1 When morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people reached a decision against Jesus to put him to death.
2 They tied him up, led him away, and handed him over to Pontius Pilate the governor.
3 Then Judas, his betrayer, seeing that Jesus had been condemned, was seized with remorse and returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and the elders,
4 saying, "I have sinned in betraying innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us? You see to it."
5 He threw the silver coins into the sanctuary and left; and he went away and hanged himself.
6 The chief priests picked up the silver coins and said, "It is not permitted to put them into the treasury, since it is blood money."
7 After conferring together, they used them to buy the potter's field as a burial ground for foreigners.
8 That is why that field has been called the Field of Blood up to the present day.
9 Then what had been spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled: "And they took the thirty silver coins, the price of the one on whom a price had been set, whom some of the children of Israel had priced,
10 and they gave them for the potter's field, just as the Lord directed me."
11 Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor questioned him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" Jesus said to him, "You are saying it."
12 And while the chief priests and the elders were bringing charges against him, he gave no answer.
13 Then Pilate said to him, "Do you not hear how many things they are testifying against you?"
14 But he did not answer him with even one word, so that the governor was greatly amazed.
15 At the festival the governor's custom was to release to the crowd one prisoner of their choosing.
16 At that time they had a notorious prisoner named Barabbas.
17 So when they had assembled, Pilate asked them, "Whom do you want me to release for you: Barabbas, or Jesus, the one called Christ?"
18 For he was aware that they had handed him over out of envy.
19 While he was seated on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him: "Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for today I have suffered much in a dream on account of him."
20 But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and have Jesus destroyed.
21 The governor responded, "Which of the two do you want me to release for you?" They said, "Barabbas!"
22 Pilate said to them, "What then shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?" They all said to him, "Let him be crucified!"
23 The governor asked, "Why? What evil has he done?" But they shouted all the more, "Let him be crucified!"
24 When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that a riot was breaking out instead, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this righteous man. You see to it."
25 And all the people answered, "His blood be upon us and upon our children!"
26 Then he released Barabbas for them; but Jesus he had flogged and handed over to be crucified.
27 Then the governor's soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and assembled the whole cohort around him.
28 They stripped him and draped a scarlet cloak around him.
29 They wove a crown out of thorns and set it on his head, and put a reed in his right hand; and kneeling in front of him, they mocked him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!"
30 They spat on him, took the reed, and kept hitting him on the head.
31 After they had mocked him, they took the cloak off him, put his own garments back on him, and led him away to be crucified.
32 On their way out they came across a man from Cyrene named Simon; they forced him to carry his cross.
33 When they came to a place called Golgotha, which is called Skull's Place,
34 they gave him sour wine mixed with gall to drink; but after tasting it, he refused to drink it.
35 After crucifying him, they divided up his garments by casting lots, so that the word spoken by the prophet would be fulfilled: "They divided my garments among themselves, and over my clothing they cast lots."
36 Then they sat down and kept guard over him there.
37 Above his head they placed the charge against him in writing: "THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS."
38 At that time two robbers were crucified with him, one on the right and one on the left.
39 Those passing by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads
40 and saying, "You who would tear down the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!"
41 In the same way the chief priests too, together with the scribes and elders, mocked him and said,
42 "He saved others, but he cannot save himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe him.
43 He has trusted in God; let God rescue him now, if he takes pleasure in him; for he said, 'I am the Son of God.'"
44 The robbers who had been crucified with him also heaped the same insults on him.
45 From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.
46 Around the ninth hour Jesus called out with a loud voice, "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" that is, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
47 When some of the bystanders heard this, they said, "This man is calling for Elijah."
48 At once one of them ran, took a sponge, soaked it with sour wine, put it on a reed, and offered it to him to drink.
49 But the others said, "Leave him alone; let us see if Elijah comes to save him."
50 Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and released his spirit.
51 And look, the veil of the sanctuary was split in two from top to bottom; the earth was shaken, and the rocks split apart.
52 The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised,
53 and after his resurrection they came out of the tombs, entered the holy city, and appeared to many people.
54 When the centurion and those keeping watch over Jesus with him saw the earthquake and what was happening, they were terrified and said, "Truly this was the Son of God!"
55 Many women were there, watching from a distance; they had followed Jesus from Galilee, serving him.
56 Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's sons.
57 As evening came on, a rich man from Arimathea arrived, named Joseph, who had himself also become a disciple of Jesus.
58 He went to Pilate and requested the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered that the body be given over.
59 Joseph took the body and wrapped it in clean linen,
60 and placed it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn in the rock; and after rolling a large stone against the entrance of the tomb, he went away.
61 Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were there, sitting across from the tomb.
62 On the next day, the one after the Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees assembled before Pilate
63 and said, "Sir, we recall that while that impostor was still alive he said, 'After three days I rise again.'
64 So give orders for the tomb to be secured until the third day; otherwise his disciples may come at night, steal him, and tell the people, 'He has been raised from the dead,' and the final deception will be worse than the first."
65 Pilate told them, "You have a guard. Go, secure it as best you know how."
66 So they went and secured the tomb by sealing the stone, with the guard present.