1 Logo pela manhã, os principais sacerdotes entraram em conselho com os anciãos, os escribas e todo o Sinédrio; e, amarrando Jesus, levaram-no e o entregaram a Pilatos. 2 Pilatos perguntou:

— Você é o rei dos judeus?

Jesus respondeu:

— O senhor está dizendo isso.

3 E os principais sacerdotes o acusavam de muitas coisas. 4 Então Pilatos tornou a perguntar:

— Você não vai responder nada? Veja quantas acusações fazem contra você!

5 Jesus, porém, não disse mais nada, a ponto de Pilatos muito se admirar.

6 Ora, por ocasião da festa, era costume soltar ao povo um dos presos, aquele que eles pedissem. 7 Havia um, chamado Barrabás, preso com rebeldes, os quais em um tumulto haviam cometido homicídio. 8 Vindo a multidão, começou a pedir que Pilatos lhes fizesse como de costume. 9 E Pilatos lhes respondeu, dizendo:

— Vocês querem que eu lhes solte o rei dos judeus?

10 Pois ele bem percebia que era por inveja que os principais sacerdotes lhe haviam entregado Jesus. 11 Mas os principais sacerdotes incitaram a multidão no sentido de que lhes soltasse, de preferência, Barrabás. 12 E Pilatos lhes perguntou:

— O que, então, vocês querem que eu faça com este a quem vocês chamam de rei dos judeus?

13 Eles gritaram:

— Crucifique-o!

14 Mas Pilatos lhes disse:

— Que mal fez ele?

Porém eles gritavam cada vez mais:

— Crucifique-o!

15 Então Pilatos, querendo contentar a multidão, lhes soltou Barrabás. E, depois de mandar açoitar Jesus, entregou-o para ser crucificado.

16 Então os soldados levaram Jesus para dentro do palácio, que é o Pretório, e reuniram toda a tropa. 17 Vestiram Jesus com um manto púrpura e, tecendo uma coroa de espinhos, a puseram na cabeça dele. 18 E o saudavam, dizendo:

— Salve, rei dos judeus!

19 Batiam na cabeça dele com um caniço, cuspiam nele e, pondo-se de joelhos, o adoravam. 20 Depois de terem zombado dele, tiraram-lhe o manto púrpura e o vestiram com as suas próprias roupas. Então conduziram Jesus para fora a fim de o crucificarem.

21 E obrigaram Simão Cireneu, que passava, vindo do campo, pai de Alexandre e de Rufo, a carregar a cruz de Jesus.

22 E levaram Jesus para o Gólgota, que quer dizer "Lugar da Caveira". 23 Quiseram dar-lhe para beber vinho misturado com mirra, mas Jesus não aceitou. 24 Então o crucificaram e repartiram entre si as roupas dele, tirando a sorte, para ver o que cada um levaria. 25 Eram nove horas da manhã quando o crucificaram. 26 E a inscrição com a acusação contra ele dizia: "O Rei dos Judeus". 27 Com ele crucificaram dois ladrões, um à sua direita e outro à sua esquerda. 28 [E cumpriu-se a Escritura que diz: "Com malfeitores foi contado." ]

29 Os que iam passando blasfemavam contra ele, balançando a cabeça e dizendo:

— Ah! Você que destrói o santuário e em três dias o reedifica! 30 Salve a si mesmo, descendo da cruz!

31 De igual modo, os principais sacerdotes com os escribas, zombando, diziam entre si:

— Salvou os outros, a si mesmo não pode salvar. 32 Que o Cristo, o rei de Israel, desça agora da cruz para que vejamos e creiamos.

Também os que com ele foram crucificados o insultavam.

33 Chegado o meio-dia, houve trevas sobre toda a terra até as três horas da tarde. 34 E às três horas, Jesus clamou em alta voz:

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

35 E alguns dos que estavam ali, ouvindo isto, diziam:

— Vejam! Ele chama por Elias!

36 E um deles correu para embeber uma esponja em vinagre e, colocando-a na ponta de um caniço, deu-lhe de beber, dizendo:

— Esperem! Vejamos se Elias vem tirá-lo!

37 Mas Jesus, dando um forte grito, expirou. 38 E o véu do santuário se rasgou em duas partes, de alto a baixo. 39 O centurião que estava em frente de Jesus, vendo que assim havia expirado, disse:

— Verdadeiramente este homem era o Filho de Deus.

40 Estavam também ali algumas mulheres, observando de longe. Entre elas estavam Maria Madalena, Maria, mãe de Tiago, o Menor, e de José, e ainda Salomé. 41 Quando Jesus estava na Galileia, essas mulheres o acompanhavam e serviam. E, além destas, havia muitas outras que tinham ido com ele para Jerusalém.

42 Ao cair da tarde, por ser o dia da preparação, isto é, a véspera do sábado, 43 José de Arimateia, ilustre membro do Sinédrio, que também esperava o Reino de Deus, dirigiu-se ousadamente a Pilatos e pediu o corpo de Jesus. 44 Mas Pilatos admirou-se de que ele já tivesse morrido. E, tendo chamado o centurião, perguntou-lhe se havia muito que Jesus tinha morrido. 45 Após certificar-se, pela informação do comandante, cedeu o corpo a José. 46 Este, baixando o corpo da cruz, envolveu-o num lençol que tinha comprado e o depositou num túmulo que tinha sido aberto numa rocha; e rolou uma pedra para a entrada do túmulo. 47 Maria Madalena e Maria, mãe de José, observaram onde ele foi posto.

1 PROMPTLY at dawn the high priests, after holding a consultation with the elders and the scribes and the whole council, bound Jesus and led him away and delivered him over to Pilate.2 Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered him, "I am."3 The high priests went on making many charges against him.4 Pilate again asked him, "Have you no answer? See how many charges they are making against you."5 But Jesus no longer answered anything, so that Pilate wondered.6 It was customary that at every feast he should release some one prisoner at their request.7 There was a man called Barabbas in chains among those insurrectionaries who in the insurrection had committed murder.8 The crowd advanced and began asking him to do as he was accustomed to do for them.9 Pilate answered them, "Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?"10 For he knew that it was on account of envy that the high priests had handed him over.11 But the high priests incited the crowd to have him rather set free Barabbas for them.12 Pilate again asked, "What, then, shall I do with him whom you call the King of the Jews?"13 They again shouted, "Crucify him!"14 But Pilate said to them, "What has he done that was wrong?" But they shouted violently, "Crucify him!"15 Then Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, set free Barabbas for them and after scourging Jesus handed him over to be crucified.16 The soldiers led him away inside the courtyard of the castle and called together the whole battalion.17 Then they dressed him in purple and put on him a crown of thorns which they had twisted together,18 and they began to salute him, "Hail, King of the Jews!"19 They kept striking him on the head with a reed and spitting on him, and bending their knees they did homage to him.20 After making sport of him, they took off the purple and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him out to crucify him.21 They impressed a man who was passing by, Simon, a Cyrenian, who was coming in from the country the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross.22 So they brought him to the place Golgotha, which means Skull Place.23 They gave him wine flavored with myrrh, but he did not take it.24 Then they crucified him. They divided his clothes, casting lots what part each should take.25 It was nine in the morning when they crucified him.26 The statement of his crime was written up over him: THE KING OF THE JEWS27 With him were crucified also two robbers, one on his right and one on his left.28 TEXT OMITTED29 The people who passed by scoffed at him, shaking their heads and saying, "Ha, you who can pull down the Temple and build it up in three days,30 save yourself by coining down from the cross."31 In the same way the high priests, jesting with one another, and the scribes said, "He saved others; himself he cannot save.32 Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross so that we may see and believe." Even the men who were crucified along with him reviled him.33 At noon darkness fell on all the land and continued until three o'clock.34 At three Jesus cried with a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" \'97 which means, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"35 Some of the bystanders, when they heard this, said, "See, he is calling Elijah."36 One ran and filled a sponge with sour wine and put it on a reed and gave him a drink, saying, "Let him be. Let us see whether Elijah comes to take him down."37 But Jesus uttered a loud cry and ceased to breathe.38 Then the curtain in the Temple was torn in two from top to bottom.39 When the Centurion who was standing facing him saw that he expired in this way, he exclaimed, "Truly this man was a son of God!"40 There were also some women looking on from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James the Little and Joses, and Salome,41 who when he was in Galilee used to follow him and wait on him, and there were many others who had come up with him to Jerusalem.42 It was now late in the afternoon and, since it was Preparation Day, that is the day before the Sabbath,43 Joseph of Arimathaea, a councilor of high standing, who himself was looking for the kingdom of God, took courage to go in to Pilate and ask for the body of Jesus.44 Pilate wondered whether he was already dead, but he called in the Centurion and asked him whether Jesus had been long dead.45 Upon learning this from the Centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.46 Joseph bought a linen sheet and took him down and swathed him in it and laid him in a tomb which had been hewn out in the rock. He then rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.47 Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses were looking on to see where Jesus was laid.