Luke 23-24

Luke 23

¹And having risen, the whole multitude of them did lead him to Pilate,

²and began to accuse him, saying, ‘This one we found perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying himself to be Christ a king.'

³And Pilate questioned him, saying, ‘Thou art the king of the Jews?' and he answering him, said, ‘Thou dost say it.'

⁴And Pilate said unto the chief priests, and the multitude, ‘I find no fault in this man;'

⁵and they were the more urgent, saying -- ‘He doth stir up the people, teaching throughout the whole of Judea -- having begun from Galilee -- unto this place.'

⁶And Pilate having heard of Galilee, questioned if the man is a Galilean,

⁷and having known that he is from the jurisdiction of Herod, he sent him back unto Herod, he being also in Jerusalem in those days.

⁸And Herod having seen Jesus did rejoice exceedingly, for he was wishing for a long time to see him, because of hearing many things about him, and he was hoping some sign to see done by him,

⁹and was questioning him in many words, and he answered him nothing.

¹⁰And the chief priests and the scribes stood vehemently accusing him,

¹¹and Herod with his soldiers having set him at nought, and having mocked, having put around him gorgeous apparel, did send him back to Pilate,

¹²and both Pilate and Herod became friends on that day with one another, for they were before at enmity between themselves.

¹³And Pilate having called together the chief priests, and the rulers, and the people,

¹⁴said unto them, ‘Ye brought to me this man as perverting the people, and lo, I before you having examined, found in this man no fault in those things ye bring forward against him;

¹⁵no, nor yet Herod, for I sent you back unto him, and lo, nothing worthy of death is having been done by him;

¹⁶having chastised, therefore, I will release him,'

¹⁷for it was necessary for him to release to them one at every feast,

¹⁸and they cried out -- the whole multitude -- saying, ‘Away with this one, and release to us Barabbas,'

¹⁹who had been, because of a certain sedition made in the city, and murder, cast into prison.

²⁰Pilate again then -- wishing to release Jesus -- called to them,

²¹but they were calling out, saying, ‘Crucify, crucify him.'

²²And he a third time said unto them, ‘Why, what evil did he? no cause of death did I find in him; having chastised him, then, I will release him.'

²³And they were pressing with loud voices asking him to be crucified, and their voices, and those of the chief priests, were prevailing,

²⁴and Pilate gave judgment for their request being done,

²⁵and he released him who because of sedition and murder hath been cast into the prison, whom they were asking, and Jesus he gave up to their will.

²⁶And as they led him away, having taken hold on Simon, a certain Cyrenian, coming from the field, they put on him the cross, to bear it behind Jesus.

²⁷And there was following him a great multitude of the people, and of women, who also were beating themselves and lamenting him,

²⁸and Jesus having turned unto them, said, ‘Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but for yourselves weep ye, and for your children;

²⁹for, lo, days do come, in which they shall say, Happy the barren, and wombs that did not bare, and paps that did not give suck;

³⁰then they shall begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us, and to the hills, Cover us; --

³¹for, if in the green tree they do these things -- in the dry what may happen?'

³²And there were also others -- two evil-doers -- with him, to be put to death;

³³and when they came to the place that is called Skull, there they crucified him and the evil-doers, one on the right hand and one on the left.

³⁴And Jesus said, ‘Father, forgive them, for they have not known what they do;' and parting his garments they cast a lot.

³⁵And the people were standing, looking on, and the rulers also were sneering with them, saying, ‘Others he saved, let him save himself, if this be the Christ, the choice one of God.'

³⁶And mocking him also were the soldiers, coming near and offering vinegar to him,

³⁷and saying, ‘If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.'

³⁸And there was also a superscription written over him, in letters of Greek, and Roman, and Hebrew, ‘This is the King of the Jews.'

³⁹And one of the evil-doers who were hanged, was speaking evil of him, saying, ‘If thou be the Christ, save thyself and us.'

⁴⁰And the other answering, was rebuking him, saying, ‘Dost thou not even fear God, that thou art in the same judgment?

⁴¹and we indeed righteously, for things worthy of what we did we receive back, but this one did nothing out of place;'

⁴²and he said to Jesus, ‘Remember me, lord, when thou mayest come in thy reign;'

⁴³and Jesus said to him, ‘Verily I say to thee, To-day with me thou shalt be in the paradise.'

⁴⁴And it was, as it were, the sixth hour, and darkness came over all the land till the ninth hour,

⁴⁵and the sun was darkened, and the vail of the sanctuary was rent in the midst,

⁴⁶and having cried with a loud voice, Jesus said, ‘Father, to Thy hands I commit my spirit;' and these things having said, he breathed forth the spirit.

⁴⁷And the centurion having seen what was done, did glorify God, saying, ‘Really this man was righteous;'

⁴⁸and all the multitudes who were come together to this sight, beholding the things that came to pass, smiting their breasts did turn back;

⁴⁹and all his acquaintances stood afar off, and women who did follow him from Galilee, beholding these things.

⁵⁰And lo, a man, by name Joseph, being a counsellor, a man good and righteous,

⁵¹-- he was not consenting to their counsel and deed -- from Arimathea, a city of the Jews, who also himself was expecting the reign of God,

⁵²he, having gone near to Pilate, asked the body of Jesus,

⁵³and having taken it down, he wrapped it in fine linen, and placed it in a tomb hewn out, where no one was yet laid.

⁵⁴And the day was a preparation, and sabbath was approaching,

⁵⁵and the women also who have come with him out of Galilee having followed after, beheld the tomb, and how his body was placed,

⁵⁶and having turned back, they made ready spices and ointments, and on the sabbath, indeed, they rested, according to the command.

Luke 24

¹And on the first of the sabbaths, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, bearing the spices they made ready, and certain others with them,

²and they found the stone having been rolled away from the tomb,

³and having gone in, they found not the body of the Lord Jesus.

⁴And it came to pass, while they are perplexed about this, that lo, two men stood by them in glittering apparel,

⁵and on their having become afraid, and having inclined the face to the earth, they said to them, ‘Why do ye seek the living with the dead?

⁶he is not here, but was raised; remember how he spake to you, being yet in Galilee,

⁷saying -- It behoveth the Son of Man to be delivered up to the hands of sinful men, and to be crucified, and the third day to rise again.'

⁸And they remembered his sayings,

⁹and having turned back from the tomb told all these things to the eleven, and to all the rest.

¹⁰And it was the Magdalene Mary, and Joanna, and Mary of James, and the other women with them, who told unto the apostles these things,

¹¹and their sayings appeared before them as idle talk, and they were not believing them.

¹²And Peter having risen, did run to the tomb, and having stooped down he seeth the linen clothes lying alone, and he went away to his own home, wondering at that which was come to pass.

¹³And, lo, two of them were going on during that day to a village, distant sixty furlongs from Jerusalem, the name of which is Emmaus,

¹⁴and they were conversing with one another about all these things that have happened.

¹⁵And it came to pass in their conversing and reasoning together, that Jesus himself, having come nigh, was going on with them,

¹⁶and their eyes were holden so as not to know him,

¹⁷and he said unto them, ‘What are these words that ye exchange with one another, walking, and ye are sad?'

¹⁸And the one, whose name was Cleopas, answering, said unto him, ‘Art thou alone such a stranger in Jerusalem, that thou hast not known the things that came to pass in it in these days?'

¹⁹And he said to them, ‘What things?' And they said to him, ‘The things about Jesus of Nazareth, who became a man -- a prophet -- powerful in deed and word, before God and all the people,

²⁰how also the chief priests and our rulers did deliver him up to a judgment of death, and crucified him;

²¹and we were hoping that he it is who is about to redeem Israel, and also with all these things, this third day is passing to-day, since these things happened.

²²‘And certain women of ours also astonished us, coming early to the tomb,

²³and not having found his body, they came, saying also to have seen an apparition of messengers, who say he is alive,

²⁴and certain of those with us went away unto the tomb, and found as even the women said, and him they saw not.'

²⁵And he said unto them, ‘O inconsiderate and slow in heart, to believe on all that the prophets spake!

²⁶Was it not behoving the Christ these things to suffer, and to enter into his glory?'

²⁷and having begun from Moses, and from all the prophets, he was expounding to them in all the Writings the things about himself.

²⁸And they came nigh to the village whither they were going, and he made an appearance of going on further,

²⁹and they constrained him, saying, ‘Remain with us, for it is toward evening,' and the day did decline, and he went in to remain with them.

³⁰And it came to pass, in his reclining (at meat) with them, having taken the bread, he blessed, and having broken, he was giving to them,

³¹and their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he became unseen by them.

³²And they said one to another, ‘Was not our heart burning within us, as he was speaking to us in the way, and as he was opening up to us the Writings?'

³³And they, having risen up the same hour, turned back to Jerusalem, and found gathered together the eleven, and those with them,

³⁴saying -- ‘The Lord was raised indeed, and was seen by Simon;'

³⁵and they were telling the things in the way, and how he was made known to them in the breaking of the bread,

³⁶and as they are speaking these things, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith to them, ‘Peace -- to you;'

³⁷and being amazed, and becoming affrighted, they were thinking themselves to see a spirit.

³⁸And he said to them, ‘Why are ye troubled? and wherefore do reasonings come up in your hearts?

³⁹see my hands and my feet, that I am he; handle me and see, because a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me having.'

⁴⁰And having said this, he shewed to them the hands and the feet,

⁴¹and while they are not believing from the joy, and wondering, he said to them, ‘Have ye anything here to eat?'

⁴²and they gave to him part of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb,

⁴³and having taken, he did eat before them,

⁴⁴and he said to them, ‘These are the words that I spake unto you, being yet with you, that it behoveth to be fulfilled all the things that are written in the Law of Moses, and the Prophets, and the Psalms, about me.'

⁴⁵Then opened he up their understanding to understand the Writings,

⁴⁶and he said to them -- ‘Thus it hath been written, and thus it was behoving the Christ to suffer, and to rise out of the dead the third day,

⁴⁷and reformation and remission of sins to be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem:

⁴⁸and ye -- ye are witnesses of these things.

⁴⁹‘And, lo, I do send the promise of my Father upon you, but ye -- abide ye in the city of Jerusalem till ye be clothed with power from on high.'

⁵⁰And he led them forth without -- unto Bethany, and having lifted up his hands he did bless them,

⁵¹and it came to pass, in his blessing them, he was parted from them, and was borne up to the heaven;

⁵²and they, having bowed before him, did turn back to Jerusalem with great joy,

⁵³and were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.