| 27:1 | When* it was early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people plotted against Jesus to execute him. |
| 27:2 | They* tied him up, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate* the governor.* |
| 27:3 | Now when* Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus* had been condemned, he regretted what he had done and returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and the elders, |
| 27:4 | saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood!” But they said, “What is that to us? You take care of it yourself!” |
| 27:5 | So* Judas threw the silver coins into the temple and left. Then he went out and hanged himself. |
| 27:6 | The* chief priests took the silver and said, “It is not lawful to put this into the temple treasury, since it is blood money.” |
| 27:7 | After* consulting together they bought the Potter’s Field with it, as a burial place for foreigners. |
| 27:8 | For this reason that field has been called the “Field of Blood” to this day. |
| 27:9 | Then what was spoken by Jeremiah* the prophet was fulfilled: “They took the thirty silver coins, the price of the one whose price had been set by the people of Israel,* |
| 27:10 | and they gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord commanded me.”* |
| 27:11 | Then* Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him,* “Are you the king* of the Jews?” Jesus* said, “You say so.”* |
| 27:12 | But when he was accused by the chief priests and the elders, he did not respond. |
| 27:13 | Then Pilate said to him, “Don’t you hear how many charges they are bringing against you?” |
| 27:14 | But he did not answer even one accusation, so that the governor was quite amazed. |
| 27:15 | During the feast the governor was accustomed to release one prisoner to the crowd,* whomever they wanted. |
| 27:16 | At that time they had in custody a notorious prisoner named Jesus* Barabbas. |
| 27:17 | So after they had assembled, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release for you, Jesus* Barabbas or Jesus who is called the Christ?”* |
| 27:18 | (For he knew that they had handed him over because of envy.)* |
| 27:19 | As* he was sitting on the judgment seat,* his wife sent a message* to him:* “Have nothing to do with that innocent man;* I have suffered greatly as a result of a dream* about him today.” |
| 27:20 | But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus killed. |
| 27:21 | The* governor asked them, “Which of the two do you want me to release for you?” And they said, “Barabbas!” |
| 27:22 | Pilate said to them, “Then what should I do with Jesus who is called the Christ?”* They all said, “Crucify him!”* |
| 27:23 | He asked, “Why? What wrong has he done?” But they shouted more insistently, “Crucify him!” |
| 27:24 | When* Pilate saw that he could do nothing, but that instead a riot was starting, he took some water, washed his hands before the crowd and said, “I am innocent of this man’s blood. You take care of it yourselves!”* |
| 27:25 | In* reply all the people said, “Let his blood be on us and on our children!” |
| 27:26 | Then he released Barabbas for them. But after he had Jesus flogged,* he handed him over* to be crucified.* |
| 27:27 | Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the governor’s residence* and gathered the whole cohort* around him. |
| 27:28 | They* stripped him and put a scarlet robe* around him, |
| 27:29 | and after braiding* a crown of thorns,* they put it on his head. They* put a staff* in his right hand, and kneeling down before him, they mocked him:* “Hail, king of the Jews!”* |
| 27:30 | They* spat on him and took the staff* and struck him repeatedly* on the head. |
| 27:31 | When* they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes back on him. Then* they led him away to crucify him. |
| 27:32 | As* they were going out, they found a man from Cyrene named Simon, whom they forced* to carry his cross.* |
| 27:33 | They* came to a place called Golgotha* (which means “Place of the Skull”)* |
| 27:34 | and offered Jesus* wine mixed with gall to drink.* But after tasting it, he would not drink it. |
| 27:35 | When* they had crucified* him, they divided his clothes by throwing dice.* |
| 27:36 | Then they sat down and kept guard over him there. |
| 27:37 | Above* his head they put the charge against him,* which read:* “This is Jesus, the king of the Jews.” |
| 27:38 | Then two outlaws were crucified with him, one on his right and one on his left. |
| 27:39 | Those* who passed by defamed him, shaking their heads |
| 27:40 | and saying, “You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself!* If you are God’s Son, come down* from the cross!” |
| 27:41 | In* the same way even the chief priests – together with the experts in the law* and elders* – were mocking him:* |
| 27:42 | “He saved others, but he cannot save himself! He is the king of Israel! If he comes down* now from the cross, we will believe in him! |
| 27:43 | He trusts in God – let God, if he wants to, deliver him now* because he said, ‘I am God’s Son’!” |
| 27:44 | The* robbers who were crucified with him also spoke abusively to him.* |
| 27:45 | Now from noon until three,* darkness came over all the land.* |
| 27:46 | At* about three o’clock Jesus shouted with a loud voice,* “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”* |
| 27:47 | When* some of the bystanders heard it, they said, “This man is calling for Elijah.” |
| 27:48 | Immediately* one of them ran and got a sponge, filled it with sour wine,* put it on a stick,* and gave it to him to drink. |
| 27:49 | But the rest said, “Leave him alone! Let’s see if Elijah will come to save him.”* |
| 27:50 | Then Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and gave up his spirit. |
| 27:51 | Just then* the temple curtain* was torn in two, from top to bottom. The* earth shook and the rocks were split apart. |
| 27:52 | And tombs were opened, and the bodies of many saints who had died* were raised. |
| 27:53 | (They* came out of the tombs after his resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people.) |
| 27:54 | Now when the centurion* and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and what took place, they were extremely terrified and said, “Truly this one was God’s Son!” |
| 27:55 | Many* women who had followed Jesus from Galilee and given him support* were also there, watching from a distance. |
| 27:56 | Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee. |
| 27:57 | Now* when it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who was also a disciple of Jesus.* |
| 27:58 | He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.* Then Pilate ordered that it be given to him. |
| 27:59 | Joseph* took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,* |
| 27:60 | and placed it* in his own new tomb that he had cut in the rock.* Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance* of the tomb and went away. |
| 27:61 | (Now Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting there, opposite the tomb.) |
| 27:62 | The* next day (which is after the day of preparation) the chief priests and the Pharisees* assembled before Pilate |
| 27:63 | and said, “Sir, we remember that while that deceiver was still alive he said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’ |
| 27:64 | So give orders to secure the tomb until the third day. Otherwise his disciples may come and steal his body* and say to the people, ‘He has been raised from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.” |
| 27:65 | Pilate said to them, “Take* a guard of soldiers. Go and make it as secure as you can.” |
| 27:66 | So* they went with the soldiers* of the guard and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone. |
Matius 27 - NET Bible [draft]
