1The whole company of them rose up and brought Jesus before Pilate.

2They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting our nation, forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”

3Pilate asked him, saying, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus answered him and said, “You say so.”

4Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, “I find no fault in this man.”

5But they were insisting, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.”

6So when Pilate heard this, he asked whether the man was a Galilean.

7When he discovered that he was under Herod's authority, he sent Jesus to Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem in those days.

8When Herod saw Jesus, he was very glad, because he had wanted to see him for a long time. He had heard about him and he hoped to see some miracle done by him.

9Herod questioned Jesus in many words, but Jesus answered him nothing.

10The chief priests and the scribes stood, violently accusing him.

11Herod with his soldiers insulted Jesus and they mocked him. Then they dressed him in elegant clothes and sent him back to Pilate.

12For Herod and Pilate had become friends with each other that very day, for before this they had been enemies with each other.

13Pilate then called together the chief priests and the rulers and the crowd of people,

14and said to them, “You brought to me this man like a man who is leading the people to act badly, and see, I, having questioned him before you, find no fault in this man concerning those things of which you accuse him.

15No, nor does Herod, for he sent him back to us, and see, nothing worthy of death has been done by him.

16I will therefore punish him, and release him.”

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18But they cried out all together, saying, “Away with this man, and release to us Barabbas!”

19Barabbas was a man who had been put into prison for a certain rebellion in the city and for murder.

20Pilate addressed them again, desiring to release Jesus.

21But they shouted, saying, “Crucify him, crucify him.”

22He said to them a third time, “Why, what evil has this man done? I have found nothing deserving the death penalty in him. Therefore after punishing him, I will release him.”

23But they were insistent with loud voices, demanding for him to be crucified. Their voices convinced Pilate.

24So Pilate decided to grant their demand.

25He released the one they asked for who had been put in prison for rioting and murder. But he delivered up Jesus to their will.

26As they led him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, and they laid the cross on him to carry, following Jesus.

27A great crowd of the people, and of women who grieved and mourned for him, were following him.

28But turning to them, Jesus said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

29For see, the days are coming in which they will say, 'Blessed are the barren and the wombs that did not bear, and the breasts that did not nurse.'

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

31For if they do these things while the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”

32Other men, two criminals, were led away with him to be put to death.

33When they came to the place that is called “The Skull,” there they crucified him, and the criminals—one on his right and one on his left.

34Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” Then they cast lots, dividing up his garments.

35The people stood watching while the rulers also were mocking him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, the chosen one.”

36The soldiers also ridiculed him, approaching him, offering him vinegar,

37and saying, “If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself.”

38There was also a sign over him, “This is the King of the Jews.”

39One of the criminals who was hanging there insulted him by saying, “Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us.”

40But the other rebuked him, saying, “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence?

41We indeed are here justly, for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds. But this man did nothing wrong.”

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

43Jesus said to him, “Truly I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.”

44It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour

45as the sun's light failed. Then the curtain of the temple was split in two.

46Crying with a loud voice, Jesus said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” Having said this, he died.

47When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, “Surely this was a righteous man.”

48When all the multitudes who came together to witness this sight saw the things that were done, they returned beating their breasts.

49But all those who knew him, and the women who followed him from Galilee, stood at a distance, watching these things.

50Behold, there was a man named Joseph, who was a member of the Council. He was a good and righteous man.

51This man had not agreed with the decision of the Council and their action. He was from the Judean town of Arimathea; and he was looking for the kingdom of God.

52This man, approaching Pilate, asked for the body of Jesus.

53He took it down, wrapped it in fine linen, and placed it in a tomb that was cut in stone, where no one had ever been laid.

54It was the Day of the Preparation, and the Sabbath was about to begin.

55The women who had come with Jesus out of Galilee followed and saw the tomb and how his body was laid.

56They returned, and prepared spices and ointments. Then on the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.