon a darkness came over the whole country, lasting until three in the afternoon. ³⁴ At three o'clock Jesus cried in a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which means, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"

³⁹ Then the army captain, who was standing facing Jesus when he thus died, said, "in truth this man was a Son of God."

¹⁴ And it was the day of Preparation for the Passover, about six o'clock in the morning. Then he said to the Jews, "Behold your King!"

²⁰ Into darkness shall the sun be turned, And into blood the moon, Ere the day of the Lord come, that great and terrible day.

⁵¹ And lo, the veil of the sanctuary was torn in two, from the top to the bottom;

³⁸ And the curtain of the Sanctuary was torn in two from top to bottom.

¹⁴ For he is our Peace, who has made the two of us Jew and Gentile one, and has broken down the party-wall of partition between us. ¹⁵ In his own body he abolished the cause of our enmity, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, in order to make the two into one new man in himself, so making peace. ¹⁶ Thus he reconciled us both in one body to God by his cross, on which he slew our enmity. ¹⁷ So he came preaching "Peace" to you Gentiles who were afar off, and "Peace" to us Jews who were near; ¹⁸ because it is through him that we both have access in one spirit to the Father.

¹⁹ This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, secure and strong, and passing into the sanctuary which is beyond the veil;

³ and behind the second veil was the tent called the Holy of Holies. ⁴ In it was the golden altar of incense, and also the Ark of the Covenant covered all over with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant; ⁵ while above it, overshadowing the mercy-seat, were the cherubim of glory. But I must not speak about these in detail. ⁶ Such then were the arrangements. Into the outer tent the priests enter continually in the performance of their duties; ⁷ but into the inner tent the high priest only goes alone, once a year, and that not without blood, which he offers for himself and for the ignorances of the people. ⁸ The Holy Spirit teaching by this that the way into the Holiest has not yet been disclosed while the first tent is still standing.

¹⁹ Since, then, we have a cheerful confidence, brothers, to enter into the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, ²⁰ by the way which he dedicated for us, that new and living way, through the veil (that is, his flesh); ²¹ and since we have a great High Priest over the house of God; ²² let us draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled from and evil conscience, and our bodies bathed in pure water.

⁴⁶ But at three o'clock Jesus cried out in loud voice, "Eli, Eli, Lama Sabachthani?" (That is to say, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?") ⁴⁷ When they heard this, some of the bystanders said "He is calling for Elijah!" ⁴⁸ At once, one of them ran, and took a sponge, and filling it with vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave him to drink. ⁴⁹ But the rest said: "Let be! Let us see whether Elijah is coming to save him!" ⁵⁰ And Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up his spirit. ⁵¹ And lo, the veil of the sanctuary was torn in two, from the top to the bottom; ⁵² the earth quaked; the rocks split; the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised. ⁵³ And coming forth out of the tombs, after his resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many. ⁵⁴ When the Roman captain and the soldiers who were with him, guarding Jesus, saw the earthquake and all that happened, they were greatly terrified and said, "Certainly this man must have been God's Son." ⁵⁵ And there were present several women who were looking on from a distance; they had followed Jesus from a Galilee, ministering to him. ⁵⁶ among them being Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's sons.

³⁴ At three o'clock Jesus cried in a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which means, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" ³⁵ When they heard this, some of the bystanders said, "Listen, he is calling for Elijah." ³⁶ Then a man ran and filled a sponge full of sour wine, and put it on a stick, and offered it to him to drink, saying, "Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down!" ³⁷ But Jesus uttered a loud cry and expired. ³⁸ And the curtain of the Sanctuary was torn in two from top to bottom. ³⁹ Then the army captain, who was standing facing Jesus when he thus died, said, "in truth this man was a Son of God." ⁴⁰ There were some women also watching from a distance. Among them were both Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome, ⁴¹ women who used to follow him when he was in Galilee, and minister to him; and many other women who had come up to Jerusalem with him.

³⁰ Then after he had taken the vinegar, Jesus said, "IT IS FINISHED!" And bowing his head, he yielded up his spirit.

⁵⁹ So they stoned Stephen while he prayed, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."

⁸ But all the crowd were awestruck, and glorified God, who had given such power to men.

⁴¹ "We indeed justly, for we are receiving due retribution for what we have done. But he has done no wrong."

⁷ The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by that law he ought to die, because he made himself out to be God's Son,"

³⁷ When they heard these words they were stung to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles. "Men and brothers, what shall we do?"

⁶¹ And Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting opposite the tomb.

⁴⁷ and Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses were watching to see where he was laid.

²⁷ He was also followed by a great crowd of people, and of women too, who were beating their breast and lamenting him.

²¹ So the high priests of the Jews said to Pilate, "Do not write 'King of the Jews,' but 'He said, I am King of the Jews.'" ²² Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written!" ²³ After the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts, to each soldier a part, and the tunic. Now the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom; ²⁴ so the soldiers said one to another. "Let us not tear it. Let us draw lots, to see whose it shall be"—that the Scripture might be fulfilled. They divided my garments among them, For my raiment did they cast lots. This was what the soldiers did. ²⁵ Now there stood near the cross of Jesus, his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. ²⁶ When Jesus saw his mother, and standing near her the disciple whom he loved, he said to his mother, "Woman behold your son." ²⁷ Then he said to the disciple, "Behold your mother." And from that hour the disciple took her to his home.

⁵⁷ When it was eventide, there came a rich man of Arimathea, named Josephus, who was himself a disciple of Jesus. ⁵⁸ This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. ⁵⁹ Pilate then commanded that it be given over to him. ⁶⁰ So Joseph took the body, and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut in the rock; and after rolling a great stone against the opening of the tomb, he went away. ⁶¹ And Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting opposite the tomb.

⁴² Toward sunset, as it was the preparation (that is the day preceding the Sabbath), ⁴³ there came Joseph of Arimathea, a Councilor, honorable in rank, who was himself also looking for the kingdom of God. He boldly went in to Pilate to ask for the body of Jesus. ⁴⁴ But Pilate wondered whether he were already dead. So he summoned the army captain, and inquired if he had been any time dead; ⁴⁵ and when he learned the fact from the army captain he gave the body to Joseph. ⁴⁶ So Joseph bought him a sheet, and took Jesus down, wound him in the sheet, and laid him in a tomb which had been hewn out of a rock, and then rolled a stone against the opening of the tomb; ⁴⁷ and Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses were watching to see where he was laid.

²⁵ Now there was in Jerusalem a man whose name was Simeon. He was righteous and devout, and was waiting for the consolation of Israel. The Holy Spirit was upon him.

³⁸ After these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but in secret because of fear of the Jews, asked Pilate for permission to take the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him leave. So he came and took the body. ³⁹ Nicodemus also (the one who visited Jesus by night, at first) came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, weighing nearly a hundred pounds. ⁴⁰ So they took the body of Jesus and wound it in linen with the spices, according to the Jewish mode of burial. ⁴¹ There was a garden near the place where Jesus had been crucified, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had ever been laid. ⁴² Here, because of its being Preparation Day, and as the tomb was near by, they placed Jesus.

² He was a devout man and God-fearing, and so were all his household. He gave many alms to the people, and constantly prayed to God.

²² "Cornelius," they answered, "a captain, a devout man, and God-fearing, of whom the whole, Jewish nation speaks well, was instructed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house, and to listen to your message."

²⁴ for he was a good man, and full of faith and the Holy Spirit. And a great multitude was added to the Lord.

⁴³ there came Joseph of Arimathea, a Councilor, honorable in rank, who was himself also looking for the kingdom of God. He boldly went in to Pilate to ask for the body of Jesus.

³⁸ She came up at that very hour, and gave thanks to God, and spoke of the child to all who were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem.

⁴² Then he added, "Jesus, remember me when you come in your kingdom."

⁵⁹ Pilate then commanded that it be given over to him. ⁶⁰ So Joseph took the body, and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut in the rock; and after rolling a great stone against the opening of the tomb, he went away.

⁴⁶ So Joseph bought him a sheet, and took Jesus down, wound him in the sheet, and laid him in a tomb which had been hewn out of a rock, and then rolled a stone against the opening of the tomb;

⁶² The day after—that is, the day following the Preparation—the chief priests and Pharisees went in a body to Pilate and said:

⁴² Toward sunset, as it was the preparation (that is the day preceding the Sabbath),

³¹ It was Preparation Day, so in order to prevent the bodies' hanging on the cross during the Sabbath (for the Sabbath was a great day) the Jews begged Pilate to have the legs broken, and the bodies taken away.

⁴² Here, because of its being Preparation Day, and as the tomb was near by, they placed Jesus.

⁴⁹ But all his acquaintances and the women who had been his followers continued to stand at a distance, looking on.

¹ When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James, and Salome brought spices in order to go and anoint him.

¹ On the Sabbath Day they rested in obedience to the commandment, but in the deep dawn of the first day of the week they took the spices which they had prepared, and came to the tomb.