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1 With that, the whole Sanhedrin got up and brought Yeshua before Pilate,
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And they all went and took him before Pilate.
2 where they started accusing him. "We found this man subverting our nation, forbidding us to pay taxes to the Emperor and claiming that he himself is the Messiah -- a king!"
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And they made statements against him, saying, This man has to our knowledge been teaching our nation to do wrong, and not to make payment of taxes to Caesar, even saying that he himself is Christ, a king.
3 Pilate asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" And he answered him, "The words are yours." P
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And Pilate said to him, Are you the King of the Jews? And he said in answer, You say so.
4 ilate said to the head cohanim and the crowds, "I find no ground for a charge against this man.
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And Pilate said to the chief priests and the people, In my opinion this man has done no wrong
5 But they persisted. "He is inciting the people with his teaching throughout all Y'hudah -- he started in the Galil, and now he's here!"
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But they became more violent than before, saying, He has made trouble among the people, teaching through all Judaea from Galilee to this place.
6 On hearing this, Pilate asked if the man was from the Galil;
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But at these words Pilate said, Is the man a Galilaean?
7 and when he learned that he was under Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him over to Herod, who at that time happened to be in Yerushalayim too.
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And when he saw that he was under the authority of Herod, he sent him to Herod, who was in Jerusalem himself at that time.
8 Herod was delighted to see Yeshua, because he had heard about him and for a long time had been wanting to meet him; indeed, he hoped to see him perform some miracle.
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Now when Herod saw Jesus he was very glad, having for a long time had a desire to see him, for he had had accounts of him, and was hoping to see some wonders done by him.
9 He questioned him at great length,
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And he put a great number of questions to him, but he said nothing.
10 but Yeshua made no reply. However, the head cohanim and the Torah-teachers stood there, vehemently pressing their case against him.
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And the chief priests and the scribes were there, making statements against him violently.
11 Herod and his soldiers treated Yeshua with contempt and made fun of him. Then, dressing him in an elegant robe, they sent him back to Pilate.
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And Herod, with the men of his army, put shame on him and made sport of him, and dressing him in shining robes, he sent him back to Pilate.
12 That day Herod and Pilate became friends with each other; previously they had been enemies.
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And that day Herod and Pilate became friends with one another, for before they had been against one another.
13 Pilate summoned the head cohanim, the leaders and the people,
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And Pilate sent for the chief priests and the rulers and the people, and said to them,
14 and said to them, "You brought this man before me on a charge of subverting the people. I examined him in your presence and did not find the man guilty of the crime you are accusing him of
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You say that this man has been teaching the people evil things: now I, after going into the question before you, see nothing wrong in this man in connection with the things which you have said against him
15 And neither did Herod, because he sent him back to us. Clearly, he has not done anything that merits the death penalty.
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And Herod is of the same opinion, for he has sent him back to us; for, you see, he has done nothing for which I might put him to death.
16 Therefore, what I will do is have him flogged and release him."
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And so I will give him punishment and let him go.
17 Some manuscripts have verse 17: For he was required to release one man to them at the festival.
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18 But with one voice they shouted, "Away with this man! Give us Bar-Abba!"
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But with loud voices they said all together, Put this man to death, and make Barabbas free.
19 (He was a man who had been thrown in prison for causing a riot in the city and for murder.) Pilat
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Now this man was in prison because of an attack against the government in the town, in which there had been loss of life
20 appealed to them again, because he wanted to release Yeshua.
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And Pilate again said to them that it was his desire to let Jesus go free.
21 But they yelled, "Put him to death on the stake! Put him to death on the stake!
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But crying out they said, To the cross with him
22 A third time he asked them, "But what has this man done wrong? I haven't found any reason to put him to death. So I'm going to have him flogged and set free."
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And he said to them a third time, Why, what evil has he done? I see no reason for putting him to death: I will give him punishment and let him go.
23 But they went on yelling insistently, demanding that he be executed on the stake; and their shouting prevailed.
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But they went on crying out loudly, Let him be put to death on the cross. And they had their way.
24 Pilate decided to grant their demand;
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And Pilate gave his decision for their desire to be put into effect.
25 he released the man who had been thrown in prison for insurrection and murder, the one they had asked for; and Yeshua he surrendered to their will.
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And in answer to their request, he let that man go free who had been in prison for acting against the government and causing death, and Jesus he gave up to their pleasure.
26 As the Roman soldiers led Yeshua away, they grabbed hold of a man from Cyrene named Shim`on, who was on his way in from the country. They put the execution-stake on his back and made him carry it behind Yeshua.
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And while they were taking him away, they put their hands on Simon of Cyrene, who was coming from the country, and made him take the cross after Jesus.
27 Large numbers of people followed, including women crying and wailing over him.
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And a great band of people went after him, and of women making signs of grief and weeping for him.
28 Yeshua turned to them and said, "Daughters of Yerushalayim, don't cry for me; cry for yourselves and your children!
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But Jesus, turning to them, said, Daughters of Jerusalem, let not your weeping be for me, but for yourselves and for your children.
29 For the time is coming when people will say, `The childless women are the lucky ones -- those whose wombs have never borne a child, whose breasts have never nursed a baby!
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For the days are coming in which they will say, Happy are those who have had no children, whose bodies have never given birth, whose breasts have never given milk.
30 Then They will begin to say to the mountains, `Fall on us!' and to the hills, `Cover us!'
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And they will say to the mountains, Come down on us, and to the hills, Be a cover over us.
31 For if they do these things when the wood is green, what is going to happen when it's dry?"
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For if they do these things when the tree is green, what will they do when it is dry?
32 Two other men, both criminals, were led out to be executed with him.
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And two others, evil-doers, were taken with him to be put to death.
33 When they came to the place called The Skull, they nailed him to a stake; and they nailed the criminals to stakes, one on the right and one on the left.
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And when they came to the place which is named Golgotha, they put him on the cross, and the evil-doers, one on the right side, and the other on the left.
34 Yeshua said, "Father, forgive them; they don't understand what they are doing." They divided up his clothes by throwing dice.
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And Jesus said, Father, let them have forgiveness, for they have no knowledge of what they are doing. And they made division of his clothing among them by the decision of chance.
35 The people stood watching, and the rulers sneered at him.m "He saved others," they said, "so if he really is the Messiah, the one chosen by God, let him save himself!"
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And the people were looking on. And the rulers made sport of him, saying, He was a saviour of others; let him do something for himself, if he is the Christ, the man of God's selection.
36 The soldiers too ridiculed him; they came up, offered him vinegar
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And the men of the army made sport of him, coming to him and giving him bitter wine
37 and said, "If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself!"
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And saying, If you are the King of the Jews, get yourself free.
38 And there was a notice over him which read, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEW
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And these words were put in writing over him, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS
39 One of the criminals hanging there hurled insults at him. "Aren't you the Messiah? Save yourself and us!"
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And one of the evil-doers on the cross, with bitter feeling, said to him, Are you not the Christ? Get yourself and us out of this.
40 But the other one spoke up and rebuked the first, saying, "Have you no fear of God? You're getting the same punishment as he is.
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But the other, protesting, said, Have you no fear of God? for you have a part in the same punishment,
41 Ours is only fair; we're getting what we deserve for what we did. But this man did nothing wrong."
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And with reason; for we have the right reward of our acts, but this man has done nothing wrong.
42 Then he said, "Yeshua, remember me when you come as King."
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And he said, Jesus, keep me in mind when you come in your kingdom.
43 Yeshua said to him, "Yes! I promise that you will be with me today in Gan-`Eden."
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And he said to him, Truly I say to you, Today you will be with me in Paradise.
44 It was now about noon, and darkness covered the whole Land until three o'clock in the afternoon;
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And it was now about the sixth hour; and all the land was dark till the ninth hour;
45 the sun did not shine. Also the parokhet in the Temple was split down the middle.
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The light of the sun went out, and the curtain in the Temple was parted in two.
46 Crying out with a loud voice, Yeshua said, "Father! Into your hands I commit my spirit." With these words he gave up his spirit.
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And Jesus gave a loud cry and said, Father, into your hands I give my spirit: and when he had said this, he gave up his spirit.
47 When the Roman officer saw what had happened, he began to praise God and said, "Surely this man was innocent!"
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And when the captain saw what was done, he gave praise to God, saying, Without doubt this was an upright man.
48 And when all the crowds that had gathered to watch the spectacle saw the things that had occurred, they returned home beating their breasts.
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And all the people who had come together to see it, when they saw the things which were done, went back again making signs of grief.
49 All his friends, including the women who had accompanied him from the Galil, had been standing at a distance; they saw it all.
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And all his friends and the women who came with him from Galilee, were waiting at a distance, watching these things.
50 There was a man named Yosef, a member of the Sanhedrin. He was a good man, a tzaddik;
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Now there was a man named Joseph, a man of authority and a good and upright man
51 and he had not been in agreement with either the Sanhedrin's motivation or their action. He came from the town of Ramatayim, a town of the Judeans; and he looked forward to the Kingdom of God.
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(He had not given his approval to their decision or their acts), of Arimathaea, a town of the Jews, who was waiting for the kingdom of God:
52 This man approached Pilate and asked for Yeshua's body.
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This man went to Pilate and made a request for the body of Jesus.
53 He took it down, wrapped it in a linen sheet, and placed it in a tomb cut into the rock, that had never been used.
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And he took it down, and folding it in a linen cloth, he put it in a place cut in the rock for a dead body; and no one had ever been put in it.
54 It was Preparation Day, and a Shabbat was about to begin.
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Now it was the day of making ready and the Sabbath was coming on.
55 The women who had come with Yeshua from the Galil followed; they saw the tomb and how his body was placed in it.
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And the women who had come with him from Galilee went after him and saw the place and how his body had been put to rest;
56 Then they went back home to prepare spices and ointments. On Shabbat the women rested, in obedience to the commandment;
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And they went back and got ready spices and perfumes; and on the Sabbath they took their rest, in agreement with the law.
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