Luke Chapter 23

• Luke 23:1
  Luke.
• Luke 23:2
  The whole company of them rose up and brought him before Pilate.
• Luke 23:3
  They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a...
• Luke 23:4
  Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” He answered him, “So you say.”
• Luke 23:5
  Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, “I find no basis for a charge against this man.”
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  But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.”
• Luke 23:7
  But when Pilate heard Galilee mentioned, he asked if the man was a Galilean.
• Luke 23:8
  When he found out that he was in Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem during those days.
• Luke 23:9
  Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad, for he had wanted to see him for a long time, because he had heard many things about him. He hoped ...
• Luke 23:10
  He questioned him with many words, but he gave no answers.
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  The chief priests and the scribes stood, vehemently accusing him.
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  Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.
• Luke 23:13
  Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, for before that they were enemies with each other.
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  Pilate called together the chief priests, the rulers, and the people,
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  and said to them, “You brought this man to me as one that perverts the people, and behold, having examined him before you, I found no basis for a char...
• Luke 23:16
  Neither has Herod, for I sent you to him, and see, nothing worthy of death has been done by him.
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  I will therefore chastise him and release him.”
• Luke 23:18
  Now he had to release one prisoner to them at the feast.
• Luke 23:19
  But they all cried out together, saying, “Away with this man! Release to us Barabbas!”—
• Luke 23:20
  one who was thrown into prison for a certain revolt in the city, and for murder.
• Luke 23:21
  Then Pilate spoke to them again, wanting to release Jesus,
• Luke 23:22
  but they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify him!”
• Luke 23:23
  He said to them the third time, “Why? What evil has this man done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and release him...
• Luke 23:24
  But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed.
• Luke 23:25
  Pilate decreed that what they asked for should be done.
• Luke 23:26
  He released him who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus up to their will.
• Luke 23:27
  When they led him away, they grabbed one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, and laid the cross on him to carry it after Jesus.
• Luke 23:28
  A great multitude of the people followed him, including women who also mourned and lamented him.
• Luke 23:29
  But Jesus, turning to them, said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, don’t weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.
• Luke 23:30
  For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’
• Luke 23:31
  Then they will begin to tell the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and tell the hills, ‘Cover us.’
• Luke 23:32
  For if they do these things in the green tree, what will be done in the dry?”
• Luke 23:33
  There were also others, two criminals, led with him to be put to death.
• Luke 23:34
  When they came to the place that is called “The Skull”, they crucified him there with the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left.
• Luke 23:35
  Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.
• Luke 23:36
  The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his...
• Luke 23:37
  The soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar,
• Luke 23:38
  and saying, “If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!”
• Luke 23:39
  An inscription was also written over him in letters of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew: “THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.”
• Luke 23:40
  One of the criminals who was hanged insulted him, saying, “If you are the Christ, save yourself and us!”
• Luke 23:41
  But the other answered, and rebuking him said, “Don’t you even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation?
• Luke 23:42
  And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong.”
• Luke 23:43
  He said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when you come into your Kingdom.”
• Luke 23:44
  Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”
• Luke 23:45
  It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.
• Luke 23:46
  The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two.
• Luke 23:47
  Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.
• Luke 23:48
  When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, “Certainly this was a righteous man.”
• Luke 23:49
  All the multitudes that came together to see this, when they saw the things that were done, returned home beating their chests.
• Luke 23:50
  All his acquaintances and the women who followed with him from Galilee stood at a distance, watching these things.
• Luke 23:51
  Behold, there was a man named Joseph, who was a member of the council, a good and righteous man
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  (he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was also waiting for God’s Kingdom.
• Luke 23:53
  This man went to Pilate, and asked for Jesus’ body.
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  He took it down and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb that was cut in stone, where no one had ever been laid.
• Luke 23:55
  It was the day of the Preparation, and the Sabbath was drawing near.
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  The women who had come with him out of Galilee followed after, and saw the tomb and how his body was laid.
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  They returned and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.