1 Ao romper o dia, todos os principais sacerdotes e os anciãos do povo entraram em conselho contra Jesus, para o matarem; 2 e, amarrando-o, levaram-no e o entregaram ao governador Pilatos.

3 Então Judas, que o traiu, vendo que Jesus havia sido condenado, tocado de remorso, devolveu as trinta moedas de prata aos principais sacerdotes e aos anciãos, dizendo:

4 — Pequei, traindo sangue inocente.

Eles, porém, responderam:

— Que nos importa? Isso é com você.

5 Então Judas, atirando as moedas de prata para dentro do templo, retirou-se e se enforcou. 6 E os principais sacerdotes, pegando as moedas, disseram:

— Não é lícito colocá-las no cofre das ofertas, porque é preço de sangue.

7 E, tendo deliberado, compraram com elas o campo do oleiro, para cemitério de forasteiros. 8 Por isso, aquele campo é chamado, até o dia de hoje, Campo de Sangue. 9 Então se cumpriu o que foi dito por meio do profeta Jeremias: "Pegaram as trinta moedas de prata, preço em que foi estimado aquele a quem alguns dos filhos de Israel avaliaram, 10 e as deram pelo campo do oleiro, assim como me ordenou o Senhor."

11 Jesus estava em pé diante do governador, e este o interrogou, dizendo:

— Você é o rei dos judeus?

Jesus respondeu:

— O senhor está dizendo isso.

12 E, sendo acusado pelos principais sacerdotes e pelos anciãos, Jesus nada respondeu. 13 Então Pilatos perguntou:

— Não está ouvindo quantas acusações fazem contra você?

14 Mas Jesus não respondeu nem uma palavra, a ponto de o governador ficar muito admirado.

15 Ora, por ocasião da festa, o governador costumava soltar ao povo um preso, conforme eles quisessem. 16 Naquela ocasião, eles tinham um preso muito conhecido, chamado Barrabás. 17 Estando, pois, o povo reunido, Pilatos lhes perguntou:

— Quem vocês querem que eu solte: Barrabás ou Jesus, chamado Cristo?

18 Porque sabia que era por inveja que eles tinham entregado Jesus.

19 E, estando Pilatos sentado no tribunal, a mulher dele mandou dizer-lhe:

— Não se envolva com esse justo, porque hoje, em sonho, sofri muito por causa dele.

20 Mas os principais sacerdotes e os anciãos persuadiram o povo a que pedisse Barrabás e condenasse Jesus à morte. 21 De novo, o governador perguntou:

— Qual dos dois vocês querem que eu solte?

Eles responderam:

— Barrabás!

22 Pilatos lhes perguntou:

— Que farei, então, com Jesus, chamado Cristo?

Todos responderam:

— Que seja crucificado!

23 Pilatos continuou:

— Que mal ele fez?

Porém eles gritavam cada vez mais:

— Que seja crucificado!

24 Vendo Pilatos que nada conseguia e que, ao contrário, o tumulto aumentava, mandou trazer água e lavou as mãos diante do povo, dizendo:

— Estou inocente do sangue deste homem; fique o caso com vocês!

25 E o povo todo respondeu:

— Que o sangue dele caia sobre nós e sobre os nossos filhos!

26 Então Pilatos lhes soltou Barrabás. E, depois de mandar açoitar Jesus, entregou-o para ser crucificado.

27 Logo a seguir, os soldados do governador, levando Jesus para o Pretório, reuniram em torno dele toda a tropa. 28 Tiraram a roupa de Jesus e o vestiram com um manto escarlate. 29 E, tecendo uma coroa de espinhos, a puseram na cabeça dele, e colocaram um caniço na sua mão direita. E, ajoelhando-se diante dele, zombavam, dizendo:

— Salve, rei dos judeus!

30 E, cuspindo nele, pegaram o caniço e batiam na sua cabeça. 31 Depois de terem zombado dele, tiraram-lhe o manto e o vestiram com as suas próprias roupas. Então o levaram para ser crucificado.

32 Ao saírem, encontraram um cireneu, chamado Simão, a quem obrigaram a carregar a cruz de Jesus. 33 E, chegando a um lugar chamado Gólgota, que significa "Lugar da Caveira", 34 deram vinho com fel para Jesus beber; mas ele, provando-o, não quis beber. 35 Depois de o crucificarem, repartiram entre si as roupas dele, tirando a sorte. 36 E, assentados ali, o guardavam. 37 Por cima da cabeça de Jesus puseram por escrito a acusação contra ele: "Este é Jesus, o Rei dos Judeus". 38 E dois ladrões foram crucificados com ele, um à sua direita e outro à sua esquerda. 39 Os que iam passando blasfemavam contra ele, balançando a cabeça e dizendo:

40 — Ei, você que destrói o santuário e em três dias o reedifica! Salve a si mesmo, se você é o Filho de Deus, e desça da cruz!

41 De igual modo, os principais sacerdotes com os escribas e anciãos, zombando, diziam:

42 — Salvou os outros, a si mesmo não pode salvar. É rei de Israel! Que ele desça da cruz, e então creremos nele. 43 Confiou em Deus; pois que Deus venha livrá-lo agora, se, de fato, lhe quer bem; porque ele disse: "Sou Filho de Deus."

44 Também os ladrões que haviam sido crucificados com ele o insultavam.

45 A partir do meio-dia, houve trevas sobre toda a terra até as três horas da tarde. 46 Por volta de três horas da tarde, Jesus clamou em alta voz, dizendo:

— Eli, Eli, lemá sabactani? — Isso quer dizer: "Deus meu, Deus meu, por que me desamparaste?"

47 Alguns dos que estavam ali, ouvindo isto, diziam:

— Ele chama por Elias.

48 E, logo, um deles correu a buscar uma esponja e, tendo-a embebido em vinagre e colocado na ponta de um caniço, deu-lhe de beber. 49 Os outros, porém, diziam:

— Espere! Vejamos se Elias vem salvá-lo.

50 E Jesus, clamando outra vez em alta voz, entregou o espírito.

51 Eis que o véu do santuário se rasgou em duas partes, de alto a baixo; a terra tremeu e as rochas se partiram; 52 os túmulos se abriram, e muitos corpos de santos já falecidos ressuscitaram; 53 e, saindo dos túmulos depois da ressurreição de Jesus, entraram na cidade santa e apareceram a muitos. 54 O centurião e os que com ele guardavam Jesus, vendo o terremoto e tudo o que se passava, ficaram possuídos de grande temor e disseram:

— Verdadeiramente este era o Filho de Deus.

55 Estavam ali muitas mulheres, observando de longe. Eram as que vinham seguindo Jesus desde a Galileia, para o servir. 56 Entre elas estavam Maria Madalena, Maria, mãe de Tiago e de José, e a mulher de Zebedeu.

57 Ao cair da tarde, veio um homem rico de Arimateia, chamado José, que era também discípulo de Jesus. 58 Este foi até Pilatos e lhe pediu o corpo de Jesus. Então Pilatos mandou que o corpo lhe fosse entregue. 59 E José, levando o corpo, envolveu-o num lençol limpo de linho 60 e o depositou no seu túmulo novo, que ele tinha mandado abrir na rocha; e, rolando uma grande pedra para a entrada do túmulo, foi embora. 61 Estavam ali, sentadas em frente do túmulo, Maria Madalena e a outra Maria.

62 No dia seguinte, que é o dia depois da preparação, os principais sacerdotes e os fariseus se reuniram com Pilatos 63 e lhe disseram:

— Senhor, nós lembramos que aquele enganador, enquanto vivia, disse: "Depois de três dias ressuscitarei." 64 Portanto, mande que o túmulo seja guardado com segurança até o terceiro dia, para que não aconteça que, vindo os discípulos dele, o roubem e depois digam ao povo: "Ressuscitou dos mortos." E este último engano será pior do que o primeiro.

65 Pilatos respondeu:

— Uma escolta está à disposição de vocês. Vão e guardem o túmulo como bem entenderem.

66 Indo eles, montaram guarda ao túmulo, selando a pedra e deixando ali a escolta.

1 Early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people made their plans how to have Jesus executed.

2 So they bound him, led him away and handed him over to Pilate the governor.

3 When Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was seized with remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders.

4 "I have sinned," he said, "for I have betrayed innocent blood." "What is that to us?" they replied. "That's your responsibility."

5 So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.

6 The chief priests picked up the coins and said, "It is against the law to put this into the treasury, since it is blood money."

7 So they decided to use the money to buy the potter's field as a burial place for foreigners.

8 That is why it has been called the Field of Blood to this day.

9 Then what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled: "They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price set on him by the people of Israel,

10 and they used them to buy the potter's field, as the Lord commanded me." [^1]

11 Meanwhile Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" "You have said so," Jesus replied.

12 When he was accused by the chief priests and the elders, he gave no answer.

13 Then Pilate asked him, "Don't you hear the testimony they are bringing against you?"

14 But Jesus made no reply, not even to a single charge —to the great amazement of the governor.

15 Now it was the governor's custom at the festival to release a prisoner chosen by the crowd.

16 At that time they had a well-known prisoner whose name was Jesus "Barabbas.

17 So when the crowd had gathered, Pilate asked them, "Which one do you want me to release to you: Jesus Barabbas, or Jesus who is called the Messiah?"

18 For he knew it was out of self-interest that they had handed Jesus over to him.

19 While Pilate was sitting on the judge's seat, his wife sent him this message: "Don't have anything to do with that innocent man, for I have suffered a great deal today in a dream because of him."

20 But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus executed.

21 "Which of the two do you want me to release to you?" asked the governor. "Barabbas," they answered.

22 "What shall I do, then, with Jesus who is called the Messiah?" Pilate asked. They all answered, "Crucify him!"

23 "Why? What crime has he committed?" asked Pilate. But they shouted all the louder, "Crucify him!"

24 When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. "I am innocent of this man's blood," he said. "It is your responsibility!"

25 All the people answered, "His blood is on us and on our children!"

26 Then he released Barabbas to them. But he had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified.

27 Then the governor's soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company of soldiers around him.

28 They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him,

29 and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand. Then they knelt in front of him and mocked him. "Hail, king of the Jews!" they said.

30 They spit on him, and took the staff and struck him on the head again and again.

31 After they had mocked him, they took off the robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him away to crucify him.

32 As they were going out, they met a man from Cyrene, named Simon, and they forced him to carry the cross.

33 They came to a place called Golgotha (which means "the place of the skull").

34 There they offered Jesus wine to drink, mixed with gall; but after tasting it, he refused to drink it.

35 When they had crucified him, they divided up his clothes by casting lots.

36 And sitting down, they kept watch over him there.

37 Above his head they placed the written charge against him: THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS.

38 Two rebels were crucified with him, one on his right and one on his left.

39 Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads

40 and saying, "You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!"

41 In the same way the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders mocked him.

42 "He saved others," they said, "but he can't save himself! He's the king of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him.

43 He trusts in God. Let God rescue him now if he wants him, for he said, 'I am the Son of God.'"

44 In the same way the rebels who were crucified with him also heaped insults on him.

45 From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over all the land.

46 About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, " (which means "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" ). [^4]

47 When some of those standing there heard this, they said, "He's calling Elijah."

48 Immediately one of them ran and got a sponge. He filled it with wine vinegar, put it on a staff, and offered it to Jesus to drink.

49 The rest said, "Now leave him alone. Let's see if Elijah comes to save him."

50 And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit.

51 At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split

52 and the tombs broke open. The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life.

53 They came out of the tombs after Jesus' resurrection and "went into the holy city and appeared to many people.

54 When the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and all that had happened, they were terrified, and exclaimed, "Surely he was the Son of God!"

55 Many women were there, watching from a distance. They had followed Jesus from Galilee to care for his needs.

56 Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, "and the mother of Zebedee's sons.

57 As evening approached, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus.

58 Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus' body, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him.

59 Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,

60 and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut out of the rock. He rolled a big stone in front of the entrance to the tomb and went away.

61 Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting there opposite the tomb.

62 The next day, the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees went to Pilate.

63 "Sir," they said, "we remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, 'After three days I will rise again.'

64 So give the order for the tomb to be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples may come and steal the body and tell the people that he has been raised from the dead. This last deception will be worse than the first."

65 "Take a guard," Pilate answered. "Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how."

66 So they went and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone and posting the guard.