1 Logo de manhã tiveram conselho os principais sacerdotes com os anciãos, os escribas e todo o sinédrio; e maniatando a Jesus, o levaram e o entregaram a Pilatos.
2 Pilatos lhe perguntou: És tu o rei dos judeus? Respondeu-lhe Jesus: É como dizes.
3 e os principais dos sacerdotes o acusavam de muitas coisas.
4 Tornou Pilatos a interrogá-lo, dizendo: Não respondes nada? Vê quantas acusações te fazem.
5 Mas Jesus nada mais respondeu, de maneira que Pilatos se admirava.
6 Ora, por ocasião da festa costumava soltar-lhes um preso qualquer que eles pedissem.
7 E havia um, chamado Barrabás, preso com outros sediciosos, os quais num motim haviam cometido um homicídio.
8 E a multidão subiu e começou a pedir o que lhe costumava fazer.
9 Ao que Pilatos lhes perguntou: Quereis que vos solte o rei dos judeus?
10 Pois ele sabia que por inveja os principais sacerdotes lho haviam entregado.
11 Mas os principais sacerdotes incitaram a multidão a pedir que lhes soltasse antes a Barrabás.
12 E Pilatos, tornando a falar, perguntou-lhes: Que farei então daquele a quem chamais reis dos judeus?
13 Novamente clamaram eles: Crucifica-o!
14 Disse-lhes Pilatos: Mas que mal fez ele? Ao que eles clamaram ainda mais: Crucifica-o!
15 Então Pilatos, querendo satisfazer a multidão, soltou-lhe Barrabás; e tendo mandado açoitar a Jesus, o entregou para ser crucificado.
16 Os soldados, pois, levaram-no para dentro, ao pátio, que é o pretório, e convocaram toda a corte;
17 vestiram-no de púrpura e puseram-lhe na cabeça uma coroa de espinhos que haviam tecido;
18 e começaram a saudá-lo: Salve, rei dos judeus!
19 Davam-lhe com uma cana na cabeça, cuspiam nele e, postos de joelhos, o adoravam.
20 Depois de o terem assim escarnecido, despiram-lhe a púrpura, e lhe puseram as vestes. Então o levaram para fora, a fim de o crucificarem.
21 E obrigaram certo Simão, cireneu, pai de Alexandre e de Rufo, que por ali passava, vindo do campo, a carregar-lhe a cruz.
22 Levaram-no, pois, ao lugar do Gólgota, que quer dizer, lugar da Caveira.
23 E ofereciam-lhe vinho misturado com mirra; mas ele não o tomou.
24 Então o crucificaram, e repartiram entre si as vestes dele, lançando sortes sobre elas para ver o que cada um levaria.
25 E era a hora terceira quando o crucificaram.
26 Por cima dele estava escrito o título da sua acusação: O REI DOS JUDEUS.
27 Também, com ele, crucificaram dois salteadores, um à sua direita, e outro à esquerda.
28 {E cumpriu-se a escritura que diz: E com os malfeitores foi contado.}
29 E os que iam passando blasfemavam dele, meneando a cabeça e dizendo: Ah! tu que destróis o santuário e em três dias o reedificas.
30 salva-te a ti mesmo, descendo da cruz.
31 De igual modo também os principais sacerdotes, com os escribas, escarnecendo-o, diziam entre si: A outros salvou; a si mesmo não pode salvar;
32 desça agora da cruz o Cristo, o rei de Israel, para que vejamos e creiamos, Também os que com ele foram crucificados o injuriavam.
33 E, chegada a hora sexta, houve trevas sobre a terra, até a hora nona.
34 E, à hora nona, bradou Jesus em alta voz: Eloí, Eloí, lamá, sabactani? que, traduzido, é: Deus meu, Deus meu, por que me desamparaste?
35 Alguns dos que ali estavam, ouvindo isso, diziam: Eis que chama por Elias.
36 Correu um deles, ensopou uma esponja em vinagre e, pondo-a numa cana, dava-lhe de beber, dizendo: Deixai, vejamos se Elias virá tirá-lo.
37 Mas Jesus, dando um grande brado, expirou.
38 Então o véu do santuário se rasgou em dois, de alto a baixo.
39 Ora, o centurião, que estava defronte dele, vendo-o assim expirar, disse: Verdadeiramente este homem era filho de Deus.
40 Também ali estavam algumas mulheres olhando de longe, entre elas Maria Madalena, Maria, mãe de Tiago o Menor e de José, e Salomé;
41 as quais o seguiam e o serviam quando ele estava na Galiléia; e muitas outras que tinham subido com ele a Jerusalém.
42 Ao cair da tarde, como era o dia da preparação, isto é, a véspera do sábado,
43 José de Arimatéia, ilustre membro do sinédrio, que também esperava o reino de Deus, cobrando ânimo foi Pilatos e pediu o corpo de Jesus.
44 Admirou-se Pilatos de que já tivesse morrido; e chamando o centurião, perguntou-lhe se, de fato, havia morrido.
45 E, depois que o soube do centurião, cedeu o cadáver a José;
46 o qual, tendo comprado um pano de linho, tirou da cruz o corpo, envolveu-o no pano e o depositou num sepulcro aberto em rocha; e rolou uma pedra para a porta do sepulcro.
47 E Maria Madalena e Maria, mãe de José, observavam onde fora posto.
1 Very early in the morning, the chief priests, with the elders, the teachers of the law and the whole Sanhedrin, made their plans. So they bound Jesus, led him away and handed him over to Pilate.
2 "Are you the king of the Jews?" asked Pilate. "You have said so," Jesus replied.
3 The chief priests accused him of many things.
4 So again Pilate asked him, "Aren't you going to answer? See how many things they are accusing you of."
5 But Jesus still made no reply, and Pilate was amazed.
6 Now it was the custom at the festival to release a prisoner whom the people requested.
7 A man called Barabbas was in prison with the insurrectionists who had committed murder in the uprising.
8 The crowd came up and asked Pilate to do for them what he usually did.
9 "Do you want me to release to you the king of the Jews?" asked Pilate,
10 knowing it was out of self-interest that the chief priests had handed Jesus over to him.
11 But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have Pilate release Barabbas instead.
12 "What shall I do, then, with the one you call the king of the Jews?" Pilate asked them.
13 "Crucify him!" they shouted.
14 "Why? What crime has he committed?" asked Pilate. But they shouted all the louder, "Crucify him!"
15 Wanting to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them. He had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified.
16 The soldiers led Jesus away into the palace (that is, the Praetorium) and called together the whole company of soldiers.
17 They put a purple robe on him, then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on him.
18 And they began to call out to him, "Hail, king of the Jews!"
19 Again and again they struck him on the head with a staff and spit on him. Falling on their knees, they paid homage to him.
20 And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him out to crucify him.
21 A certain man from Cyrene, Simon, the father of Alexander and Rufus, was passing by on his way in from the country, and they forced him to carry the cross.
22 They brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha (which means "the place of the skull").
23 Then they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it.
24 And they crucified him. Dividing up his clothes, they cast lots to see what each would get.
25 It was nine in the morning when they crucified him.
26 The written notice of the charge against him read: THE KING OF THE JEWS.
27 They crucified two rebels with him, one on his right and one on his left.
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29 Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, "So! You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days,
30 come down from the cross and save yourself!"
31 In the same way the chief priests and the teachers of the law mocked him among themselves. "He saved others," they said, "but he can't save himself!
32 Let this Messiah, this king of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe." Those crucified with him also heaped insults on him.
33 At noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.
34 And at three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, (which means "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" ). [^2]
35 When some of those standing near heard this, they said, "Listen, he's calling Elijah."
36 Someone ran, filled a sponge with wine vinegar, put it on a staff, and offered it to Jesus to drink. "Now leave him alone. Let's see if Elijah comes to take him down," he said.
37 With a loud cry, Jesus breathed his last.
38 The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.
39 And when the centurion, who stood there in front of Jesus, saw how he died, "he said, "Surely this man was the Son of God!"
40 Some women were watching from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joseph, "and Salome.
41 In Galilee these women had followed him and cared for his needs. Many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem were also there.
42 It was Preparation Day (that is, the day before the Sabbath). So as evening approached,
43 Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the Council, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for Jesus' body.
44 Pilate was surprised to hear that he was already dead. Summoning the centurion, he asked him if Jesus had already died.
45 When he learned from the centurion that it was so, he gave the body to Joseph.
46 So Joseph bought some linen cloth, took down the body, wrapped it in the linen, and placed it in a tomb cut out of rock. Then he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb.
47 Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joseph saw where he was laid.