1 Logo pela manhã se reuniram os sumos sacerdotes com os anciãos, os escribas e com todo o conselho. E tendo amarrado Jesus, levaram-no e entregaram-no a Pilatos.
2 Este lhe perguntou: És tu o rei dos judeus? Ele lhe respondeu: Sim.
3 Os sumos sacerdotes acusavam-no de muitas coisas.
4 Pilatos perguntou-lhe outra vez: Nada respondes? Vê de quantos delitos te acusam!
5 Mas Jesus nada mais respondeu, de modo que Pilatos ficou admirado.
6 Ora, costumava ele soltar-lhes em cada festa qualquer dos presos que pedissem.
7 Havia na prisão um, chamado Barrabás, que fora preso com seus cúmplices, o qual na sedição perpetrara um homicídio.
8 O povo que tinha subido começou a pedir-lhe aquilo que sempre lhes costumava conceder.
9 Pilatos respondeu-lhes: Quereis que vos solte o rei dos judeus?
10 {Porque sabia que os sumos sacerdotes o haviam entregue por inveja.}
11 Mas os pontífices instigaram o povo para que pedissem de preferência que lhes soltasse Barrabás.
12 Pilatos falou-lhes outra vez: E que quereis que eu faça daquele a quem chamais o rei dos judeus?
13 Eles tornaram a gritar: Crucifica-o!
14 Pilatos replicou: Mas que mal fez ele? Eles clamavam mais ainda: Crucifica-o!
15 Querendo Pilatos satisfazer o povo, soltou-lhes Barrabás e entregou Jesus, depois de açoitado, para que fosse crucificado.
16 Os soldados conduziram-no ao interior do pátio, isto é, ao pretório, onde convocaram toda a coorte.
17 Vestiram Jesus de púrpura, teceram uma coroa de espinhos e a colocaram na sua cabeça.
18 E começaram a saudá-lo: Salve, rei dos judeus!
19 Davam-lhe na cabeça com uma vara, cuspiam nele e punham-se de joelhos como para homenageá-lo.
20 Depois de terem escarnecido dele, tiraram-lhe a púrpura, deram-lhe de novo as vestes e conduziram-no fora para o crucificar.
21 Passava por ali certo homem de Cirene, chamado Simão, que vinha do campo, pai de Alexandre e de Rufo, e obrigaram-no a que lhe levasse a cruz.
22 Conduziram Jesus ao lugar chamado Gólgota, que quer dizer lugar do crânio.
23 Deram-lhe de beber vinho misturado com mirra, mas ele não o aceitou.
24 Depois de o terem crucificado, repartiram as suas vestes, tirando a sorte sobre elas, para ver o que tocaria a cada um.
25 Era a hora terceira quando o crucificaram.
26 A inscrição que motivava a sua condenação dizia: O rei dos judeus.
27 Crucificaram com ele dois bandidos: um à sua direita e outro à esquerda.
28 {Cumpriu-se assim a passagem da Escritura que diz: Ele foi contado entre os malfeitores {Is 53,12}.}
29 Os que iam passando injuriavam-no e abanavam a cabeça, dizendo: Olá! Tu que destróis o templo e o reedificas em três dias,
30 salva-te a ti mesmo! Desce da cruz!
31 Desta maneira, escarneciam dele também os sumos sacerdotes e os escribas, dizendo uns para os outros: Salvou a outros e a si mesmo não pode salvar!
32 Que o Cristo, rei de Israel, desça agora da cruz, para que vejamos e creiamos! Também os que haviam sido crucificados com ele o insultavam.
33 Desde a hora sexta até a hora nona, houve trevas por toda a terra.
34 E à hora nona Jesus bradou em alta voz: Elói, Elói, lammá sabactáni?, que quer dizer: Meu Deus, meu Deus, por que me abandonaste?
35 Ouvindo isto, alguns dos circunstantes diziam: Ele chama por Elias!
36 Um deles correu e ensopou uma esponja em vinagre e, pondo-a na ponta de uma vara, deu-lho para beber, dizendo: Deixai, vejamos se Elias vem tirá-lo.
37 Jesus deu um grande brado e expirou.
38 O véu do templo rasgou-se então de alto a baixo em duas partes.
39 O centurião que estava diante de Jesus, ao ver que ele tinha expirado assim, disse: Este homem era realmente o Filho de Deus.
40 Achavam-se ali também umas mulheres, observando de longe, entre as quais Maria Madalena, Maria, mãe de Tiago, o Menor, e de José, e Salomé,
41 que o tinham seguido e o haviam assistido, quando ele estava na Galiléia; e muitas outras que haviam subido juntamente com ele a Jerusalém.
42 Quando já era tarde - era a Preparação, isto é‚ é a véspera do sábado -,
43 veio José de Arimatéia, ilustre membro do conselho, que também esperava o Reino de Deus; ele foi resoluto à presença de Pilatos e pediu o corpo de Jesus.
44 Pilatos admirou-se de que ele tivesse morrido tão depressa. E, chamando o centurião, perguntou se já havia muito tempo que Jesus tinha morrido.
45 Obtida a resposta afirmativa do centurião, mandou dar-lhe o corpo.
46 Depois de ter comprado um pano de linho, José tirou-o da cruz, envolveu-o no pano e depositou-o num sepulcro escavado na rocha, rolando uma pedra para fechar a entrada.
47 Maria Madalena e Maria, mãe de José, observavam onde o depositavam.
1 Very early in the morning, the chief priests, with the elders, the teachers of the law and the whole Sanhedrin, made their plans. So they bound Jesus, led him away and handed him over to Pilate.
2 "Are you the king of the Jews?" asked Pilate. "You have said so," Jesus replied.
3 The chief priests accused him of many things.
4 So again Pilate asked him, "Aren't you going to answer? See how many things they are accusing you of."
5 But Jesus still made no reply, and Pilate was amazed.
6 Now it was the custom at the festival to release a prisoner whom the people requested.
7 A man called Barabbas was in prison with the insurrectionists who had committed murder in the uprising.
8 The crowd came up and asked Pilate to do for them what he usually did.
9 "Do you want me to release to you the king of the Jews?" asked Pilate,
10 knowing it was out of self-interest that the chief priests had handed Jesus over to him.
11 But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have Pilate release Barabbas instead.
12 "What shall I do, then, with the one you call the king of the Jews?" Pilate asked them.
13 "Crucify him!" they shouted.
14 "Why? What crime has he committed?" asked Pilate. But they shouted all the louder, "Crucify him!"
15 Wanting to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them. He had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified.
16 The soldiers led Jesus away into the palace (that is, the Praetorium) and called together the whole company of soldiers.
17 They put a purple robe on him, then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on him.
18 And they began to call out to him, "Hail, king of the Jews!"
19 Again and again they struck him on the head with a staff and spit on him. Falling on their knees, they paid homage to him.
20 And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him out to crucify him.
21 A certain man from Cyrene, Simon, the father of Alexander and Rufus, was passing by on his way in from the country, and they forced him to carry the cross.
22 They brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha (which means "the place of the skull").
23 Then they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it.
24 And they crucified him. Dividing up his clothes, they cast lots to see what each would get.
25 It was nine in the morning when they crucified him.
26 The written notice of the charge against him read: THE KING OF THE JEWS.
27 They crucified two rebels with him, one on his right and one on his left.
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29 Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, "So! You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days,
30 come down from the cross and save yourself!"
31 In the same way the chief priests and the teachers of the law mocked him among themselves. "He saved others," they said, "but he can't save himself!
32 Let this Messiah, this king of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe." Those crucified with him also heaped insults on him.
33 At noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.
34 And at three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, (which means "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" ). [^2]
35 When some of those standing near heard this, they said, "Listen, he's calling Elijah."
36 Someone ran, filled a sponge with wine vinegar, put it on a staff, and offered it to Jesus to drink. "Now leave him alone. Let's see if Elijah comes to take him down," he said.
37 With a loud cry, Jesus breathed his last.
38 The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.
39 And when the centurion, who stood there in front of Jesus, saw how he died, "he said, "Surely this man was the Son of God!"
40 Some women were watching from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joseph, "and Salome.
41 In Galilee these women had followed him and cared for his needs. Many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem were also there.
42 It was Preparation Day (that is, the day before the Sabbath). So as evening approached,
43 Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the Council, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for Jesus' body.
44 Pilate was surprised to hear that he was already dead. Summoning the centurion, he asked him if Jesus had already died.
45 When he learned from the centurion that it was so, he gave the body to Joseph.
46 So Joseph bought some linen cloth, took down the body, wrapped it in the linen, and placed it in a tomb cut out of rock. Then he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb.
47 Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joseph saw where he was laid.