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Matthew 26:14-75; Matthew 27

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Matthew 26:14-75

14 At that time one of the Twelve, the one called Judas Iscariot, went to the High Priests
15 and said, "What are you willing to give me if I betray him to you?" So they weighed out to him thirty shekels,
16 and from that moment he was on the look out for an opportunity to betray Him.
17 On the first day of the Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus with the question, "Where shall we make preparations for you to eat the Passover?"
18 "Go into the city," He replied, "to a certain man, and tell him, `The Teacher says, My time is close at hand. It is at your house that I shall keep the Passover with my disciples.'"
19 The disciples did as Jesus directed them, and got the Passover ready.
20 When evening came, He was at table with the twelve disciples,
21 and the meal was proceeding, when Jesus said, "In solemn truth I tell you that one of you will betray me."
22 Intensely grieved they began one after another to ask Him, "Can it be I, Master?"
23 "The one who has dipped his fingers in the bowl with me," He answered, "is the man who will betray me.
24 The Son of Man is indeed going as is written concerning Him; but alas for that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It had been a happy thing for that man if he had never been born."
25 Then Judas, the disciple who was betraying Him, asked, "Can it be I, Rabbi?" "It is you," He replied.
26 During the meal Jesus took a Passover biscuit, blessed it and broke it. He then gave it to the disciples, saying, "Take this and eat it: it is my body."
27 And He took the cup and gave thanks, and gave it to them saying, "Drink from it, all of you;
28 for this is my blood which is to be poured out for many for the remission of sins--the blood which ratifies the Covenant.
29 I tell you that I will never again take the produce of the vine till that day when I shall drink the new wine with you in my Father's Kingdom."
30 So they sang the hymn and went out to the Mount of Olives.
31 Then said Jesus, "This night all of you will stumble and fail in your fidelity to me; for it is written, `I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered in all directions.'
32 But after I have risen to life again I will go before you into Galilee."
33 "All may stumble and fail," said Peter, "but I never will."
34 "In solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that this very night, before the cock crows, you will three times disown me."
35 "Even if I must die with you," declared Peter, "I will never disown you." In like manner protested all the disciples.
36 Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane. And He said to the disciples, "Sit down here, whilst I go yonder and there pray."
37 And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zabdi. Then He began to be full of anguish and distress,
38 and He said to them, "My soul is crushed with anguish to the very point of death; wait here, and keep awake with me."
39 Going forward a short distance He fell on His face and prayed. "My Father," He said, "if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as Thou willest."
40 Then He came to the disciples and found them asleep, and He said to Peter, "Alas, none of you could keep awake with me for even a single hour!
41 Keep awake, and pray that you may not enter into temptation: the spirit is right willing, but the body is frail."
42 Again a second time He went away and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it is impossible for this cup to pass without my drinking it, Thy will be done."
43 He came and again found them asleep, for they were very tired.
44 So He left them, and went away once more and prayed a third time, again using the same words.
45 Then He came to the disciples and said, "Sleep on and rest. See, the moment is close at hand when the Son of Man is to be betrayed into the hands of sinful men.
46 Rouse yourselves. Let us be going. My betrayer is close at hand."
47 He had scarcely finished speaking when Judas came--one of the Twelve--accompanied by a great crowd of men armed with swords and bludgeons, sent by the High Priests and Elders of the People.
48 Now the betrayer had agreed upon a sign with them, to direct them. He had said, "The one whom I kiss is the man: lay hold of him."
49 So he went straight to Jesus and said, "Peace to you, Rabbi!" And he kissed Him eagerly.
50 "Friend," said Jesus, "carry out your intention." Then they came and laid their hands on Jesus and seized Him firmly.
51 But one of those with Jesus drew his sword and struck the High Priest's servant, cutting off his ear.
52 "Put back your sword again," said Jesus, "for all who draw the sword shall perish by the sword.
53 Or do you suppose I cannot entreat my Father and He would instantly send to my help more than twelve legions of angels?
54 In that case how are the Scriptures to be fulfilled which declare that thus it must be?"
55 Then said Jesus to the crowds, "Have you come out as if to fight with a robber, with swords and bludgeons to apprehend me? Day after day I have been sitting teaching in the Temple, and you did not arrest me.
56 But all this has taken place in order that the writings of the Prophets may be fulfilled." At this point the disciples all left Him and fled.
57 But the officers who had laid hold of Jesus led Him away to Caiaphas the High Priest, at whose house the Scribes and the Elders had assembled.
58 And Peter kept following Him at a distance, till he came even to the court of the High Priest's palace, where he entered and sat down among the officers to see the issue.
59 Meanwhile the High Priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against Jesus in order to put Him to death;
60 but they could find none, although many false witnesses came forward. At length there came two
61 who testified, "This man said, `I am able to pull down the Sanctuary of God and three days afterwards to build a new one.'"
62 Then the High Priest stood up and asked Him, "Have you no answer to make? What is it these men are saying in evidence against you?"
63 Jesus however remained silent. Again the High Priest addressed Him. "In the name of the ever-living God," he said, "I now put you on your oath. Tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God."
64 "I am He," replied Jesus. "But I tell you that, later on, you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Omnipotence, and coming on the clouds of the sky."
65 Then the High Priest tore his robes and exclaimed, "Impious language! What further need have we of witnesses! See, you have now heard the impiety.
66 What is your verdict?" "He deserves to die," they replied.
67 Then they spat in His face, and struck Him--some with the fist, some with the open hand--
68 while they taunted Him, saying, "Christ, prove yourself a Prophet by telling us who it was that struck you."
69 Peter meanwhile was sitting outside in the court of the palace, when one of the maidservants came over to him and said, "You too were with Jesus the Galilaean."
70 He denied it before them all, saying, "I do not know what you mean."
71 Soon afterwards he went out and stood in the gateway, when another girl saw him, and said, addressing the people there, "This man was with Jesus the Nazarene."
72 Again he denied it with an oath. "I do not know the man," he said.
73 A short time afterwards the people standing there came and said to Peter, "Certainly you too are one of them, for your brogue shows it."
74 Then with curses and oaths he declared, "I do not know the man." Immediately a cock crowed,
75 and Peter recollected the words of Jesus, how He had said, "Before the cock crows you will three times disown me." And he went out and wept aloud, bitterly.
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Matthew 27

1 When morning came all the High Priests and the Elders of the people consulted together against Jesus to put Him to death;
2 and binding Him they led Him away and handed Him over to Pilate the Governor.
3 Then when Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that He was condemned, smitten with remorse he brought back the thirty shekels to the High Priests and Elders
4 and said, "I have sinned, in betraying to death one who is innocent." "What does that matter to us?" they replied; it is your business."
5 Flinging the shekels into the Sanctuary he left the place, and went and hanged himself.
6 When the High Priests had gathered up the money they said, "It is illegal to put it into the Treasury, because it is the price of blood."
7 So after consulting together they spent the money in the purchase of the Potter's Field as a burial place for people not belonging to the city;
8 for which reason that piece of ground received the name, which it still bears, of `the Field of Blood.'
9 Then were fulfilled the words spoken by the Prophet Jeremiah, "And I took the thirty shekels, the price of the prized one on whom Israelites had set a price,
10 and gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord directed me."
11 Meanwhile Jesus was brought before the Governor, and the latter put the question, "Are you the King of the Jews?" "I am their King," He answered.
12 When however the High Priests and the Elders kept bringing their charges against Him, He said not a word in reply.
13 "Do you not hear," asked Pilate, "what a mass of evidence they are bringing against you?"
14 But He made no reply to a single accusation, so that the Governor was greatly astonished.
15 "Now it was the Governor's custom at the Festival to release some one prisoner, whomsoever the populace desired;
16 and at this time they had a notorious prisoner called Barabbas.
17 So when they were now assembled Pilate appealed to them. "Whom shall I release to you," he said, "Barabbas, or Jesus the so-called Christ?"
18 For he knew that it was from envious hatred that Jesus had been brought before him.
19 While he was sitting on the tribunal a message came to him from his wife. "Have nothing to do with that innocent man," she said, "for during the night I have suffered terribly in a dream through him."
20 The High Priests, however, and the Elders urged the crowd to ask for Barabbas and to demand the death of Jesus.
21 So when the Governor a second time asked them, "Which of the two shall I release to you?" --they cried, "Barabbas!"
22 "What then," said Pilate, "shall I do with Jesus, the so-called Christ?" With one voice they shouted, "Let him be crucified!"
23 "Why, what crime has he committed?" asked Pilate. But they kept on furiously shouting, "Let him be crucified!"
24 So when he saw that he could gain nothing, but that on the contrary there was a riot threatening, he called for water and washed his hands in sight of them all, saying, "I am not responsible for this murder: you must answer for it."
25 "His blood," replied all the people, "be on us and on our children!"
26 Then he released Barabbas to them, but Jesus he ordered to be scourged, and gave Him up to be crucified.
27 Then the Governor's soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium, and called together the whole battalion to make sport of Him.
28 Stripping off His garments, they put on Him a general's short crimson cloak.
29 They twisted a wreath of thorny twigs and put it on His head, and they put a sceptre of cane in His right hand, and kneeling to Him they shouted in mockery, "Long live the King of the Jews!"
30 Then they spat upon Him, and taking the cane they repeatedly struck Him on the head with it.
31 At last, having finished their sport, they took off the cloak, clothed Him again in His own garments, and led Him away for crucifixion.
32 Going out they met a Cyrenaean named Simon; whom they compelled to carry His cross,
33 and so they came to a place called Golgotha, which means `Skull-ground.'
34 Here they gave Him a mixture of wine and gall to drink, but having tasted it He refused to drink it.
35 After crucifying Him, they divided His garments among them by lot,
36 and sat down there on guard.
37 Over His head they placed a written statement of the charge against Him: THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
38 At the same time two robbers were crucified with Him, one at His right hand and the other at His left.
39 And the passers-by reviled Him. They shook their heads at Him
40 and said, "You who would pull down the Sanctuary and build a new one within three days, save yourself. If you are God's Son, come down from the cross."
41 In like manner the High Priests also, together with the Scribes and the Elders, taunted Him.
42 "He saved others," they said, "himself he cannot save! He is the King of Israel! Let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe in him.
43 His trust is in God: let God deliver him now, if He will have him; for he said, `I am God's Son.'"
44 Insults of the same kind were heaped on Him even by the robbers who were being crucified with Him.
45 Now from noon until three o'clock in the afternoon there was darkness over the whole land;
46 but about three o'clock Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" that is to say, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?"
47 "The man is calling for Elijah," said some of the bystanders.
48 One of them ran forthwith, and filling a sponge with sour wine put it on the end of a cane and offered it Him to drink;
49 while the rest said, "Let us see whether Elijah is coming to deliver him."
50 But Jesus uttered another loud cry and then yielded up His spirit.
51 Immediately the curtain of the Sanctuary was torn in two from top to bottom: the earth quaked; the rocks split;
52 the tombs opened; and many of God's people who were asleep in death awoke.
53 And coming out of their tombs after Christ's resurrection they entered the holy city and showed themselves to many.
54 As for the Captain and the soldiers who were with Him keeping guard over Jesus, when they witnessed the earthquake and the other occurrences they were filled with terror, and exclaimed, "Assuredly he was God's Son."
55 And there were a number of women there looking on from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee ministering to His necessities;
56 among them being Mary of Magdala, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zabdi.
57 Towards sunset there came a wealthy inhabitant of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who himself also had become a disciple of Jesus.
58 He went to Pilate and begged to have the body of Jesus, and Pilate ordered it to be given to him.
59 So Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean sheet of fine linen.
60 He then laid it in his own new tomb which he had hewn in the solid rock, and after rolling a great stone against the door of the tomb he went home.
61 Mary of Magdala and the other Mary were both present there, sitting opposite to the sepulchre.
62 On the next day, the day after the Preparation, the High Priests and the Pharisees came in a body to Pilate.
63 "Sir," they said, "we recollect that during his lifetime that impostor pretended that after two days he was to rise to life again.
64 So give orders for the sepulchre to be securely guarded till the third day, for fear his disciples should come by night and steal the body, and then tell the people that he has come back to life; and so the last imposture will be more serious than the first."
65 "You can have a guard," said Pilate: "go and make all safe, as best you can."
66 So they went and made the sepulchre secure, sealing the stone besides setting the guard.
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