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Luke 23 📜 📕 ↷
Jesus before Pilate
1 AND all the multitude of them rising up, led him to Pilate.📜💬📚
2 And they began to accuse him, saying: We have found this man subverting our nation, & prohibiting to give tributes to Caesar, and saying that he is Christ the King.📜💬📚
3 And Pilate asked him, saying: Art thou the King of the Jews? But he answering said: Thou sayest.📜💬📚
4 And Pilate said to the chief Priests and multitudes: I find no cause in this man.📜💬📚
5 But they were more earnest, saying: He stirreth the people teaching throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee even hither.📜💬📚
Jesus before Herod
6 But Pilate hearing Galilee, asked if the man were of Galilee.📜💬📚
7 And when he understood that he was of Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him back to Herod, who was also himself at Jerusalem in those days.📜💬📚
8 And Herod seeing JESUS, was very glad, for he was desirous of a long time to see him, for because he heard many things of him: and he hoped to see some sign wrought by him.📜💬📚
9 And he asked him in many words. But he answered him nothing.📜💬📚
10 And there stood the chief Priests and the Scribes constantly accusing him.📜💬📚
11 And Herod with his army set him at naught: and he mocked him, putting on him a white garment, and sent him back to Pilate.📜💬📚
12 And Herod and Pilate were made friends that day. For before, they were enemies one to another.📜💬📚
Crowd Chooses Barabbas
13 And Pilate calling together the chief Priests and Magistrates, and the people,📜💬📚
14 said to them: You have presented unto me this man, as averting the people, and behold I examining him before you, have found no cause in this man of those things, wherein you accuse him.📜💬📚
15 No, nor Herod neither. For I sent you to him, and behold, nothing worthy of death is done to him.📜💬📚
16 I will chasten him therefore and dismiss him.📜💬📚
17 And he of necessity had to release unto them upon the feast day, one.📜💬📚
18 But the whole multitude together cried out, saying: Dispatch him, and release us Barabbas.📜💬📚
19 Who was for a certain sedition made in the city and murder, cast into prison.📜💬📚
20 And Pilate again spake to them, desirous to release JESUS.📜💬📚
21 But they cried again, saying: Crucify, crucify him.📜💬📚
22 And he the third time said to them: Why, what evil hath this man done? I find no cause of death in him. I will correct him therefore & let him go.📜💬📚
23 But they were instant with loud voices requiring that he might be crucified. And their voices prevailed.📜💬📚
24 And Pilate adjudged their petition to be done.📜💬📚
25 And he released unto them him that for murder and sedition had been cast into prison, whom they demanded: but JESUS he delivered to their pleasure.📜💬📚
Crucifixion
26 And when they led him, they took one Simon of Cyrene coming from the country: and they laid the Cross upon him to carry after JESUS.📜💬📚
27 And there followed him a great multitude of people, and of women which bewailed and lamented him.📜💬📚
28 But JESUS turning to them, said: Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not upon me, but weep upon your selves, and upon your children.📜💬📚
29 For behold the days shall come, wherein they will say: Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that have not born, & the paps that have not given suck.📜💬📚
30 Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall upon us: and to the hills, Cover us.📜💬📚
31 For if in the green wood they do these things, in the dry what shall be done?📜💬📚
32 And there were led also other two malefactors with him, to be executed.📜💬📚
33 And after they came to the place which is called Calvary, there they crucified him: and the thieves, one on the right hand and the other on the left.📜💬📚
34 And JESUS said: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. But they dividing his garments, did cast lots.📜💬📚
35 And the people stood beholding, and the Princes with them derided him, saying: Others he hath saved, let him save himself, if this be Christ, the elect of God.📜💬📚
36 And the soldiers also mocked him coming to him, and offering him vinegar,📜💬📚
37 saying: If thou be the King of the Jews, save thy self.📜💬📚
38 And there was also a superscription written over him in Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew letters: THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.📜💬📚
39 And one of those thieves that were hanged, blasphemed him, saying: If thou be Christ, save thy self, and us.📜💬📚
40 But the other answering, rebuked him, saying: Neither doest thou fear God, where as thou art in the same damnation?📜💬📚
41 And we indeed justly, for we receive worthy of our doings: but this man hath done no evil.📜💬📚
42 And he said to JESUS: Lord, remember me when thou shalt come into thy Kingdom.📜💬📚
43 And JESUS said to him: Amen I say to thee; this day thou shalt be with me in Paradise.📜💬📚
Death of Jesus
44 And it was almost the sixth hour: and there was made darkness upon the whole earth until the ninth hour.📜💬📚
45 And the sun was darkened; and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.📜💬📚
46 And JESUS crying with a loud voice, said: Father, into thy hands I commend my Spirit. And saying this, he gave up the ghost.📜💬📚
47 And the Centurion seeing that which was done, glorified God, saying: Indeed this man was just.📜💬📚
48 And all the multitude of them that were present together at that sight, and saw the things that were done, returned knocking their breasts.📜💬📚
49 And all his acquaintance stood a far off, and the women that had followed him from Galilee, seeing these things.📜💬📚
Burial of Jesus
50 And behold a man named Joseph, which was a Senator, a good man and a just.📜💬📚
51 He had not consented to their counsel and doings, of Arimathaea a city of Jewry, who also himself expected the Kingdom of God.📜💬📚
52 This man came to Pilate, and asked the body of JESUS.📜💬📚
53 And taking it down, wrapped it in sindon, and laid him in a monument hewed of stone, wherein never yet any man had been laid.📜💬📚
54 And it was the day of Parasceve, and the Sabboth drew near.📜💬📚
55 And the women that were come with him from Galilee, following after, saw the monument, and how his body was laid.📜💬📚
56 And returning they prepared spices and ointments: and on the Sabboth they rested according to the commandment.📜💬📚
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