Matthew 27 Cross References - Moffatt

¹ When morning came, all the high priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, so as to have him put to death. ² After binding him, they led him off and handed him over to Pontius Pilate the governor. ³ Then Judas his betrayer saw he was condemned, and repented; he brought back the thirty silver pieces to the high priests and elders, ⁴ saying, "I did wrong in betraying innocent blood." "What does that matter to us?" they said, "it is your affair, not ours!" ⁵ Then he flung down the silver pieces in the temple and went off and hung himself. ⁶ The high priests took the money and said, "It would be wrong to put this into the treasury, for it is the price of blood." ⁷ So after consulting they bought with it the Potter's Field, to serve as a burying-place for strangers. ⁸ That is why the field is called to this day "The Field of Blood." ⁹ Then the word spoken by the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled: and I took the thirty silver pieces, the price of him who had been priced, whom they had priced and expelled from the sons of Israel; ¹⁰ and I gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord had bidden me. ¹¹ Now Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" Jesus replied, "Certainly." ¹² But while he was being accused by the high priests and elders, he made no reply. ¹³ Then Pilate said to him, "Do you not hear all their evidence against you?" ¹⁴ But, to Pilate's great astonishment, he would not answer him a single word. ¹⁵ At festival time the governor was in the habit of releasing any one prisoner whom the crowd chose. ¹⁶ At that time they had a notorious prisoner called Jesus Bar-Abbas; ¹⁷ so, when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, "Who do you want released? Jesus Bar-Abbas or Jesus the so-called 'Christ'?" ¹⁸ (He knew quite well that Jesus had been delivered up out of envy. ¹⁹ Besides, when he was seated on the tribunal, his wife had sent to tell him, "Do nothing with that innocent man, for I have suffered greatly to-day in a dream about him.") ²⁰ But the high priests and elders persuaded the crowds to ask Bar-Abbas and to have Jesus killed. ²¹ The governor said to them, "Which of the two do you want me to release for you?" "Bar-Abbas," they said. ²² Pilate said, "Then what am I to do with Jesus the so-called 'Christ'?" They all said, "Have him crucified!" ²³ "Why," said the governor, "what has he done wrong?" But they shouted on more fiercely than ever, "Have him crucified!" ²⁴ Now when Pilate saw that instead of him doing any good a riot was rising, he took some water and washed his hands in presence of the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of this good man's blood. It is your affair!" ²⁵ To this all the people replied, "His blood be on us and on our children!" ²⁶ Then he released Bar-Abbas for them; Jesus he scourged and handed over to be crucified. ²⁷ Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the praetorium and got all the regiment round him; ²⁸ they stripped him and threw a scarlet mantle round him, ²⁹ plaited a crown of thorns and set it on his head, put a stick in his hand, and knelt before him in mockery, crying, "Hail, king of the Jews!" ³⁰ They spat on him, they took the stick and struck him on the head, ³¹ and after making fun of him they stripped him of the mantle, put on his own clothes, and took him off to be crucified. ³² As they went out they met a Cyrenian called Simon, whom they forced to carry his cross. ³³ When they came to a place called Golgotha (meaning the place of a skull), ³⁴ they gave him a drink of wine mixed with bitters; but when he tasted it he would not drink it. ³⁵ Then they crucified him, distributed his clothes among them by drawing lots, ³⁶ and sat down there to keep watch over him. ³⁷ They also put over his head his charge in writing, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS. ³⁸ Two robbers were also crucified with him at that time, one on the right hand and one on the left. ³⁹ Those who passed by scoffed at him, nodding at him in derision ⁴⁰ and calling, "You were to destroy the temple and build it in three days! Save yourself, if you are God's Son! Come down from the cross!" ⁴¹ So, too, the high priests made fun of him with the scribes and the elders of the people. ⁴² "He saved others," they said, "but he cannot save himself! He the 'king of Israel'! Let him come down now from the cross; then we will believe in him! ⁴³ His trust is in God? Let God deliver him now if he cares for him! He said he was the Son of God!" ⁴⁴ The robbers who were crucified with him also denounced him in the same way. ⁴⁵ Now from twelve o'clock to three o'clock darkness covered all the land, ⁴⁶ and about three o'clock Jesus gave a loud cry, "Eli, eli, lema sabachthani" (that is, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?) ⁴⁷ On hearing this some of the bystanders said, "He is calling for Elijah." ⁴⁸ One of them ran off at once and took a sponge, which he soaked in vinegar and put on the end of a stick to give him a drink. ⁴⁹ But the others said, "Stop, let us see if Elijah does come to save him!" [Seizing a lance, another pricked his side, and out came water and blood.] ⁵⁰ Jesus again uttered a loud scream and gave up his spirit. ⁵¹ And the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom, the earth shook, the rocks were split, ⁵² the tombs were opened, and a number of bodies of the saints who slept the sleep of death rose up — ⁵³ they left the tombs after his resurrection and entered the holy city and appeared to a number of people. ⁵⁴ Now when the army-captain and his men who were watching Jesus saw the earthquake and all that happened, they were dreadfully afraid; they said, "This man was certainly a son of God!" ⁵⁵ There were also a number of women there looking on from a distance, women who had followed Jesus from Galilee and waited on him, ⁵⁶ including Mary of Magdala, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedaeus. ⁵⁷ Now when evening came, a rich man from Arimathaea, called Joseph, who had become a disciple of Jesus, ⁵⁸ went to Pilate and asked him for the body of Jesus. Pilate then ordered the body to be handed over to him. ⁵⁹ So Joseph took the body, wrapped it in clean linen, ⁶⁰ and put it in his new tomb, which he had cut in the rock; then, after rolling a large boulder to the opening of the tomb, he went away. ⁶¹ Mary of Magdala and the other Mary were there, sitting opposite the tomb. ⁶² Next day (that is, on the day after the Preparation) the high priests and Pharisees gathered round Pilate ⁶³ and said, "We remember, sir, that when this impostor was alive he said, 'I will rise after three days.' ⁶⁴ Now then, give orders for the tomb to be kept secure till the third day, in case his disciples go and steal him and then tell the people, 'He has risen from the dead.' The end of the fraud will then be worse than the beginning of it." ⁶⁵ Pilate said to them, "Take a guard of soldiers, go and make it as secure as you can." ⁶⁶ So off they went and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the boulder and setting the guard.

¹³ Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you shut the Realm of heaven in men's faces; you neither enter yourselves, nor will you let those enter who are on the point of entering.

³ Then the high priests and the elders of the people met in the palace of the high priest who was called Caiaphas ⁴ and took counsel together to get hold of Jesus by craft and have him put to death.

¹ Immediately morning came, the high priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and all the Sanhedrin, and after binding Jesus they led him off and handed him over to Pilate.

⁶⁶ When day broke, the elders of the people all met along with the high priests and scribes, and had him brought before their Sanhedrin. They said to him,

¹ Then the whole body of them rose and led him to Pilate. ² They proceeded to accuse him, saying, "We have discovered this fellow perverting our nation, forbidding tribute being paid to Caesar, and alleging he is king messiah."

²⁸ Then from the house of Caiaphas they took Jesus to the praetorium. (It was early morning.) They would not enter the praetorium themselves, in case of being ceremonially defiled, for they wanted to eat the passover;

²⁴ and on hearing this the entire company raised their cry to God, "O Sovereign Lord, thou art he who made heaven, earth, and sea, and all that in them is, ²⁵ who said to our fathers by the holy Spirit through the lips of thy servant David, Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples vainly conspire? ²⁶ The kings of the earth stood ready, the rulers mustered together against the Lord and his Christ. ²⁷ In this very city they actually mustered against thy holy Servant Jesus, whom thou didst consecrate — Herod and Pontius Pilate, together with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, ²⁸ mustering to carry out what thy hand had traced, thy purpose had decreed.

²¹ With these orders they went into the temple about dawn and proceeded to teach. Meantime the high priest and his allies met, called the Sanhedrin together and the council of seniors belonging to the sons of Israel, and then sent to prison for the men.

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

¹ Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judaea, Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, Philip his brother tetrarch of the country of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysias tetrarch of Abilene,

¹ It was at this time that some people came to tell him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.

³² he will be betrayed to the Gentiles, mocked, illtreated, and spat on; ³³ they will scourge him and kill him, but he will rise again on the third day."

²⁰ So watching their chance they sent spies who pretended to be honest persons, in order to seize on what he said and get him handed over to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.

¹² So the troops and their commander and the Jewish attendants seized Jesus, bound him,

²⁴ Then Annas had him bound and sent him to Caiaphas the high priest.

¹³ The God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers has glorified Jesus his servant, whom you delivered up and repudiated before Pilate. Pilate had decided to release him,

²⁷ In this very city they actually mustered against thy holy Servant Jesus, whom thou didst consecrate — Herod and Pontius Pilate, together with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel,

² and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus empowering him to put any man or woman in chains whom he could find belonging to the Way, and bring them to Jerusalem.

⁶ The very night before Herod meant to have him produced, Peter lay asleep between two soldiers; he was fastened by two chains, and sentries in front of the door guarded the prison.

³³ Then the commander came up and seized him; he ordered him to be bound with a couple of chains, and asked "Who is he?" and "What has he done?"

²⁵ They had strapped him up, when Paul said to the officer who was standing by, "Are you allowed to scourge a Roman citizen — and to scourge him without a trial?"

²⁹ Then those who were to have examined him left him at once alone; even the commander was alarmed to find that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had bound him.

²⁷ But when two years had elapsed, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and as Felix wanted to ingratiate himself with the Jews, he left Paul still in custody.

²⁰ This is my reason for asking to see you and have a word with you. I am wearing this chain because I share Israel's hope."

¹³ In the presence of God who is the Life of all, and of Christ Jesus who testified to the good confession before Pontius Pilate, I charge you

⁹ for which I have to suffer imprisonment as if I were a criminal. (But there is no prison for the word of God.)

³ Remember prisoners, as if you were in prison yourselves; remember those who are being ill-treated, since you too are in the body.

¹⁴ Then one of the twelve called Judas Iscariot went and said to the high priests, ¹⁵ "What will you give me for betraying him to you?" And they weighed out for him thirty silver pieces. ¹⁶ From that moment he sought a good opportunity to betray him.

⁴⁷ While he was still speaking, up came Judas, one of the twelve, accompanied by a large mob with swords and cudgels who had come from the high priests and the elders of the people. ⁴⁸ Now his betrayer had given them a signal; he said, " Whoever I kiss, that is the man." ⁴⁹ So he went up at once to Jesus; "Hail, rabbi!" he said, and kissed him. ⁵⁰ Jesus said, "My man, do your errand." Then they laid hands on Jesus and seized him.

¹⁰ Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the high priests to betray him to them. ¹¹ They were delighted to hear it, and promised to pay him for it. Meantime he sought a good opportunity for betraying him.

⁴³ At that very moment, while he was still speaking, Judas [Iscariot] one of the twelve came up accompanied by a mob with swords and cudgels who had come from the high priests and scribes and elders. ⁴⁴ Now his betrayer had given them a signal; he said, "Whoever I kiss, that is the man. Seize him and get him safely away." ⁴⁵ So when he arrived he at once went up to him and said, "Rabbi [rabbi]," and kissed him. ⁴⁶ Then they laid hands on him and seized him,

² The high priests and scribes were trying how to get him put to death (for they were afraid of the people), ³ and Satan entered Judas called Iscariot, a member of the twelve, ⁴ who went off to discuss with the high priests and commanders how he could betray him to them. ⁵ They were delighted and agreed to pay him for it. ⁶ He assented to this and sought a good opportunity for betraying him to them in the absence of the crowd.

⁴⁷ While he was still speaking, there came a mob headed by the man called Judas, one of the twelve. He approached in order to kiss Jesus, ⁴⁸ but Jesus said to him, "Judas! would you betray the Son of man with a kiss?"

² so at supper, knowing that though the devil had suggested to Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,

²⁷ and when he took the bread, at that moment Satan entered him. Then Jesus told him, "Be quick with what you have to do."

³ So after procuring troops and some attendants belonging to the high priests and the Pharisees, Judas went there with lanterns and torches and weapons.

¹⁰ the pain God is allowed to guide ends in a saving repentance never to be regretted, whereas the world's pain ends in death.

¹⁹ Besides, when he was seated on the tribunal, his wife had sent to tell him, "Do nothing with that innocent man, for I have suffered greatly to-day in a dream about him.")

²³ "Why," said the governor, "what has he done wrong?" But they shouted on more fiercely than ever, "Have him crucified!" ²⁴ Now when Pilate saw that instead of him doing any good a riot was rising, he took some water and washed his hands in presence of the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of this good man's blood. It is your affair!" ²⁵ To this all the people replied, "His blood be on us and on our children!"

⁵⁴ Now when the army-captain and his men who were watching Jesus saw the earthquake and all that happened, they were dreadfully afraid; they said, "This man was certainly a son of God!"

²⁵ But Abraham said, 'Remember, my son, you got all the bliss when you were alive, just as Lazarus got the ills of life; he is in comfort now, and you are in anguish. ²⁶ Besides all that, a great gulf yawns between us and you, to keep back those who want to cross from us to you and also those who want to pass from you to us.'

²² He asked them a third time, "But what crime has he committed? I have found nothing about him that deserves death; so I shall release him with a whipping."

⁴¹ And we suffer justly; we are getting what we deserve for our deeds. But he has done no harm."

⁴⁷ When the army-captain saw what had happened, he glorified God, saying, "This man was really innocent."

⁷ The Jews retorted, "But we have a Law, and by [our] Law he is bound to die, because he has made himself out to be God's Son."

²⁸ though they could find him guilty of no crime that deserved death, they begged Pilate to have him put to death,

¹⁵ But as these are merely questions of words and persons and your own Law, you can attend to them for yourselves. I decline to adjudicate upon matters like that." ¹⁶ And he drove them from the tribunal. ¹⁷ Then all [the Greeks] caught hold of Sosthenes the president of the synagogue and beat him in front of the tribunal; but Gallio took no notice.

¹⁹ Whatever the Law says, we know, it says to those who are inside the Law, that every mouth may be shut and all the world made answerable to God;

² through plausible sophists who are seared in conscience —

¹⁶ They profess to know God, but they deny him by their deeds; they are detestable, disobedient, and useless for good work of any kind.

²⁶ Such was the high priest for us, saintly, innocent, unstained, lifted high above the heavens, far from all contact with the sinful,

¹⁹ but by the precious blood of Christ, a lamb unblemished and unstained.

¹² we are not to be like Cain, who belonged to the evil One and slew his brother. And why did he slay him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's just.

¹⁰ and the dwellers on earth will gloat over them and rejoice, sending presents to congratulate one another — for these two prophets were a torment to the dwellers on earth.

⁹ it fell to him by lot, as was the custom of the priesthood, to enter the sanctuary of the Lord and burn incense,

²¹ Now the people were waiting for Zechariah and wondering that he stayed so long inside the sanctuary.

¹⁸ With the money paid him for his crime he purchased an estate; but swelling up he burst in two, and all his bowels poured out — ¹⁹ a fact which became known to all the residents in Jerusalem, so that the estate got the name, in their language, of Akeldamach or The Ground of Blood.

²⁴ Blind guides that you are, filtering away the gnat and swallowing the camel!

⁷ and the scribes and Pharisees watched to see if he would heal on the sabbath, so as to discover some charge against him. ⁸ He knew what was in their minds; so he told the man with the withered hand, "Rise and stand forward." He rose and stood before them. ⁹ Then Jesus said to them, "I ask you, is it right on the sabbath to help or to hurt, to save life or to kill?"

¹⁵ So the soldiers took the money and followed their instructions; and this story has been disseminated among the Jews down to the present day.

¹⁹ a fact which became known to all the residents in Jerusalem, so that the estate got the name, in their language, of Akeldamach or The Ground of Blood.

²² All this happened for the fulfilment of what the Lord had spoken by the prophet:

¹⁵ "What will you give me for betraying him to you?" And they weighed out for him thirty silver pieces.

² asking, "Where is the newly-born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose, and we have come to worship him."

¹⁸ and you will be haled before governors and kings for my sake — it will be a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.

²⁵ enough for the scholar to fare like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If men have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they miscall his servants!

²⁵ Then Judas his betrayer said, "Surely it is not me, rabbi?" He said to him, "Is it not?"

⁶⁴ Jesus said to him, "Even so! But I tell you, in future you will all see the Son of man seated at the right hand of the Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven."

⁶² Jesus said, "I am. And, what is more, you will all see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of the Power and coming with the clouds of heaven."

² Pilate asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" He replied, "Certainly." ³ Then the high priest brought many accusations against him, ⁴ and once more Pilate asked him, "Have you no reply to make? Look at all their charges against you." ⁵ But, to the astonishment of Pilate, Jesus answered no more.

² They proceeded to accuse him, saying, "We have discovered this fellow perverting our nation, forbidding tribute being paid to Caesar, and alleging he is king messiah." ³ Pilate asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" He replied, "Certainly."

²⁹ so Pilate came outside to them and asked, "What charge do you bring against this man?" ³⁰ They retorted, "If he had not been a criminal, we would not have handed him over to you." ³¹ Then said Pilate, "Take him yourselves, and sentence him according to your own Law." The Jews said, "We have no right to put anyone to death" ³² (that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, by which he had indicated the kind of death he was to die). ³³ So Pilate went back inside the praetorium and called Jesus, saying, "Then you are king of the Jews?" ³⁴ Jesus replied, "Are you saying this of your own accord, or did other people tell you about me?" ³⁵ "Am I a Jew?" said Pilate. "Your own nation and the high priests have handed you over to me. What have you done?" ³⁶ Jesus replied, "My realm does not belong to this world; if my realm did belong to this world, my men would have fought to prevent me being handed over to the Jews. No, my realm lies elsewhere." ³⁷ "So you are a king?" said Pilate, "you!" "Certainly," said Jesus, "I am a king. This is why I was born, this is why I came into the world, to bear testimony to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice." ³⁸ "Truth!" said Pilate, "what is truth!" With these words he went outside to the Jews again and told them, "I cannot find anything wrong about him.

⁶³ Jesus said nothing. Then the high priest addressed him, "I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God!"

¹⁴ But, to Pilate's great astonishment, he would not answer him a single word.

⁹ he went inside the praetorium again and asked Jesus, "Where do you come from?" Jesus made no reply. ¹⁰ Then Pilate said, "You will not speak to me? Do you not know it is in my power to release you or to crucify you?" ¹¹ Jesus answered, "You would have no power over me, unless it had been granted you from above. So you are less guilty than he who betrayed me to you."

³² Now the passage of scripture which he was reading was as follows: — he was led like a sheep to be slaughtered, and as a lamb is dumb before the shearer, so he opens not his lips.

²³ he was reviled and made no retort, he suffered and never threatened, but left everything to Him who judges justly;

⁶² So the high priest rose and said to him, "Have you no reply to make? What of this evidence against you?"

³⁵ "Am I a Jew?" said Pilate. "Your own nation and the high priests have handed you over to me. What have you done?"

²⁴ till the commander ordered him to be taken inside the barracks and examined under the lash, so as to find out why the people shouted at him in this way.

⁹ For it seems to me that God means us apostles to come in at the very end, like the doomed gladiators in the arena! We are made a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men!

⁵ "Only," they said, "it must not be during the festival, in case of a riot among the people."

⁶ Now at festival time he used to release for them some prisoner whom they begged from him. ⁷ (There was a man called Bar-Abbas in prison, among the rioters who had committed murder during the insurrection.) ⁸ So the crowd pressed up and started to ask him for his usual boon. ⁹ Pilate replied, "Would you like me to release the king of the Jews for you?" ¹⁰ (For he knew the high priests had handed him over out of envy.) ¹¹ But the high priests stirred up the crowd to get him to release Bar-Abbas for them instead. ¹² Pilate asked them again, "And what am I to do with your so-called king of the Jews?" ¹³ Whereupon they shouted again, "Crucify him." ¹⁴ "Why," said Pilate, "what has he done wrong?" But they shouted more fiercely than ever, "Crucify him!" ¹⁵ So, as Pilate wanted to satisfy the crowd, he released Bar-Abbas for them; Jesus he handed over to be crucified, after he had scourged him.

¹⁶ so I shall release him with a whipping."

³⁸ "Truth!" said Pilate, "what is truth!" With these words he went outside to the Jews again and told them, "I cannot find anything wrong about him. ³⁹ But it is your custom that I should release a prisoner for you at the passover. Is it your will that I release you the king of the Jews?" ⁴⁰ Again they yelled, "No, not him! Bar-Abbas!" Now Bar-Abbas was a robber.

¹⁶ Then Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus,

⁹ As Festus wanted to ingratiate himself with the Jews, he asked Paul, "Will you go up to Jerusalem and be tried there by me upon these charges?"

⁷ (There was a man called Bar-Abbas in prison, among the rioters who had committed murder during the insurrection.)

¹⁸ But they shouted one and all, "Away with him! Release Bar-Abbas for us!" ¹⁹ (This was a man who had been put into prison on account of a riot which had taken place in the city and also on a charge of murder.)

²⁵ he released the man they wanted, the man who had been imprisoned for riot and murder, and Jesus he handed over to their will.

⁴⁰ Again they yelled, "No, not him! Bar-Abbas!" Now Bar-Abbas was a robber.

¹⁴ but you repudiated the Holy and Just One; the boon you asked was a murderer,

³² though they know God's decree that people who practise such vice deserve death, they not only do it themselves but applaud those who practise it.

¹⁶ Jacob the father of Joseph, and Joseph (to whom the virgin Mary was betrothed) the father of Jesus, who is called 'Christ.'

²¹ The governor said to them, "Which of the two do you want me to release for you?" "Bar-Abbas," they said. ²² Pilate said, "Then what am I to do with Jesus the so-called 'Christ'?" They all said, "Have him crucified!"

⁹ Pilate replied, "Would you like me to release the king of the Jews for you?" ¹⁰ (For he knew the high priests had handed him over out of envy.) ¹¹ But the high priests stirred up the crowd to get him to release Bar-Abbas for them instead. ¹² Pilate asked them again, "And what am I to do with your so-called king of the Jews?"

¹⁵ Then they yelled, "Off with him! Off with him! Crucify him!" "Crucify your king?" said Pilate. The high priests retorted, "We have no king but Caesar!"

¹⁰ (For he knew the high priests had handed him over out of envy.)

¹⁷ This filled the high priest Annas and his allies, the Sadducean party, with bitter jealousy;

⁹ Out of jealousy the patriarchs sold Joseph into Egypt; but God was with him,

⁴⁵ But when the Jews saw the crowds they were filled with jealousy; they began to contradict what Paul said and to abuse him.

⁵ What, do you consider this is an idle word of scripture? — 'He yearns jealously for the spirit he set within us.')

²⁰ but after he had planned this, there appeared an angel of the Lord to him in a dream saying, "Joseph, son of David, fear not to take Mary your wife home, for what is begotten in her comes from the holy Spirit.

¹² Then, as they had been divinely warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they went back to their own country by a different road. ¹³ After they had gone, there appeared an angel of the Lord to Joseph in a dream, saying, "Rise, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt; stay there till I tell you. For Herod is going to search for the child and destroy him."

¹⁹ But when Herod died, there appeared an angel of the Lord in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,

²² but on hearing that Archelaus reigned over Judaea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there and, by a divine injunction in a dream, withdrew to the region of Galilee.

⁴ saying, "I did wrong in betraying innocent blood." "What does that matter to us?" they said, "it is your affair, not ours!"

²⁴ Now when Pilate saw that instead of him doing any good a riot was rising, he took some water and washed his hands in presence of the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of this good man's blood. It is your affair!"

¹³ On hearing this, Pilate brought Jesus out and seated him on the tribunal at a spot called the 'mosaic pavement' — the Hebrew name is Gabbatha

²² He committed no sin, no guile was ever found upon his lips;

¹ My dear children, I am writing this to you that you may not sin; but if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father in Jesus Christ the just;

¹¹ But the high priests stirred up the crowd to get him to release Bar-Abbas for them instead.

¹⁸ But they shouted one and all, "Away with him! Release Bar-Abbas for us!" ¹⁹ (This was a man who had been put into prison on account of a riot which had taken place in the city and also on a charge of murder.) ²⁰ Again Pilate addressed them, for he wanted to release Jesus,

¹⁵ Then they yelled, "Off with him! Off with him! Crucify him!" "Crucify your king?" said Pilate. The high priests retorted, "We have no king but Caesar!" ¹⁶ Then Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus,

¹⁴ but you repudiated the Holy and Just One; the boon you asked was a murderer, ¹⁵ and you killed the pioneer of Life. But God raised him from the dead, as we can bear witness.

¹⁸ Even by saying this, it was all they could do to keep the crowds from sacrificing to them. ¹⁹ But Jews from Antioch and Iconium arrived, who won over the crowds, and after pelting Paul with stones they dragged him outside the town, thinking he was dead.

²³ It was about that time that a great commotion arose over the Way. This was how it happened. ²⁴ By making silver shrines of Artemis a silversmith called Demetrius was the means of bringing rich profit to his workmen. ²⁵ So he got them together, along with the workmen who belonged to similar trades, and said to them: "My men, you know this trade is the source of our wealth. ²⁶ You also see and hear that not only at Ephesus but almost all over Asia this fellow Paul has drawn off a considerable number of people by his persuasions. He declares that hand-made gods are not gods at all. ²⁷ Now the danger is not only that we will have our trade discredited but that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will fall into contempt and that she will be degraded from her majestic glory, she whom all Asia and the wide world worship." ²⁸ When they heard this they were filled with rage and raised the cry, "Great is Artemis of Ephesus!" ²⁹ So the city was filled with confusion. They rushed like one man into the amphitheatre, dragging along Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians who were travelling with Paul.

¹⁷ so, when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, "Who do you want released? Jesus Bar-Abbas or Jesus the so-called 'Christ'?"

⁵⁵ Now the high priests and the whole of the Sanhedrin tried to secure evidence against Jesus, in order to have him put to death; but they could find none,

¹² Pilate asked them again, "And what am I to do with your so-called king of the Jews?" ¹³ Whereupon they shouted again, "Crucify him." ¹⁴ "Why," said Pilate, "what has he done wrong?" But they shouted more fiercely than ever, "Crucify him!"

²⁰ Again Pilate addressed them, for he wanted to release Jesus, ²¹ but they roared, "To the cross, to the cross with him!" ²² He asked them a third time, "But what crime has he committed? I have found nothing about him that deserves death; so I shall release him with a whipping." ²³ But they loudly urged their demand that he should be crucified, and their shouts carried the day. ²⁴ Pilate gave sentence that their demand was to be carried out;

¹⁴ (it was the day of Preparation for the passover, about noon). "There is your king!" he said to the Jews. ¹⁵ Then they yelled, "Off with him! Off with him! Crucify him!" "Crucify your king?" said Pilate. The high priests retorted, "We have no king but Caesar!"

³⁸ So you must understand, my brothers, that remission of sins is proclaimed to you through him,

³⁸ But when the vinedressers saw his son they said to themselves, 'Here is the heir; come on, let us kill him and seize his inheritance!' ³⁹ So they took and threw him outside the vineyard and killed him.

⁵⁷ With a loud shriek they shut their ears and rushed at him like one man.

⁵ But the Jews were aroused to jealousy; they got hold of some idle rascals to form a mob and set the town in an uproar; they attacked Jason's house in the endeavour to bring them out before the populace, ⁶ but as they failed to find Paul and Silas they haled Jason and some of the brothers before the politarchs, yelling, "These upsetters of the whole world have come here too! ⁷ Jason has welcomed them! They all violate the decrees of Caesar by declaring someone else called Jesus is king."

²⁸ shouting, "To the rescue, men of Israel! Here is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against the People and the Law and this Place! And he has actually brought Greeks inside the temple and defiled this holy Place!" ²⁹ (They had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian along with him in the city, and they supposed Paul had taken him inside the temple.) ³⁰ The whole city was thrown into turmoil. The people rushed together, seized Paul and dragged him outside the temple; whereupon the doors were immediately shut. ³¹ They were attempting to kill him, when word reached the commander of the garrison that the whole of Jerusalem was in confusion.

²² Till he said that, they had listened to him. But at that they shouted, "Away with such a creature from the earth! He is not fit to live!" ²³ They yelled and threw their clothes into the air and flung dust about,

¹⁰ The quarrel then became so violent that the commander was afraid they would tear Paul in pieces; he therefore ordered the troops to march down and take him from them by force, bringing him inside the barracks.

¹² When day broke, the Jews formed a conspiracy, taking a solemn oath neither to eat nor to drink till they had killed Paul. ¹³ There were more than forty of them in this plot. ¹⁴ They then went to the high priests and elders, saying, "We have taken a solemn oath to taste no food till we have killed Paul. ¹⁵ Now you and the Sanhedrin must inform the commander that you propose to investigate this case in detail, so that he may have Paul brought down to you. We will be all ready to kill him on the way down."

⁹ Then the word spoken by the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled: and I took the thirty silver pieces, the price of him who had been priced, whom they had priced and expelled from the sons of Israel;

⁴ Again Pilate went out and said to them, "Look, I am bringing him out to you. Understand, I cannot find anything wrong about him."

²¹ For our sakes He made him to be sin who himself knew nothing of sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

¹⁸ Christ himself died for sins, once for all, a just man for unjust men, that he might bring us near to God; in the flesh he was put to death but he came to life in the Spirit.

⁴⁴ [Everyone who falls on this stone will be shattered, and whoever it falls upon will be crushed.]"

³⁰ and you say 'If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have joined them in shedding the blood of the prophets.' ³¹ So you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are sons of those who killed the prophets! ³² And you will fill up the measure that your fathers filled. ³³ You serpents! you brood of vipers! how can you escape being sentenced to Gehenna? ³⁴ This is why I will send you prophets, wise men, and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, some of whom you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town; ³⁵ it is that on you may fall the punishment for all the just blood shed on earth from the blood of Abel the just down to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. ³⁶ I tell you truly, it will all come upon this generation. ³⁷ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! slaying the prophets and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often I would fain have gathered your children as a fowl gathers her brood under her wings! But you would not have it!

²⁸ "We strictly forbade you to teach about this Name, did we not? And here you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine! You want to make us responsible for this man's death!"

⁵² Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Just One. And here you have betrayed him, murdered him! —

¹⁵ who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, who harassed ourselves, who offend God and oppose all men ¹⁶ by hindering us from speaking words of salvation to the Gentiles. So they would fill up the measure of their sins to the last drop! But the Wrath is on them to the bitter end!

²⁸ Anyone who has rejected the law of Moses dies without mercy, on the evidence of two or of three witnesses. ²⁹ How much heavier, do you suppose, will be the punishment assigned to him who has spurned the Son of God, who has profaned the covenant-blood with which he was sanctified, who has insulted the Spirit of grace? ³⁰ We know who said, Vengeance is mine, I will exact a requital: and again, The Lord will pass sentence on his people.

³⁴ who will mock him, spit on him, scourge him, and kill him; then after three days he will rise again."

¹⁵ So, as Pilate wanted to satisfy the crowd, he released Bar-Abbas for them; Jesus he handed over to be crucified, after he had scourged him.

²⁴ Pilate gave sentence that their demand was to be carried out; ²⁵ he released the man they wanted, the man who had been imprisoned for riot and murder, and Jesus he handed over to their will.

¹ Then Pilate took Jesus and had him scourged.

²⁴ he bore our sins in his own body on the gibbet, that we might break with sin and live for righteousness; and by his wounds you have been healed.

¹⁶ The soldiers took him inside the courtyard (that is, the praetorium) and got all the regiment together; ¹⁷ then they dressed him in purple, put on his head a crown of thorns which they had plaited, ¹⁸ and began to salute him with, "Hail, O king of the Jews!" ¹⁹ They struck him on the head with a stick and spat upon him and bent their knees to him in homage. ²⁰ Then, after making fun of him, they stripped off the purple, put on his own clothes, and took him away to crucify him.

³³ So Pilate went back inside the praetorium and called Jesus, saying, "Then you are king of the Jews?"

⁸ Now when Pilate heard that, he was still more afraid; ⁹ he went inside the praetorium again and asked Jesus, "Where do you come from?" Jesus made no reply.

¹ Now in Caesarea there was a man called Cornelius, a captain in the Italian regiment,

³⁵ he said, "I will go into your case whenever your accusers arrive," giving orders that he was to be kept in the praetorium of Herod.

¹ When it was decided we were to sail for Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were handed over to an officer of the Imperial regiment called Julius.

¹⁷ then they dressed him in purple, put on his head a crown of thorns which they had plaited,

¹¹ Then Herod and his troops scoffed at him and made fun of him, and after arraying him in a bright robe he remitted him to Pilate.

² And the soldiers twisted some thorns into a crown and put it on his head, and arrayed him in a purple robe, ³ marching up to him and shouting, "Hail, king of the Jews!" — and striking him. ⁴ Again Pilate went out and said to them, "Look, I am bringing him out to you. Understand, I cannot find anything wrong about him." ⁵ So out came Jesus, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe; and Pilate said, "Here the man is!"

⁴⁹ So he went up at once to Jesus; "Hail, rabbi!" he said, and kissed him.

³⁷ They also put over his head his charge in writing, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.

¹⁸ and began to salute him with, "Hail, O king of the Jews!"

³⁶ The soldiers made fun of him too by coming up and handing him vinegar, ³⁷ saying, "If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself."

² And the soldiers twisted some thorns into a crown and put it on his head, and arrayed him in a purple robe, ³ marching up to him and shouting, "Hail, king of the Jews!" — and striking him.

² our eyes fixed upon Jesus as the pioneer and the perfection of faith — upon Jesus who, in order to reach his own appointed joy, steadily endured the cross, thinking nothing of its shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God. ³ Compare him who steadily endured all that hostility from sinful men, so as to keep your own hearts from fainting and failing.

⁶⁷ Then they spat in his face and buffeted him, some of them cuffing him

¹⁹ They struck him on the head with a stick and spat upon him and bent their knees to him in homage.

³⁹ So they took and threw him outside the vineyard and killed him.

²⁷ Then he said to the disciple, "And, there is your mother!" And from that hour the disciple took her to his home.

⁵⁸ Putting him outside the city, they proceeded to stone him (the witnesses laid their clothes at the feet of a youth called Saul).

¹² and so Jesus also suffered outside the gate, in order to sanctify the people by his own blood.

²⁴ Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me;

²¹ They forced Simon a Cyrenian who was passing on his way from the country (the father of Alexander and Rufus) to carry his cross,

²⁶ As they led him off they caught hold of Simon a Cyrenian on his way from the country and laid the cross on him to carry after Jesus.

¹⁷ and he went away, carrying the cross by himself, to the spot called the 'place of the skull' — the Hebrew name is Golgotha;

¹⁰ in Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and the districts of Libya round Cyrene, visitors from Rome, Jews and proselytes,

⁹ Some of those who belonged to the so-called synagogue of the Libyans, the Cyrenians, and the Alexandrians, as well as to that of the Cilicians and Asiatics, started a dispute with Stephen,

²⁰ Some of them, however, were Cypriotes and Cyrenians, who on reaching Antioch told the Greeks also the gospel of the Lord Jesus;

¹ Now in the local church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Symeon (called Niger) and Lucius the Cyrenian, besides Manaen (a foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch) and Saul.

¹¹ For the bodies of the animals whose blood is taken into the holy Place by the high priest as a sin-offering, are burned outside the camp; ¹² and so Jesus also suffered outside the gate, in order to sanctify the people by his own blood.

²² and they led him to the place called Golgotha (which means the place of a skull). ²³ They offered him wine flavoured with myrrh, but he would not take it. ²⁴ Then they crucified him and distributed his clothes among themselves, drawing lots for them to decide each man's share. ²⁵ It was nine in the morning when they crucified him. ²⁶ The inscription bearing his charge was: THE KING OF THE JEWS. ²⁷ They also crucified two robbers along with him, one at his right and one at his left. ²⁸ -- ²⁹ Those who passed by scoffed at him, nodding at him in derision and calling, "Ha! You were to destroy the temple and build it in three days! ³⁰ Come down from the cross and save yourself!" ³¹ So, too, the high priests made fun of him to themselves with the scribes; "he saved others," they said, "but he cannot save himself! ³² Let 'the Christ,' 'the king of Israel' come down now from the cross! Let us see that and we will believe!" Those who were crucified with him also denounced him.

³⁴ and at three o'clock Jesus gave a loud cry, "Elôi, Elôi, lema sabachthanei" (which means, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?)

²⁷ He was followed by a large multitude of the people and also of women who beat their breasts and lamented him; ²⁸ but Jesus turned to them and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me but weep for yourselves and for your children! ²⁹ For there are days coming when the cry will be, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never have borne and the breasts that never have suckled!' ³⁰ Then will people say to the mountains, 'Fall on us!' and to the hills, 'Cover us.' ³¹ For if this is what they do when the wood is green, what will they do when the wood is dry?" ³² Two criminals were also led out with him to be executed, ³³ and when they came to the place called The Skull they crucified him there along with the criminals, one at his right and one at his left. ³⁴ Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, they do not know what they are doing." Then they distributed his clothes among themselves by drawing lots. ³⁵ The people stood and looked on, and even the rulers sneered at him, saying, "He saved others, let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, the Chosen One!" ³⁶ The soldiers made fun of him too by coming up and handing him vinegar, ³⁷ saying, "If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself." ³⁸ (For there was an inscription over him in Greek and Latin and Hebrew characters, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.)

⁴⁴ By this time it was about twelve o'clock, and darkness covered the whole land till three o'clock,

¹⁷ and he went away, carrying the cross by himself, to the spot called the 'place of the skull' — the Hebrew name is Golgotha; ¹⁸ there they crucified him, along with two others, one on each side and Jesus in the middle. ¹⁹ Pilate had written an inscription to be put on the cross; what he wrote was, JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS.

²³ Now when the soldiers crucified Jesus they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, one for each soldier. But as the tunic was seamless, woven right down in a single piece, ²⁴ they said to themselves, "Don't let us tear it. Let us draw lots to see who gets it" (that the scripture might be fulfilled, they distributed my clothes among them, and drew lots for my raiment). This was what the soldiers did.

⁴⁸ One of them ran off at once and took a sponge, which he soaked in vinegar and put on the end of a stick to give him a drink.

²³ They offered him wine flavoured with myrrh, but he would not take it.

²⁸ After that, as Jesus knew that everything was now finished and fulfilled, he said (to fulfil the scripture), "I am thirsty." ²⁹ A jug full of vinegar was lying there; so they put a sponge full of vinegar on a spear and held it to his lips. ³⁰ And when Jesus took the vinegar, he said, "It is finished," bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.

³⁴ Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, they do not know what they are doing." Then they distributed his clothes among themselves by drawing lots.

²⁰ So saying he showed them his hands and his side; and when the disciples saw the Lord, they rejoiced.

²⁵ and when the rest of the disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord," he said, "Unless I see his hands with the mark of the nails, and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I refuse to believe it."

²⁷ Then he said to Thomas, "Look at my hands, put your finger here; and put your hand here into my side; cease your unbelief and believe."

¹⁰ you and the people of Israel must all understand that he stands before you strong and well, thanks to the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene whom you crucified and whom God raised from the dead.

³⁹ Now when the army-captain who stood facing him saw that he expired in this way, he said, "This man was certainly a son of God."

⁴⁴ Pilate was surprised that he was dead already; he summoned the captain and asked if he had been dead some time,

²⁶ The inscription bearing his charge was: THE KING OF THE JEWS.

³⁸ (For there was an inscription over him in Greek and Latin and Hebrew characters, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.)

¹⁹ Pilate had written an inscription to be put on the cross; what he wrote was, JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS. ²⁰ Now many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus had been crucified was close to the city; besides, the inscription was in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek. ²¹ So the Jewish high priests said to Pilate, "Do not write, THE KING OF THE JEWS; write, HE SAID I AM THE KING OF THE JEWS." ²² Pilate replied, "What I have written, I have written."

⁴⁴ The robbers who were crucified with him also denounced him in the same way.

²⁷ They also crucified two robbers along with him, one at his right and one at his left.

³⁷ For I tell you, this word of scripture must be fulfilled in me: he was classed among criminals. Yes, there is an end to all that refers to me."

³² Two criminals were also led out with him to be executed, ³³ and when they came to the place called The Skull they crucified him there along with the criminals, one at his right and one at his left.

³⁹ One of the criminals who had been hung also abused him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us as well." ⁴⁰ But the other checked him, saying, "Have you no fear even of God? You are suffering the same punishment as he. ⁴¹ And we suffer justly; we are getting what we deserve for our deeds. But he has done no harm." ⁴² And he added, "Jesus, do not forget me when you come to reign." ⁴³ "I tell you truly," said Jesus, "you will be in paradise with me this very day."

¹⁸ there they crucified him, along with two others, one on each side and Jesus in the middle.

³¹ Now, as it was the day of Preparation, in order to prevent the bodies remaining on the cross during the sabbath (for that sabbath-day was a great day), the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies removed. ³² So the soldiers went and broke the legs of the first man and of the other man who had been crucified along with him; ³³ but when they came to Jesus and saw he was dead already, they did not break his legs; ³⁴ only, one of the soldiers pricked his side with a lance, and out came blood and water in a moment. ³⁵ He who saw it has borne witness (his witness is true; God knows he is telling the truth), that you may believe.

²⁹ Those who passed by scoffed at him, nodding at him in derision and calling, "Ha! You were to destroy the temple and build it in three days! ³⁰ Come down from the cross and save yourself!"

³⁵ The people stood and looked on, and even the rulers sneered at him, saying, "He saved others, let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, the Chosen One!" ³⁶ The soldiers made fun of him too by coming up and handing him vinegar, ³⁷ saying, "If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself." ³⁸ (For there was an inscription over him in Greek and Latin and Hebrew characters, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.) ³⁹ One of the criminals who had been hung also abused him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us as well."

²² He committed no sin, no guile was ever found upon his lips; ²³ he was reviled and made no retort, he suffered and never threatened, but left everything to Him who judges justly; ²⁴ he bore our sins in his own body on the gibbet, that we might break with sin and live for righteousness; and by his wounds you have been healed.

³ So the tempter came up and said to him, "If you are God's son, tell these stones to become loaves."

⁶ said to him, "If you are God's son, throw yourself down; for it is written, He will give his angels charge of you; they will bear you on their hands, lest you strike your foot against a stone."

⁴ "It is an evil and disloyal generation that craves a Sign, and no Sign shall be given to it except the Sign of Jonah." Then he left them and went away.

⁶¹ and said, "This fellow declared, 'I can destroy the temple of God and build it in three days.'"

⁶³ Jesus said nothing. Then the high priest addressed him, "I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God!" ⁶⁴ Jesus said to him, "Even so! But I tell you, in future you will all see the Son of man seated at the right hand of the Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven."

⁴² "He saved others," they said, "but he cannot save himself! He the 'king of Israel'! Let him come down now from the cross; then we will believe in him!

²⁹ in case, after he has laid the foundation and then is unable to finish the building, all the spectators start to make fun of him, ³⁰ saying, 'This fellow started to build but he could not finish it.'

³¹ He said to him, 'If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced, not even if one rose from the dead."

¹⁹ Jesus replied, "Destroy this sanctuary and I will raise it up in three days." ²⁰ "This sanctuary took forty-six years to build," the Jews retorted, "and you are going to raise it up in three days!" ²¹ He meant the sanctuary of his body, however, ²² and when the disciples recalled what he had said, after he had been raised from the dead, they believed the scripture and the word of Jesus.

³² he will be betrayed to the Gentiles, mocked, illtreated, and spat on;

⁵² Then he said to the high priests and commanders of the temple and elders who had appeared to take him, "Have you sallied out to arrest me like a robber, with swords and cudgels?

³⁵ The people stood and looked on, and even the rulers sneered at him, saying, "He saved others, let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, the Chosen One!"

³⁸ saying, "Blessed be the king who comes in the Lord's name! Peace in heaven and glory in the High places!"

⁴⁹ "Rabbi," said Nathanael, "you are the Son of God, you are the king of Israel!"

²⁴ So the man born blind was summoned a second time, and told, "Now give God the praise; this man, we know quite well, is only a sinner."

¹³ and taking palm-branches they went out to meet him, shouting, "Hosanna! Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name, the king of Israel!"

⁴⁷ If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, it is not I who judge him; for I have not come to judge the world but to save the world.

¹⁴ but as they saw the man who had been healed standing beside them, they could say nothing.

⁴⁰ and calling, "You were to destroy the temple and build it in three days! Save yourself, if you are God's Son! Come down from the cross!"

¹⁶ For God loved the world so dearly that he gave up his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life, instead of perishing. ¹⁷ God did not send his Son into the world to pass sentence on it, but to save the world by him.

¹⁷ The reply of Jesus was, "As my Father has continued working to this hour, so I work too." ¹⁸ But this only made the Jews more eager to kill him, because he not merely broke the sabbath but actually spoke of God as his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God. ¹⁹ So Jesus made this answer to them: "Truly, truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, nothing but what he sees the Father doing; for whatever he does, the Son also does the same. ²⁰ The Father loves the Son and shows him all that he is doing himself. He will show him still greater deeds than these, to make you wonder; ²¹ for as the Father raises the dead and makes them live, so the Son makes anyone live whom he chooses. ²² Indeed the Father passes judgment on no one; he has committed the judgment which determines life or death entirely to the Son, ²³ that all men may honour the Son as they honour the Father. (He who does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who sent him.) ²⁴ Truly, truly I tell you, he who listens to my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life; he will incur no sentence of judgment, he has already passed from death across to life. ²⁵ Truly, truly I tell you, the time is coming, it has come already, when the dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen will live;

³⁰ I and my Father are one — ."

³⁶ do you mean to tell me, whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am God's Son'?

³⁸ Two robbers were also crucified with him at that time, one on the right hand and one on the left.

³² Let 'the Christ,' 'the king of Israel' come down now from the cross! Let us see that and we will believe!" Those who were crucified with him also denounced him.

²⁵ It was nine in the morning when they crucified him.

³³ When twelve o'clock came, darkness covered the whole land till three o'clock, ³⁴ and at three o'clock Jesus gave a loud cry, "Elôi, Elôi, lema sabachthanei" (which means, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?)

⁴⁴ By this time it was about twelve o'clock, and darkness covered the whole land till three o'clock, ⁴⁵ owing to an eclipse of the sun; the curtain in the middle of the temple was torn in two.

¹² The fourth angel blew; and a stroke fell on a third of the sun, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so as to darken one third of them, withdrawing light from a third of the day and likewise of the night.

² and he opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke poured out of the pit, like the smoke of a huge furnace, till the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit.

⁴⁶ Then with a loud cry Jesus said, "Father, I trust my spirit to thy hands," and with these words he expired.

⁷ In the days of his flesh, with bitter cries and tears, he offered prayers and supplications to Him who was able to save him from death; and he was heard, because of his godly fear.

¹⁴ if you care to believe it, he is the Elijah who is to come.

³⁵ On hearing this some of the bystanders said, "Look, he is calling for Elijah." ³⁶ One man ran off, soaked a sponge in vinegar, and put it on the end of a stick to give him a drink, saying, "Come on, let us see if Elijah does come to take him down!"

³⁴ they gave him a drink of wine mixed with bitters; but when he tasted it he would not drink it.

³⁶ The soldiers made fun of him too by coming up and handing him vinegar,

²⁸ just as the Son of man has not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

³⁷ But Jesus gave a loud cry and expired.

¹¹ I am the good shepherd; a good shepherd lays down his own life for the sheep.

¹⁵ (just as the Father knows me and I know the Father,) and I lay down my life for the sheep.

³⁰ And when Jesus took the vinegar, he said, "It is finished," bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.

¹⁴ Since the children then share blood and flesh, he himself participated in their nature, so that by dying he might crush him who wields the power of death (that is to say, the devil)

¹⁴ how much more shall the blood of Christ, who in the spirit of the eternal offered himself as an unblemished sacrifice to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve a living God?

² But a great earthquake took place; an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and went and rolled away the boulder and sat on it.

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

⁴⁵ owing to an eclipse of the sun; the curtain in the middle of the temple was torn in two.

¹³ Whereas now, within Christ Jesus, you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ. ¹⁴ For he is our peace, he who has made both of us a unity and destroyed the barrier which kept us apart; ¹⁵ in his own flesh he put an end to the feud of the Law with its code of commands, so as to make peace by the creation of a new Man in himself out of both parties, ¹⁶ so as himself to give the death-blow to that feud by reconciling them both to God in one Body through the cross; ¹⁷ he came with a gospel of peace for those far away (that is, for you) and for those who were near, ¹⁸ for it is through him that we both enjoy our access to the Father in one Spirit.

¹⁹ anchoring the soul to it safe and sure, as it enters the inner Presence behind the veil.

³ But behind the second veil was the tent called the Holy of Holies,

¹⁹ Brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy Presence in virtue of the blood of Jesus, ²⁰ by the fresh, living way which he has inaugurated for us through the veil (that is, through his flesh), ²¹ and since we have a great Priest over the house of God, ²² let us draw near with a true heart, in absolute assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled clean from a bad conscience, and our bodies washed in pure water;

²⁵ See that you do not refuse to listen to His voice. For if they failed to escape, who refused to listen to their instructor upon earth, much less shall we escape, if we discard Him who speaks from heaven. ²⁶ Then his voice shook the earth, but now the assurance is, once again I will make heaven as well as earth to quake. ²⁷ That phrase, once again, denotes the removal of what is shaken (as no more than created), to leave only what stands unshaken.

¹³ At that hour a great earthquake took place, a tenth of the City was destroyed, and seven thousand souls perished in the earthquake: the rest were awestruck, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

¹⁹ Then the temple of God in heaven was thrown open, and the ark of his covenant was seen inside his temple; there were flashes of lightning, loud blasts, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and a hailstorm.

²⁵ Truly, truly I tell you, the time is coming, it has come already, when the dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen will live; ²⁶ for as the Father has life in himself, so too he has granted the Son to have life in himself, ²⁷ and also granted him authority to act as judge, since he is Son of man. ²⁸ Do not wonder at this; for there is a time coming when all who are in the tombs will listen to his voice ²⁹ and come out, the doers of good to be raised to life, ill-doers to be raised for the sentence of judgment.

⁶⁰ Then he knelt down and cried aloud, "Lord, let not this sin stand against them!" With these words he slept the sleep of death.

³⁰ That is why many of you are ill and infirm, and a number even dead.

²⁰ But it is not so! Christ did rise from the dead, he was the first to be reaped of those who sleep in death.

⁵¹ Here is a secret truth for you: not all of us are to die, but all of us are to be changed —

¹⁴ Since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, then it follows that by means of Jesus God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.

¹⁰ who died for us that waking in life or sleeping in death we should live together with him.

⁵ Then the devil conveyed him to the holy city and, placing him on the pinnacle of the temple,

² but omit the court outside the temple, do not measure that, for it has been given over to the Gentiles; and the city will be under their heel for two and forty months.

² And I saw the holy City, the new Jerusalem, descending from God out of heaven, all ready like a bride arrayed for her husband.

¹⁹ and if anyone removes any words written in this book, God will remove his share in the tree of Life and in the holy City described in this book."]

⁵ When he entered Capharnahum an army-captain came up to him and appealed to him,

³⁶ and sat down there to keep watch over him.

⁴³ His trust is in God? Let God deliver him now if he cares for him! He said he was the Son of God!"

⁷⁰ "Are you the Son of God then?" they all said. "Certainly," he replied, "I am."

⁴⁷ When the army-captain saw what had happened, he glorified God, saying, "This man was really innocent." ⁴⁸ And when all the crowds who had collected for the sight saw what had happened, they turned away beating their breasts. ⁴⁹ As for his acquaintances, they were all standing at a distance to look on, with the women who had accompanied him from Galilee.

³⁷ When they heard this, it went straight to their hearts; they said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what are we to do?"

²⁹ So calling for lights he rushed in, fell in terror before Paul and Silas, ³⁰ and brought them out (after securing the other prisoners). "Sirs," he said, "what must I do to be saved?"

³² Taking some soldiers and officers, he at once rushed down to them, and when they saw the commander and the soldiers they stopped beating Paul.

¹⁷ Paul summoned one of the officers and said, "Take this young man to the commander, for he has some news to give him."

²³ He summoned two of the officers and said, "Get ready by nine o'clock to-night two hundred infantry to march as far as Caesarea, also seventy troopers, and two hundred spearmen."

⁴³ but as the officer wanted to save Paul, he put a stop to their plan, ordering those who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land,

⁴ and installed as Son of God with power by the Spirit of holiness when he was raised from the dead — concerning Jesus Christ our Lord,

² and by some women who had been healed of evil spirits and illnesses, Mary called Magdalene (out of whom seven daemons had been driven), ³ Joanna the wife of Chuza the chancellor of Herod, Susanna, and a number of others, who ministered to him out of their means.

²⁷ He was followed by a large multitude of the people and also of women who beat their breasts and lamented him; ²⁸ but Jesus turned to them and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me but weep for yourselves and for your children!

²⁵ Now beside the cross of Jesus stood his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. ²⁶ So when Jesus saw his mother and his favourite disciple standing near, he said to his mother, "Woman, there is your son!" ²⁷ Then he said to the disciple, "And, there is your mother!" And from that hour the disciple took her to his home.

⁵⁵ Is this not the son of the joiner? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?

²⁰ Then the mother of the sons of Zebedaeus came up to him with her sons, praying him for a favour. ²¹ He said to her, "What do you want?" She said, "Give orders that my two sons are to sit at your right hand and at your left in your Realm."

⁶¹ Mary of Magdala and the other Mary were there, sitting opposite the tomb.

¹ At the close of the sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary of Magdala and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.

⁴⁰ There were some women also watching at a distance, among them Mary of Magdala, Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome, ⁴¹ women who had followed him when he was in Galilee and waited on him, besides a number of other women who had accompanied him to Jerusalem.

⁴⁷ Now Mary of Magdala and Mary the mother of Joses noted where he was laid.

⁹ (a) Now after he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary of Magdala out of whom he had cast seven daemons.

¹⁰ (It was Mary of Magdala, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James who with the rest of the women told this to the apostles.)

²⁵ Now beside the cross of Jesus stood his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala.

¹ On the first day of the week Mary of Magdala went early to the tomb, when it was still dark; but as she saw the boulder had been removed from the tomb,

¹⁸ Away went Mary of Magdala to the disciples with the news, "I have seen the Lord!" — telling them what he had said to her.

⁴² By this time it was evening, and as it was the day of Preparation (that is, the day before the sabbath) ⁴³ Joseph of Arimathaea, a councillor of good position who himself was on the outlook for the Reign of God, ventured to go to Pilate and ask for the body of Jesus. ⁴⁴ Pilate was surprised that he was dead already; he summoned the captain and asked if he had been dead some time, ⁴⁵ and on ascertaining this from the captain he bestowed the corpse on Joseph. ⁴⁶ He, after buying a linen sheet, took him down and swathed him in the linen, laying him in a tomb which had been cut out of the rock and rolling a boulder up against the opening of the tomb. ⁴⁷ Now Mary of Magdala and Mary the mother of Joses noted where he was laid.

⁵⁰ Now there was a man called Joseph, a member of council but a good and just man ⁵¹ who had not voted for their plan of action; he belonged to Arimathaea, a Jewish town, and he was on the outlook for the Reign of God. ⁵² This Joseph went to Pilate and asked him for the body of Jesus. ⁵³ He then took it down, wrapped it in linen, and put it in a tomb cut out of the rock, where no one had yet been buried. ⁵⁴ It was the day of the Preparation and the sabbath was just dawning. ⁵⁵ So the women who had accompanied him from Galilee and who had followed Joseph, noted the tomb and the position of the body; ⁵⁶ then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes.

³⁸ After this, Joseph of Arimathaea, a disciple of Jesus but a secret disciple — for fear of the Jews — asked Pilate for permission to remove the body of Jesus. And Pilate allowed him. So he went and removed the body, ³⁹ accompanied by Nicodemus (he who had first come to Jesus by night) who brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds of it; ⁴⁰ they took and wrapped up the body of Jesus in the spices and in bandages, according to the Jewish custom of burial. ⁴¹ Now at the spot where he had been crucified there was an orchard, and in the orchard a new tomb where no one had yet been laid; ⁴² so they put Jesus there, since it was the Jewish day of Preparation, seeing that the tomb was close by.

⁴⁴ Pilate was surprised that he was dead already; he summoned the captain and asked if he had been dead some time, ⁴⁵ and on ascertaining this from the captain he bestowed the corpse on Joseph. ⁴⁶ He, after buying a linen sheet, took him down and swathed him in the linen, laying him in a tomb which had been cut out of the rock and rolling a boulder up against the opening of the tomb.

⁵² This Joseph went to Pilate and asked him for the body of Jesus. ⁵³ He then took it down, wrapped it in linen, and put it in a tomb cut out of the rock, where no one had yet been buried.

⁶⁶ So off they went and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the boulder and setting the guard.

³ They said to themselves, "Who will roll away the boulder for us at the opening of the tomb?" (for it was a very large boulder). ⁴ But when they looked they saw the boulder had been rolled to one side,

² The boulder they found rolled away from the tomb,

⁵⁶ including Mary of Magdala, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedaeus.

¹⁷ On the first day of unleavened bread the disciples of Jesus came up and said to him, "Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the passover?"

¹ When morning came, all the high priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, so as to have him put to death. ² After binding him, they led him off and handed him over to Pontius Pilate the governor.

⁴² By this time it was evening, and as it was the day of Preparation (that is, the day before the sabbath)

¹⁴ (it was the day of Preparation for the passover, about noon). "There is your king!" he said to the Jews.

³¹ Now, as it was the day of Preparation, in order to prevent the bodies remaining on the cross during the sabbath (for that sabbath-day was a great day), the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies removed.

⁴² so they put Jesus there, since it was the Jewish day of Preparation, seeing that the tomb was close by.

²¹ From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he had to leave for Jerusalem and endure great suffering at the hands of the elders and high priests and scribes, and be killed and raised on the third day.

²³ they will kill him, but on the third day he will be raised." They were greatly distressed at this.

³¹ And he proceeded to teach them that the Son of man had to endure great suffering, to be rejected by the elders and the high priests and the scribes, to be killed and after three days to rise again;

²² The Son of man, he said, has to endure great suffering, to be rejected by the elders and high priests and scribes, to be killed, and on the third day to be raised.

³³ they will scourge him and kill him, but he will rise again on the third day."

² They proceeded to accuse him, saying, "We have discovered this fellow perverting our nation, forbidding tribute being paid to Caesar, and alleging he is king messiah."

⁶ He is not here, he has risen. Remember how he told you when he was still in Galilee ⁷ that the Son of man had to be betrayed into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and rise on the third day."

¹⁹ Jesus replied, "Destroy this sanctuary and I will raise it up in three days."

¹² And the crowd disputed about him hotly; some said, "He is a good man," but others said, "No, he is misleading the people."

⁴⁷ The Pharisees retorted, "Are you misled as well?

⁸ amid honour and dishonour, amid evil report and good report, an 'impostor' but honest,

⁴⁵ Then it goes off to fetch seven other spirits worse than itself; they go in and dwell there, and the last state of that man is worse than the first. This is how it will be with the present evil generation."

¹³ and told them to say that "his disciples came at night and stole him when we were asleep."

¹¹ While they were on their way, some of the sentries went into the city and reported all that had taken place to the high priests, ¹² who, after meeting and conferring with the elders, gave a considerable sum of money to the soldiers ¹³ and told them to say that "his disciples came at night and stole him when we were asleep." ¹⁴ "If this comes to the ears of the governor," they added, "we will satisfy him and see that you have no trouble about the matter." ¹⁵ So the soldiers took the money and followed their instructions; and this story has been disseminated among the Jews down to the present day.

⁶⁰ and put it in his new tomb, which he had cut in the rock; then, after rolling a large boulder to the opening of the tomb, he went away.

¹¹ While they were on their way, some of the sentries went into the city and reported all that had taken place to the high priests,

¹⁹ But the solid foundation laid by God remains, and this is its inscription: the Lord knows who are his, and 'let everyone who names the name of the Lord give up evil.'