022:023 They began to question among themselves, which of them it
was who would do this thing.
022:024 There arose also a contention among them, which of them was
considered to be greatest.
022:025 He said to them, "The kings of the nations lord it over them,
and those who have authority over them are called 'benefactors.'
022:026 But not so with you. But one who is the greater among you,
let him become as the younger, and one who is governing,
as one who serves.
022:027 For who is greater, one who sits at the table, or one who serves?
Isn't it he who sits at the table? But I am in the midst
of you as one who serves.
022:028 But you are those who have continued with me in my trials.
022:029 I confer on you a kingdom, even as my Father conferred on me,
022:030 that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom.
You will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel."
022:031 The Lord said, "Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you,
that he might sift you as wheat,
022:032 but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn't fail.
You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers{The
word for "brothers" here may be also correctly translated
"brothers and sisters" or "siblings."}."
022:033 He said to him, "Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison
and to death!"
022:034 He said, "I tell you, Peter, the rooster will by no means crow
today until you deny that you know me three times."
022:035 He said to them, "When I sent you out without purse, and wallet,
and shoes, did you lack anything?" They said, "Nothing."
022:036 Then he said to them, "But now, whoever has a purse,
let him take it, and likewise a wallet. Whoever has none,
let him sell his cloak, and buy a sword.
022:037 For I tell you that this which is written must still be fulfilled
in me: 'He was counted with the lawless.'{Isaiah 53:12} For
that which concerns me has an end."
022:038 They said, "Lord, behold, here are two swords." He said to them,
"That is enough."
022:039 He came out, and went, as his custom was, to the Mount of Olives.
His disciples also followed him.
022:040 When he was at the place, he said to them, "Pray that you
don't enter into temptation."
022:041 He was withdrawn from them about a stone's throw, and he knelt
down and prayed,
022:042 saying, "Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me.
Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done."
022:043 An angel from heaven appeared to him, strengthening him.
022:044 Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became
like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.
022:045 When he rose up from his prayer, he came to the disciples,
and found them sleeping because of grief,
022:046 and said to them, "Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you
may not enter into temptation."
022:047 While he was still speaking, behold, a multitude, and he who
was called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them.
He came near to Jesus to kiss him.
022:048 But Jesus said to him, "Judas, do you betray the Son of Man
with a kiss?"
022:049 When those who were around him saw what was about to happen,
they said to him, "Lord, shall we strike with the sword?"
022:050 A certain one of them struck the servant of the high priest,
and cut off his right ear.
022:051 But Jesus answered, "Let me at least do this"--and he touched
his ear, and healed him.
022:052 Jesus said to the chief priests, captains of the temple,
and elders, who had come against him, "Have you come out
as against a robber, with swords and clubs?
022:053 When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn't stretch
out your hands against me. But this is your hour,
and the power of darkness."
022:054 They seized him, and led him away, and brought him into the high
priest's house. But Peter followed from a distance.
022:055 When they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard,
and had sat down together, Peter sat among them.
022:056 A certain servant girl saw him as he sat in the light,
and looking intently at him, said, "This man also was with him."
022:057 He denied Jesus, saying, "Woman, I don't know him."
022:058 After a little while someone else saw him, and said, "You also
are one of them!" But Peter answered, "Man, I am not!"
022:059 After about one hour passed, another confidently affirmed, saying,
"Truly this man also was with him, for he is a Galilean!"
022:060 But Peter said, "Man, I don't know what you are talking about!"
Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.
022:061 The Lord turned, and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered
the Lord's word, how he said to him, "Before the rooster
crows you will deny me three times."
022:062 He went out, and wept bitterly.
022:063 The men who held Jesus mocked him and beat him.
022:064 Having blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and
asked him, "Prophesy! Who is the one who struck you?"
022:065 They spoke many other things against him, insulting him.
022:066 As soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of the people
was gathered together, both chief priests and scribes,
and they led him away into their council, saying,
022:067 "If you are the Christ, tell us." But he said to them,
"If I tell you, you won't believe,
022:068 and if I ask, you will in no way answer me or let me go.
022:069 From now on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand
of the power of God."
022:070 They all said, "Are you then the Son of God?" He said to them,
"You say it, because I am."
022:071 They said, "Why do we need any more witness? For we ourselves
have heard from his own mouth!"
023:001 The whole company of them rose up and brought him before Pilate.
023:002 They began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man perverting
the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying
that he himself is Christ, a king."
023:003 Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered him,
"So you say."
023:004 Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, "I find
no basis for a charge against this man."
023:005 But they insisted, saying, "He stirs up the people,
teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even
to this place."
023:006 But when Pilate heard Galilee mentioned, he asked if the man
was a Galilean.
023:007 When he found out that he was in Herod's jurisdiction, he sent
him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem during those days.
023:008 Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad, for he had
wanted to see him for a long time, because he had heard many
things about him. He hoped to see some miracle done by him.
023:009 He questioned him with many words, but he gave no answers.
023:010 The chief priests and the scribes stood, vehemently accusing him.
023:011 Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him.
Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.
023:012 Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day,
for before that they were enemies with each other.
023:013 Pilate called together the chief priests and the rulers
and the people,
023:014 and said to them, "You brought this man to me as one that
perverts the people, and see, I have examined him before you,
and found no basis for a charge against this man concerning
those things of which you accuse him.
023:015 Neither has Herod, for I sent you to him, and see, nothing worthy
of death has been done by him.
023:016 I will therefore chastise him and release him."
023:017 Now he had to release one prisoner to them at the feast.
023:018 But they all cried out together, saying, "Away with this man!
Release to us Barabbas!"--
023:019 one who was thrown into prison for a certain revolt in the city,
and for murder.
023:020 Then Pilate spoke to them again, wanting to release Jesus,
023:021 but they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify him!"
023:022 He said to them the third time, "Why? What evil has this man done?
I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore
chastise him and release him."
023:023 But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might
be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the
chief priests prevailed.
023:024 Pilate decreed that what they asked for should be done.
023:025 He released him who had been thrown into prison for insurrection
and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus up
to their will.
023:026 When they led him away, they grabbed one Simon of Cyrene,
coming from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry
it after Jesus.
023:027 A great multitude of the people followed him, including women
who also mourned and lamented him.
023:028 But Jesus, turning to them, said, "Daughters of Jerusalem,
don't weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.
023:029 For behold, the days are coming in which they will say,
'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore,
and the breasts that never nursed.'
023:030 Then they will begin to tell the mountains, 'Fall on us!'
and tell the hills, 'Cover us.'{Hosea 10:8}
023:031 For if they do these things in the green tree, what will be
done in the dry?"
023:032 There were also others, two criminals, led with him to be
put to death.
023:033 When they came to the place that is called The Skull,
they crucified him there with the criminals, one on the right
and the other on the left.
023:034 Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they don't know
what they are doing." Dividing his garments among them,
they cast lots.
023:035 The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed
at him, saying, "He saved others. Let him save himself,
if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!"
023:036 The soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar,
023:037 and saying, "If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!"
023:038 An inscription was also written over him in letters
of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew: "THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS."
023:039 One of the criminals who was hanged insulted him, saying, "If you
are the Christ, save yourself and us!"
023:040 But the other answered, and rebuking him said, "Don't you
even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation?
023:041 And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds,
but this man has done nothing wrong."
023:042 He said to Jesus, "Lord, remember me when you come
into your Kingdom."
023:043 Jesus said to him, "Assuredly I tell you, today you will be
with me in Paradise."
023:044 It was now about the sixth hour{Time was counted from sunrise,
so the sixth hour was about noon.}, and darkness came over
the whole land until the ninth hour.{3:00 PM}
023:045 The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two.
023:046 Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, "Father, into your hands
I commit my spirit!" Having said this, he breathed his last.
023:047 When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying,
"Certainly this was a righteous man."
023:048 All the multitudes that came together to see this, when they saw
the things that were done, returned home beating their breasts.
023:049 All his acquaintances, and the women who followed with him
from Galilee, stood at a distance, watching these things.
023:050 Behold, a man named Joseph, who was a member of the council,
a good and righteous man
023:051 (he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea,
a city of the Jews, who was also waiting for the Kingdom of God:
023:052 this man went to Pilate, and asked for Jesus' body.
023:053 He took it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid him
in a tomb that was cut in stone, where no one had ever been laid.
023:054 It was the day of the Preparation, and the Sabbath was drawing near.
023:055 The women, who had come with him out of Galilee, followed after,
and saw the tomb, and how his body was laid.
023:056 They returned, and prepared spices and ointments.
On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.
024:001 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they and
some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which
they had prepared.
024:002 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb.
024:003 They entered in, and didn't find the Lord Jesus' body.
024:004 It happened, while they were greatly perplexed about this,
behold, two men stood by them in dazzling clothing.
024:005 Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth.
They said to them, "Why do you seek the living among the dead?
024:006 He isn't here, but is risen. Remember what he told you
when he was still in Galilee,
024:007 saying that the Son of Man must be delivered up into the hands
of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again?"
024:008 They remembered his words,
024:009 returned from the tomb, and told all these things to the eleven,
and to all the rest.
024:010 Now they were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James.
The other women with them told these things to the apostles.
024:011 These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and they
didn't believe them.
024:012 But Peter got up and ran to the tomb. Stooping and looking in,
he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he departed
to his home, wondering what had happened.
024:013 Behold, two of them were going that very day to a village
named Emmaus, which was sixty stadia{60 stadia = about 11
kilometers or about 7 miles.} from Jerusalem.
024:014 They talked with each other about all of these things
which had happened.
024:015 It happened, while they talked and questioned together,
that Jesus himself came near, and went with them.
024:016 But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.
024:017 He said to them, "What are you talking about as you walk,
and are sad?"
024:018 One of them, named Cleopas, answered him, "Are you the only
stranger in Jerusalem who doesn't know the things which have
happened there in these days?"
024:019 He said to them, "What things?" They said to him, "The things
concerning Jesus, the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty
in deed and word before God and all the people;
024:020 and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up
to be condemned to death, and crucified him.
024:021 But we were hoping that it was he who would redeem Israel.
Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since
these things happened.
024:022 Also, certain women of our company amazed us, having arrived
early at the tomb;
024:023 and when they didn't find his body, they came saying that they
had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.
024:024 Some of us went to the tomb, and found it just like the women
had said, but they didn't see him."
024:025 He said to them, "Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe
in all that the prophets have spoken!
024:026 Didn't the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter
into his glory?"
024:027 Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained
to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
024:028 They drew near to the village, where they were going,
and he acted like he would go further.
024:029 They urged him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is almost evening,
and the day is almost over." He went in to stay with them.
024:030 It happened, that when he had sat down at the table with them,
he took the bread and gave thanks. Breaking it, he gave to them.
024:031 Their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he vanished
out of their sight.
024:032 They said one to another, "Weren't our hearts burning within us,
while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened
the Scriptures to us?"
024:033 They rose up that very hour, returned to Jerusalem, and found
the eleven gathered together, and those who were with them,
024:034 saying, "The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!"
024:035 They related the things that happened along the way, and how
he was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.
024:036 As they said these things, Jesus himself stood among them,
and said to them, "Peace be to you."
024:037 But they were terrified and filled with fear, and supposed
that they had seen a spirit.
024:038 He said to them, "Why are you troubled? Why do doubts arise
in your hearts?
024:039 See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me.
Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn't have flesh and bones,
as you see that I have."
024:040 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.
024:041 While they still didn't believe for joy, and wondered,
he said to them, "Do you have anything here to eat?"
024:042 They gave him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb.
024:043 He took them, and ate in front of them.
024:044 He said to them, "This is what I told you, while I was still
with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses,
the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled."
024:045 Then he opened their minds, that they might understand
the Scriptures.
024:046 He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary
for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,
024:047 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached
in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
024:048 You are witnesses of these things.
024:049 Behold, I send forth the promise of my Father on you.
But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed
with power from on high."
024:050 He led them out as far as Bethany, and he lifted up his hands,
and blessed them.
024:051 It happened, while he blessed them, that he withdrew from them,
and was carried up into heaven.
024:052 They worshiped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,
024:053 and were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.