Luke 23-24 (Darby Translation)

Luke 23

 ¹And the whole multitude of them, rising up, led him to Pilate.

 ²And they began to accuse him, saying, We have found this [man] perverting our nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ, a king.

 ³And Pilate demanded of him saying, Art *thou* the king of the Jews? And he answering him said, Thou sayest.

 ⁴And Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, I find no guilt in this man.

 ⁵But they insisted, saying, He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judaea, beginning from Galilee even on to here.

 ⁶But Pilate, having heard Galilee [named], demanded if the man were a Galilaean;

 ⁷and having learned that he was of Herod's jurisdiction, remitted him to Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem in those days.

 ⁸And when Herod saw Jesus he greatly rejoiced, for he had been a long while desirous of seeing him, because of hearing many things concerning him, and he hoped to see some sign done by him;

 ⁹and he questioned him in many words, but *he* answered him nothing.

 ¹⁰And the chief priests and the scribes stood and accused him violently.

 ¹¹And Herod with his troops having set him at nought and mocked him, having put a splendid robe upon him, sent him back to Pilate.

 ¹²And Pilate and Herod became friends with one another the same day, for they had been at enmity before between themselves.

 ¹³And Pilate, having called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,

 ¹⁴said to them, Ye have brought to me this man as turning away the people [to rebellion], and behold, I, having examined him before you, have found nothing criminal in this man as to the things of which ye accuse him;

 ¹⁵nor Herod either, for I remitted you to him, and behold, nothing worthy of death is done by him.

 ¹⁶Having chastised him therefore, I will release him.

 ¹⁷( Now he was obliged to release one for them at the feast.)

 ¹⁸But they cried out in a mass saying, Away with this [man] and release Barabbas to us;

 ¹⁹who was one who, for a certain tumult which had taken place in the city, and [for] murder, had been cast into prison.

 ²⁰Pilate therefore, desirous to release Jesus, again addressed [them].

 ²¹But they cried out in reply saying, Crucify, crucify him.

 ²²And he said the third time to them, What evil then has this [man] done? I have found no cause of death in him: I will chastise him therefore and release him.

 ²³But they were urgent with loud voices, begging that he might be crucified. And their voices [and those of the chief priests] prevailed.

 ²⁴And Pilate adjudged that what they begged should take place.

 ²⁵And he released him who, for tumult and murder, had been cast into prison, whom they begged for, and Jesus he delivered up to their will.

 ²⁶And as they led him away, they laid hold on a certain Simon, a Cyrenian, coming from the field, and put the cross upon him to bear it behind Jesus.

 ²⁷And a great multitude of the people, and of women who wailed and lamented him, followed him.

 ²⁸And Jesus turning round to them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep over me, but weep over yourselves and over your children;

 ²⁹for behold, days are coming in which they will say, Blessed [are] the barren, and wombs that have not borne, and breasts that have not given suck.

 ³⁰Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall upon us; and to the hills, Cover us:

 ³¹for if these things are done in the green tree, what shall take place in the dry?

 ³²Now two others also, malefactors, were led with him to be put to death.

 ³³And when they came to the place which is called Skull, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, the other on the left.

 ³⁴And Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. And, parting out his garments, they cast lots.

 ³⁵And the people stood beholding, and the rulers also [with them] sneered, saying, He has saved others; let him save himself if this is the Christ, the chosen one of God.

 ³⁶And the soldiers also made game of him, coming up offering him vinegar,

 ³⁷and saying, If *thou* be the king of the Jews, save thyself.

 ³⁸And there was also an inscription [written] over him in Greek, and Roman, and Hebrew letters: This is the King of the Jews.

 ³⁹Now one of the malefactors who had been hanged spoke insultingly to him, saying, Art not thou the Christ? save thyself and us.

 ⁴⁰But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost *thou* too not fear God, thou that art under the same judgment?

 ⁴¹and *we* indeed justly, for we receive the just recompense of what we have done; but this [man] has done nothing amiss.

 ⁴²And he said to Jesus, Remember me, [Lord,] when thou comest in thy kingdom.

 ⁴³And Jesus said to him, Verily I say to thee, To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise.

 ⁴⁴And it was about [the] sixth hour, and there came darkness over the whole land until [the] ninth hour.

 ⁴⁵And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple rent in the midst.

 ⁴⁶And Jesus, having cried with a loud voice, said, Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit. And having said this, he expired.

 ⁴⁷Now the centurion, seeing what took place, glorified God, saying, In very deed this man was just.

 ⁴⁸And all the crowds who had come together to that sight, having seen the things that took place, returned, beating [their] breasts.

 ⁴⁹And all those who knew him stood afar off, the women also who had followed him from Galilee, beholding these things.

 ⁵⁰And behold, a man named Joseph, who was a councillor, a good man and a just

 ⁵¹(this [man] had not assented to their counsel and deed), of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who also waited, [himself also,] for the kingdom of God

 ⁵²-- he having gone to Pilate begged the body of Jesus;

 ⁵³and having taken it down, wrapped it in fine linen and placed him in a tomb hewn in the rock, where no one had ever been laid.

 ⁵⁴And it was preparation day, and [the] sabbath twilight was coming on.

 ⁵⁵And women, who had come along with him out of Galilee, having followed, saw the sepulchre and how his body was placed.

 ⁵⁶And having returned they prepared aromatic spices and ointments, and remained quiet on the sabbath, according to the commandment.

Luke 24

 ¹But on the morrow of the sabbath, very early indeed in the morning, they came to the tomb, bringing the aromatic spices which they had prepared.

 ²And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.

 ³And when they had entered they found not the body of the Lord Jesus.

 ⁴And it came to pass as they were in perplexity about it, that behold, two men suddenly stood by them in shining raiment.

 ⁵And as they were filled with fear and bowed their faces to the ground, they said to them, Why seek ye the living one among the dead?

 ⁶He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spoke to you, being yet in Galilee,

 ⁷saying, The Son of man must be delivered up into the hands of sinners, and be crucified, and rise the third day.

 ⁸And they remembered his words;

 ⁹and, returning from the sepulchre, related all these things to the eleven and to all the rest.

 ¹⁰Now it was Mary of Magdala, and Johanna, and Mary the [mother] of James, and the others with them, who told these things to the apostles.

 ¹¹And their words appeared in their eyes as an idle tale, and they disbelieved them.

 ¹²But Peter, rising up, ran to the sepulchre, and stooping down he sees the linen clothes lying there alone, and went away home, wondering at what had happened.

 ¹³And behold, two of them were going on the same day to a village distant sixty stadia from Jerusalem, called Emmaus;

 ¹⁴and they conversed with one another about all these things which had taken place.

 ¹⁵And it came to pass as they conversed and reasoned, that Jesus himself drawing nigh, went with them;

 ¹⁶but their eyes were holden so as not to know him.

 ¹⁷And he said to them, What discourses are these which pass between you as ye walk, and are downcast?

 ¹⁸And one [of them], named Cleopas, answering said to him, Thou sojournest alone in Jerusalem, and dost not know what has taken place in it in these days?

 ¹⁹And he said to them, What things? And they said to him, The things concerning Jesus the Nazaraean, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;

 ²⁰and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to [the] judgment of death and crucified him.

 ²¹But *we* had hoped that *he* was [the one] who is about to redeem Israel. But then, besides all these things, it is now, to-day, the third day since these things took place.

 ²²And withal, certain women from amongst us astonished us, having been very early at the sepulchre,

 ²³and, not having found his body, came, saying that they also had seen a vision of angels, who say that he is living.

 ²⁴And some of those with us went to the sepulchre, and found it so, as the women also had said, but him they saw not.

 ²⁵And *he* said to them, O senseless and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

 ²⁶Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into his glory?

 ²⁷And having begun from Moses and from all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

 ²⁸And they drew near to the village where they were going, and *he* made as though he would go farther.

 ²⁹And they constrained him, saying, Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is declining. And he entered in to stay with them.

 ³⁰And it came to pass as he was at table with them, having taken the bread, he blessed, and having broken it, gave it to them.

 ³¹And their eyes were opened, and they recognised him. And he disappeared from them.

 ³²And they said to one another, Was not our heart burning in us as he spoke to us on the way, [and] as he opened the scriptures to us?

 ³³And rising up the same hour, they returned to Jerusalem. And they found the eleven, and those with them, gathered together,

 ³⁴saying, The Lord is indeed risen and has appeared to Simon.

 ³⁵And they related what [had happened] on the way, and how he was made known to them in the breaking of bread.

 ³⁶And as they were saying these things, he himself stood in their midst, and says to them, Peace [be] unto you.

 ³⁷But they, being confounded and being frightened, supposed they beheld a spirit.

 ³⁸And he said to them, Why are ye troubled? and why are thoughts rising in your hearts?

 ³⁹behold my hands and my feet, that it is *I* myself. Handle me and see, for a spirit has not flesh and bones as ye see me having.

 ⁴⁰And having said this he shewed them his hands and his feet.

 ⁴¹But while they yet did not believe for joy, and were wondering, he said to them, Have ye anything here to eat?

 ⁴²And they gave him part of a broiled fish and of a honeycomb;

 ⁴³and he took it and ate before them.

 ⁴⁴And he said to them, These [are] the words which I spoke to you while I was yet with you, that all that is written concerning me in the law of Moses and prophets and psalms must be fulfilled.

 ⁴⁵Then he opened their understanding to understand the scriptures,

 ⁴⁶and said to them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved the Christ to suffer, and to rise from among the dead the third day;

 ⁴⁷and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations beginning at Jerusalem.

 ⁴⁸And *ye* are witnesses of these things.

 ⁴⁹And behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you; but do ye remain in the city till ye be clothed with power from on high.

 ⁵⁰And he led them out as far as Bethany, and having lifted up his hands, he blessed them.

 ⁵¹And it came to pass as he was blessing them, he was separated from them and was carried up into heaven.

 ⁵²And *they*, having done him homage, returned to Jerusalem with great joy,

 ⁵³and were continually in the temple praising and blessing God.