Luke 23:2-48

²They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting our nation, forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”

³Pilate asked him, saying, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus answered him and said, “You say so.”

⁴Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, “I find no fault in this man.”

⁵But they were insisting, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.”

⁶So when Pilate heard this, he asked whether the man was a Galilean.

⁷When he discovered that he was under Herod's authority, he sent Jesus to Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem in those days.

⁸When Herod saw Jesus, he was very glad, because he had wanted to see him for a long time. He had heard about him and he hoped to see some miracle done by him.

⁹Herod questioned Jesus in many words, but Jesus answered him nothing.

¹⁰The chief priests and the scribes stood, violently accusing him.

¹¹Herod with his soldiers insulted Jesus and they mocked him. Then they dressed him in elegant clothes and sent him back to Pilate.

¹²For Herod and Pilate had become friends with each other that very day, for before this they had been enemies with each other.

¹³Pilate then called together the chief priests and the rulers and the crowd of people,

¹⁴and said to them, “You brought to me this man like a man who is leading the people to act badly, and see, I, having questioned him before you, find no fault in this man concerning those things of which you accuse him.

¹⁵No, nor does Herod, for he sent him back to us, and see, nothing worthy of death has been done by him.

¹⁶I will therefore punish him, and release him.”

¹⁸But they cried out all together, saying, “Away with this man, and release to us Barabbas!”

¹⁹Barabbas was a man who had been put into prison for a certain rebellion in the city and for murder.

²⁰Pilate addressed them again, desiring to release Jesus.

²¹But they shouted, saying, “Crucify him, crucify him.”

²²He said to them a third time, “Why, what evil has this man done? I have found nothing deserving the death penalty in him. Therefore after punishing him, I will release him.”

²³But they were insistent with loud voices, demanding for him to be crucified. Their voices convinced Pilate.

²⁴So Pilate decided to grant their demand.

²⁵He released the one they asked for who had been put in prison for rioting and murder. But he delivered up Jesus to their will.

²⁶As they led him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, and they laid the cross on him to carry, following Jesus.

²⁷A great crowd of the people, and of women who grieved and mourned for him, were following him.

²⁸But turning to them, Jesus said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

²⁹For see, the days are coming in which they will say, 'Blessed are the barren and the wombs that did not bear, and the breasts that did not nurse.'

³⁰Then they will begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall on us,' and to the hills, 'Cover us.'

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

³²Other men, two criminals, were led away with him to be put to death.

³³When they came to the place that is called “The Skull,” there they crucified him, and the criminals—one on his right and one on his left.

³⁴Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” Then they cast lots, dividing up his garments.

³⁵The people stood watching while the rulers also were mocking him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, the chosen one.”

³⁶The soldiers also ridiculed him, approaching him, offering him vinegar,

³⁷and saying, “If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself.”

³⁸There was also a sign over him, “This is the King of the Jews.”

³⁹One of the criminals who was hanging there insulted him by saying, “Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us.”

⁴⁰But the other rebuked him, saying, “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence?

⁴¹We indeed are here justly, for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds. But this man did nothing wrong.”

⁴²Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”

⁴³Jesus said to him, “Truly I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.”

⁴⁴It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour

⁴⁵as the sun's light failed. Then the curtain of the temple was split in two.

⁴⁶Crying with a loud voice, Jesus said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” Having said this, he died.

⁴⁷When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, “Surely this was a righteous man.”

⁴⁸When all the multitudes who came together to witness this sight saw the things that were done, they returned beating their breasts.