The Gospel According to Luke, Chapter 23
{23:1} The whole company of them rose up and brought him before
Pilate. {23:2} They began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man
perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying
that he himself is Christ, a king."
{23:3} Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?"
He answered him, "So you say."
{23:4} Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, "I find
no basis for a charge against this man."
{23:5} But they insisted, saying, "He stirs up the people, teaching
throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place."
{23:6} But when Pilate heard Galilee mentioned, he asked if the man
was a Galilean. {23:7} When he found out that he was in Herod's
jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem during
those days.
{23:8} Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad, for he had
wanted to see him for a long time, because he had heard many things
about him. He hoped to see some miracle done by him. {23:9} He
questioned him with many words, but he gave no answers. {23:10} The
chief priests and the scribes stood, vehemently accusing him. {23:11}
Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in
luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate. {23:12} Herod and
Pilate became friends with each other that very day, for before that
they were enemies with each other.
{23:13} Pilate called together the chief priests and the rulers and
the people, {23:14} and said to them, "You brought this man to me as
one that perverts the people, and see, I have examined him before you,
and found no basis for a charge against this man concerning those
things of which you accuse him. {23:15} Neither has Herod, for I sent
you to him, and see, nothing worthy of death has been done by him.
{23:16} I will therefore chastise him and release him."
{23:17} Now he had to release one prisoner to them at the feast.
{23:18} But they all cried out together, saying, "Away with this man!
Release to us Barabbas!" -- {23:19} one who was thrown into prison for
a certain revolt in the city, and for murder.
{23:20} Then Pilate spoke to them again, wanting to release Jesus,
{23:21} but they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify him!"
{23:22} He said to them the third time, "Why? What evil has this man
done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise
him and release him." {23:23} But they were urgent with loud voices,
asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the
chief priests prevailed. {23:24} Pilate decreed that what they asked
for should be done. {23:25} He released him who had been thrown into
prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he
delivered Jesus up to their will.
{23:26} When they led him away, they grabbed one Simon of Cyrene,
coming from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it after
Jesus. {23:27} A great multitude of the people followed him, including
women who also mourned and lamented him. {23:28} But Jesus, turning to
them, said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, don't weep for me, but weep for
yourselves and for your children. {23:29} For behold, the days are
coming in which they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that
never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.' {23:30} Then they will
begin to tell the mountains, 'Fall on us!' and tell the hills, 'Cover
us.' {23:31} For if they do these things in the green tree, what will
be done in the dry?"
{23:32} There were also others, two criminals, led with him to be
put to death. {23:33} When they came to the place that is called The
Skull, they crucified him there with the criminals, one on the right
and the other on the left.
{23:34} Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they don't know what
they are doing."
Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots. {23:35} The people
stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, "He
saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his
chosen one!"
{23:36} The soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him
vinegar, {23:37} and saying, "If you are the King of the Jews, save
yourself!"
{23:38} An inscription was also written over him in letters of
Greek, Latin, and Hebrew: "THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS."
{23:39} One of the criminals who was hanged insulted him, saying,
"If you are the Christ, save yourself and us!"
{23:40} But the other answered, and rebuking him said, "Don't you
even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation? {23:41} And
we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds, but
this man has done nothing wrong." {23:42} He said to Jesus, "Lord,
remember me when you come into your Kingdom."
{23:43} Jesus said to him, "Assuredly I tell you, today you will be
with me in Paradise."
{23:44} It was now [1>]about the sixth hour[<1], and darkness came
over the whole land until [2>]the ninth hour.[<2] {23:45} The sun was
darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two. {23:46} Jesus,
crying with a loud voice, said, "Father, into your hands I commit my
spirit!" Having said this, he breathed his last.
{23:47} When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God,
saying, "Certainly this was a righteous man." {23:48} All the
multitudes that came together to see this, when they saw the things
that were done, returned home beating their breasts. {23:49} All his
acquaintances, and the women who followed with him from Galilee, stood
at a distance, watching these things.
{23:50} Behold, a man named Joseph, who was a member of the council,
a good and righteous man {23:51} (he had not consented to their
counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was also
waiting for the Kingdom of God: {23:52} this man went to Pilate, and
asked for Jesus' body. {23:53} He took it down, and wrapped it in a
linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb that was cut in stone, where no
one had ever been laid. {23:54} It was the day of the Preparation, and
the Sabbath was drawing near. {23:55} The women, who had come with him
out of Galilee, followed after, and saw the tomb, and how his body was
laid. {23:56} They returned, and prepared spices and ointments. On the
Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.
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Footnotes:
[1] {23:44} Time was counted from sunrise, so the sixth hour was about
noon.
[2] {23:44} 3:00 PM
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