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Ezra 1

Cyrus Helps the Exiles to Return

 ² "This is what Cyrus king of Persia says:
       " 'The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed me to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah. ³ Anyone of his people among you—may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem in Judah and build the temple of the LORD, the God of Israel, the God who is in Jerusalem. ⁴ And the people of any place where survivors may now be living are to provide him with silver and gold, with goods and livestock, and with freewill offerings for the temple of God in Jerusalem.' "

 ⁵ Then the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and Levites—everyone whose heart God had moved—prepared to go up and build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem. ⁶ All their neighbors assisted them with articles of silver and gold, with goods and livestock, and with valuable gifts, in addition to all the freewill offerings. ⁷ Moreover, King Cyrus brought out the articles belonging to the temple of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and had placed in the temple of his god. ^{[a] 8} Cyrus king of Persia had them brought by Mithredath the treasurer, who counted them out to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah.

 ⁹ This was the inventory:
       gold dishes 30
       silver dishes 1,000
       silver pans ^[b] 29

 ¹⁰ gold bowls 30
       matching silver bowls 410
       other articles 1,000

 ¹¹ In all, there were 5,400 articles of gold and of silver. Sheshbazzar brought all these along when the exiles came up from Babylon to Jerusalem.

Ezra 2

The List of the Exiles Who Returned

 ³ the descendants of Parosh 2,172

 ⁴ of Shephatiah 372

 ⁵ of Arah 775

 ⁶ of Pahath-Moab (through the line of Jeshua and Joab) 2,812

 ⁷ of Elam 1,254

 ⁸ of Zattu 945

 ⁹ of Zaccai 760

 ¹⁰ of Bani 642

 ¹¹ of Bebai 623

 ¹² of Azgad 1,222

 ¹³ of Adonikam 666

 ¹⁴ of Bigvai 2,056

 ¹⁵ of Adin 454

 ¹⁶ of Ater (through Hezekiah) 98

 ¹⁷ of Bezai 323

 ¹⁸ of Jorah 112

 ¹⁹ of Hashum 223

 ²⁰ of Gibbar 95

 ²¹ the men of Bethlehem 123

 ²² of Netophah 56

 ²³ of Anathoth 128

 ²⁴ of Azmaveth 42

 ²⁵ of Kiriath Jearim, ^[c] Kephirah and Beeroth 743

 ²⁶ of Ramah and Geba 621

 ²⁷ of Micmash 122

 ²⁸ of Bethel and Ai 223

 ²⁹ of Nebo 52

 ³⁰ of Magbish 156

 ³¹ of the other Elam 1,254

 ³² of Harim 320

 ³³ of Lod, Hadid and Ono 725

 ³⁴ of Jericho 345

 ³⁵ of Senaah 3,630

 ³⁶ The priests:
       the descendants of Jedaiah (through the family of Jeshua) 973

 ³⁷ of Immer 1,052

 ³⁸ of Pashhur 1,247

 ³⁹ of Harim 1,017

 ⁴⁰ The Levites:
       the descendants of Jeshua and Kadmiel (through the line of Hodaviah) 74

 ⁴¹ The singers:
       the descendants of Asaph 128

 ⁴² The gatekeepers of the temple:
       the descendants of
       Shallum, Ater, Talmon,
       Akkub, Hatita and Shobai 139

 ⁴³ The temple servants:
       the descendants of
       Ziha, Hasupha, Tabbaoth,

 ⁴⁴ Keros, Siaha, Padon,

 ⁴⁵ Lebanah, Hagabah, Akkub,

 ⁴⁶ Hagab, Shalmai, Hanan,

 ⁴⁷ Giddel, Gahar, Reaiah,

 ⁴⁸ Rezin, Nekoda, Gazzam,

 ⁴⁹ Uzza, Paseah, Besai,

 ⁵⁰ Asnah, Meunim, Nephussim,

 ⁵¹ Bakbuk, Hakupha, Harhur,

 ⁵² Bazluth, Mehida, Harsha,

 ⁵³ Barkos, Sisera, Temah,

 ⁵⁴ Neziah and Hatipha

 ⁵⁵ The descendants of the servants of Solomon:
       the descendants of
       Sotai, Hassophereth, Peruda,

 ⁵⁶ Jaala, Darkon, Giddel,

 ⁵⁷ Shephatiah, Hattil,
       Pokereth-Hazzebaim and Ami

 ⁵⁸ The temple servants and the descendants of the servants of Solomon 392

 ⁵⁹ The following came up from the towns of Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Kerub, Addon and Immer, but they could not show that their families were descended from Israel:

 ⁶⁰ The descendants of
       Delaiah, Tobiah and Nekoda 652

 ⁶¹ And from among the priests:
       The descendants of
       Hobaiah, Hakkoz and Barzillai (a man who had married a daughter of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by that name).

 ⁶² These searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean. ⁶³ The governor ordered them not to eat any of the most sacred food until there was a priest ministering with the Urim and Thummim.

 ⁶⁴ The whole company numbered 42,360, ⁶⁵ besides their 7,337 menservants and maidservants; and they also had 200 men and women singers. ⁶⁶ They had 736 horses, 245 mules, ⁶⁷ 435 camels and 6,720 donkeys.

 ⁶⁸ When they arrived at the house of the LORD in Jerusalem, some of the heads of the families gave freewill offerings toward the rebuilding of the house of God on its site. ⁶⁹ According to their ability they gave to the treasury for this work 61,000 drachmas ^[d] of gold, 5,000 minas ^[e] of silver and 100 priestly garments.

 ⁷⁰ The priests, the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers and the temple servants settled in their own towns, along with some of the other people, and the rest of the Israelites settled in their towns.

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 ²³When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes, dividing them into four shares, one for each of them, with the undergarment remaining. This garment was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.

 ²⁴"Let's not tear it," they said to one another. "Let's decide by lot who will get it."
      This happened that the scripture might be fulfilled which said,
   "They divided my garments among them
      and cast lots for my clothing."^[a] So this is what the soldiers did.

 ²⁵Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. ²⁶When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, "Dear woman, here is your son," ²⁷and to the disciple, "Here is your mother." From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.

The Death of Jesus

 ³¹Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the Jews did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down. ³²The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and then those of the other. ³³But when they came to Jesus and found that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. ³⁴Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus' side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water. ³⁵The man who saw it has given testimony, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. ³⁶These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled: "Not one of his bones will be broken,"^{[b] 37}and, as another scripture says, "They will look on the one they have pierced."^[c]

The Burial of Jesus