Chapter 49
The Crucifixion of Jesus
Verse 1: As the soldiers led Jesus on the way to be crucified and as he faltered and fell, they seized a man, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming from the country. The soldiers forced him under the cross and made him carry it behind Jesus. | Luke 23:26
2 A great number of the people followed Jesus, and among them were the women who ministered his fellowship and who were mourning and wailing for him. | Luke 23:27
3 But Jesus turned to speak to them and said, “Women of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. | Luke 23:28
4 For I tell you, a time is coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’ | Luke 23:29
5 Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’ | Luke 23:30
6 For if they do these things while the trees are green, what will happen when they are dry?” | Luke 23:31
7 Two others also, who were convicted, were led away to be executed with him. | Luke 23:32
8 And they brought Jesus to a place called Golgotha (which means The Place of a Skull). | Mark 15:22
9 And the soldiers offered him wine mixed with myrrh to drink, but he refused to take it. | Mark 15:23
10 And they crucified him there with other insurrectionists, one on his right and one on his left and divided his clothes among them, casting lots to decide what each should take. | Mark 15:24, Luke 23:33
11 It was nine o’clock in the morning when they crucified him. | Mark 15:25
12 And those who passed by reviled him, shaking their heads and saying, “Aha! You who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, | Mark 15:29
13 save yourself, and come down from the cross!” | Mark 15:30
14 In the same way the chief priests, along with the scribes, mocked Jesus among themselves saying to each other, “He saved others; he is not able to save himself. | Mark 15:31
15 Let the Christ, the King of Israel, descend down from the cross, so that we may see and believe.” | Mark 15:32
16 One of the criminals kept deriding Jesus and saying, “Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!” | Luke 23:39
17 And the other also taunted and reviled him in the same way. | Matthew 27:44
The Death of Jesus
18 From midday onwards, the sunlight had started to fade, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. | Matthew 27:45, Luke 23:45
19 Looking on from a distance, Jesus saw there were women. Among them were his mother Mary, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the wife of Clopas, Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome, | Matthew 27:55, Mark 15:40, John 19:25
20 who used to follow him and serve him when he was in Galilee, and there were many other women who had journeyed with him to Jerusalem. Not one apostle was present, for they were hiding. | Mark 15:41
21 And at that moment he looked out and saw he was alone and cried with a loud voice, “lema sabachthani?” that is, “why have you forsaken me?”. | Matthew 27:46
22 And some of those who were standing there heard it, some said, “This man is calling for Elijah.” | Matthew 27:47
23 After this, when Jesus knew that everything was completed, he said, “I am thirsty.” | John 19:28
24 A jar full of sour wine was standing there. And immediately one of them ran and took a sponge, filled it with sour wine, put it on a stick, and gave it to him to drink. | John 19:29, Matthew 27:48
25 But the others said, “Leave him alone, we shall see whether Elijah will come down to save him.” | Matthew 27:49
26 When Jesus had received the wine, he called out in a loud voice, “Father, it is finished. Into your hands I commend my spirit.” Having said this, he breathed his last. | John 19:30, Luke 23:46
The Burial of Jesus
27 Afterwards, Joseph of Arimathea, a respected member of the council and who was a disciple of Jesus, though in secret because of his fear of the temple, asked Pilate to let him take away the body of Jesus. | Mark 15:42, John 19:38
28 Then Pilate wondered if he were already dead, and summoned a centurion and asked him on whether he had been deceased for some time. | Mark 15:44
29 When he confirmed it with the centurion that he was dead, Pilate gave permission and granted the body to Joseph. | Mark 15:45
30 Then Joseph bought a linen cloth and, | Mark 15:46
31 Nicodemus, who had previously visited Jesus by night, also came, who brought with him a mixture of myrrh and aloes, weighing nearly a hundred pounds. | John 19:39
32 They took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the aromatic spices, as it was the custom to prepare for burial. | John 19:40
33 Now there was a garden in the place where Jesus was crucified, and in the garden there was a new tomb in which no one had ever been laid, that had been hewn out of rock. | John 19:41, Mark 15:46
34 And because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and the tomb was close to them, they laid Jesus in there. | John 19:42
35 Two women, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joseph of Arimathea, who had come up with him from Galilee followed, and they looked into the tomb and how his body was placed. | Luke 23:55, Mark 15:47
36 They then rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb. | Mark 15:46
37 Then they returned and to prepare spices and ointments and they rested on the Sabbath they, according to the commandment. | Luke 23:56
The Guard at the Tomb
38 The next day, which was the day of Preparation, the chief priests and some Pharisees assembled before Pilate | Matthew 27:62
39 and said, “Sir, we remember what the deceiver told everyone while he was yet alive, ‘After three days I shall rise again.’ | Matthew 27:63
40 So give the order that the tomb be secured until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples may come and steal him away and proclaim to the people, ‘He has been risen from the dead,’ and the last deception would be much worse than the first.” | Matthew 27:64
41 Pilate said, “You have a guard of soldiers; go then, make it as secure as you can.” | Matthew 27:65
42 So they went and secured the tomb by sealing the stone and posting a guard. | Matthew 27:66