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| 23:1 |
And having risen, the whole multitude of them did lead him to Pilate,
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| 23:2 |
and began to accuse him, saying, `This one we found perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying himself to be Christ a king.'
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| 23:3 |
And Pilate questioned him, saying, `Thou art the king of the Jews?' and he answering him, said, `Thou dost say [it].'
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| 23:4 |
And Pilate said unto the chief priests, and the multitude, `I find no fault in this man;'
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| 23:5 |
and they were the more urgent, saying -- `He doth stir up the people, teaching throughout the whole of Judea -- having begun from Galilee -- unto this place.'
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| 23:6 |
And Pilate having heard of Galilee, questioned if the man is a Galilean,
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| 23:7 |
and having known that he is from the jurisdiction of Herod, he sent him back unto Herod, he being also in Jerusalem in those days.
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| 23:8 |
And Herod having seen Jesus did rejoice exceedingly, for he was wishing for a long [time] to see him, because of hearing many things about him, and he was hoping some sign to see done by him,
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| 23:9 |
and was questioning him in many words, and he answered him nothing.
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| 23:10 |
And the chief priests and the scribes stood vehemently accusing him,
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| 23:11 |
and Herod with his soldiers having set him at nought, and having mocked, having put around him gorgeous apparel, did send him back to Pilate,
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| 23:12 |
and both Pilate and Herod became friends on that day with one another, for they were before at enmity between themselves.
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| 23:13 |
And Pilate having called together the chief priests, and the rulers, and the people,
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| 23:14 |
said unto them, `Ye brought to me this man as perverting the people, and lo, I before you having examined, found in this man no fault in those things ye bring forward against him;
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| 23:15 |
no, nor yet Herod, for I sent you back unto him, and lo, nothing worthy of death is having been done by him;
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| 23:16 |
having chastised, therefore, I will release him,'
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| 23:17 |
for it was necessary for him to release to them one at every feast,
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| 23:18 |
and they cried out -- the whole multitude -- saying, `Away with this one, and release to us Barabbas,'
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| 23:19 |
who had been, because of a certain sedition made in the city, and murder, cast into prison.
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| 23:20 |
Pilate again then -- wishing to release Jesus -- called to them,
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| 23:21 |
but they were calling out, saying, `Crucify, crucify him.'
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| 23:22 |
And he a third time said unto them, `Why, what evil did he? no cause of death did I find in him; having chastised him, then, I will release [him].'
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| 23:23 |
And they were pressing with loud voices asking him to be crucified, and their voices, and those of the chief priests, were prevailing,
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| 23:24 |
and Pilate gave judgment for their request being done,
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| 23:25 |
and he released him who because of sedition and murder hath been cast into the prison, whom they were asking, and Jesus he gave up to their will.
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| 23:26 |
And as they led him away, having taken hold on Simon, a certain Cyrenian, coming from the field, they put on him the cross, to bear [it] behind Jesus.
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| 23:27 |
And there was following him a great multitude of the people, and of women, who also were beating themselves and lamenting him,
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| 23:28 |
and Jesus having turned unto them, said, `Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but for yourselves weep ye, and for your children;
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| 23:29 |
for, lo, days do come, in which they shall say, Happy the barren, and wombs that did not bare, and paps that did not give suck;
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| 23:30 |
then they shall begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us, and to the hills, Cover us; --
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| 23:31 |
for, if in the green tree they do these things -- in the dry what may happen?'
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| 23:32 |
And there were also others -- two evil-doers -- with him, to be put to death;
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| 23:33 |
and when they came to the place that is called Skull, there they crucified him and the evil-doers, one on the right hand and one on the left.
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| 23:34 |
And Jesus said, `Father, forgive them, for they have not known what they do;' and parting his garments they cast a lot.
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| 23:35 |
And the people were standing, looking on, and the rulers also were sneering with them, saying, `Others he saved, let him save himself, if this be the Christ, the choice one of God.'
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| 23:36 |
And mocking him also were the soldiers, coming near and offering vinegar to him,
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| 23:37 |
and saying, `If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.'
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| 23:38 |
And there was also a superscription written over him, in letters of Greek, and Roman, and Hebrew, `This is the King of the Jews.'
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| 23:39 |
And one of the evil-doers who were hanged, was speaking evil of him, saying, `If thou be the Christ, save thyself and us.'
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| 23:40 |
And the other answering, was rebuking him, saying, `Dost thou not even fear God, that thou art in the same judgment?
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| 23:41 |
and we indeed righteously, for things worthy of what we did we receive back, but this one did nothing out of place;'
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| 23:42 |
and he said to Jesus, `Remember me, lord, when thou mayest come in thy reign;'
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| 23:43 |
and Jesus said to him, `Verily I say to thee, To-day with me thou shalt be in the paradise.'
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| 23:44 |
And it was, as it were, the sixth hour, and darkness came over all the land till the ninth hour,
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| 23:45 |
and the sun was darkened, and the vail of the sanctuary was rent in the midst,
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| 23:46 |
and having cried with a loud voice, Jesus said, `Father, to Thy hands I commit my spirit;' and these things having said, he breathed forth the spirit.
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| 23:47 |
And the centurion having seen what was done, did glorify God, saying, `Really this man was righteous;'
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| 23:48 |
and all the multitudes who were come together to this sight, beholding the things that came to pass, smiting their breasts did turn back;
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| 23:49 |
and all his acquaintances stood afar off, and women who did follow him from Galilee, beholding these things.
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| 23:50 |
And lo, a man, by name Joseph, being a counsellor, a man good and righteous,
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| 23:51 |
-- he was not consenting to their counsel and deed -- from Arimathea, a city of the Jews, who also himself was expecting the reign of God,
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| 23:52 |
he, having gone near to Pilate, asked the body of Jesus,
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| 23:53 |
and having taken it down, he wrapped it in fine linen, and placed it in a tomb hewn out, where no one was yet laid.
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| 23:54 |
And the day was a preparation, and sabbath was approaching,
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| 23:55 |
and the women also who have come with him out of Galilee having followed after, beheld the tomb, and how his body was placed,
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| 23:56 |
and having turned back, they made ready spices and ointments, and on the sabbath, indeed, they rested, according to the command.
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