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Luke 23

¹And the whole multitude of them arose, and led him vnto Pilate.

²And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow peruerting the nation, and forbidding to giue tribute to Cesar, saying, that he himselfe is Christ a king.

³And Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou the king of the Iewes? And he answered him, & said, Thou sayest it.

⁴Then saide Pilate to the chiefe Priests, and to the people, I finde no fault in this man.

⁵And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth vp the people, teaching thorowout all Iurie, beginning from Galilee to this place.

⁶When Pilate heard of Galilee, he asked whether the man were a Galilean.

⁷And assoone as he knew that hee belonged vnto Herods iurisdiction, hee sent him to Herode, who himselfe also was at Hierusalem at that time.

⁸And when Herode saw Iesus, he was exceeding glad, for hee was desirous to see him of a long season, because he had heard many things of him, and hee hoped to haue seene some miracle done by him.

⁹Then he questioned with him in many words, but he answered him nothing.

¹⁰And the chiefe Priests and Scribes stood, and vehemently accused him.

¹¹And Herod with his men of warre set him at naught, and mocked him, and arayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him againe to Pilate.

¹²And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together; for before, they were at enmitie betweene themselues.

¹³And Pilate, when hee had called together the chiefe Priests, and the rulers, and the people,

¹⁴Said vnto them, Ye haue brought this man vnto me, as one that peruerteth the people, and behold, I hauing examined him before you, haue found no fault in this man, touching those things whereof ye accuse him.

¹⁵No, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him, and loe, nothing worthy of death is done vnto him.

¹⁶I will therefore chastise him, and release him.

¹⁷For of necessitie hee must release one vnto them at the Feast.

¹⁸And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and release vnto vs Barabbas,

¹⁹Who for a certaine sedition made in the citie, and for murder, was cast in prison.

²⁰Pilate therefore willing to release Iesus, spake againe to them:

²¹But they cried, saying, Crucifie him, crucifie him.

²²And hee said vnto them the third time, Why, what euill hath he done? I haue found no cause of death in him, I will therefore chastise him, & let him goe.

²³And they were instant with loud voyces, requiring that he might be crucified: and the voyces of them, and of the chiefe Priests preuailed.

²⁴And Pilate gaue sentence that it should be as they required.

²⁵And he released vnto them, him that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired, but he deliuered Iesus to their will.

²⁶And as they led him away, they laid hold vpon one Simon a Cyrenian, comming out of the countrey, and on him they laid the crosse, that hee might beare it after Iesus.

²⁷And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed & lamented him.

²⁸But Iesus turning vnto them, said, Daughters of Hierusalem, weepe not for me, but weepe for your selues, and for your children.

²⁹For beholde, the dayes are comming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that neuer bare, and the paps which neuer gaue sucke.

³⁰Then shall they begin to say to the mountaines, Fall on vs, and to the hils, Couer vs.

³¹For if they doe these things in a green tree, what shalbe done in the drie?

³²And there were also two other malefactors led with him, to bee put to death.

³³And when they were come to the place which is called Caluarie, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.

³⁴Then said Iesus, Father, forgiue them, for they know not what they doe: And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.

³⁵And the people stood beholding, & the rulers also with them derided him, saying, Hee saued others, let him saue himselfe, if he be Christ, ye chosen of God.

³⁶And the souldiers also mocked him, comming to him, and offering him vineger,

³⁷And saying, If thou be the king of the Iewes, saue thy selfe.

³⁸And a superscription also was written ouer him in letters of Greeke, and Latin, & Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE IEWES.

³⁹And one of ye malefactors, which were hanged, railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, saue thy selfe and vs.

⁴⁰But the other answering, rebuked him, saying, Doest not thou feare God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?

⁴¹And we indeed iustly; for we receiue the due reward of our deeds, but this man hath done nothing amisse.

⁴²And he said vnto Iesus, Lord, remember me when thou commest into thy kingdome.

⁴³And Iesus said vnto him, Uerily, I say vnto thee, to day shalt thou be with me in Paradise.

⁴⁴And it was about the sixt houre, and there was a darkenesse ouer all the earth, vntill the ninth houre.

⁴⁵And the Sunne was darkened, and the vaile of the temple was rent in the mids.

⁴⁶And when Iesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: And hauing said thus, he gaue vp the ghost.

⁴⁷Now when the Centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man.

⁴⁸And all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things which were done, smote their breasts, and returned.

⁴⁹And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood a farre off, beholding these things.

⁵⁰And behold, there was a man named Ioseph, a counseller, and hee was a good man, and a iust.

⁵¹(The same had not consented to the counsell and deede of them) he was of Arimathea, a city of the Iewes (who also himselfe waited for the kingdome of God.)

⁵²This man went vnto Pilate, and begged the body of Iesus.

⁵³And he tooke it downe, and wrapped it in linnen, and layd it in a Sepulchre that was hewen in stone, wherein neuer man before was layd.

⁵⁴And that day was the Preparation, and the Sabbath drew on.

⁵⁵And the women also which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the Sepulchre, and how his body was layd.

⁵⁶And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments, and rested the Sabbath day, according to the commandement.