The King before the Roman governor Pilate
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📚When morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people consulted together against Jesus to put him to death. 2 📚✭And when they had bound him, they led him away and handed him over to Pontius Pilate the governor.3 📚✭Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse and brought the thirty pieces of silver back to the chief priests and elders, 4 📚✭saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood”. And they said, “What is that to us? You see to that”.
5 📚✭And throwing down the pieces of silver in the temple, he left, went away and hanged himself.
6 📚✭And the chief priests picked up the silver pieces and said, “It is not lawful to put them in the treasury, because it is the price of blood”.
7 ✭And they consulted together, and bought the potter's field with them, in which to bury foreigners. 8 📚So that field has been called, “The field of blood” to this day. 9 📚Then was fulfilled what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying,
And they took the thirty pieces
of silver,
the price of the one whose value
was estimated,
whose price was set by the children
of Israel,
10 📚And gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord ordered me.
11 📚✭And Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, saying, “Are you the King of the Jews?” And Jesus said to him, “You say it✭”.
12 📚✭And when he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he gave no answer. 13 📚Then Pilate said to him, “Don't you hear how many things they testify against you?”
14 📚And he did not answer him a word, so that the governor was greatly amazed.
15 📚✭Now at that feast the governor used to release to the people a prisoner, chosen by them. 16 📚✭And at that time they had a notorious prisoner named Barabbas. 17 📚✭Therefore when they had gathered together, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release to you? Barabbas? Or Jesus who is called Christ?” 18 📚✭For he knew that they had handed him over out of envy.
19 📚✭While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent a message to him, saying, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for today I have suffered greatly in a dream because of him”.
20 📚✭But the chief priests and elders persuaded the crowd that they should ask for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus. 21 ✭The governor responded and said to them, “Which of the two do you want me to release to you?” They said, “Barabbas!”
22 📚✭Pilate said to them, “Then what shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?” They all said to him, “Let him be crucified!”
23 📚And the governor said, “Why? What evil has he done?” But they cried out all the more, saying, “Let him be crucified!”
24 📚✭When Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but that instead an uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it”.
25 📚Then all the people answered and said, “His blood✭ be on us, and on our children”.
26 📚✭Then he released Barabbas to them, and when he had Jesus beaten with a whip, he handed him over to be crucified.
The King is handed over to be crucified and is mocked by the Roman soldiers
27 📚✭Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the governor's palace, and gathered the whole company of soldiers around him. 28 📚And they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him. 29 📚And when they had woven a crown of thorns, they put it on his head, and put a reed in his right hand. And they knelt in front of him, and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” 30 📚And they spit on him, and took the reed and beat him on the head. 31 📚And after mocking him, they removed the robe from him, put his own clothes on him, and led him away to crucify him.
32 📚✭And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, named Simon, and made him carry Jesus' cross.
The King on the cross suffers, speaks and dies
33 📚✭And when they came to a place called Golgotha, that is to say, Place of a Skull, 34 📚✭they gave him wine vinegar mixed with gall to drink. And when he had tasted it, he refused to drink it.
35 📚✭And they crucified him, and divided his garments, casting lots, so that there might be a fulfilment of what was spoken by the prophet,
They divided my garments
among them,
and cast lots for my clothing.
36 📚✭And sitting down they watched him there. 37 📚✭And they placed over his head this written accusation against him,
THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
38 📚At that time two thieves were crucified with him, one at the right hand, and another at the left. 39 📚✭And those who passed by reviled him, wagging their heads, 40 📚✭and saying, “You who 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 the same way the chief priests also, with the scribes and elders, mocking him said, 42 📚✭“He saved others. Himself he cannot save. If he is the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.
43 📚✭“He trusted in God. Let him deliver him now, if he wants him. For he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’ ”
44 📚✭Also the thieves who were crucified with him, in the same way heaped insults on him.
45 📚Now from noon there was darkness over all the land up to three✭ in the afternoon.
46 📚And about three Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” That is to say, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”✭
47 📚✭Some of those who stood there, when they heard that, said, “This man is calling for Elijah✭”. 48 📚And immediately one of them ran, took a sponge, filled it with wine vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink. 49 The rest said, “Let him alone. Let's see whether Elijah will come to save him”.
50 📚✭Jesus, when he had cried out again with a loud voice, gave up his spirit.
51 📚✭And immediately the veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks split, 52 📚✭and the tombs opened up, and the bodies of many of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, 53 📚and came out of the tombs after his resurrection, and went into the holy city✭, and appeared to many.
54 📚✭Now the centurion and those who were with him guarding Jesus, seeing the earthquake and the things that happened, were very frightened and said, “This really was the Son of God”.
55 📚And many women were there, watching at a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, performing service for him. 56 📚Among them was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's children.
The King is buried
57 📚When it was evening there came a rich man from Arimathea✭, named Joseph, who himself had also become a disciple of Jesus. 58 📚He went to Pilate, and requested the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be handed over to him. 59 And taking the body Joseph wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60 📚and put it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out of the rock. And he rolled a large stone across the entrance to the tomb and went away. 61 📚And Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were there, sitting opposite the tomb.
62 📚✭Now the next day, the one following the Day of Preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together to Pilate, 63 📚✭saying, “Sir, we remember that when he was still alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’ 64 📚Therefore, give an order that the tomb be made secure until the third day, or his disciples may come at night and steal him away and say to the people, ‘He has risen from the dead’, and the last error will be worse than the first”.
65 📚Pilate said to them, “You have a guard. Go make it as secure as you can”.
66 📚So they went and made the tomb secure, putting a seal on the stone and posting a guard.