Luke 23:18-53

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.

³⁸And a superscription was also written ouer him, in Greeke letters, and in Latin, and in Hebrewe, THIS IS THAT KING OF THE JEWES.

³⁹And one of the euill doers, which were hanged, railed on him, saying, If thou be that Christ, saue thy selfe and vs.

⁴⁰But the other answered, and rebuked him, saying, Fearest thou not God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?

⁴¹We are in deede righteously here: for we receiue things worthy of that we haue done: but this man hath done nothing amisse.

⁴²And he sayd vnto Iesus, Lord, remember me, when thou commest into thy kingdome.

⁴³Then Iesus said vnto him, Verely I say vnto thee, to day shalt thou be with me in Paradise.

⁴⁴And it was about the sixt houre: and there was a darkenes ouer all the land, vntill the ninth houre.

⁴⁵And the Sunne was darkened, and the vaile of the Temple rent through the middes.

⁴⁶And Iesus cryed with a loude voyce, and sayd, Father, into thine hands I commend my spirit. And when hee thus had sayd, hee gaue vp the ghost.

⁴⁷Nowe when the Centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Of a suretie this man was iust.

⁴⁸And all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things, which were done, smote their brestes, and returned.

⁴⁹And all his acquaintance stood a farre off, and the women that followed him from Galile, beholding these things.

⁵⁰And beholde, there was a man named Ioseph, which was a counseller, a good man and a iust.

⁵¹Hee did not consent to the counsell and deede of them, which was of Arimathea, a citie of the Iewes: who also himselfe waited for the kingdome of God.

⁵²He went vnto Pilate, and asked the body of Iesus,

⁵³And tooke it downe, and wrapped it in a linnen cloth, and laide it in a tombe hewen out of a rocke, wherein was neuer man yet laide.