LO - Matthew - 27

27:1  When it was morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people have consulted against Jesus, how they might procure his death,

27:2  conducted him bound to Pontius Pilate, the procurator, to whom they delivered him up.

27:3  Then Judas, who had betrayed him, finding that he was condemned, repented; and returning the thirty shekels to the chief priests and the elders,

27:4  said, I have sinner, in that I have betrayed the innocent. They answered, What is that to us? See you to that.

27:5  After which, having thrown down the money in the temple, he went away, and strangled himself.

27:6  The chief priests taking the money, said, It is not lawful to put it into the sacred treasury, because it is the price of blood.

27:7  But, after deliberating, they bought with it the potter's field, to be a burying place for strangers,

27:8  for which reason that field is, to this day, called, The Field of Blood.

27:9  Then was the word of Jeremiah the Prophet verified, "The thirty shekels, the price at which he was valued, I took, as the Lord appointed me, from the sons of Israel,

27:10  who gave them for the potter's field.

27:11  Now Jesus appeared before the procurator, who questioned him, saying, You are the King of the Jews? He answered, You say right.

27:12  But when he was arraigned by the chief priests and the elders, he made no reply.

27:13  Then Pilate said to him, Do you not hear of how many crimes they accuse you?

27:14  But he answered not one word, which surprised the procurator exceedingly.

27:15  Now the procurator was accustomed to release, at the festival, any one of the prisoners whom the multitude demanded.

27:16  And they had then a famous prisoners named Barabbas.

27:17  Therefore. when they were assembled, Pilate said to them, Whom shall I release to you? Barabbas, or Jesus, who is called Messiah?

27:18  (For he perceived that through envy they had delivered him up;

27:19  besides, while he was sitting on the tribunal, his wife sent him this message, Have nothing to do with this innocent person; for today, I have suffered much in a dream, on his account.)

27:20  But the chief priests and elders instigated the populace to demand Barabbas, and cause Jesus to be executed.

27:21  Therefore, when the procurator asked, which of the two he should release, they all answered, Barabbas.

27:22  Pilate replied, What then shall I do with Jesus, whom they call Messiah? They all answered, Let him be crucified.

27:23  The procurator said, Why? What evil has he done? But they cried the louder, saying, Let him be crucified.

27:24  Pilate perceiving that he was so far from prevailing, that they grew more tumultuous, took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am guiltless of the blood of this innocent person. See you to it.

27:25  And all the people answering, said, His blood be upon us, and upon your children.

27:26  Then he released Barabbas to them, and having caused Jesus to be scourged, delivered him up to be crucified.

27:27  After this, the procurator's soldiers took Jesus into the pretorium, where they gathered around him all the band.

27:28  And having stripped him, they robed him in a scarlet cloak,

27:29  and crowned him with a wreath of thorns, and put a rod in his right hand, and kneeling before him in mockery. cried, Hail, King of the Jews!

27:30  And spitting upon him, they took the rod and struck him with it on the head.

27:31  When they had mocked him, they disrobed him again, and having put his own raiment on him, led him away to crucify him.

27:32  As they went out of the city, they met one Simon, a Cyrenian, whom they constrained to carry the cross;

27:33  and being arrived at a place called Golgotha, which signifies a Place of Skulls,

27:34  they gave him to drink, vinegar mixed with wormwood, which, having tasted, he would not drink.

27:35  After they had nailed him to the cross, they parted his garments by lot.

27:36  And having sat down there, they guarded him.

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

27:38  Two robbers also were crucified with him, one at his right hand, and the other at his left.

27:39  Meanwhile the passengers reviled him, shaking their heads,

27:40  and saying, You who could demolish the temple, and rebuild it in three days; if you be God's Son, come down from the cross.

27:41  The chief priests also, with the scribes and elders, deriding him, said,

27:42  He saved others: can he not save himself? If he be King of Israel, let him now descend from the cross, and we will believe him.

27:43  He trusted in God. Let God deliver him now, if he regard him; for he called himself God's Son.

27:44  The robbers too, his fellow-sufferers, upbraided him in the same manner.

27:45  Now from the sixth hour to the ninth, the whole land was in darkness.

27:46  About the ninth hour, Jesus cried aloud, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabacthani? that is, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

27:47  Some of the bystanders hearing this, said, He calls Elijah.

27:48  Instantly one of them ran, brought a sponge, and soaked it in vinegar, and having fastened it to a stick, presented it to him to drink.

27:49  The rest said, Forbear, we shall see whether Elijah will come to save him.

27:50  Jesus having again cried with a loud voice, resigned his spirit.

27:51  And, behold, the vail of the temple was rent in two from top to bottom, the earth trembled, and the rocks split.

27:52  Graves also burst open; and after his resurrection, the bodies of several saints who slept were raised,

27:53  came out of the graves, went into the holy city, and were seen by many.

27:54  Now the centurion, and they who, with him, guarded Jesus, observing the earthquake, and what passed, were exceedingly terrified, and said, This was certainly the son of a god.

27:55  Several women also were there, looking on at a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, assisting him with their service.

27:56  Among them were Mary the Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's sons.

27:57  In the evening a rich Arimathean named Joseph, who was himself a disciple of Jesus,

27:58  went to Pilate and begged the body of Jesus. Pilate having given orders to deliver it to Joseph,

27:59  he took the body, wrapped it in clean linen,

27:60  and deposited it in his own tomb, which he had newly caused to be hewn in the rock; and having rolled a great stone to the entrance, he went away.

27:61  Now Mary the Magdalene, and the other Mary were there, sitting over against the sepulcher.

27:62  On the morrow, being the day of preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees repaired in a body to Pilate,

27:63  and said, My lord, we remember that this impostor, when alive, said, Within three days I shall be raised.

27:64  Command, therefore, that the sepulcher be guarded till the third day, lest his disciples come and steal him, and say to the people, He is raised from the dead; for this last imposture would prove worse than the first.

27:65  Pilate answered, You have a guard; make the sepulcher as secure as you can.

27:66  Accordingly they went and secured it, sealing the stone, and posting guards.