Luke 23:17-51
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Chapter 23
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18But they all cried out together, "Away with this man, and release to us Barabbas" —
19a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection started in the city and for murder.
20Pilate addressed them once more, desiring to release Jesus,
21but they kept shouting, "Crucify, crucify him!"
22A third time he said to them, "Why? What evil has he done? I have found in him no guilt deserving death. I will therefore punish and release him."
23But they were urgent, demanding with loud cries that he should be crucified. And their voices prevailed.
24So Pilate decided that their demand should be granted.
25He released the man who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus over to their will.
26And as they led him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it behind Jesus.
27And there followed him a great multitude of the people and of women who were mourning and lamenting for him.
28But turning to them Jesus said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.
29For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’
30Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’
31For if they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?"
32Two others, who were criminals, were led away to be put to death with him.
33And when they came to the place that is called The Skull, there they crucified him, and the criminals, one on his right and one on his left.
34And Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." And they cast lots to divide his garments.
35And the people stood by, watching, but the rulers scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others; let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, his Chosen One!"
36The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine
37and saying, "If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!"
38There was also an inscription over him, "This is the King of the Jews."
39One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!"
40But the other rebuked him, saying, "Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?
41And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong."
42And he said, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom."
43And he said to him, "Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise."
44It was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour,
45while the sun 's light failed. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two.
46Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!" And having said this he breathed his last.
47Now when the centurion saw what had taken place, he praised God, saying, "Certainly this man was innocent!"
48And all the crowds that had assembled for this spectacle, when they saw what had taken place, returned home beating their breasts.
49And all his acquaintances and the women who had followed him from Galilee stood at a distance watching these things.
