Good News Translation GNT
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1 Early in the morning the chief priests met hurriedly with the elders, the teachers of the Law, and the whole Council, and made their plans. They put Jesus in chains, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate.
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Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.
2 Pilate questioned him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" Jesus answered, "So you say."
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Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered, "So you say."
3 The chief priests were accusing Jesus of many things,
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The chief priests accused him of many things.
4 so Pilate questioned him again, "Aren't you going to answer? Listen to all their accusations!"
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Pilate again asked him, "Have you no answer? See how many things they testify against you!"
5 Again Jesus refused to say a word, and Pilate was amazed.
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But Jesus made no further answer, so Pilate marveled.
6 At every Passover Festival Pilate was in the habit of setting free any one prisoner the people asked for.
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Now at the feast he used to release to them one prisoner, whom they asked of him.
7 At that time a man named Barabbas was in prison with the rebels who had committed murder in the riot.
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There was one called Barabbas, bound with those who had made insurrection, men who in the insurrection had committed murder.
8 When the crowd gathered and began to ask Pilate for the usual favor,
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The multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do as he always did for them.
9 he asked them, "Do you want me to set free for you the king of the Jews?"
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Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"
10 He knew very well that the chief priests had handed Jesus over to him because they were jealous.
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For he perceived that for envy the chief priests had delivered him up.
11 But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to ask, instead, that Pilate set Barabbas free for them.
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But the chief priests stirred up the multitude, that he should release Barabbas to them instead.
12 Pilate spoke again to the crowd, "What, then, do you want me to do with the one you call the king of the Jews?"
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Pilate again asked them, "What then should I do to him whom you call the King of the Jews?"
13 They shouted back, "Crucify him!"
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They cried out again, "Crucify him!"
14 "But what crime has he committed?" Pilate asked. They shouted all the louder, "Crucify him!"
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Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they cried out exceedingly, "Crucify him!"
15 Pilate wanted to please the crowd, so he set Barabbas free for them. Then he had Jesus whipped and handed him over to be crucified.
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Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and delivered Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.
16 The soldiers took Jesus inside to the courtyard of the governor's palace and called together the rest of the company.
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The soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium; and they called together the whole cohort.
17 They put a purple robe on Jesus, made a crown out of thorny branches, and put it on his head.
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They clothed him with purple, and weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on him.
18 Then they began to salute him: "Long live the King of the Jews!"
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They began to salute him, "Hail, King of the Jews!"
19 They beat him over the head with a stick, spat on him, fell on their knees, and bowed down to him.
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They struck his head with a reed, and spat on him, and bowing their knees, did homage to him.
20 When they had finished making fun of him, they took off the purple robe and put his own clothes back on him. Then they led him out to crucify him.
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When they had mocked him, they took the purple off of him, and put his own garments on him. They led him out to crucify him.
21 On the way they met a man named Simon, who was coming into the city from the country, and the soldiers forced him to carry Jesus' cross. (Simon was from Cyrene and was the father of Alexander and Rufus.)
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They compelled one passing by, coming from the country, Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to go with them, that he might bear his cross.
22 They took Jesus to a place called Golgotha, which means "The Place of the Skull."
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They brought him to the place called Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, "The place of a skull."
23 There they tried to give him wine mixed with a drug called myrrh, but Jesus would not drink it.
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They offered him wine mixed with myrrh to drink, but he didn't take it.
24 Then they crucified him and divided his clothes among themselves, throwing dice to see who would get which piece of clothing.
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Crucifying him, they parted his garments among them, casting lots on them, what each should take.
25 It was nine o'clock in the morning when they crucified him.
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It was the third hour, and they crucified him.
26 The notice of the accusation against him said: "The King of the Jews."
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The superscription of his accusation was written over him, "THE KING OF THE JEWS."
27 They also crucified two bandits with Jesus, one on his right and the other on his left.
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With him they crucified two robbers; one on his right hand, and one on his left.
29 People passing by shook their heads and hurled insults at Jesus: "Aha! You were going to tear down the Temple and build it back up in three days!
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Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, "Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,
30 Now come down from the cross and save yourself!"
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save yourself, and come down from the cross!"
31 In the same way the chief priests and the teachers of the Law made fun of Jesus, saying to one another, "He saved others, but he cannot save himself!
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Likewise, also the chief priests mocking among themselves with the scribes said, "He saved others. He can't save himself.
32 Let us see the Messiah, the king of Israel, come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him!" And the two who were crucified with Jesus insulted him also.
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Let the Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe him." Those who were crucified with him reproached him.
33 At noon the whole country was covered with darkness, which lasted for three hours.
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When the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
34 At three o'clock Jesus cried out with a loud shout, ["Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?"] which means, "My God, my God, why did you abandon me?"
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At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which is, being interpreted, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
35 Some of the people there heard him and said, "Listen, he is calling for Elijah!"
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Some of those who stood by, when they heard it, said, "Behold, he calls Elijah."
36 One of them ran up with a sponge, soaked it in cheap wine, and put it on the end of a stick. Then he held it up to Jesus' lips and said, "Wait! Let us see if Elijah is coming to bring him down from the cross!"
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One ran, and filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, "Let him be. Let's see whether Elijah comes to take him down."
37 With a loud cry Jesus died.
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Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and gave up the spirit.
38 The curtain hanging in the Temple was torn in two, from top to bottom.
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The veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom.
39 The army officer who was standing there in front of the cross saw how Jesus had died. "This man was really the Son of God!" he said.
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When the centurion, who stood by opposite him, saw that he cried out like this and breathed his last, he said, "Truly this man was the Son of God!"
40 Some women were there, looking on from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of the younger James and of Joseph, and Salome.
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There were also women watching from afar, among whom were both Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;
41 They had followed Jesus while he was in Galilee and had helped him. Many other women who had come to Jerusalem with him were there also.
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who, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and served him; and many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.
42 It was toward evening when Joseph of Arimathea arrived. He was a respected member of the Council, who was waiting for the coming of the Kingdom of God. It was Preparation day (that is, the day before the Sabbath), so Joseph went boldly into the presence of Pilate and asked him for the body of Jesus.
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When evening had now come, because it was the Preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath,
44 Pilate was surprised to hear that Jesus was already dead. He called the army officer and asked him if Jesus had been dead a long time.
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Pilate marveled if he were already dead: and calling to him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead for a while.
45 After hearing the officer's report, Pilate told Joseph he could have the body.
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When he learned it from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.
46 Joseph bought a linen sheet, took the body down, wrapped it in the sheet, and placed it in a tomb which had been dug out of solid rock. Then he rolled a large stone across the entrance to the tomb.
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He bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb which had been cut out of a rock. He rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.
47 Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joseph were watching and saw where the body of Jesus was placed.
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Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of Joses, saw where he was laid.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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