Murdock - Matthew - 27

27:1  And when it was morning, the chief priests and the elders of the people held a council against Jesus, how they might put him to death.

27:2  And they bound him, and carried him and delivered him up to Pilate, the president.

27:3  Then Judas the betrayer, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, repented. And he went and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders;

27:4  and said: I have sinned, by betraying innocent blood. And they said: What is that to us? See to it thyself.

27:5  And he cast down the silver in the temple, and retiring, went and strangled himself

27:6  And the chief priests took up the silver, and said: It is not lawful to put it into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.

27:7  And they took counsel, and bought with it the potter's field, for a place to bury strangers.

27:8  Wherefore that field is called the field of blood, unto this day.

27:9  Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by the prophet, saying: I took the thirty shekels of silver, the price of the precious one, which they of the children of Israel had stipulated;

27:10  and I gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord directed me.

27:11  And Jesus stood before the president. And the resident asked him, and said to him: Art thou the king of the Jews? And Jesus said to him: Thou hast said.

27:12  And when the chief priests and elders accused him, he made no reply.

27:13  Then Pilate said to him: Hearest thou not how much they testify against thee?

27:14  But he gave him no answer, not even one word: and therefore Pilate wondered greatly.

27:15  And at each festival, the president was accustomed to release to the people one prisoner, such as they preferred.

27:16  And they had then in bonds a noted prisoner, called Bar Abas.

27:17  And when they were assembled, Pilate said to them: Whom will ye, that I release to you, Bar Abas, or Jesus who is called Messiah?

27:18  For Pilate knew that it was from enmity they had delivered him up.

27:19  And as the president was sitting on his tribunal, his wife sent to him, and said: Have thou nothing to do with that just man; for I have suffered much this I day in a dream because of him.

27:20  But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitude that they should demand Bar Abas, and destroy Jesus.

27:21  And the president answered, and said to them: Which of the two, will ye, that I release to you? And they said: Bar Abas.

27:22  Pilate said to them: And what shall I do to Jesus who is called Messiah? They all replied: Let him be crucified.

27:23  The president said to them: But what hath he done, that is evil? And they cried out the more, and said: Let him be crucified.

27:24  And Pilate, when he saw that it availed nothing, but rather that tumult was produced, took water, and washed his hands before the eyes of the multitude, and said: I am pure from the blood of this just man: see ye to it.

27:25  And all the people answered, and said His blood be on us, and on our children!

27:26  Then released he to them Bar Abas; and scourged Jesus with whips and delivered him to be crucified.

27:27  Then the soldiers of the president took Jesus into the Praetorium, and assembled the whole regiment against him.

27:28  And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet military cloak.

27:29  And they wove a crown of thorns, and set it on his head, and put a reed in his hand, and they bowed their knees before him, and mocked him, and said: Hail, thou king of the Jews.

27:30  And they spit in his face, and took the reed, and smote him on his head.

27:31  And when they had mocked him, they divested him of the cloak, and clothed him in his own garments, and led him out to be crucified.

27:32  And as they went out, they found a man of Cyrene whose name was Simon; him they compelled to bear his cross.

27:33  And they came to a place which is called Golgotha, which is interpreted a skull.

27:34  And they gave him to drink vinegar mixed with gall. And he tasted it, and would not drink.

27:35  And when they had crucified him, they distributed his garments by lot.

27:36  And they sat down, and watched him there

27:37  And they placed over his head the cause of his death, in the writing: THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS.

27:38  And there were crucified with him two robbers, the one on his right hand, and the other on his left.

27:39  And they that passed by reviled him, and shook their heads

27:40  and said: Destroyer of the temple, and builder of it in three days, deliver thyself; if thou art the Son of God, and come down from the cross.

27:41  So also the chief priests mocked, with the Scribes and Elders and Pharisees,

27:42  and said: He gave life to others, his own life he cannot preserve. If he is the king of Israel, let him now descend from the cross, and we will believe in him. †

27:43  He trusted in God; let him rescue him now, if he hath pleasure in him: for he said, I am the Son of God.

27:44  In like manner the marauders also, that were crucified with him, reproached him.

27:45  And from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land, until the ninth hour.

27:46  And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice and said: O God, O God; why hast thou forsaken me?

27:47  And some of them that stood there, when they heard it, said: He calleth for Elijah.

27:48  And immediately one of them ran, and took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.

27:49  But the rest said: Desist; we will see if Elijah will come to rescue him.

27:50  Then Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up his spirit.

27:51  And instantly, the curtain of the door of the temple was torn asunder, from the top to the bottom; and the earth shook; and the rocks rived;

27:52  and graves were opened; and many bodies of saints who slept, arose,

27:53  and came forth; and, after his resurrection, entered into the holy city, and appeared to many.

27:54  And the centurion, and they that were with him guarding Jesus, when they saw the earthquake and the things that occurred, feared greatly, and said: Verily, this was the Son of God.

27:55  And many women were there, looking on from a distance; the same who had followed Jesus from Galilee, and had ministered to him.

27:56  One of them was Mary of Magdala, also Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's children.

27:57  And when it was evening, there came a rich man of Ramath, whose name was a Joseph, who was also a disciple of Jesus.

27:58  This man went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. And Pilate directed the body to be given him.

27:59  And Joseph took the body, and wrapped it in a winding-sheet of clean linen;

27:60  and laid it in his new sepulchre, that was excavated in a rock. And he rolled a great stone against the door of the sepulchre, and departed:

27:61  And there were present Mary of Magdala, and the other Mary, who sat over against the grave.

27:62  And on the day that was next after the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees assembled before Pilate,

27:63  and said to him: Our Lord, we remember that this deceiver said, while he was alive, After three days, I shall arise.

27:64  Command, therefore to guard the sepulchre; until the third day; lest his disciples come and steal him away by night, and say to the people that he hath risen from the dead; and the last delusion be worse than the first.

27:65  Pilate said to them: Ye have soldiers: go and guard it, as ye know how.

27:66  And they went and set a guard to the sepulchre, and sealed the stone.