10/01/2024
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Matthew 27 [NIV]
[ 1] Early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people came to the decision to put Jesus to death.
[ 2] They bound him, led him away and handed him over to Pilate, the governor.
[ 3] When Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was seized with remorse and returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and the elders.
[ 4] “I have sinned,” he said, “for I have betrayed innocent blood.”
“What is that to us?” they replied. “That’s your responsibility.”
[ 13] Then Pilate asked him, “Don’t you hear the testimony they are bringing against you?”
[ 14] But Jesus made no reply, not even to a single charge—to the great amazement of the governor.
[ 19] While Pilate was sitting on the judge’s seat, his wife sent him this message: “Don’t have anything to do with that innocent man, for I have suffered a great deal today in a dream because of him.”
[ 20] But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus executed.
[ 21] “Which of the two do you want me to release to you?” asked the governor.
“Barabbas,” they answered.
[ 22] “What shall I do, then, with Jesus who is called Christ?” Pilate asked.
They all answered, “Crucify him!”
[ 23] “Why? What crime has he committed?” asked Pilate.
But they shouted all the louder, “Crucify him!”
[ 24] When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. “I am innocent of this man’s blood,” he said. “It is your responsibility!”
[ 25] All the people answered, “Let his blood be on us and on our children!”
[ 26] Then he released Barabbas to them. But he had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified.
[ 35] When they had crucified him, they divided up his clothes by casting lots.
[ 39] Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads
[ 40] and saying, “You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!”
[ 41] In the same way the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders mocked him.
[ 42] “He saved others,” they said, “but he can’t save himself! He’s the King of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him.
[ 43] He trusts in God. Let God rescue him now if he wants him, for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”
[ 45] From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.
[ 50] And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit.
[ 51] At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook and the rocks split.
[ 52] The tombs broke open and the bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life.
[ 53] They came out of the tombs, and after Jesus’ resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many people.
[ 54] When the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and all that had happened, they were terrified, and exclaimed, “Surely he was the Son of God!”
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