Luke, Chapter 23
1
And the whole company of them rose up, and brought him before Pilate.
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And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this man perverting our nation, and forbidding to give taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ a king.
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And Pilate asked him, saying, Are you the King of the Jews? And he answered him and said, You say.
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And Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, I find no fault in this man.
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But they were the more urgent, saying, He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, and beginning from Galilee even to this place.[fn]
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And Pilate called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,
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and said to them, You⁺ brought to me this man, as one who perverts the people: and look, I, having examined him before you⁺, found no fault in this man concerning those things of which you⁺ accuse him:
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But they cried out all together, saying, Away with this man, and release to us Barabbas:--
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one who for a certain insurrection made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.
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And Pilate spoke to them again, desiring to release Jesus;
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but they shouted, saying, Crucify, crucify him.
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And he said to them the third time, Why, what evil has this man done? I have found no cause of death in him: I will therefore chastise him and release him.
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But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. And their voices prevailed.
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And Pilate gave sentence that what they asked for should be done.
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And he released him who for insurrection and murder had been cast into prison, whom they asked for; but Jesus he delivered up to their will.
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And when they led him away, they laid hold on one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, and laid on him the cross, to bear it after Jesus.
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And there followed him a great multitude of the people, and of women who bewailed and lamented him.
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But Jesus turning to them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your⁺ children.
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For look, the days are coming, in which they will say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.
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Then they will begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.
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For if they do these things in the green tree, what will be done in the dry?
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And there were also two others, criminals, led with him to be put to death.
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And when they came to the place which is called The skull, there they crucified him, and the criminals, one on the right and one on the left.
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And the people stood watching. And the rulers also scoffed at him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen.
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And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, offering him vinegar,
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and saying, If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself.
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And it was now about the sixth hour, and a darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.
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And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani? Which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? And some of those who stood by, when they heard it, said, Look, he calls Elijah; let us see whether Elijah comes to take him down. And Jesus uttered a loud voice, and breathed his last. And the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top to the bottom.
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And when the captain, who stood by across from him, saw that he so breathed his last, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God.
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And there were also women watching from far: among whom [were] both Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome; who, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and were serving him; and many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.
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And when evening was now come, because it was the Preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath,
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there came Joseph of Arimathaea, a councilor of honorable estate, who also himself was looking for the kingdom of God;
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this man went to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus.
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And he took it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb which had been cut out of a rock; and he rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.
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And Mary Magdalene and Mary the [mother] of Joses looked at where he was laid.
Footnotes
5
Verses 6 through 12 are not included in the text. This passage, unique to Luke with no parallel in Mark or Matthew, describes Jesus being sent to Herod Antipas during the trial before Pilate. Computational stylometry classifies it as secondary material consistent with the editorial layer that added Luke 1–2 and the ending. See the article on The Gospel of Luke for details.
15
The clause "no, nor yet Herod: for he sent him back to us;" has been removed. It presupposes the Herod episode in verses 6–12 and has no parallel in the Synoptic trial accounts (cf. Mark 15:14, Matthew 27:23).
16
CT is certain (Level A) that verse 17 is not part of the original text: Now he must needs release to them at the feast one prisoner.
34
CT is certain (Level A) that the first part of verse 34 is not part of the original text: And Jesus said, Father, forgive them; for they don't know what they do.
38
Luke 23:39 through 24:53 has been reconstructed verse by verse using forensic stylometry, commentary evidence, and the Markan parallel. See The Gospel of Luke for the full methodology and verse-by-verse decisions.
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