Luke 23:16-37

¹⁶I will therefore chastise him, and let him loose.

¹⁷(For of necessitie hee must haue let one loose vnto them at the feast.)

¹⁸Then all ye multitude cried at once, saying, Away with him, and deliuer vnto vs Barabbas:

¹⁹Which for a certaine insurrection made in the citie, and murder, was cast in prison.

²⁰Then Pilate spake againe to them, willing to let Iesus loose.

²¹But they cried, saying, Crucifie, crucifie him.

²²And he sayd vnto them the third time, But what euill hath he done? I finde no cause of death in him: I will therefore chastise him, and let him loose.

²³But they were instant with loude voyces, and required that he might be crucified: and the voyces of them and of the hie Priests preuailed.

²⁴So Pilate gaue sentence, that it should be as they required.

²⁵And he let loose vnto them him that for insurrection and murder was cast into prison, whome they desired, and deliuered Iesus to doe with him what they would.

²⁶And as they led him away, they caught one Simon of Cyrene, comming out of the fielde, and on him they layde the crosse, to beare it after Iesus.

²⁷And there followed him a great multitude of people, and of women, which women bewailed and lamented him.

²⁸But Iesus turned backe vnto them, and said, Daughters of Hierusalem, weepe not for me, but weepe for your selues, and for your children.

²⁹For behold, the dayes wil come, when men shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombes that neuer bare, and the pappes which neuer gaue sucke.

³⁰Then shall they begin to say to the mountaines, Fall on vs: and to the hilles, Couer vs.

³¹For if they doe these things to a greene tree, what shalbe done to the drie?

³²And there were two others, which were euill doers, led with him to be slaine.

³³And when they were come to the place, which is called Caluarie, there they crucified him, and the euill doers: one at the right hand, and the other at the left.

³⁴Then sayd Iesus, Father, forgiue them: for they know not what they doe. And they parted his raiment, and cast lottes.

³⁵And the people stoode, and behelde: and the rulers mocked him with them, saying, He saued others: let him saue himselfe, if hee be that Christ, the Chosen of God.

³⁶The souldiers also mocked him, and came and offered him vineger,

³⁷And said, If thou be the King of the Iewes, saue thy selfe.