1 Chegando a manhã, todos os príncipes dos sacerdotes e os anciãos do povo reuniram-se em conselho para entregar Jesus à morte.
2 Ligaram-no e o levaram ao governador Pilatos.
3 Judas, o traidor, vendo-o então condenado, tomado de remorsos, foi devolver aos príncipes dos sacerdotes e aos anciãos as trinta moedas de prata,
4 dizendo-lhes: Pequei, entregando o sangue de um justo. Responderam-lhe: Que nos importa? Isto é lá contigo!
5 Ele jogou então no templo as moedas de prata, saiu e foi enforcar-se.
6 Os príncipes dos sacerdotes tomaram o dinheiro e disseram: Não é permitido lançá-lo no tesouro sagrado, porque se trata de preço de sangue.
7 Depois de haverem deliberado, compraram com aquela soma o campo do Oleiro, para que ali se fizesse um cemitério de estrangeiros.
8 Esta é a razão por que aquele terreno é chamado, ainda hoje, Campo de Sangue.
9 Assim se cumpriu a profecia do profeta Jeremias: Eles receberam trinta moedas de prata, preço daquele cujo valor foi estimado pelos filhos de Israel;
10 e deram-no pelo campo do Oleiro, como o Senhor me havia prescrito.
11 Jesus compareceu diante do governador, que o interrogou: És o rei dos judeus? Sim, respondeu-lhe Jesus.
12 Ele, porém, nada respondia às acusações dos príncipes dos sacerdotes e dos anciãos.
13 Perguntou-lhe Pilatos: Não ouves todos os testemunhos que levantam contra ti?
14 Mas, para grande admiração do governador, não quis responder a nenhuma acusação.
15 Era costume que o governador soltasse um preso a pedido do povo em cada festa de Páscoa.
16 Ora, havia naquela ocasião um prisioneiro famoso, chamado Barrabás.
17 Pilatos dirigiu-se ao povo reunido: Qual quereis que eu vos solte: Barrabás ou Jesus, que se chama Cristo?
18 {Ele sabia que tinham entregue Jesus por inveja.}
19 Enquanto estava sentado no tribunal, sua mulher lhe mandou dizer: Nada faças a esse justo. Fui hoje atormentada por um sonho que lhe diz respeito.
20 Mas os príncipes dos sacerdotes e os anciãos persuadiram o povo que pedisse a libertação de Barrabás e fizesse morrer Jesus.
21 O governador tomou então a palavra: Qual dos dois quereis que eu vos solte? Responderam: Barrabás!
22 Pilatos perguntou: Que farei então de Jesus, que é chamado o Cristo? Todos responderam: Seja crucificado!
23 O governador tornou a perguntar: Mas que mal fez ele? E gritavam ainda mais forte: Seja crucificado!
24 Pilatos viu que nada adiantava, mas que, ao contrário, o tumulto crescia. Fez com que lhe trouxessem água, lavou as mãos diante do povo e disse: Sou inocente do sangue deste homem. Isto é lá convosco!
25 E todo o povo respondeu: Caia sobre nós o seu sangue e sobre nossos filhos!
27 Os soldados do governador conduziram Jesus para o pretório e rodearam-no com todo o pelotão.
28 Arrancaram-lhe as vestes e colocaram-lhe um manto escarlate.
29 Depois, trançaram uma coroa de espinhos, meteram-lha na cabeça e puseram-lhe na mão uma vara. Dobrando os joelhos diante dele, diziam com escárnio: Salve, rei dos judeus!
30 Cuspiam-lhe no rosto e, tomando da vara, davam-lhe golpes na cabeça.
31 Depois de escarnecerem dele, tiraram-lhe o manto e entregaram-lhe as vestes. Em seguida, levaram-no para o crucificar.
32 Saindo, encontraram um homem de Cirene, chamado Simão, a quem obrigaram a levar a cruz de Jesus.
33 Chegaram ao lugar chamado Gólgota, isto é, lugar do crânio.
34 Deram-lhe de beber vinho misturado com fel. Ele provou, mas se recusou a beber.
35 Depois de o haverem crucificado, dividiram suas vestes entre si, tirando a sorte. Cumpriu-se assim a profecia do profeta: Repartiram entre si minhas vestes e sobre meu manto lançaram a sorte {Sl 21,19}.
36 Sentaram-se e montaram guarda.
37 Por cima de sua cabeça penduraram um escrito trazendo o motivo de sua crucificação: Este é Jesus, o rei dos judeus.
38 Ao mesmo tempo foram crucificados com ele dois ladrões, um à sua direita e outro à sua esquerda.
39 Os que passavam o injuriavam, sacudiam a cabeça e diziam:
40 Tu, que destróis o templo e o reconstróis em três dias, salva-te a ti mesmo! Se és o Filho de Deus, desce da cruz!
41 Os príncipes dos sacerdotes, os escribas e os anciãos também zombavam dele:
42 Ele salvou a outros e não pode salvar-se a si mesmo! Se é rei de Israel, desça agora da cruz e nós creremos nele!
43 Confiou em Deus, Deus o livre agora, se o ama, porque ele disse: Eu sou o Filho de Deus!
44 E os ladrões, crucificados com ele, também o ultrajavam.
45 Desde a hora sexta até a nona, cobriu-se toda a terra de trevas.
46 Próximo da hora nona, Jesus exclamou em voz forte: Eli, Eli, lammá sabactáni? - o que quer dizer: Meu Deus, meu Deus, por que me abandonaste?
47 A estas palavras, alguns dos que lá estavam diziam: Ele chama por Elias.
48 Imediatamente um deles tomou uma esponja, embebeu-a em vinagre e apresentou-lha na ponta de uma vara para que bebesse.
49 Os outros diziam: Deixa! Vejamos se Elias virá socorrê-lo.
50 Jesus de novo lançou um grande brado, e entregou a alma.
51 E eis que o véu do templo se rasgou em duas partes de alto a baixo, a terra tremeu, fenderam-se as rochas.
52 Os sepulcros se abriram e os corpos de muitos justos ressuscitaram.
53 Saindo de suas sepulturas, entraram na Cidade Santa depois da ressurreição de Jesus e apareceram a muitas pessoas.
54 O centurião e seus homens que montavam guarda a Jesus, diante do estremecimento da terra e de tudo o que se passava, disseram entre si, possuídos de grande temor: Verdadeiramente, este homem era Filho de Deus!
55 Havia ali também algumas mulheres que de longe olhavam; tinham seguido Jesus desde a Galiléia para o servir.
56 Entre elas se achavam Maria Madalena e Maria, mãe de Tiago e de José, e a mãe dos filhos de Zebedeu.
57 À tardinha, um homem rico de Arimatéia, chamado José, que era também discípulo de Jesus,
58 foi procurar Pilatos e pediu-lhe o corpo de Jesus. Pilatos cedeu-o.
59 José tomou o corpo, envolveu-o num lençol branco
60 e o depositou num sepulcro novo, que tinha mandado talhar para si na rocha. Depois rolou uma grande pedra à entrada do sepulcro e foi-se embora.
61 Maria Madalena e a outra Maria ficaram lá, sentadas defronte do túmulo.
62 No dia seguinte - isto é, o dia seguinte ao da Preparação -, os príncipes dos sacerdotes e os fariseus dirigiram-se todos juntos à casa de Pilatos.
63 E disseram-lhe: Senhor, nós nos lembramos de que aquele impostor disse, enquanto vivia: Depois de três dias ressuscitarei.
64 Ordena, pois, que seu sepulcro seja guardado até o terceiro dia. Os seus discípulos poderiam vir roubar o corpo e dizer ao povo: Ressuscitou dos mortos. E esta última impostura seria pior que a primeira.
65 Respondeu Pilatos: Tendes uma guarda. Ide e guardai-o como o entendeis.
66 Foram, pois, e asseguraram o sepulcro, selando a pedra e colocando guardas.
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.