Luke 23; John 18; John 19

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Luke 23

1 The whole assembly got up and led Jesus to Pilate and

2 began to accuse him. They said, "We have found this man misleading our people, opposing the payment of taxes to Caesar, and claiming that he is the Christ, a king."

3 Pilate asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" Jesus replied, "That's what you say."

4 Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, "I find no legal basis for action against this man."

5 But they objected strenuously, saying, "He agitates the people with his teaching throughout Judea—starting from Galilee all the way here."

6 Hearing this, Pilate asked if the man was a Galilean.

7 When he learned that Jesus was from Herod's district, Pilate sent him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem at that time.

8 Herod was very glad to see Jesus, for he had heard about Jesus and had wanted to see him for quite some time. He was hoping to see Jesus perform some sign.

9 Herod questioned Jesus at length, but Jesus didn't respond to him.

10 The chief priests and the legal experts were there, fiercely accusing Jesus.

11 Herod and his soldiers treated Jesus with contempt. Herod mocked him by dressing Jesus in elegant clothes and sent him back to Pilate.

12 Pilate and Herod became friends with each other that day. Before this, they had been enemies.

13 Then Pilate called together the chief priests, the rulers, and the people.

14 He said to them, "You brought this man before me as one who was misleading the people. I have questioned him in your presence and found nothing in this man's conduct that provides a legal basis for the charges you have brought against him.

15 Neither did Herod, because Herod returned him to us. He's done nothing that deserves death.

16 Therefore, I'll have him whipped, then let him go."

18 But with one voice they shouted, "Away with this man! Release Barabbas to us." (

19 Barabbas had been thrown into prison because of a riot that had occurred in the city, and for murder.)

20 Pilate addressed them again because he wanted to release Jesus.

21 They kept shouting out, "Crucify him! Crucify him!"

22 For the third time, Pilate said to them, "Why? What wrong has he done? I've found no legal basis for the death penalty in his case. Therefore, I will have him whipped, then let him go."

23 But they were adamant, shouting their demand that Jesus be crucified. Their voices won out.

24 Pilate issued his decision to grant their request.

25 He released the one they asked for, who had been thrown into prison because of a riot and murder. But he handed Jesus over to their will.

26 As they led Jesus away, they grabbed Simon, a man from Cyrene, who was coming in from the countryside. They put the cross on his back and made him carry it behind Jesus.

27 A huge crowd of people followed Jesus, including women, who were mourning and wailing for him.

28 Jesus turned to the women and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, don't cry for me. Rather, cry for yourselves and your children.

29 The time will come when they will say, ‘Happy are those who are unable to become pregnant, the wombs that never gave birth, and the breasts that never nursed a child.'

30 Then they will say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us,' and to the hills, ‘Cover us.'

31 If they do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?"

32 They also led two other criminals to be executed with Jesus.

33 When they arrived at the place called The Skull, they crucified him, along with the criminals, one on his right and the other on his left.

34 Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they don't know what they're doing." They drew lots as a way of dividing up his clothing.

35 The people were standing around watching, but the leaders sneered at him, saying, "He saved others. Let him save himself if he really is the Christ sent from God, the chosen one."

36 The soldiers also mocked him. They came up to him, offering him sour wine

37 and saying, "If you really are the king of the Jews, save yourself."

38 Above his head was a notice of the formal charge against him. It read "This is the king of the Jews."

39 One of the criminals hanging next to Jesus insulted him: "Aren't you the Christ? Save yourself and us!"

40 Responding, the other criminal spoke harshly to him, "Don't you fear God, seeing that you've also been sentenced to die?

41 We are rightly condemned, for we are receiving the appropriate sentence for what we did. But this man has done nothing wrong."

42 Then he said, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom."

43 Jesus replied, "I assure you that today you will be with me in paradise."

44 It was now about noon, and darkness covered the whole earth until about three o'clock,

45 while the sun stopped shining. Then the curtain in the sanctuary tore down the middle.

46 Crying out in a loud voice, Jesus said, "Father, into your hands I entrust my life." After he said this, he breathed for the last time.

47 When the centurion saw what happened, he praised God, saying, "It's really true: this man was righteous."

48 All the crowds who had come together to see this event returned to their homes beating their chests after seeing what had happened.

49 And everyone who knew him, including the women who had followed him from Galilee, stood at a distance observing these things.

50 Now there was a man named Joseph who was a member of the council. He was a good and righteous man.

51 He hadn't agreed with the plan and actions of the council. He was from the Jewish city of Arimathea and eagerly anticipated God's kingdom.

52 This man went to Pilate and asked for Jesus' body.

53 Taking it down, he wrapped it in a linen cloth and laid it in a tomb carved out of the rock, in which no one had ever been buried.

54 It was the Preparation Day for the Sabbath, and the Sabbath was quickly approaching.

55 The women who had come with Jesus from Galilee followed Joseph. They saw the tomb and how Jesus' body was laid in it,

56 then they went away and prepared fragrant spices and perfumed oils. They rested on the Sabbath, in keeping with the commandment.

John 18

1 After he said these things, Jesus went out with his disciples and crossed over to the other side of the Kidron Valley. He and his disciples entered a garden there.

2 Judas, his betrayer, also knew the place because Jesus often gathered there with his disciples.

3 Judas brought a company of soldiers and some guards from the chief priests and Pharisees. They came there carrying lanterns, torches, and weapons.

4 Jesus knew everything that was to happen to him, so he went out and asked, "Who are you looking for?"

5 They answered, "Jesus the Nazarene." He said to them, "I Am." (Judas, his betrayer, was standing with them.)

6 When he said, "I Am," they shrank back and fell to the ground.

7 He asked them again, "Who are you looking for?" They said, "Jesus the Nazarene."

8 Jesus answered, "I told you, ‘I Am.' If you are looking for me, then let these people go."

9 This was so that the word he had spoken might be fulfilled: "I didn't lose anyone of those whom you gave me."

10 Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his right ear. (The servant's name was Malchus.)

11 Jesus told Peter, "Put your sword away! Am I not to drink the cup the Father has given me?"

12 Then the company of soldiers, the commander, and the guards from the Jewish leaders took Jesus into custody. They bound him

13 and led him first to Annas. He was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest that year. (

14 Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jewish leaders that it was better for one person to die for the people.)

15 Simon Peter and another disciple followed Jesus. Because this other disciple was known to the high priest, he went with Jesus into the high priest's courtyard.

16 However, Peter stood outside near the gate. Then the other disciple (the one known to the high priest) came out and spoke to the woman stationed at the gate, and she brought Peter in.

17 The servant woman stationed at the gate asked Peter, "Aren't you one of this man's disciples?" "I'm not," he replied.

18 The servants and the guards had made a fire because it was cold. They were standing around it, warming themselves. Peter joined them there, standing by the fire and warming himself.

19 Meanwhile, the chief priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and his teaching.

20 Jesus answered, "I've spoken openly to the world. I've always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where all the Jews gather. I've said nothing in private.

21 Why ask me? Ask those who heard what I told them. They know what I said."

22 After Jesus spoke, one of the guards standing there slapped Jesus in the face. "Is that how you would answer the high priest?" he asked.

23 Jesus replied, "If I speak wrongly, testify about what was wrong. But if I speak correctly, why do you strike me?"

24 Then Annas sent him, bound, to Caiaphas the high priest.

25 Meanwhile, Simon Peter was still standing with the guards, warming himself. They asked, "Aren't you one of his disciples?" Peter denied it, saying, "I'm not."

26 A servant of the high priest, a relative of the one whose ear Peter had cut off, said to him, "Didn't I see you in the garden with him?"

27 Peter denied it again, and immediately a rooster crowed.

28 The Jewish leaders led Jesus from Caiaphas to the Roman governor's palace. It was early in the morning. So that they could eat the Passover, the Jewish leaders wouldn't enter the palace; entering the palace would have made them ritually impure.

29 So Pilate went out to them and asked, "What charge do you bring against this man?"

30 They answered, "If he had done nothing wrong, we wouldn't have handed him over to you."

31 Pilate responded, "Take him yourselves and judge him according to your Law." The Jewish leaders replied, "The Law doesn't allow us to kill anyone." (

32 This was so that Jesus' word might be fulfilled when he indicated how he was going to die.)

33 Pilate went back into the palace. He summoned Jesus and asked, "Are you the king of the Jews?"

34 Jesus answered, "Do you say this on your own or have others spoken to you about me?"

35 Pilate responded, "I'm not a Jew, am I? Your nation and its chief priests handed you over to me. What have you done?"

36 Jesus replied, "My kingdom doesn't originate from this world. If it did, my guards would fight so that I wouldn't have been arrested by the Jewish leaders. My kingdom isn't from here."

37 "So you are a king?" Pilate said. Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. I was born and came into the world for this reason: to testify to the truth. Whoever accepts the truth listens to my voice."

38 "What is truth?" Pilate asked. After Pilate said this, he returned to the Jewish leaders and said, "I find no grounds for any charge against him.

39 You have a custom that I release one prisoner for you at Passover. Do you want me to release for you the king of the Jews?"

40 They shouted, "Not this man! Give us Barabbas!" (Barabbas was an outlaw.)

John 19

1 Then Pilate had Jesus taken and whipped.

2 The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and dressed him in a purple robe.

3 Over and over they went up to him and said, "Greetings, king of the Jews!" And they slapped him in the face.

4 Pilate came out of the palace again and said to the Jewish leaders, "Look! I'm bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no grounds for a charge against him."

5 When Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, "Here's the man."

6 When the chief priests and their deputies saw him, they shouted out, "Crucify, crucify!" Pilate told them, "You take him and crucify him. I don't find any grounds for a charge against him."

7 The Jewish leaders replied, "We have a Law, and according to this Law he ought to die because he made himself out to be God's Son."

8 When Pilate heard this word, he was even more afraid.

9 He went back into the residence and spoke to Jesus, "Where are you from?" Jesus didn't answer.

10 So Pilate said, "You won't speak to me? Don't you know that I have authority to release you and also to crucify you?"

11 Jesus replied, "You would have no authority over me if it had not been given to you from above. That's why the one who handed me over to you has the greater sin."

12 From that moment on, Pilate wanted to release Jesus. However, the Jewish leaders cried out, saying, "If you release this man, you aren't a friend of the emperor! Anyone who makes himself out to be a king opposes the emperor!"

13 When Pilate heard these words, he led Jesus out and seated him on the judge's bench at the place called Stone Pavement (in Aramaic, Gabbatha).

14 It was about noon on the Preparation Day for the Passover. Pilate said to the Jewish leaders, "Here's your king."

15 The Jewish leaders cried out, "Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!" Pilate responded, "What? Do you want me to crucify your king?" "We have no king except the emperor," the chief priests answered.

16 Then Pilate handed Jesus over to be crucified. The soldiers took Jesus prisoner.

17 Carrying his cross by himself, he went out to a place called Skull Place (in Aramaic, Golgotha).

18 That's where they crucified him—and two others with him, one on each side and Jesus in the middle.

19 Pilate had a public notice written and posted on the cross. It read "Jesus the Nazarene, the king of the Jews."

20 Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city and it was written in Aramaic, Latin, and Greek.

21 Therefore, the Jewish chief priests complained to Pilate, "Don't write, ‘The king of the Jews' but ‘This man said, 'I am the king of the Jews.''"

22 Pilate answered, "What I've written, I've written."

23 When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and his sandals, and divided them into four shares, one for each soldier. His shirt was seamless, woven as one piece from the top to the bottom.

24 They said to each other, "Let's not tear it. Let's cast lots to see who will get it." This was to fulfill the scripture, They divided my clothes among themselves, and they cast lots for my clothing. That's what the soldiers did.

25 Jesus' mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene stood near the cross.

26 When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, "Woman, here is your son."

27 Then he said to the disciple, "Here is your mother." And from that time on, this disciple took her into his home.

28 After this, knowing that everything was already completed, in order to fulfill the scripture, Jesus said, "I am thirsty."

29 A jar full of sour wine was nearby, so the soldiers soaked a sponge in it, placed it on a hyssop branch, and held it up to his lips.

30 When he had received the sour wine, Jesus said, "It is completed." Bowing his head, he gave up his life.

31 It was the Preparation Day and the Jewish leaders didn't want the bodies to remain on the cross on the Sabbath, especially since that Sabbath was an important day. So they asked Pilate to have the legs of those crucified broken and the bodies taken down.

32 Therefore, the soldiers came and broke the legs of the two men who were crucified with Jesus.

33 When they came to Jesus, they saw that he was already dead so they didn't break his legs.

34 However, one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.

35 The one who saw this has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he speaks the truth, and he has testified so that you also can believe.

36 These things happened to fulfill the scripture, They won't break any of his bones.

37 And another scripture says, They will look at him whom they have pierced.

38 After this Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate if he could take away the body of Jesus. Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but a secret one because he feared the Jewish authorities. Pilate gave him permission, so he came and took the body away.

39 Nicodemus, the one who at first had come to Jesus at night, was there too. He brought a mixture of myrrh and aloe, nearly seventy-five pounds in all.

40 Following Jewish burial customs, they took Jesus' body and wrapped it, with the spices, in linen cloths.

41 There was a garden in the place where Jesus was crucified, and in the garden was a new tomb in which no one had ever been laid.

42 Because it was the Jewish Preparation Day and the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus in it.

Luke 23; John 18; John 19

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