Behold your King!

15 but they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him! Pilate saith to them, Shall I crucify your King? the chief priests answered, We have no king but Cesar.

16 Then, therefore, he delivered him to them, to be crucified:

17 and they took Jesus: and he went forth, bearing his cross, to a place called the place of a Skull, which in the Hebrew is called Golgotha;

18 where they crucified him, and two others with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst.

19 And Pilate also wrote a title, and put it on the cross: and it was written, JESUS Of NAZARETH, THe King of the JEWS:

20 this title, then, many of the Jews read; because the place where Jesus was crucified was near to the city and it was written in Hebrew, and Latin, and Greek :

21 the chief priests of the Jews, therefore, said to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews:

22 Pilate answered, What I have written, I have written. 23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took

parts, to each soldier a part. They took also his coat; but the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout:

24 they said therefore, among themselves, Let us not rend it, but let us cast lots for it, whose it shall be that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith,

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They divided my garments Ps. xxii. 18.

among them, but for my ves"ture they cast lots:" these things, therefore, the soldiers did.

25 Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleopas, and Mary the Magdalene: it was about the Luke, xxiii. sixth hour.

26 Jesus, therefore, seeing his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing by her, saith to his mother, Woman, behold thy son!

27 then he saith to the disciple, Behold thy mother! and from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.

42. 12 Noon.

28 After this, Jesus (knowing that all things were now accomplished,) that the scripture Ps. xix. 21. might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst:

29 a vessel full of vinegar stood there; and filling a sponge with vinegar, they fixed it on hyssop, and put it to his mouth: 30 when, therefore, he had

Matt. xxvii. 50.

tasted the vinegar, he said, It is finished! and bowing his head, he yielded up his breath. 31 The Jews, therefore, (because it was the day of preparation,) that the bodies might not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day (for that sabbath day was a great day), besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away:

32 then the soldiers came, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him;

33 but, coming to Jesus, they brake not his legs, when they saw that he was already dead; 34 for, one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear; and immediately came forth

1 John, v. 6. blood and water:

Num. ix. 12.

Rev. i. 7.

35 and he who saw it hath borne testimony of it, and his testimony is true; and he

knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.

36 For, these things were done, that the scripture should Exod. xii. 46. be fulfilled, "A bone of him "shall not be broken :" 37 and again, another scripZech. xii. 10. ture saith, "They shall look "on him whom they pierced." 38 And after these things, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, (but secretly, through fear of the Jews,) besought Pilate that he might take away the body of

Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave:

39 he came, therefore, and took away his body; and Nicodemus also, who at the first went to him by night, came and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pounds' weight:

40 then they took the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as is the custom of the Jews to bury:

41 and in the place where he was crucified, was a garden; and in the garden was a new sepulchre, in which no one had ever been laid:

42 there, therefore, they laid Jesus, on account of its being the Jews' preparation day; because the sepulchre was near at hand.

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CHAPTER XX.

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Luke, xxiv. 1.

ND on the first day of the Matt. xxviii. week, Mary Magdalene Mark, xviii. 2. goeth early to the sepulchre, while it was yet dark, and seeth that the stone had been taken away from the sepulchre: 2 then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved; and saith to them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him:

3 Peter therefore went forth,

and the other disciple, and came to the sepulchre :

4 and they both ran together; but the other disciple outran Peter, and came first to the sepulchre :

5 and stooping down, he saw the linen clothes lying; yet he went not in.

6 Then Simon Peter also cometh, following him; and he went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lying; 7 and the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself:

8 then the other disciple, who came first to the sepulchre, went in also, and he saw, and believed:

9 for, as yet they understood not the scripture, that he was to rise from the dead.

10 Then the disciples went away again to their own homes:

11 but Mary stood at the sepulchre without, weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down to the sepulchre,

12 and seeth two angels in white, sitting, the one at the head and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain :

13 and they say to her, Woman, why weepest thou? she saith to them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him.

14 When she had said this, she turned round, and saw Jesus standing; but knew not that it was Jesus:

15 Jesus saith to her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? she, thinking that he was the gardener, saith to him, Sir, if thou hast carried him from hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away:

16 Jesus saith to her, Mary! she turned herself, and saith to him, in the Hebrew tongue, Rabboni; which is to say, Master:

17 Jesus saith to her, Touch me not; for I have not yet ascended to the Father: but, go to my brethren, and tell them, I ascend to my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.

18 Mary Magdalene went and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord; and that he had spoken to her those words.

19 When, then, it was evening on the same day, which was the first day of the week, and while the doors where the disciples were assembled were locked, through fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and saith to them,

Peace be to you!

20 and when he had so said, he shewed to them both his hands and his side: then the

21 Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be to you! as my Father sent me, so I also send you:

22 and when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith to them, Receive ye the Holy Spirit:

23 whose sins ye remit, they are remitted to them; and whose ye retain, they are retained.

24 But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didumus, was not with them when Jesus

came :

25 the other disciples, therefore, said to him, We have seen the Lord: but he said to them, Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger to the print of the nails, and put my hand to his side, I will not believe.

26 And after eight days, his disciples were again within, and Thomas with them: then cometh Jesus, while the doors were locked, and stood in the midst; and said, Peace be to you!

27 then he saith to Thomas, Bring hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and bring hither thy hand, and put it to my side; and be not unbelieving, but believing:

28 and Thomas answered and

God!

CHAPTER XXI.

AFTER these things Jesus

manifested himself again

to the disciples, at the sea of Tiberias; and he manifested himself thus.

2 Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didumus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples, were together:

3 Simon Peter saith to them, I am going to fish; they say to him, We also will go with thee: they went forth, and entered into a ship; and that night they caught nothing:

4 and when it was morning, Jesus stood on the shore; but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus.

5 Then Jesus saith to them, Children, have ye any thing to eat? they answered him, No:

6 and he said to them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye will find: they cast it, therefore, and were not able to draw it, for the multitude of fishes:

7 therefore the disciple whom Jesus loved saith to Peter, It is the Lord! when, then, Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girded his coat about him, (for he was naked,) and cast himself into the sea:

8 and the other disciples came in a boat, (for they were not far from land, only about two hundred cubits,) dragging the net with the fishes.

9 As soon then as they came to land, they saw a fire burning, and a fish laid upon it, and bread:

10 Jesus saith to them, Bring some of the fish which ye have just caught:

11 Simon Peter therefore went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty-three and although they were so many, the net was not broken.

:

12 Jesus saith to them, Come and dine: none of the disciples dared to ask him, Who art thou? knowing that he was the Lord:

13 Jesus cometh, and taketh the bread, and giveth it to them; and likewise the fish.

14 This is now the third time that Jesus manifested himself

to the disciples, after he was risen from the dead.

15 When, then, they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter; Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? he saith to him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee: he saith to him, Feed my lambs. 16 He saith to him again, a second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? he saith to him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee: he saith to him, Tend my sheep. 17 He saith to him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said to him. the third time, Lovest thou me? and he said to him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee: Jesus saith to him, Feed my sheep:

18 verily, verily, I tell thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldst; but when thou shalt be old, thou wilt stretch out thy hands, and another will gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldst not:

19 and this he said, signifying by what death he should glorify God: and when he had spoken this, he saith to him, Follow thou me:

20 Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple following whom Jesus loved, (who had leaned