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The Good News According to Matthew, Chapter 27
{27:1} Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the
elders of the people took counsel against Yeshua to put him to death:
{27:2} and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to
Pontius Pilate, the governor. {27:3} Then Judah, who betrayed him,
when he saw that Yeshua was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back
the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, {27:4}
saying, "I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood."
But they said, "What is that to us? You see to it."
{27:5} He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and
departed. He went away and hanged himself. {27:6} The chief priests
took the pieces of silver, and said, "It's not lawful to put them into
the treasury, since it is the price of blood." {27:7} They took
counsel, and bought the potter's field with them, to bury strangers
in. {27:8} Therefore that field was called "The Field of Blood" to
this day. {27:9} Then that which was spoken through [1>]Jeremiah[<1]
the prophet was fulfilled, saying,
"They took the thirty pieces of silver,
the price of him upon whom a price had been set,
whom some of the children of Israel priced,
{27:10} and they gave them for the potter's field,
as the Lord commanded me."[2]
{27:11} Now Yeshua stood before the governor: and the governor asked
him, saying, "Are you the King of the Jews?"
Yeshua said to him, "So you say."
{27:12} When he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he
answered nothing. {27:13} Then Pilate said to him, "Don't you hear how
many things they testify against you?"
{27:14} He gave him no answer, not even one word, so that the
governor marveled greatly. {27:15} Now at the feast the governor was
accustomed to release to the multitude one prisoner, whom they
desired. {27:16} They had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas.
{27:17} When therefore they were gathered together, Pilate said to
them, "Whom do you want me to release to you? Barabbas, or Yeshua, who
is called Messiah?" {27:18} For he knew that because of envy they had
delivered him up.
{27:19} While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to
him, saying, "Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have
suffered many things this day in a dream because of him." {27:20} Now
the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for
Barabbas, and destroy Yeshua. {27:21} But the governor answered them,
"Which of the two do you want me to release to you?"
They said, "Barabbas!"
{27:22} Pilate said to them, "What then shall I do to Yeshua, who is
called Messiah?"
They all said to him, "Let him be crucified!"
{27:23} But the governor said, "Why? What evil has he done?"
But they cried out exceedingly, saying, "Let him be crucified!"
{27:24} So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather
that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands
before the multitude, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this
righteous person. You see to it."
{27:25} All the people answered, "May his blood be on us, and on our
children!"
{27:26} Then he released to them Barabbas, but Yeshua he flogged and
delivered to be crucified. {27:27} Then the governor's soldiers took
Yeshua into the Praetorium, and gathered the whole garrison together
against him. {27:28} They stripped him, and put a scarlet robe on him.
{27:29} They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a
reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked
him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" {27:30} They spat on him, and
took the reed and struck him on the head. {27:31} When they had mocked
him, they took the robe off of him, and put his clothes on him, and
led him away to crucify him.
{27:32} As they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name,
and they compelled him to go with them, that he might carry his cross.
{27:33} They came to a place called "Golgotha," that is to say, "The
place of a skull." {27:34} They gave him sour wine to drink mixed with
gall. When he had tasted it, he would not drink. {27:35} When they had
crucified him, they divided his clothing among them, casting lots,[3]
{27:36} and they sat and watched him there. {27:37} They set up over
his head the accusation against him written, "THIS IS YESHUA, THE KING
OF THE JEWS."
{27:38} Then there were two robbers crucified with him, one on his
right hand and one on the left. {27:39} Those who passed by blasphemed
him, wagging their heads, {27:40} and saying, "You who destroy the
temple, and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son
of God, come down from the cross!"
{27:41} Likewise the chief priests also mocking, with the scribes,
[4>]the Pharisees,[<4] and the elders, said, {27:42} "He saved others,
but he can't save himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him come
down from the cross now, and we will believe in him. {27:43} He trusts
in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, 'I am
the Son of God.'" {27:44} The robbers also who were crucified with him
cast on him the same reproach.
{27:45} Now from the [5>]sixth hour[<5] there was darkness over all
the land until the [6>]ninth hour.[<6] {27:46} About the ninth hour
Yeshua cried with a loud voice, saying, "Eli, Eli, [7>]lima[<7]
sabachthani?" That is, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"[8]
{27:47} Some of them who stood there, when they heard it, said,
"This man is calling Elijah."
{27:48} Immediately one of them ran, and took a sponge, and filled
it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him a drink. {27:49}
The rest said, "Let him be. Let's see whether Elijah comes to save
him."
{27:50} Yeshua cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up his
spirit. {27:51} Behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from
the top to the bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks were split.
{27:52} The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the holy ones who
had fallen asleep were raised; {27:53} and coming out of the tombs
after his resurrection, they entered into the holy city and appeared
to many. {27:54} Now the centurion, and those who were with him
watching Yeshua, when they saw the earthquake, and the things that
were done, feared exceedingly, saying, "Truly this was the Son of God."
{27:55} Many women were there watching from afar, who had followed
Yeshua from Galilee, serving him. {27:56} Among them were Miriam
Magdalene, Miriam the mother of Jacob and Yosi, and the mother of the
sons of Zebedee. {27:57} When evening had come, a rich man from
Arimathaea, named Joseph, who himself was also Yeshua's disciple came.
{27:58} This man went to Pilate, and asked for Yeshua's body. Then
Pilate commanded the body to be given up. {27:59} Joseph took the
body, and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, {27:60} and laid it in
his own new tomb, which he had cut out in the rock, and he rolled a
great stone to the door of the tomb, and departed. {27:61} Miriam
Magdalene was there, and the other Miriam, sitting opposite the tomb.
{27:62} Now on the next day, which was the day after the Preparation
Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered together to
Pilate, {27:63} saying, "Sir, we remember what that deceiver said
while he was still alive: 'After three days I will rise again.'
{27:64} Command therefore that the tomb be made secure until the third
day, lest perhaps his disciples come at night and steal him away, and
tell the people, 'He is risen from the dead;' and the last deception
will be worse than the first."
{27:65} Pilate said to them, "You have a guard. Go, make it as
secure as you can." {27:66} So they went with the guard and made the
tomb secure, sealing the stone.
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Footnotes:
[1] {27:9} some manuscripts omit "Jeremiah"
[2] {27:10} Zechariah 11:12-13; Jeremiah 19:1-13; 32:6-9
[3] {27:35} TR adds "that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the
prophet: 'They divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they
cast lots;'" [see Psalm 22:18 and Yochanan 19:24]
[4] {27:41} TR omits "the Pharisees"
[5] {27:45} noon
[6] {27:45} 3:00 P. M.
[7] {27:46} TR reads "lama" instead of "lima"
[8] {27:46} Psalm 22:1
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