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Luke 23

1 Then the entire assembly stood up and took him to Pilate.

2 They began to accuse Jesus by saying, "We found that he stirs up trouble among our people: He keeps them from paying taxes to the emperor, and he says that he is Christ, a king."

3 Pilate asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" "Yes, I am," Jesus answered.

4 Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowd, "I can't find this man guilty of any crime."

5 The priests and the crowd became more forceful. They said, "He stirs up the people throughout Judea with his teachings. He started in Galilee and has come here."

6 When Pilate heard that, he asked if the man was from Galilee.

7 When Pilate found out that he was, he sent Jesus to Herod. Herod ruled Galilee and was in Jerusalem at that time.

8 Herod was very pleased to see Jesus. For a long time he had wanted to see him. He had heard about Jesus and hoped to see him perform some kind of miracle.

9 Herod asked Jesus many questions, but Jesus wouldn't answer him.

10 Meanwhile, the chief priests and the scribes stood there and shouted their accusations against Jesus.

11 Herod and his soldiers treated Jesus with contempt and made fun of him. They put a colorful robe on him and sent him back to Pilate.

12 So Herod and Pilate became friends that day. They had been enemies before this.

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

14 He told them, "You brought me this man as someone who turns the people against the government. I've questioned him in front of you and haven't found this man guilty of the crimes of which you accuse him.

15 Neither could Herod. So he sent this man back to us. This man hasn't done anything to deserve the death penalty.

16 So I'm going to have him whipped and set free."

18 The whole crowd then shouted, "Take him away! Free Barabbas for us."

19 (Barabbas had been thrown into prison for his involvement in a riot that had taken place in the city and for murder.)

20 But because Pilate wanted to free Jesus, he spoke to the people again.

21 They began yelling, "Crucify him! Crucify him!"

22 A third time Pilate spoke to them. He asked, "Why? What has he done wrong? I haven't found this man deserving of the death penalty. So I'm going to have him whipped and set free."

23 But the crowd pressured Pilate. They shouted that Jesus had to be crucified, and they finally won.

24 Pilate decided to give in to their demand.

25 He freed Barabbas, who had been put in prison for rioting and murdering, because that's what they wanted. But he let them do what they wanted to Jesus.

26 As the soldiers led Jesus away, they grabbed a man named Simon, who was from the city of Cyrene. Simon was coming into Jerusalem. They laid the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus.

27 A large crowd followed Jesus. The women in the crowd cried and sang funeral songs for him.

28 Jesus turned to them and said, "You women of Jerusalem, don't cry for me! Rather, cry for yourselves and your children!

29 The time is coming when people will say, 'Blessed are the women who couldn't get pregnant, who couldn't give birth, and who couldn't nurse a child.'

30 Then people will say to the mountains, 'Fall on us!' and to the hills, 'Cover us!'

31 If people do this to a green tree, what will happen to a dry one?"

32 Two others, who were criminals, were led away to be executed with him.

33 When they came to the place called The Skull, they crucified him. The criminals were also crucified, one on his right and the other on his left.

34 Then Jesus said, "Father, forgive them. They don't know what they're doing." Meanwhile, the soldiers divided his clothes among themselves by throwing dice.

35 The people stood there watching. But the rulers were making sarcastic remarks. They said, "He saved others. If he's the Messiah that God has chosen, let him save himself!"

36 The soldiers also made fun of him. They would go up to him, offer him some vinegar,

37 and say, "If you're the king of the Jews, save yourself!"

38 A written notice was placed above him. It said, "This is the king of the Jews."

39 One of the criminals hanging there insulted Jesus by saying, "So you're really the Messiah, are you? Well, save yourself and us!"

40 But the other criminal scolded him: "Don't you fear God at all? Can't you see that you're condemned in the same way that he is?

41 Our punishment is fair. We're getting what we deserve. But this man hasn't done anything wrong."

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

43 Jesus said to him, "I can guarantee this truth: Today you will be with me in paradise."

44 Around noon darkness came over the entire land and lasted until three in the afternoon.

45 The sun had stopped shining. The curtain in the temple was split in two.

46 Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Father, into your hands I entrust my spirit." After he said this, he died.

47 When an army officer saw what had happened, he praised God and said, "Certainly, this man was innocent!"

48 Crowds had gathered to see the sight. But when all of them saw what had happened, they cried and returned to the city.

49 All his friends, including the women who had followed him from Galilee, stood at a distance and watched everything.

50 There was a good man who had God's approval. His name was Joseph. He was a member of the Jewish council,

51 but he had not agreed with what they had done. He was from the Jewish city of Arimathea, and he was waiting for the kingdom of God.

52 He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.

53 After he took it down from the cross, he wrapped it in linen. Then he laid the body in a tomb cut in rock, a tomb in which no one had ever been buried.

54 It was Friday, and the day of worship was just beginning.

55 The women who had come with Jesus from Galilee followed closely behind Joseph. They observed the tomb and how his body was laid in it.

56 Then they went back to the city and prepared spices and perfumes. But on the day of worship they rested according to the commandment.

Luke 24

1 Very early on Sunday morning the women went to the tomb. They were carrying the spices that they had prepared.

2 They found that the stone had been rolled away from the tomb.

3 When they went in, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

4 While they were puzzled about this, two men in clothes that were as bright as lightning suddenly stood beside them.

5 The women were terrified and bowed to the ground. The men asked the women, "Why are you looking among the dead for the living one?

6 He's not here. He has been brought back to life! Remember what he told you while he was still in Galilee.

7 He said, 'The Son of Man must be handed over to sinful people, be crucified, and come back to life on the third day.'"

8 Then the women remembered what Jesus had told them.

9 The women left the tomb and went back to the city. They told everything to the eleven apostles and all the others.

10 The women were Mary from Magdala, Joanna, and Mary (the mother of James). There were also other women with them. They told the apostles everything.

11 The apostles thought that the women's story didn't make any sense, and they didn't believe them.

12 But Peter got up and ran to the tomb. He bent down to look inside and saw only the strips of linen. Then he went away, wondering what had happened.

13 On the same day, two of Jesus' disciples were going to a village called Emmaus. It was about seven miles from Jerusalem.

14 They were talking to each other about everything that had happened.

15 While they were talking, Jesus approached them and began walking with them.

16 Although they saw him, they didn't recognize him.

17 He asked them, "What are you discussing?" They stopped and looked very sad.

18 One of them, Cleopas, replied, "Are you the only one in Jerusalem who doesn't know what has happened recently?"

19 "What happened?" he asked. They said to him, "We were discussing what happened to Jesus from Nazareth. He was a powerful prophet in what he did and said in the sight of God and all the people.

20 Our chief priests and rulers had him condemned to death and crucified.

21 We were hoping that he was the one who would free Israel. What's more, this is now the third day since everything happened.

22 Some of the women from our group startled us. They went to the tomb early this morning

23 and didn't find his body. They told us that they had seen angels who said that he's alive.

24 Some of our men went to the tomb and found it empty, as the women had said, but they didn't see him."

25 Then Jesus said to them, "How foolish you are! You're so slow to believe everything the prophets said!

26 Didn't the Messiah have to suffer these things and enter into his glory?"

27 Then he began with Moses' Teachings and the Prophets to explain to them what was said about him throughout the Scriptures.

28 When they came near the village where they were going, Jesus acted as if he were going farther.

29 They urged him, "Stay with us! It's getting late, and the day is almost over." So he went to stay with them.

30 While he was at the table with them, he took bread and blessed it. He broke the bread and gave it to them.

31 Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. But he vanished from their sight.

32 They said to each other, "Weren't we excited when he talked with us on the road and opened up the meaning of the Scriptures for us?"

33 That same hour they went back to Jerusalem. They found the eleven apostles and those who were with them gathered together.

34 They were saying, "The Lord has really come back to life and has appeared to Simon."

35 Then the two disciples told what had happened on the road and how they had recognized Jesus when he broke the bread.

36 While they were talking about what had happened, Jesus stood among them. He said to them, "Peace be with you!"

37 They were terrified, and thought they were seeing a ghost.

38 He asked them, "Why are you afraid? Why do you have doubts?

39 Look at my hands and feet, and see that it's really me. Touch me, and see for yourselves. Ghosts don't have flesh and bones, but you can see that I do."

40 As he said this, he showed them his hands and feet.

41 The disciples were overcome with joy and amazement because this seemed too good to be true. Then Jesus asked them, "Do you have anything to eat?"

42 They gave him a piece of broiled fish.

43 He took it and ate it while they watched him.

44 Then he said to them, "These are the words I spoke to you while I was still with you. I told you that everything written about me in Moses' Teachings, the Prophets, and the Psalms had to come true."

45 Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.

46 He said to them, "Scripture says that the Messiah would suffer and that he would come back to life on the third day.

47 Scripture also says that by the authority of Jesus people would be told to turn to God and change the way they think and act so that their sins will be forgiven. This would be told to people from all nations, beginning in the city of Jerusalem.

48 You are witnesses to these things.

49 "I'm sending you what my Father promised. Wait here in the city until you receive power from heaven."

50 Then Jesus took them to a place near Bethany. There he raised his hands and blessed them.

51 While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken to heaven.

52 The disciples worshiped him and were overjoyed as they went back to Jerusalem.

53 They were always in the temple, where they praised God.

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