Twentieth Century [1904], THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT A TRANSLATION INTO MODERN ENGLISH Made from the Original Greek (Westcott & Hort's Text) (The Fleming H. Revell Company, NEW YORK & CHICAGO) [word count] [B14200].
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1 At daybreak all the Chief Priests and the Councillors
of the Nation consulted together against
Jesus, to bring about his death.
2 They put him in chains and led
him away, and gave him up to the Roman Governor, Pilate.
3 Then Judas, who betrayed him, seeing that Jesus was condemned,
repented of what he had done, and returned the
thirty pieces of silver to the Chief Priests and Councillors.
4 “I did wrong in betraying a good man to his death,” he
said.
“What has that to do with us?” they replied. “You must
see to that yourself.”
5 Judas flung down the pieces of silver in the Temple, and left;
and went away and hanged himself. ⪆⪆
6 The Chief Priests
took the pieces of silver, but they said:
“We must not put them into the Temple treasury, because
they are blood-money.”
7 So, after consultation, they bought with them the ‘Potter's
Field’ for a burial-ground for foreigners;
8 and that is why that
field is called the ‘Field of Blood’ to this very day. ⪆⪆
9 Then
it was that these words spoken by the Prophet Jeremiah were
fulfilled—
‘They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him who
was valued,
10 whom some of the people of Israel valued, and
gave them for the Potter's field, as the Lord commanded me.’ note
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11 Meanwhile Jesus was brought before the Roman
Governor.
“Are you the King of the Jews?” asked the
Governor.
“It is true,” answered Jesus.
12 While charges were being brought against him by the Chief
Priests and Councillors, Jesus made no reply.
13 Then Pilate
said to him:
“Do not you hear how many accusations they are making
against you?”
14 Yet Jesus made no reply—not even a single word; at which
the Governor was greatly astonished. ⪆⪆
15 Now, at the
Feast, the Governor was accustomed to grant the people the
release of any one prisoner whom they might choose.
16 At that
time they had a notorious prisoner called Barabbas.
17 So, when
the people had collected, Pilate said to them:
“Which do you wish me to release for you? Barabbas? or
Jesus who is called ‘Christ’?”
18 For he knew that it was out of jealousy that they had given
Jesus up to him. ⪆⪆
19 While he was still on the Bench,
his wife sent this message to him—
“Do not have anything to do with that good man, for I have
been very unhappy to-day in a dream on account of him.”
20 But the Chief Priests and the Councillors persuaded the crowds
to ask for Barabbas, and to kill Jesus.
21 The Governor, however,
said to them:
“Which of these two do you wish me to release for you?”
“Barabbas,” they answered.
22 “What then,” Pilate asked, “shall I do with Jesus who
is called ‘Christ’?”
“Let him be crucified,” they all replied.
23 “Why, what harm has he done?” he asked.
But they kept shouting furiously: “Let him be crucified!”
24 When Pilate saw that his efforts were unavailing, but that, on
the contrary, a riot was beginning, he took some water, and
washed his hands in the sight of the crowd, saying as he
did so:
“I am not answerable for this bloodshed; you must see to
it yourselves.”
25 And all the people answered:
“His blood be on our heads and on our children's!”
26 Then Pilate released Barabbas to them; but Jesus he scourged,
and gave him up to be crucified.
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27 After that, the Governor's soldiers took Jesus with
them into the Government House, and gathered
the whole garrison round him.
28 They stripped
him,
29 and put on him a red military cloak, and, having twisted
some thorns into a crown, put it on his head, and a rod in
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his right hand, and then, going down on their knees before
him, they mocked him.
“Long life to you, King of the Jews!” they said.
30 They spat at him and, taking the rod, kept striking him on
the head;
31 and, when they had left off mocking him, they took
off the military cloak, and put his own clothes on him, and led
him away to be crucified.
32 As they were on their way out, they came upon a man from
Cyrene of the name of Simon; and they compelled him to go
with them to carry the cross. ⪆⪆
33 On reaching a place
named Golgotha (a place named from its likeness to a skull),
34 they gave him some wine to drink which had been mixed with
gall; but, after tasting it, Jesus refused to drink it. note
35 When
they had crucified him, they divided his clothes among them
by casting lots. note
36 Then they sat down, and kept watch over
him there.
37 Above his head they fixed the accusation against
him written out—
‘THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.’
38 At the same time two robbers were crucified with him, one on
the right, the other on the left. ⪆⪆
39 The passers-by railed
at him, note
40 shaking their heads as they said:
“You who ‘destroy the Temple and build one in three days,’
save yourself! If you are God's Son, come down from the
cross!”
41 In the same way the Chief Priests, with the Teachers of the
Law and Councillors, said in mockery:
42 “He saved others, but he cannot save himself! He is the
‘King of Israel’! Let him come down from the cross now,
and we will believe in him.
43 He has trusted in God; if God
wants him, let him deliver him now; for he said ‘I am God's
Son.’” note
44 Even the robbers, who were crucified with him,
reviled him in the same way.
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45 After mid-day a darkness came over all the
country, lasting till three in the afternoon.
46 And
about three Jesus called out loudly:
“Eloi, Eloi, lema sabacthani”—that is to say, ‘O my God,
my God, why hast thou forsaken me?’ note
47 Some of those standing by heard this, and said:
“The man is calling for Elijah!”
48 One of them immediately ran and took a sponge, and, filling
it with common wine, put it on the end of a rod, and offered
it to him to drink. note
49 But the rest said:
“Wait and let us see if Elijah is coming to save him.”
[However another man took a spear, and pierced his side;
and water and blood flowed from it.]
50 But Jesus, uttering
another loud cry, gave up his spirit. ⪆⪆
51 Suddenly the
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Temple curtain was torn in two from top to bottom, the earth
shook,
52 the rocks were torn asunder, the tombs opened, and
the bodies of many of God's People who had fallen asleep
rose,
53 and they, leaving their tombs, went, after the resurrection
of Jesus, into the Holy City, and appeared to many
people. ⪆⪆
54 The Roman Captain, and the men with him
who were watching Jesus, on seeing the earthquake and all
that was happening, became greatly frightened and exclaimed:
“This must indeed have been God's Son!” note
55 There were many women there, watching from a distance,
who had accompanied Jesus from Galilee and had been attending
on him.
56 Among them were Mary of Magdala, Mary
the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of Zebediah's
sons.
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57 When evening had fallen, there came a rich
man belonging to Ramah, named Joseph, who
had himself become a disciple of Jesus.
58 He went to see Pilate,
and asked for the body of Jesus; upon which Pilate ordered it
to be given him.
59 So Joseph took the body, and wrapped it in
a clean linen sheet,
60 and laid it in his newly-made tomb which
he had cut in the rock; and, before he left, he rolled a great
stone against the entrance of the tomb. ⪆⪆
61 Mary of
Magdala and the other Mary remained behind, sitting in front
of the grave.
62 The next day—that is, the day following the Preparation-Day
—the Chief Priests and Pharisees came in a body to Pilate,
63 and said:
“Sir, we remember that, during his lifetime, that impostor
said ‘I shall rise after three days.’
64 So order the tomb to be
made secure till the third day. Otherwise his disciples may
come and steal him, and then say to the people ‘He has risen
from the dead,’ when the latest imposture will be worse than
the first.”
65 “You may have a guard,” was Pilate's reply; “go and
make the tomb as secure as you can.”
66 So they went and made the tomb secure, by sealing the stone,
in presence of the guard.
Twentieth Century [1904], THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT A TRANSLATION INTO MODERN ENGLISH Made from the Original Greek (Westcott & Hort's Text) (The Fleming H. Revell Company, NEW YORK & CHICAGO) [word count] [B14200].
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