Matthew 27:23-33

23 “Why? What crime has he committed?” asked Pilate. But they shouted all the louder, “Crucify him!”
24 When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. “I am innocent of this man’s blood,” he said. “It is your responsibility!”
25 All the people answered, “His blood is on us and on our children!”
26 Then he released Barabbas to them. But he had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified.

The Soldiers Mock Jesus

27 Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company of soldiers around him.
28 They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him,
29 and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand. Then they knelt in front of him and mocked him. “Hail, king of the Jews!” they said.
30 They spit on him, and took the staff and struck him on the head again and again.
31 After they had mocked him, they took off the robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him away to crucify him.

The Crucifixion of Jesus

32 As they were going out, they met a man from Cyrene, named Simon, and they forced him to carry the cross.
33 They came to a place called Golgotha (which means “the place of the skull”).

Cross References 15

  • 1. Matthew 26:5
  • 2. Psalms 26:6
  • 3. Deuteronomy 21:6-8
  • 4. ver 4
  • 5. Joshua 2:19; S Acts 5:28
  • 6. Isaiah 53:5; John 19:1
  • 7. John 18:28,33; John 19:9
  • 8. John 19:2
  • 9. Isaiah 53:3; John 19:2,3
  • 10. S Matthew 16:21; Matthew 26:67
  • 11. Isaiah 53:7
  • 12. Hebrews 13:12
  • 13. Acts 2:10; Acts 6:9; Acts 11:20; Acts 13:1
  • 14. Mark 15:21; Luke 23:26
  • 15. John 19:17
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