didn't agree with each other.
014:057 Some stood up, and gave false testimony against him, saying,
014:058 "We heard him say, 'I will destroy this temple that is
made with hands, and in three days I will build another
made without hands.'"
014:059 Even so, their testimony did not agree.
014:060 The high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, "Have you
no answer? What is it which these testify against you?"
014:061 But he stayed quiet, and answered nothing. Again the high priest
asked him, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?"
014:062 Jesus said, "I am. You will see the Son of Man sitting
at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds
of the sky."
014:063 The high priest tore his clothes, and said, "What further need
have we of witnesses?
014:064 You have heard the blasphemy! What do you think?"
They all condemned him to be worthy of death.
014:065 Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat
him with fists, and to tell him, "Prophesy!" The officers
struck him with the palms of their hands.
014:066 As Peter was in the courtyard below, one of the maids of
the high priest came,
014:067 and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him, and said,
"You were also with the Nazarene, Jesus!"
014:068 But he denied it, saying, "I neither know, nor understand what you
are saying." He went out on the porch, and the rooster crowed.
014:069 The maid saw him, and began again to tell those who stood by,
"This is one of them."
014:070 But he again denied it. After a little while again those
who stood by said to Peter, "You truly are one of them,
for you are a Galilean, and your speech shows it."
014:071 But he began to curse, and to swear, "I don't know this man
of whom you speak!"
014:072 The rooster crowed the second time. Peter remembered the word,
how that Jesus said to him, "Before the rooster crows twice,
you will deny me three times." When he thought about that, he wept.
015:001 Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders
and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation,
and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him
up to Pilate.
015:002 Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered,
"So you say."
015:003 The chief priests accused him of many things.
015:004 Pilate again asked him, "Have you no answer? See how many
things they testify against you!"
015:005 But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate marveled.
015:006 Now at the feast he used to release to them one prisoner,
whom they asked of him.
015:007 There was one called Barabbas, bound with those who had made
insurrection, men who in the insurrection had committed murder.
015:008 The multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do as he always
did for them.
015:009 Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release to you
the King of the Jews?"
015:010 For he perceived that for envy the chief priests had
delivered him up.
015:011 But the chief priests stirred up the multitude, that he should
release Barabbas to them instead.
015:012 Pilate again asked them, "What then should I do to him whom
you call the King of the Jews?"
015:013 They cried out again, "Crucify him!"
015:014 Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has he done?"
But they cried out exceedingly, "Crucify him!"
015:015 Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas
to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him,
to be crucified.
015:016 The soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium;
and they called together the whole cohort.
015:017 They clothed him with purple, and weaving a crown of thorns,
they put it on him.
015:018 They began to salute him, "Hail, King of the Jews!"
015:019 They struck his head with a reed, and spat on him, and bowing
their knees, did homage to him.
015:020 When they had mocked him, they took the purple off of him,
and put his own garments on him. They led him out to crucify him.
015:021 They compelled one passing by, coming from the country,
Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to go
with them, that he might bear his cross.
015:022 They brought him to the place called Golgotha, which is,
being interpreted, "The place of a skull."
015:023 They offered him wine mixed with myrrh to drink, but he
didn't take it.
015:024 Crucifying him, they parted his garments among them,
casting lots on them, what each should take.
015:025 It was the third hour,{9:00 A. M.} and they crucified him.
015:026 The superscription of his accusation was written over him,
"THE KING OF THE JEWS."
015:027 With him they crucified two robbers; one on his right hand,
and one on his left.
015:028 The Scripture was fulfilled, which says, "He was
numbered with transgressors."
015:029 Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,
and saying, "Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it
in three days,
015:030 save yourself, and come down from the cross!"
015:031 Likewise, also the chief priests mocking among themselves with
the scribes said, "He saved others. He can't save himself.
015:032 Let the Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from
the cross, that we may see and believe him.{TR omits "him"}"
Those who were crucified with him insulted him.
015:033 When the sixth hour{or, noon} had come, there was darkness
over the whole land until the ninth hour.{3:00 PM}
015:034 At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, "Eloi, Eloi,
lama sabachthani?" which is, being interpreted, "My God,
my God, why have you forsaken me?"{Psalm 22:1}
015:035 Some of those who stood by, when they heard it, said, "Behold,
he is calling Elijah."
015:036 One ran, and filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on
a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, "Let him be.
Let's see whether Elijah comes to take him down."
015:037 Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and gave up the spirit.
015:038 The veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom.
015:039 When the centurion, who stood by opposite him, saw that he cried
out like this and breathed his last, he said, "Truly this
man was the Son of God!"
015:040 There were also women watching from afar, among whom were
both Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less
and of Joses, and Salome;
015:041 who, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and served him;
and many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.
015:042 When evening had now come, because it was the Preparation Day,
that is, the day before the Sabbath,
015:043 Joseph of Arimathaea, a prominent council member who also himself
was looking for the Kingdom of God, came. He boldly went
in to Pilate, and asked for Jesus' body.
015:044 Pilate marveled if he were already dead; and summoning
the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long.
015:045 When he found out from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.
015:046 He bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen
cloth, and laid him in a tomb which had been cut out of a rock.
He rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.
015:047 Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of Joses, saw where
he was laid.
016:001 When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother
of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come
and anoint him.
016:002 Very early on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb
when the sun had risen.
016:003 They were saying among themselves, "Who will roll away the stone
from the door of the tomb for us?"
016:004 for it was very big. Looking up, they saw that the stone
was rolled back.
016:005 Entering into the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on
the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were amazed.
016:006 He said to them, "Don't be amazed. You seek Jesus,
the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has risen.
He is not here. Behold, the place where they laid him!
016:007 But go, tell his disciples and Peter, 'He goes before you
into Galilee. There you will see him, as he said to you.'"
016:008 They went out,{TR adds "quickly"} and fled from the tomb,
for trembling and astonishment had come on them.
They said nothing to anyone; for they were afraid.
016:009 Now when he had risen early on the first day of the week,
he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast
out seven demons.
016:010 She went and told those who had been with him, as they
mourned and wept.
016:011 When they heard that he was alive, and had been seen
by her, they disbelieved.
016:012 After these things he was revealed in another form to two of them,
as they walked, on their way into the country.
016:013 They went away and told it to the rest. They didn't
believe them, either.
016:014 Afterward he was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat
at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness
of heart, because they didn't believe those who had seen him
after he had risen.
016:015 He said to them, "Go into all the world, and preach the Good News
to the whole creation.
016:016 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who
disbelieves will be condemned.
016:017 These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they
will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages;
016:018 they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing,
it will in no way hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick,
and they will recover."
016:019 So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was received
up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.
016:020 They went out, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them,
and confirming the word by the signs that followed. Amen.