Matthew 27
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Jesus Handed Over to Pilate
1When daybreak came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people plotted against Jesus to put Him to death. # Mk 15:1; Lk 22:66; Jn 18:28 2After tying Him up, they led Him away and handed Him over to Pilate, # Other mss read Pontius Pilate the governor. # Mt 20:19; Lk 13:1; Ac 3:13; 1Tm 6:13
Judas Hangs Himself
3Then Judas, His betrayer, seeing that He had been condemned, was full of remorse and returned the 30 pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders. # Mt 21:29; 26:14-15 4“I have sinned by betraying innocent blood,” he said.
“What’s that to us? ” they said. “See to it yourself! ”
5So he threw the silver into the sanctuary # 2Sm 17:23; Lk 1:19,21; Ac 1:18 and departed. Then he went and hanged himself.
6The chief priests took the silver and said, “It’s not lawful # Mk 2:24; Jn 18:31 to put it into the temple treasury, # See Mk 7:11 where the same Gk word (Corban) means a gift pledged to the temple. since it is blood money.” # Lit the price of blood 7So they conferred together and bought the potter’s field with it as a burial place for foreigners. 8Therefore that field has been called “Blood Field” to this day. 9Then what was spoken through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled:
They took the 30 pieces of silver, the price of Him whose price was set by the Israelites, 10and they gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord directed me. # Jr 32:6-9; Zch 11:12-13; Mt 1:22 # Jr 32:6-9; Zch 11:12-13
Jesus Faces the Governor
11Now Jesus stood before the governor. # Mk 15:2-5; Lk 23:2-3; Jn 18:29-38 “Are You the King of the Jews? ” the governor asked Him.
Jesus answered, “You have said it.” # Or That is true, an affirmative oath; Mt 26:64; Mk 15:2 # Mt 2:2; 1Tm 6:13 12And while He was being accused by the chief priests and elders, He didn’t answer. # Mt 26:63; Jn 19:9
13Then Pilate said to Him, “Don’t You hear how much they are testifying against You? ” 14But He didn’t answer him on even one charge, so that the governor was greatly amazed. # Mk 15:5; Lk 23:9
Jesus or Barabbas
15At the festival # Mk 15:6-15; Lk 23:16-25; Jn 18:39-40; 19:16 the governor’s custom was to release to the crowd a prisoner they wanted. 16At that time they had a notorious prisoner called Barabbas. # Other mss read Jesus Barabbas 17So when they had gathered together, Pilate said to them, “Who is it you want me to release for you — Barabbas, # Other mss read Jesus Barabbas or Jesus who is called Messiah? ” # Mt 1:16; 27:22 18For he knew they had handed Him over because of envy.
19While he was sitting on the judge’s bench, his wife sent word to him, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for today I’ve suffered terribly in a dream because of Him! ” # Gn 20:6; Nm 12:6; Jb 33:14-16; Mt 2:12; Jn 19:13
20The chief priests and the elders, however, persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to execute Jesus. 21The governor asked them, “Which of the two do you want me to release for you? ”
“Barabbas! ” they answered.
22Pilate asked them, “What should I do then with Jesus, who is called Messiah? ”
They all answered, “Crucify Him! ” # Lit “Him — be crucified!” # Mt 1:16; Ac 13:28
23Then he said, “Why? What has He done wrong? ”
But they kept shouting, “Crucify Him! ” all the more. # Lk 23:41; Jn 8:46
24When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, # Lit that it availed nothing but that a riot was starting instead, he took some water, washed his hands in front of the crowd, and said, “I am innocent of this man’s blood. # Other mss read this righteous man’s blood See to it yourselves! ” # Dt 21:6-8; Ps 26:6; Mt 26:5; 27:4,19
25All the people answered, “His blood be on us # Jos 2:19; Ac 5:28 and on our children! ” 26Then he released Barabbas to them. But after having Jesus flogged, # Roman flogging was done with a whip made of leather strips embedded with pieces of bone or metal that brutally tore the flesh. he handed Him over to be crucified. # Is 53:5; Mk 15:15; Lk 23:16; Jn 19:1
Mocked by the Military
27Then # Mk 15:16-20; Jn 19:2-3 the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into headquarters and gathered the whole company around Him. # Jn 18:28,33; 19:9; Ac 10:1 28They stripped Him and dressed Him in a scarlet military robe. # Lk 23:11; Jn 19:2 29They twisted together a crown of thorns, put it on His head, and placed a reed in His right hand. And they knelt down before Him and mocked Him: “Hail, King of the Jews! ” 30Then they spit on Him, took the reed, and kept hitting Him on the head. 31When they had mocked Him, they stripped Him of the robe, put His clothes on Him, and led Him away to crucify Him. # Is 53:7; Mt 26:67
Crucified Between Two Criminals
32As they were going out, they found a Cyrenian man named Simon. They forced this man to carry His cross. # Nm 15:35; Mk 15:21; Lk 23:26; Heb 13:12 33When they came to a place called Golgotha # Mk 15:22-32; Lk 23:33-43; Jn 19:17-24 (which means Skull Place), 34they gave Him wine # Other mss read sour wine mixed with gall to drink. But when He tasted it, He would not drink it. 35After crucifying Him they divided His clothes by casting lots. # Other mss add that what was spoken by the prophet might be fulfilled: “They divided My clothes among them, and for My clothing they cast lots.” # Ps 22:17; 69:21 36Then they sat down and were guarding Him there. 37Above His head they put up the charge against Him in writing:
THIS IS JESUSTHE KING OF THE JEWS.
38Then two criminals # Or revolutionaries were crucified with Him, one on the right and one on the left. # Is 53:12; Mt 20:21; Jn 18:40 39Those who passed by were yelling insults at # Lit passed by blasphemed or were blaspheming Him, shaking their heads # Jb 16:4; Ps 22:7; 109:25; Lm 2:15; Mk 15:29 40and saying, “The One who would demolish the sanctuary and rebuild it in three days, save Yourself! If You are the Son of God, come down from the cross! ” # Mt 4:3,6; 26:61,63; Jn 2:19 41In the same way the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, # Other mss add and Pharisees mocked Him and said, 42“He saved others, but He cannot save Himself! He is the King of Israel! # Jn 1:49; 12:13 Let Him # Other mss read If He . . . Israel, let Him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in Him. 43He has put His trust in God; let God rescue Him now — if He wants Him! # Or if He takes pleasure in Him For He said, ‘I am God’s Son.’ ” 44In the same way even the criminals who were crucified with Him kept taunting Him. # Ps 22:8; Lk 23:39-43
The Death of Jesus
45From noon until three in the afternoon # Lit From the sixth hour to the ninth hour darkness came over the whole land. # Or whole earth # Mk 15:33-41; Lk 23:44-49; Jn 19:28-30 46About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Elí, Elí, lemá # Some mss read lama ; other mss read lima sabachtháni?” that is, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken # Or abandoned Me?” # Ps 22:1; Heb 5:7 # Ps 22:1
47When some of those standing there heard this, they said, “He’s calling for Elijah! ”
48Immediately one of them ran and got a sponge, filled it with sour wine, fixed it on a reed, and offered Him a drink. # Ps 69:21; Mk 15:36; Lk 23:36; Jn 19:29 49But the rest said, “Let’s see if Elijah comes to save Him! ”
50Jesus shouted again with a loud voice and gave up His spirit. # Mk 15:37; Lk 23:46; Jn 10:18; 19:30 51Suddenly, the curtain of the sanctuary # A heavy curtain separated the inner room of the temple from the outer. # Ex 26:31-33; 2Ch 3:14; Heb 9:3 was split in two from top to bottom; the earth quaked and the rocks were split. 52The tombs were also opened # Ezk 37:12 and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised. 53And they came out of the tombs after His resurrection, entered the holy city, and appeared to many.
54When the centurion and those with him, who were guarding Jesus, saw the earthquake and the things that had happened, they were terrified and said, “This man really was God’s Son! ” # Or the Son of God # Jn 5:19; Heb 1:2
55Many women who had followed Jesus from Galilee and ministered to Him were there, looking on from a distance. # Ps 38:11; Lk 8:2-3; Jn 19:25 56Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of Zebedee’s sons. # Mt 20:20; Mk 15:40; Jn 19:25
The Burial of Jesus
57When it was evening, # Mk 15:42-47; Lk 23:50-56; Jn 19:38-42 a rich man from Arimathea named Joseph came, who himself had also become a disciple # Mt 10:42; 28:19; Lk 14:26; Jn 8:31; 13:35; 15:8; Ac 6:1 of Jesus. 58He approached Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body. Then Pilate ordered that it # Other mss read that the body be released. 59So Joseph took the body, wrapped it in clean, fine linen, 60and placed it in his new tomb, which he had cut into the rock. He left after rolling a great stone against the entrance of the tomb. # Is 53:9; Mt 27:66; 28:2; Mk 16:4 61Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were seated there, facing the tomb.
The Closely Guarded Tomb
62The next day, which followed the preparation day, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate # Mk 15:42; Lk 23:54; Jn 19:14,31,42 63and said, “Sir, we remember that while this deceiver was still alive He said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’ # Mt 16:21; 17:22-23; 20:19; Mk 8:31; 10:34; Lk 9:22; 18:33 64Therefore give orders that the tomb be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, His disciples # Mt 10:1, 26:56; Mk 3:7; 16:20; Lk 6:13; Jn 12:16 may come, steal Him, and tell the people, ‘He has been raised from the dead.’ Then the last deception will be worse than the first.”
65“You have # Or “Take a guard of soldiers,” # It is uncertain whether this guard consisted of temple police or Roman soldiers. Pilate told them. “Go and make it as secure as you know how.” 66Then they went and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone and setting the guard. # Lit stone with the guard # Dn 6:17; Mt 28:2,11
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Matthew 27
27
Jesus Is Taken to Pilate
1Early the next morning, all the leading priests and elders of the people decided that Jesus should die. 2They tied him, led him away, and turned him over to Pilate, the governor.
Judas Kills Himself
3Judas, the one who had given Jesus to his enemies, saw that they had decided to kill Jesus. Then he was very sorry for what he had done. So he took the thirty silver coins back to the priests and the leaders, 4saying, “I sinned; I handed over to you an innocent man.”
The leaders answered, “What is that to us? That’s your problem, not ours.”
5So Judas threw the money into the Temple. Then he went off and hanged himself.
6The leading priests picked up the silver coins in the Temple and said, “Our law does not allow us to keep this money with the Temple money, because it has paid for a man’s death.” 7So they decided to use the coins to buy Potter’s Field as a place to bury strangers who died in Jerusalem. 8That is why that field is still called the Field of Blood. 9So what Jeremiah the prophet had said came true: “They took thirty silver coins. That is how little the Israelites thought he was worth. 10They used those thirty silver coins to buy the potter’s field, as the Lord commanded me.”
Pilate Questions Jesus
11Jesus stood before Pilate the governor, and Pilate asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?”
Jesus answered, “Those are your words.”
12When the leading priests and the elders accused Jesus, he said nothing.
13So Pilate said to Jesus, “Don’t you hear them accusing you of all these things?”
14But Jesus said nothing in answer to Pilate, and Pilate was very surprised at this.
Pilate Tries to Free Jesus
15Every year at the time of Passover the governor would free one prisoner whom the people chose. 16At that time there was a man in prison, named Barabbas, who was known to be very bad. 17When the people gathered at Pilate’s house, Pilate said, “Whom do you want me to set free: Barabbas or Jesus who is called the Christ?” 18Pilate knew that they turned Jesus in to him because they were jealous.
19While Pilate was sitting there on the judge’s seat, his wife sent this message to him: “Don’t do anything to that man, because he is innocent. Today I had a dream about him, and it troubled me very much.”
20But the leading priests and elders convinced the crowd to ask for Barabbas to be freed and for Jesus to be killed.
21Pilate said, “I have Barabbas and Jesus. Which do you want me to set free for you?”
The people answered, “Barabbas.”
22Pilate asked, “So what should I do with Jesus, the one called the Christ?”
They all answered, “Crucify him!”
23Pilate asked, “Why? What wrong has he done?”
But they shouted louder, “Crucify him!”
24When Pilate saw that he could do nothing about this and that a riot was starting, he took some water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. Then he said, “I am not guilty of this man’s death. You are the ones who are causing it!”
25All the people answered, “We and our children will be responsible for his death.”
26Then he set Barabbas free. But Jesus was beaten with whips and handed over to the soldiers to be crucified.
27The governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the governor’s palace, and they all gathered around him. 28They took off his clothes and put a red robe on him. 29Using thorny branches, they made a crown, put it on his head, and put a stick in his right hand. Then the soldiers bowed before Jesus and made fun of him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” 30They spat on Jesus. Then they took his stick and began to beat him on the head. 31After they finished, the soldiers took off the robe and put his own clothes on him again. Then they led him away to be crucified.
Jesus Is Crucified
32As the soldiers were going out of the city with Jesus, they forced a man from Cyrene, named Simon, to carry the cross for Jesus. 33They all came to the place called Golgotha, which means the Place of the Skull. 34The soldiers gave Jesus wine mixed with gall to drink. He tasted the wine but refused to drink it. 35When the soldiers had crucified him, they threw lots to decide who would get his clothes. 36The soldiers sat there and continued watching him. 37They put a sign above Jesus’ head with a charge against him. It said: this is jesus, the king of the jews. 38Two robbers were crucified beside Jesus, one on the right and the other on the left. 39People walked by and insulted Jesus and shook their heads, 40saying, “You said you could destroy the Temple and build it again in three days. So save yourself! Come down from that cross if you are really the Son of God!”
41The leading priests, the teachers of the law, and the Jewish elders were also making fun of Jesus. 42They said, “He saved others, but he can’t save himself! He says he is the king of Israel! If he is the king, let him come down now from the cross. Then we will believe in him. 43He trusts in God, so let God save him now, if God really wants him. He himself said, ‘I am the Son of God.’ ” 44And in the same way, the robbers who were being crucified beside Jesus also insulted him.
Jesus Dies
45At noon the whole country became dark, and the darkness lasted for three hours. 46About three o’clock Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” This means, “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?”
47Some of the people standing there who heard this said, “He is calling Elijah.”
48Quickly one of them ran and got a sponge and filled it with vinegar and tied it to a stick and gave it to Jesus to drink. 49But the others said, “Don’t bother him. We want to see if Elijah will come to save him.”
50But Jesus cried out again in a loud voice and died.
51Then the curtain in the Temple was torn into two pieces, from the top to the bottom. Also, the earth shook and rocks broke apart. 52The graves opened, and many of God’s people who had died were raised from the dead. 53They came out of the graves after Jesus was raised from the dead and went into the holy city, where they appeared to many people.
54When the army officer and the soldiers guarding Jesus saw this earthquake and everything else that happened, they were very frightened and said, “He really was the Son of God!”
55Many women who had followed Jesus from Galilee to help him were standing at a distance from the cross, watching. 56Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of James and John were there.
Jesus Is Buried
57That evening a rich man named Joseph, a follower of Jesus from the town of Arimathea, came to Jerusalem. 58Joseph went to Pilate and asked to have Jesus’ body. So Pilate gave orders for the soldiers to give it to Joseph. 59Then Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth. 60He put Jesus’ body in a new tomb that he had cut out of a wall of rock, and he rolled a very large stone to block the entrance of the tomb. Then Joseph went away. 61Mary Magdalene and the other woman named Mary were sitting near the tomb.
The Tomb of Jesus Is Guarded
62The next day, the day after Preparation Day, the leading priests and the Pharisees went to Pilate. 63They said, “Sir, we remember that while that liar was still alive he said, ‘After three days I will rise from the dead.’ 64So give the order for the tomb to be guarded closely till the third day. Otherwise, his followers might come and steal the body and tell people that he has risen from the dead. That lie would be even worse than the first one.”
65Pilate said, “Take some soldiers and go guard the tomb the best way you know.” 66So they all went to the tomb and made it safe from thieves by sealing the stone in the entrance and putting soldiers there to guard it.
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