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Finally, they put a royal robe on him and sent him back to Pilate. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>(Herod and Pilate, who had been enemies before, became friends that day.)</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then Pilate called together the leading priests and other religious leaders, along with the people, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>and he announced his verdict. “You brought this man to me, accusing him of leading a revolt. I have examined him thoroughly on this point in your presence and find him innocent. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Herod came to the same conclusion and sent him back to us. Nothing this man has done calls for the death penalty. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>So I will have him flogged, and then I will release him.”<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then a mighty roar rose from the crowd, and with one voice they shouted, “Kill him, and release Barabbas to us!” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>(Barabbas was in prison for taking part in an insurrection in Jerusalem against the government, and for murder.) <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Pilate argued with them, because he wanted to release Jesus. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But they kept shouting, “Crucify him! Crucify him!”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>For the third time he demanded, “Why? What crime has he committed? I have found no reason to sentence him to death. So I will have him flogged, and then I will release him.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But the mob shouted louder and louder, demanding that Jesus be crucified, and their voices prevailed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>So Pilate sentenced Jesus to die as they demanded. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>As they had requested, he released Barabbas, the man in prison for insurrection and murder. But he turned Jesus over to them to do as they wished.</p><p class="hdg">The Crucifixion</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>As they led Jesus away, a man named Simon, who was from Cyrene,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> happened to be coming in from the countryside. The soldiers seized him and put the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>A large crowd trailed behind, including many grief-stricken women. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>But Jesus turned and said to them, <span class="red">“Daughters of Jerusalem, don’t weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="red">For the days are coming when they will say, ‘Fortunate indeed are the women who are childless, the wombs that have not borne a child and the breasts that have never nursed.’</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="red">People will beg the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’ and plead with the hills, ‘Bury us.’<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="red">For if these things are done when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a>”</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Two others, both criminals, were led out to be executed with him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>When they came to a place called The Skull,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">e</span></a> they nailed him to the cross. And the criminals were also crucified—one on his right and one on his left.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Jesus said, <span class="red">“Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.”<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">f</span></a></span> And the soldiers gambled for his clothes by throwing dice.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">g</span></a></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>The crowd watched and the leaders scoffed. “He saved others,” they said, “let him save himself if he is really God’s Messiah, the Chosen One.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>The soldiers mocked him, too, by offering him a drink of sour wine. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>They called out to him, “If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>A sign was fastened above him with these words: “This is the King of the Jews.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>One of the criminals hanging beside him scoffed, “So you’re the Messiah, are you? Prove it by saving yourself—and us, too, while you’re at it!”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>But the other criminal protested, “Don’t you fear God even when you have been sentenced to die? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>We deserve to die for our crimes, but this man hasn’t done anything wrong.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your Kingdom.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>And Jesus replied, <span class="red">“I assure you, today you will be with me in paradise.”</span></p><p class="hdg">The Death of Jesus</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>By this time it was about noon, and darkness fell across the whole land until three o’clock. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>The light from the sun was gone. And suddenly, the curtain in the sanctuary of the Temple was torn down the middle. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>Then Jesus shouted, <span class="red">“Father, I entrust my spirit into your hands!”<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">h</span></a></span> And with those words he breathed his last.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span>When the Roman officer<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">i</span></a> overseeing the execution saw what had happened, he worshiped God and said, “Surely this man was innocent.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">j</span></a>” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span>And when all the crowd that came to see the crucifixion saw what had happened, they went home in deep sorrow.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">k</span></a> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-49.htm"><b>49</b></a></span>But Jesus’ friends, including the women who had followed him from Galilee, stood at a distance watching.</p><p class="hdg">The Burial of Jesus</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-50.htm"><b>50</b></a></span>Now there was a good and righteous man named Joseph. He was a member of the Jewish high council, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-51.htm"><b>51</b></a></span>but he had not agreed with the decision and actions of the other religious leaders. He was from the town of Arimathea in Judea, and he was waiting for the Kingdom of God to come. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-52.htm"><b>52</b></a></span>He went to Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-53.htm"><b>53</b></a></span>Then he took the body down from the cross and wrapped it in a long sheet of linen cloth and laid it in a new tomb that had been carved out of rock. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-54.htm"><b>54</b></a></span>This was done late on Friday afternoon, the day of preparation,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">l</span></a> as the Sabbath was about to begin.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-55.htm"><b>55</b></a></span>As his body was taken away, the women from Galilee followed and saw the tomb where his body was placed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/23-56.htm"><b>56</b></a></span>Then they went home and prepared spices and ointments to anoint his body. But by the time they were finished the Sabbath had begun, so they rested as required by the law.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">23:16 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts add verse 17, </span><span class="it">Now it was necessary for him to release one prisoner to them during the Passover celebration.</span><span class="ft"> Compare Matt 27:15; Mark 15:6; John 18:39.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">23:26 </span><span class="it">Cyrene</span><span class="ft"> was a city in northern Africa.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">23:30 </span><span class="ft">Hos 10:8.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">23:31 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">If these things are done to me, the living tree, what will happen to you, the dry tree?</span><br><span class="fn">e</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">23:33 </span><span class="ft">Sometimes rendered </span><span class="it">Calvary,</span><span class="ft"> which comes from the Latin word for “skull.”</span><br><span class="fn">f</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">23:34a </span><span class="ft">This sentence is not included in many ancient manuscripts.</span><br><span class="fn">g</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">23:34b </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">by casting lots.</span><span class="ft"> See Ps 22:18.</span><br><span class="fn">h</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">23:46 </span><span class="ft">Ps 31:5.</span><br><span class="fn">i</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">23:47a </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">the centurion.</span><br><span class="fn">j</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">23:47b </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">righteous.</span><br><span class="fn">k</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">23:48 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">went home beating their breasts.</span><br><span class="fn">l</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">23:54 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">It was the day of preparation.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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