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As soon as it was morning, the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council. They bound Jesus, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate. |
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Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered him, "You say so." |
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Then the chief priests accused him of many things. |
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Pilate asked him again, "Have you no answer? See how many charges they bring against you." |
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But Jesus made no further reply, so that Pilate was amazed. |
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Now at the festival he used to release a prisoner for them, anyone for whom they asked. |
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Now a man called Barabbas was in prison with the rebels who had committed murder during the insurrection. |
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So the crowd came and began to ask Pilate to do for them according to his custom. |
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Then he answered them, "Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?" |
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For he realized that it was out of jealousy that the chief priests had handed him over. |
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But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release Barabbas for them instead. |
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Pilate spoke to them again, "Then what do you wish me to do with the man you call the King of the Jews?" |
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They shouted back, "Crucify him!" |
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Pilate asked them, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they shouted all the more, "Crucify him!" |
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So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released Barabbas for them; and after flogging Jesus, he handed him over to be crucified. |
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Then the soldiers led him into the courtyard of the palace (that is, the governor's headquarters); and they called together the whole cohort. |
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And they clothed him in a purple cloak; and after twisting some thorns into a crown, they put it on him. |
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And they began saluting him, "Hail, King of the Jews!" |
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They struck his head with a reed, spat upon him, and knelt down in homage to him. |
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After mocking him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him out to crucify him. |
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They compelled a passer-by, who was coming in from the country, to carry his cross; it was Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus. |
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Then they brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha (which means the place of a skull). |
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And they offered him wine mixed with myrrh; but he did not take it. |
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And they crucified him, and divided his clothes among them, casting lots to decide what each should take. |
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It was nine o'clock in the morning when they crucified him. |
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The inscription of the charge against him read, "The King of the Jews." |
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And with him they crucified two bandits, one on his right and one on his left. |
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Those who passed by derided him, shaking their heads and saying, "Aha! You who would destroy the temple and build it in three days, |
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save yourself, and come down from the cross!" |
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In the same way the chief priests, along with the scribes, were also mocking him among themselves and saying, "He saved others; he cannot save himself. |
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Let the Messiah, the King of Israel, come down from the cross now, so that we may see and believe." Those who were crucified with him also taunted him. |
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When it was noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. |
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At three o'clock Jesus cried out with a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?" which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" |
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When some of the bystanders heard it, they said, "Listen, he is calling for Elijah." |
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And someone ran, filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a stick, and gave it to him to drink, saying, "Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down." |
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Then Jesus gave a loud cry and breathed his last. |
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And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. |
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Now when the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that in this way he breathed his last, he said, "Truly this man was God's Son!" |
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There were also women looking on from a distance; among them were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome. |
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These used to follow him and provided for him when he was in Galilee; and there were many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem. |
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When evening had come, and since it was the day of Preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath, |
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Joseph of Arimathea, a respected member of the council, who was also himself waiting expectantly for the kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. |
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Then Pilate wondered if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead for some time. |
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When he learned from the centurion that he was dead, he granted the body to Joseph. |
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Then Joseph bought a linen cloth, and taking down the body, wrapped it in the linen cloth, and laid it in a tomb that had been hewn out of the rock. He then rolled a stone against the door of the tomb. |
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Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where the body was laid. |
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