Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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1 Then Pilate took Jesus and
had him whipped.
2 The soldiers
made a crown out of thorny
branches and put it on his head; then
they put a purple robe on him
3 and
came to him and said, “Long live the
King of the Jews!” And they went up
and slapped him.
4 Pilate went back out once more
and said to the crowd, “Look, I will
bring him out here to you to let you
see that I cannot find any reason to
condemn him.”
5 So Jesus came out,
wearing the crown of thorns and the
purple robe. Pilate said to them,
“Look! Here is the man!”
6 When the chief priests and the
Temple guards saw him, they
shouted, “Crucify him! Crucify
him!”
6 Pilate said to them, “You take
him, then, and crucify him. I find no
reason to condemn him.”
7 The crowd answered back, “We
have a law that says he ought to die,
because he claimed to be the Son of
God.”
8 When Pilate heard this, he was
even more afraid.
9 He went back
into the palace and asked Jesus,
“Where do you come from?”
9 But Jesus did not answer.
10 Pilate
said to him, “You will not speak to
me? Remember, I have the authority
to set you free and also to have you
crucified.”
11 Jesus answered, “You have authority
over me only because it was
given to you by God. So the man
who handed me over to you is guilty
of a worse sin.” note
12 When Pilate heard this, he tried
to find a way to set Jesus free. But
the crowd shouted back, “If you set
him free, that means that you are
not the Emperor's friend! Anyone
who claims to be a king is a rebel
against the Emperor!”
13 When Pilate heard these words,
he took Jesus outside and sat down
on the judge's seat in the place
called “The Stone Pavement.” (In
Hebrew the name is “Gabbatha.”)
14 It was then almost noon of the day
before the Passover. Pilate said to
the people, “Here is your king!”
15 They shouted back, “Kill him!
Kill him! Crucify him!”
15 Pilate asked them, “Do you want
me to crucify your king?”
15 The chief priests answered, “The
only king we have is the Emperor!”
16 Then Pilate handed Jesus over to
them to be crucified.
Jesus Is Crucified
(Matthew 27.32–44; Mark 15.21–32; Luke 23.26–43)
16 So they took charge of Jesus.
17 He
went out, carrying his cross, and
came to “The Place of the Skull,” as
it is called. (In Hebrew it is called
“Golgotha.”)
18 There they crucified
him; and they also crucified two other
men, one on each side, with Jesus
between them.
19 Pilate wrote a notice
and had it put on the cross.
“Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the
Jews,” is what he wrote.
20 Many
people read it, because the place
where Jesus was crucified was not
far from the city. The notice was
written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.
21 The chief priests said to Pilate,
“Do not write ‘The King of the
Jews,’ but rather, ‘This man said, I
am the King of the Jews.’”
22 Pilate answered, “What I have
written stays written.”
23 After the soldiers had crucified
Jesus, they took his clothes and divided
them into four parts, one part
for each soldier. They also took the
robe, which was made of one piece
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of woven cloth without any seams in
it.
24 The soldiers said to one another,
“Let's not tear it; let's throw dice to
see who will get it.” This happened
in order to make the scripture come
true:
“They divided my clothes among themselves
and gambled for my robe.”
And this is what the soldiers did. note
25 Standing close to Jesus' cross
were his mother, his mother's sister,
Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary
Magdalene.
26 Jesus saw his mother
and the disciple he loved standing
there; so he said to his mother, “He
is your son.”
27 Then he said to the disciple,
“She is your mother.” From that
time the disciple took her to live in
his home.
The Death of Jesus
(Matthew 27.45–56; Mark 15.33–41; Luke 23.44–49)
28 Jesus knew that by now everything
had been completed; and in order
to make the scripture come true,
he said, “I am thirsty.” note
29 A bowl was there, full of cheap
wine; so a sponge was soaked in the
wine, put on a stalk of hyssop, and
lifted up to his lips.
30 Jesus drank
the wine and said, “It is finished!”
30 Then he bowed his head and gave
up his spirit.
Jesus' Side Is Pierced
31 Then the Jewish authorities
asked Pilate to allow them to break
the legs of the men who had been
crucified, and to take the bodies
down from the crosses. They requested
this because it was Friday,
and they did not want the bodies to
stay on the crosses on the Sabbath,
since the coming Sabbath was especially
holy.
32 So the soldiers went
and broke the legs of the first man
and then of the other man who had
been crucified with Jesus.
33 But
when they came to Jesus, they saw
that he was already dead, so they
did not break his legs.
34 One of the
soldiers, however, plunged his spear
into Jesus' side, and at once blood
and water poured out.
35 (The one
who saw this happen has spoken of
it, so that you also may believe. note
What he said is true, and he knows
that he speaks the truth.)
36 This was
done to make the scripture come
true: “Not one of his bones will be
broken.” note
37 And there is another
scripture that says, “People will look
at him whom they pierced.” note
The Burial of Jesus
(Matthew 27.57–61; Mark 15.42–47; Luke 23.50–56)
38 After this, Joseph, who was
from the town of Arimathea, asked
Pilate if he could take Jesus' body.
(Joseph was a follower of Jesus, but
in secret, because he was afraid of
the Jewish authorities.) Pilate told
him he could have the body, so
Joseph went and took it away.
39 Nicodemus, who at first had gone
to see Jesus at night, went with
Joseph, taking with him about one
hundred pounds of spices, a mixture
of myrrh and aloes. note
40 The two men
took Jesus' body and wrapped it in
linen cloths with the spices according
to the Jewish custom of preparing
a body for burial.
41 There was a
garden in the place where Jesus had
been put to death, and in it there
was a new tomb where no one had
ever been buried.
42 Since it was the
day before the Sabbath and because
the tomb was close by, they placed
Jesus' body there.
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Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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