These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
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Matthew 27
Brit Hadashah 66 verses
- 1 When morning came all the High Priests and the Elders of the people consulted together against to put Him to death;
- 2 and binding Him they led Him away and handed Him over to Pilate the Governor.
- 3 Then when Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that He was condemned, smitten with remorse he brought back the thirty shekels to the High Priests and Elders
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and said, “I have sinned, in betraying to death one who is innocent.” “What does that matter to us?” they replied; it is your business.”
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Flinging the shekels into the Sanctuary he left the place, and went and hanged himself.
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When the High Priests had gathered up the money they said, “It is illegal to put it into the Treasury, because it is the price of .”
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- 7 So after consulting together they spent the money in the purchase of the Potter’s Field as a burial place for people not belonging to the city;
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for which reason that piece of ground received the , which it still bears, of ‘the Field of Blood.’
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Then were fulfilled the words spoken by the Prophet , “And I took the thirty shekels, the price of the prized one on whom Israelites had set a price,
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and gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord directed me.”
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Meanwhile was brought before the Governor, and the latter put the question, “Are you the King of the Jews?” “I am their King,” He answered.
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When however the High Priests and the Elders kept bringing their charges against Him, He said not a in reply.
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“Do you not ,” asked Pilate, “what a mass of evidence they are bringing against you?”
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But He made no reply to a single accusation, so that the Governor was greatly astonished.
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“Now it was the Governor’s custom at the Festival to release some one prisoner, whomsoever the populace desired;
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and at this time they had a notorious prisoner called Barabbas.
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So when they were now assembled Pilate appealed to them. “Whom shall I release to you,” he said, “Barabbas, or the so-called ?”
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For he knew that it was from envious hatred that had been brought before him.
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- 19 While he was sitting on the tribunal a message came to him from his wife. “Have nothing to do with that innocent man,” she said, “for during the night I have suffered terribly in a dream through him.”
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The High Priests, however, and the Elders urged the crowd to ask for Barabbas and to demand the death of .
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- 21 So when the Governor a second time asked them, “Which of the two shall I release to you?”—they cried, “Barabbas!”
- 22 “What then,” said Pilate, “shall I do with , the so-called ?” With one voice they shouted, “Let him be crucified!”
- 23 “Why, what crime has he committed?” asked Pilate. But they kept on furiously shouting, “Let him be crucified!”
- 24 So when he saw that he could gain nothing, but that on the contrary there was a riot threatening, he called for water and washed his hands in sight of them all, saying, “I am not responsible for this murder: you must answer for it.”
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“His ,” replied all the people, “be on us and on our children!”
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Then he released Barabbas to them, but he ordered to be scourged, and gave Him up to be crucified.
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Then the Governor’s soldiers took into the Praetorium, and called together the whole battalion to make sport of Him.
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Stripping off His garments, they put on Him a general’s short crimson cloak.
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- 29 They twisted a wreath of thorny twigs and put it on His head, and they put a sceptre of cane in His right hand, and kneeling to Him they shouted in mockery, “Long live the King of the Jews!”
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Then they spat upon Him, and taking the cane they repeatedly struck Him on the head with it.
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At last, having finished their sport, they took off the cloak, clothed Him again in His own garments, and led Him away for crucifixion.
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- 32 Going out they met a Cyrenaean named Simon; whom they compelled to carry His cross,
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and so they came to a place called Golgotha, which means ‘Skull-ground.’
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Here they gave Him a mixture of wine and gall to drink, but having tasted it He refused to drink it.
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After crucifying Him, they divided His garments among them by lot,
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and sat down there on guard.
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Over His head they placed a written statement of the charge against Him: THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
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At the same time two robbers were crucified with Him, one at His right hand and the other at His left.
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- 39 And the passers-by reviled Him. They shook their heads at Him
- 40 and said, “You who would pull down the Sanctuary and build a new one within three days, yourself. If you are Elohim’s Son, come down from the cross.”
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In like manner the High Priests also, together with the Scribes and the Elders, taunted Him.
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“He saved others,” they said, “himself he cannot ! He is the King of ! Let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe in him.
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- 43 His trust is in : let deliver him now, if He will have him; for he said, ‘I am Elohim’s Son.’”
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Insults of the same kind were heaped on Him even by the robbers who were being crucified with Him.
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Now from noon until three o’clock in the afternoon there was darkness over the whole land;
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but about three o’clock cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” that is to say, “My , My , why hast Thou forsaken me?”
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“The man is calling for ,” said some of the bystanders.
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One of them ran forthwith, and filling a sponge with sour wine put it on the end of a cane and offered it Him to drink;
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- 49 while the rest said, “Let us see whether is coming to deliver him.”
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But uttered another loud cry and then yielded up His .
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Immediately the curtain of the Sanctuary was torn in two from top to bottom: the earth quaked; the rocks split;
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And coming out of their tombs after Messiah’s resurrection they entered the city and showed themselves to many.
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- 54 As for the Captain and the soldiers who were with Him keeping guard over , when they witnessed the earthquake and the other occurrences they were filled with terror, and exclaimed, “Assuredly he was Elohim’s Son.”
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And there were a number of women there looking on from a distance, who had followed from ministering to His necessities;
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among them being of Magdala, the mother of and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zabdi.
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Towards sunset there came a wealthy inhabitant of Arimathaea, named , who himself also had become a of .
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He went to Pilate and begged to have the body of , and Pilate ordered it to be given to him.
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- 59 So took the body and wrapped it in a clean sheet of fine linen.
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He then laid it in his own new tomb which he had hewn in the solid rock, and after rolling a great stone against the door of the tomb he went home.
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of Magdala and the other were both present there, sitting opposite to the sepulchre.
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On the next day, the day after the Preparation, the High Priests and the Pharisees came in a body to Pilate.
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- 63 “Sir,” they said, “we recollect that during his lifetime that impostor pretended that after two days he was to rise to life again.
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So give orders for the sepulchre to be securely guarded till the third day, for his disciples should come by night and steal the body, and then tell the people that he has come back to life; and so the last imposture will be more serious than the first.”
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“You can have a guard,” said Pilate: “go and make all safe, as best you can.”
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So they went and made the sepulchre secure, sealing the stone besides setting the guard.
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