Luke 23:18-53

¹⁸But with loud voices they said all together, Put this man to death, and make Barabbas free.

¹⁹Now this man was in prison because of an attack against the government in the town, in which there had been loss of life.

²⁰And Pilate again said to them that it was his desire to let Jesus go free.

²¹But crying out they said, To the cross with him!

²²And he said to them a third time, Why, what evil has he done? I see no reason for putting him to death: I will give him punishment and let him go.

²³But they went on crying out loudly, Let him be put to death on the cross. And they had their way.

²⁴And Pilate gave his decision for their desire to be put into effect.

²⁵And in answer to their request, he let that man go free who had been in prison for acting against the government and causing death, and Jesus he gave up to their pleasure.

²⁶And while they were taking him away, they put their hands on Simon of Cyrene, who was coming from the country, and made him take the cross after Jesus.

²⁷And a great band of people went after him, and of women making signs of grief and weeping for him.

²⁸But Jesus, turning to them, said, Daughters of Jerusalem, let not your weeping be for me, but for yourselves and for your children.

²⁹For the days are coming in which they will say, Happy are those who have had no children, whose bodies have never given birth, whose breasts have never given milk.

³⁰And they will say to the mountains, Come down on us, and to the hills, Be a cover over us.

³¹For if they do these things when the tree is green, what will they do when it is dry?

³²And two others, evil-doers, were taken with him to be put to death.

³³And when they came to the place which is named Golgotha, they put him on the cross, and the evil-doers, one on the right side, and the other on the left.

³⁴And Jesus said, Father, let them have forgiveness, for they have no knowledge of what they are doing. And they made division of his clothing among them by the decision of chance.

³⁵And the people were looking on. And the rulers made sport of him, saying, He was a saviour of others; let him do something for himself, if he is the Christ, the man of God's selection.

³⁶And the men of the army made sport of him, coming to him and giving him bitter wine,

³⁷And saying, If you are the King of the Jews, get yourself free.

³⁸And these words were put in writing over him, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.

³⁹And one of the evil-doers on the cross, with bitter feeling, said to him, Are you not the Christ? Get yourself and us out of this.

⁴⁰But the other, protesting, said, Have you no fear of God? for you have a part in the same punishment,

⁴¹And with reason; for we have the right reward of our acts, but this man has done nothing wrong.

⁴²And he said, Jesus, keep me in mind when you come in your kingdom.

⁴³And he said to him, Truly I say to you, Today you will be with me in Paradise.

⁴⁴And it was now about the sixth hour; and all the land was dark till the ninth hour;

⁴⁵The light of the sun went out, and the curtain in the Temple was parted in two.

⁴⁶And Jesus gave a loud cry and said, Father, into your hands I give my spirit: and when he had said this, he gave up his spirit.

⁴⁷And when the captain saw what was done, he gave praise to God, saying, Without doubt this was an upright man.

⁴⁸And all the people who had come together to see it, when they saw the things which were done, went back again making signs of grief.

⁴⁹And all his friends and the women who came with him from Galilee, were waiting at a distance, watching these things.

⁵⁰Now there was a man named Joseph, a man of authority and a good and upright man

⁵¹(He had not given his approval to their decision or their acts), of Arimathaea, a town of the Jews, who was waiting for the kingdom of God:

⁵²This man went to Pilate and made a request for the body of Jesus.

⁵³And he took it down, and folding it in a linen cloth, he put it in a place cut in the rock for a dead body; and no one had ever been put in it.