Matthew 27

Jesus Handed Over to Pilate

1When daybreak came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people plotted against Jesus to put him to death. # 27:1 Mk 15:1; Lk 22:66; Jn 18:28 2After tying him up, they led him away and handed him over to Pilate, # 27:2 Other mss read Pontius Pilate the governor. # 27:2 Mt 20:19; Lk 13:1; Ac 3:13; 1Tm 6:13

Judas Hangs Himself

3Then Judas, his betrayer, seeing that Jesus had been condemned, was full of remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders. # 27:3 Mt 21:29; 26:14–15 4“I have sinned by betraying innocent blood,” he said.

“What’s that to us? ” they said. “See to it yourself! ” 5So he threw the silver into the temple # 27:5 2Sm 17:23; Lk 1:19,21; Ac 1:18 and departed. Then he went and hanged himself.

6The chief priests took the silver and said, “It’s not permitted # 27:6 Mk 2:24; Jn 18:31 to put it into the temple treasury, since it is blood money.” 7They conferred together and bought the potter’s field with it as a burial place for foreigners. 8Therefore that field has been called “Field of Blood” to this day. 9Then what was spoken through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled: They took # 27:9 Or I tookthe thirty pieces of silver, the price of him whose price was set by the Israelites, 10and they gave # 27:10 Some mss read I gavethem for the potter’s field, as the Lord directed me. # 27:9–10 Jr 32:6–9; Zch 11:12–13,# 27:9–10 Jr 32:6–9; Zch 11:12–13; Mt 1:22

Jesus Faces the Governor

11Now Jesus stood before the governor. # 27:11–14 Mk 15:2–5; Lk 23:2–3; Jn 18:29–38 “Are you the king of the Jews? ” the governor asked him.

Jesus answered, “You say so.” # 27:11 Mt 2:2; 1Tm 6:13 12While he was being accused by the chief priests and elders, he didn’t answer. # 27:12 Mt 26:63; Jn 19:9

13Then Pilate said to him, “Don’t you hear how much they are testifying against you? ” 14But he didn’t answer him on even one charge, so that the governor was quite amazed. # 27:14 Mk 15:5; Lk 23:9

Jesus or Barabbas

15At the festival # 27:15–26 Mk 15:6–15; Lk 23:16–25; Jn 18:39–40; 19:16 the governor’s custom was to release to the crowd a prisoner they wanted. 16At that time they had a notorious prisoner called Barabbas. # 27:16 Other mss read Jesus Barabbas, also in v. 17 17So when they had gathered together, Pilate said to them, “Who is it you want me to release for you — Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ? ” # 27:17 Mt 1:16; 27:22 18For he knew it was because of envy that they had handed him over.

19While he was sitting on the judge’s bench, his wife sent word to him, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for today I’ve suffered terribly in a dream because of him.” # 27:19 Gn 20:6; Nm 12:6; Jb 33:14–16; Mt 2:12; Jn 19:13

20The chief priests and the elders, however, persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to execute Jesus. 21The governor asked them, “Which of the two do you want me to release for you? ”

“Barabbas! ” they answered.

22Pilate asked them, “What should I do then with Jesus, who is called Christ? ”

They all answered, “Crucify him! ” # 27:22 Mt 1:16; Ac 13:28

23Then he said, “Why? What has he done wrong? ”

But they kept shouting all the more, “Crucify him! ” # 27:23 Lk 23:41; Jn 8:46

24When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that a riot was starting instead, he took some water, washed his hands in front of the crowd, and said, “I am innocent of this man’s blood. # 27:24 Other mss read this righteous man’s blood See to it yourselves! ” # 27:24 Dt 21:6–8; Ps 26:6; Mt 26:5; 27:4,19

25All the people answered, “His blood be on us # 27:25 Jos 2:19; Ac 5:28 and on our children! ” 26Then he released Barabbas to them and, after having Jesus flogged, handed him over to be crucified. # 27:26 Is 53:5; Mk 15:15; Lk 23:16; Jn 19:1

Mocked by the Military

27Then # 27:27–31 Mk 15:16–20; Jn 19:2–3 the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the governor’s residence and gathered the whole company # 27:27 Lit cohort around him. # 27:27 Jn 18:28,33; 19:9; Ac 10:1 28They stripped him and dressed him in a scarlet robe. # 27:28 Lk 23:11; Jn 19:2 29They twisted together a crown of thorns, put it on his head, and placed a staff in his right hand. And they knelt down before him and mocked him: “Hail, king of the Jews! ” 30Then they spat on him, took the staff, and kept hitting him on the head. 31After they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe, put his own clothes on him, and led him away to crucify him. # 27:30–31 Is 53:7; Mt 26:67

Crucified Between Two Criminals

32As they were going out, they found a Cyrenian man named Simon. They forced him to carry his cross. # 27:32 Nm 15:35; Mk 15:21; Lk 23:26; Heb 13:12 33When they came to a place called Golgotha # 27:33–44 Mk 15:22–32; Lk 23:33–43; Jn 19:17–24 (which means Place of the Skull), 34they gave him wine # 27:34 Other mss read sour wine mixed with gall to drink. But when he tasted it, he refused to drink it. 35After crucifying him, they divided his clothes by casting lots. # 27:35 Other mss add that what was spoken by the prophet might be fulfilled: “They divided my clothes among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.”,# 27:34–35 Ps 22:17; 69:21 36Then they sat down and were guarding him there. 37Above his head they put up the charge against him in writing: This Is Jesus, the King of the Jews.

38Then two criminals # 27:38 Or revolutionaries were crucified with him, one on the right and one on the left. # 27:38 Is 53:12; Mt 20:21; Jn 18:40 39Those who passed by were yelling insults at # 27:39 Lit passed by blasphemed, or were blaspheming him, shaking their heads # 27:39 Jb 16:4; Ps 22:7; 109:25; Lm 2:15; Mk 15:29 40and saying, “You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross! ” # 27:40 Mt 4:3,6; 26:61,63; Jn 2:19 41In the same way the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, # 27:41 Other mss add and Pharisees mocked him and said, 42“He saved others, but he cannot save himself! He is the King of Israel! # 27:42 Jn 1:49; 12:13 Let him # 27:42 Other mss read If he . . . Israel, let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him. 43He trusts in God; let God rescue him now — if he takes pleasure in him! # 27:43 Or if he wants him For he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’ ” 44In the same way even the criminals who were crucified with him taunted him. # 27:43–44 Ps 22:8; Lk 23:39–43

The Death of Jesus

45From noon until three in the afternoon, # 27:45 Lit From the sixth hour to the ninth hour darkness came over the whole land. # 27:45 Or whole earth,# 27:45–56 Mk 15:33–41; Lk 23:44–49; Jn 19:28–30 46About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Elí, Elí, lemá # 27:46 Some mss read lama; other mss read lima sabachtháni? ” that is, “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me ?” # 27:46 Ps 22:1; Heb 5:7,# 27:46 Ps 22:1

47When some of those standing there heard this, they said, “He’s calling for Elijah.”

48Immediately one of them ran and got a sponge, filled it with sour wine, put it on a stick, and offered him a drink. # 27:48 Ps 69:21; Mk 15:36; Lk 23:36; Jn 19:29 49But the rest said, “Let’s see if Elijah comes to save him.”

50But Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and gave up his spirit. # 27:50 Mk 15:37; Lk 23:46; Jn 10:18; 19:30 51Suddenly, the curtain of the sanctuary # 27:51 Ex 26:31–33; 2Ch 3:14; Heb 9:3 was torn in two from top to bottom, the earth quaked, and the rocks were split. 52The tombs were also opened # 27:52 Ezk 37:12 and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised. 53And they came out of the tombs after his resurrection, entered the holy city, and appeared to many.

54When the centurion and those with him, who were keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and the things that had happened, they were terrified and said, “Truly this man was the Son of God! ” # 27:54 Jn 5:19; Heb 1:2

55Many women who had followed Jesus from Galilee and looked after him were there, watching from a distance. # 27:55 Ps 38:11; Lk 8:2–3; Jn 19:25 56Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of Zebedee’s sons. # 27:56 Mt 20:20; Mk 15:40; Jn 19:25

The Burial of Jesus

57When it was evening, # 27:57–61 Mk 15:42–47; Lk 23:50–56; Jn 19:38–42 a rich man from Arimathea named Joseph came, who himself had also become a disciple # 27:57 Mt 10:42; 28:19; Lk 14:26; Jn 8:31; 13:35; 15:8; Ac 6:1 of Jesus. 58He approached Pilate and asked for Jesus’s body. Then Pilate ordered that it # 27:58 Other mss read that the body be released. 59So Joseph took the body, wrapped it in clean, fine linen, 60and placed it in his new tomb, which he had cut into the rock. He left after rolling a great stone against the entrance of the tomb. # 27:60 Is 53:9; Mt 27:66; 28:2; Mk 16:4 61Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were seated there, facing the tomb.

The Closely Guarded Tomb

62The next day, which followed the preparation day, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate # 27:62 Mk 15:42; Lk 23:54; Jn 19:14,31,42 63and said, “Sir, we remember that while this deceiver was still alive he said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’ # 27:63 Mt 16:21; 17:22–23; 20:19; Mk 8:31; 10:34; Lk 9:22; 18:33 64So give orders that the tomb be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples # 27:64 Mt 10:1; 26:56; Mk 3:7; 16:20; Lk 6:13; Jn 12:16 may come, steal him, and tell the people, ‘He has been raised from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”

65“Take # 27:65 Or “You have guards,” Pilate told them. “Go and make it as secure as you know how.” 66They went and secured the tomb by setting a seal on the stone and placing the guards. # 27:66 Dn 6:17; Mt 28:2,11

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Mattityahu 27

1Now when boker had come, all the Rashei Hakohenim and the Ziknei HaAm took counsel together against Yehoshua to put him to death. 2And having performed the akedah (binding), they led him away, and delivered him up to Pilate the Governor.

3Then when Yehudah, who had betrayed Moshiach, saw that Yehoshua had been condemned, he felt remorse and returned the sheloshim shiklei kesef (thirty pieces of silver) to the Rashei Hakohanim and the Zekenim, 4saying Chatati (I have sinned). I have betrayed dahm naki (innocent blood). But they said, What is that to us? See to that yourself! 5And Yehudah threw the shiklei kesef (pieces of silver) into the Beis Hamikdash and departed; and, having gone away, Yehudah hanged himself. 6And the Rashei Hakohanim took the shiklei kesef and said, It is asur (forbidden) to put these into the Beis Hamikdash otzar (treasury), vi-bahlt (since) it is blood money. 7And they took counsel together and they bought the Potterʼs Field as a beis hakevoros (cemetery) for zarim (foreigners). 8For this reason that field has been called the Sadeh HaDahm (Field of Blood) to this day. 9Then that which was spoken through Yirmeyah HaNavi was fulfilled, saying, And they took the SHELOSHIM KASEF (thirty pieces of silver), HAYEKAR (the price) of the one whose price had been set by the Bnei Yisroel. 10And they gave them for the potters field as Hashem directed me (Zech 11:12-13).

11Now Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach stood before the Governor, and the Governor questioned Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach saying, Are you the Melech HaYehudim? And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, It is as you say. 12And while Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was being accused by the Rashei Hakohanim and the Zekenim, he answered nothing.#27:12 Isa 53:7 13Then Pilate said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Do you not hear how many things they give edut against you? 14And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach did not answer him with even one word, so that the Governor was quite amazed.#27:14 Isa 53:7

15Now at the Chag (Festival, Pesach) the Governor was accustomed to release for the multitude any one prisoner they wanted. 16And they were holding at the time a notorious prisoner, called#27:16 Yeshua Bar-Abba.#27:16 son of the father 17When, therefore, they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, Whom do you want me to release for you, Bar-Abba or Yehoshua called Moshiach? 18For Pilate knew that because of kinah (envy) they had delivered Yehoshua up. 19And while Pilate was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, Have nothing to do with that Tzaddik; for last night I suffered greatly in a chalom (dream) because of Yehoshua. 20However, the Rashei Hakohanim and the Zekenim persuaded the multitudes to ask for Bar-Abba, but Yehoshua they should destroy. 21But the Governor answered, saying to them, Which of the two do you want me to release for you? And they said, Bar-Abba. 22In reply, Pilate says to them, What, therefore, may I do with Yehoshua, the one called the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach? Everyone says, Let him be made TALUI AL HAETZ (being hanged on the Tree!) Be hanged on HAETZ!#27:22 Dt 21:23 23But Pilate said, Why? What rah (evil) has he done? But they kept shouting all the more, saying, Let him be hanged on HAETZ!

24And when Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but rather that a riot was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the multitude, saying, I am innocent of this manʼs blood; see to that yourselves. 25And, in reply, all the people said, His dahm be on us and on our yeladim. 26Then Pilate released Bar-Abba to them. But after having Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach scourged, he handed him over to be hanged on HAETZ.#27:26 Dt 21:23

27Then the soldiers of the Governor took him into the praetorium and gathered the whole cohort against Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.#27:27 Ps 2:1 28And they stripped him and put a royal scarlet robe on him, and, 29After weaving a keter of thorns, they placed it on his head and put a reed in his right hand, and they fell down before him and mocked him saying, Hail, Melech HaYehudim! 30And they spat on Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and took the reed and began to beat him on the head. 31And after they had made leitzonus (mockery) of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, they took off his robe and put his garments on him, and led him away to hang him on HAETZ.

32And as they were coming out, they found a man from Cyrene named Shim'on, whom they pressed into service to bear Moshiachʼs Etz. 33And when they had come to a place called Gulgolta, which means place of a skull, 34They gave him wine to drink mingled with gall. And, after tasting it, he was unwilling to drink. 35When they had hanged Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach on HAETZ, they divided up Moshiachʼs garments among themselves, casting lots; 36And, sitting down, they began to keep watch over him there. 37They put up above his head the charge against him which read, this is yehoshua, melech hayehudim. 38At that time, two shodedim were each hanged on his own etz with Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, one on the right and one on the left. 39And those passing by were hurling insults at Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, wagging their heads, 40And saying, You who are going to cause the churban (destruction) of the Beis Hamikdash and rebuild it in shloshah yamim (three days), save yourself! If you are the Ben HaElohim, come down from HAETZ (the Tree). 41Likewise, also the Rashei Hakohanim along with the Sofrim and Zekenim, were mocking him, and saying, 42He saved others; yet himself he is not able to save. He is Melech Yisroel? Let him now come down from the Etz, and we shall have emunah in him. 43He trusts in Hashem; let Hashem be his Moshi'a (Deliverer) and deliver him now, if Hashem takes pleasure in him, for this one said, Ben HaElohim Ani! 44And the shodedim (robbers), hanging, each on his etz, with him, were casting similar insults at Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, reproaching him.

45Now, from the sixth hour, choshech fell upon all the land until the ninth hour. 46And about the ninth hour, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach cried out with a kol gadol, saying Eli, Eli, lemah sabachthani! (that is, My G-d, my G-d, why hast thou forsaken me? Ps 22:2 [1]). 47And some of those who were standing there, when they heard, began saying, This one calls for Eliyahu HaNavi. 48And immediately one of them ran and, taking a sponge, filled it with sour wine and put it on a reed and gave him a drink. 49But the rest of them said, Wait. We will see whether Eliyahu HaNavi will come to save him. 50And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach cried out again with a loud voice, and dismissed his ruach.

51And hinei! The parochet of the Beis Hamikdash was torn in two from top to bottom, and the earth shook; and the rocks were split, 52And the kevarim (graves) were opened, and many gufot (bodies) of the kedoshim who had fallen asleep were made to stand up alive. 53And coming out of the kevarim after the Techiyas HaMoshiach, they entered the Ir Hakodesh (Holy City) and appeared to many. 54Now when the centurion, and those who were with him keeping shomer (guard) over Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, saw the earthquake and the things that were happening, they became very frightened and said, Truly this was the Ben HaElohim.

55And many nashim were there, looking on from a distance, who had followed Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach from the Galil and had ministered to him. 56Among them was Miryam of Magdala, Miryam the Em of Ya'akov and Yosef, and the Em of Zavdaiʼs sons.

57And when it was erev, there came an oisher (rich man) from Ramatayim named Yosef who himself had also become a talmid of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach. 58This man went to Pilate and asked for the gufat Yehoshua.#27:58 Ps 16:9-10 Then Pilate ordered it to be given over to Yosef. 59And Yosef took the gufat Yehoshua, and wrapped it in the tachrichim, 60and laid it in Yosefʼs own new kever, which he had hewn out in the rock; and he rolled a large stone against the entrance of the kever (tomb) and went away.#27:60 Isa 53:9 61And Miryam of Magdala, and the other Miryam, stayed there, sitting opposite the kever.

62Now on the next day,#27:62 i.e., Motzoei Shabbos which is the one after the Preparation, the Rashei Hakohanim and the Perushim gathered together with Pilate 63and said, Sir, we remember that when he was still alive that mateh (deceiver) said, After shloshah yamim I am to stand up alive. 64Therefore, give orders for the kever to be made secure until the Yom HaShlishi (the Third Day), lest his talmidim come and steal him away and say to the people, He has stood up alive from the mesim. And the last deception will be worse than the first. 65Pilate said to them, You have a guard, go make the kever as secure as you know how. 66And they went and made the kever secure, and, along with the guard, they set a seal on the stone.

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