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 Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders, scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, bound Jesus, carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate. 2 Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?"

He answered, "So you say."

3 The chief priests accused him of many things. 4 Pilate again asked him, "Have you no answer? See how many things they testify against you!"

5 But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate marveled.

6 Now at the feast he used to release to them one prisoner, whomever they asked of him. 7 There was one called Barabbas, bound with his fellow insurgents, men who in the insurrection had committed murder. 8 The multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do as he always did for them. 9 Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?" 10 For he perceived that for envy the chief priests had delivered him up. 11 But the chief priests stirred up the multitude, that he should release Barabbas to them instead. 12 Pilate again asked them, "What then should I do to him whom you call the King of the Jews?"

13 They cried out again, "Crucify him!"

14 Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has he done?"

But they cried out exceedingly, "Crucify him!"

15 Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.

16 The soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium; and they called together the whole cohort. 17 They clothed him with purple; and weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on him. 18 They began to salute him, "Hail, King of the Jews!" 19 They struck his head with a reed and spat on him, and bowing their knees, did homage to him. 20 When they had mocked him, they took the purple cloak off him, and put his own garments on him. They led him out to crucify him.

21 They compelled one passing by, coming from the country, Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to go with them that he might bear his cross. 22 They brought him to the place called Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, "The place of a skull." 23 They offered him wine mixed with myrrh to drink, but he didn’t take it.

24 Crucifying him, they parted his garments among them, casting lots on them, what each should take. 25 It was the third hour when they crucified him. 26 The superscription of his accusation was written over him: "THE KING OF THE JEWS." 27 With him they crucified two robbers, one on his right hand, and one on his left. 28 The Scripture was fulfilled which says, "He was counted with transgressors."

29 Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads and saying, "Ha! You who destroy the temple and build it in three days, 30 save yourself, and come down from the cross!"

31 Likewise, also the chief priests mocking among themselves with the scribes said, "He saved others. He can’t save himself. 32 Let the Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe him." Those who were crucified with him also insulted him.

33 When the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. 34 At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which is, being interpreted, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

35 Some of those who stood by, when they heard it, said, "Behold, he is calling Elijah."

36 One ran, and filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink, saying, "Let him be. Let’s see whether Elijah comes to take him down."

37 Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and gave up the spirit. 38 The veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom. 39 When the centurion, who stood by opposite him, saw that he cried out like this and breathed his last, he said, "Truly this man was the Son of God!"

40 There were also women watching from afar, among whom were both Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome; 41 who, when he was in Galilee, followed him and served him; and many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.

42 When evening had now come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath, 43 Joseph of Arimathaea, a prominent council member who also himself was looking for God’s Kingdom, came. He boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for Jesus’ body. 44 Pilate was surprised to hear that he was already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long. 45 When he found out from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph. 46 He bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen cloth and laid him in a tomb which had been cut out of a rock. He rolled a stone against the door of the tomb. 47 Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses, saw where he was laid.