Lukas 19:28-24:17

Orthodox Jewish Bible

²⁸ And having said these things, he was traveling ahead, making his aliyah leregel to Yerushalayim.

²⁹ And it came about as he came near to Beit-Pagey and Beit-Anyah, by the Mount of Olives, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach sent two of the talmidim,

³⁰ Saying, Go to the shtetl ahead of you, in which entering you will find an AYIR (ZECHARYAH 9:9) having been tied, upon which none among Bnei Adam ever sat, and having untied it, bring it here.

³¹ And if someone asks you, Why are you untying it?—you will say this: HaAdon has need of it.

³² And having departed, the ones having been sent found it just as Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach told them.

³³ And while untying the AYIR, its owners said to them, Why are you untying the AYIR?

³⁴ And they said, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu has need of it.

³⁵ And they led it to him and, having thrown their kaftans on the AYIR, they put Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach on it.

³⁶ And as Moshiach rode along, the people were spreading their garments on the road. [MELACHIM BAIS 9:13]

³⁷ And as Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was now approaching the path that makes the descent from the Mount of Olives, all the multitude of the Rebbe’s talmidim began with simcha (joy) and with a kol gadol (a loud voice) to shout Baruch Hashem for all the nifla’ot (wonders) and gevurot (mighty deeds) of Hashem! For they had been edei reiyah (eyewitnesses) of these,

³⁸ Saying, BARUCH HABAH, HaMelech B’SHEM ADONOI! Shalom b’Shomayim! And kavod in the Highest! [TEHILLIM 118:26]

³⁹ And some of the Perushim from the multitude said to him, Rabbi, rebuke your talmidim!

⁴⁰ And in reply he said, I say to you, if these will be silent, the avanim (stones) will cry out. [CHABAKUK 2:11]

⁴¹ And as he came near, having seen the Ir (City [of Yerushalayim]), Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach wept over it, [YESHAYAH 22:4]

⁴² Saying, If you had only had daas in HaYom HaZeh of the things leading to shalom, but now it was nistar from your eyes.

⁴³ Because yamim (days) will come upon you when your oyevim (enemies) will construct a siege against you and they will surround you and will hem you in from all directions.[Isa 29:3; Jer 6:6; Ezek 4:2; 28:6]

⁴⁴ And they will dash you to the ground, you and your yeladim with you. And they will not leave an even (stone) upon an even (stone) within you, because you did not have daas of the zman (time) of your YOM PEKUDDAH (visitation, reckoning [YESHAYAH 10:3]).

⁴⁵ And having entered into the Beis HaMikdash, Moshiach began to throw out the sellers,

⁴⁶ Saying to them, It has been written, BEITI BEIT TEFILLAH YIKAREI, but you made it a MEARAT PARITZIM. [YESHAYAH 56:7; YIRMEYAH 7:11]

⁴⁷ And he was saying shiurim yom yom in the Beis Hamikdash. But the Rashei Hakohanim and the Sofrim were seeking to kill him, and also the Rashei HaAm,

⁴⁸ And they were not finding what they might do, for HaAm were all hanging on his every dvar.

20 And it came about on one of the yamim Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying shiurim to HaAm (the People) in the Beis Hamikdash and was preaching the Besuras HaGeulah, the Rashei Hakohanim and the Sofrim with the Ziknei HaAm stood by;

² They spoke, saying to him, Tell us by what shlita (authority) you do these things, or who is the one having given to you this shlita?

³ In reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, I will also confront you will a she’elah, and you tell me:

⁴ The tevilah of teshuva of Yochanan—was it from Shomayim or from Bnei Adam?

⁵ And they reasoned to themselves saying, If we say, from Shomayim, he will say, why did you not believe him?

⁶ But if we say, from Bnei Adam, HaAm (the People) all will subject us to sequilah (stoning), for HaAm Yisroel are all convinced that Yochanan is a navi.

⁷ And they answered that they did not have daas of the origin of the tevilah of teshuva of Yochanan.

⁸ And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Neither am I telling you by what shlita (authority) I do these things.

⁹ And he began to tell this mashal to HaAm Yisroel. A certain ish planted a kerem and leased it to koremim (vine keepers) and he went away for a long time. [YESHAYAH 5:1-7]

¹⁰ And in season he sent to the koremim (vine keepers) an eved (servant) that from the pri of the kerem they will give to him. But the koremim (vine keepers) sent the eved away empty, having beaten him.

¹¹ And he proceeded to send another eved. But him also, when they had beaten and dishonored him, they sent him away empty.

¹² And he proceeded to send an eved shlishi (a third servant). And also this one, having wounded, they threw out.

¹³ And the Adon of the kerem, said, What should I do? I will send Beni Ahuvi. Perhaps this one they will respect.

¹⁴ But having seen him, the koremim (vine keepers) were reasoning with one another saying, This one is the Bechor, the heir. Let us kill him, that the bechorah may become ours.

¹⁵ And having driven him outside the kerem, they killed him. What then will the Baal HaKerem do to them?

¹⁶ He will come and will destroy these koremim (vine keepers) and will give the kerem to others. And having heard this, HaAm Yisroel said, Chas vShalom!

¹⁷ But having looked at them, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, What then is this which has been written: EVEN MAASU HAYTAH LEROSH PINAH (The Stone they rejected became the capstone)? [TEHILLIM 118:22]

¹⁸ Everyone having fallen upon that even (stone) will be DAKU (broken into pieces, DANIEL 2:34), and upon whomever it falls, it will crush him [YESHAYAH 8:14,15; DANIEL 2:34f].

¹⁹ And the Sofrim and the Rashei Hakohenim sought to lay their hands upon him in the same hour, but they were afraid of HaAm Yisroel, for they knew that he spoke this mashal (parable) against them.

²⁰ And having watched carefully, they sent spies pretending themselves to be tzaddikim, that they might catch him in his dvar, so as to deliver him to the rulers and the manhigim under the Moshel (Governor).

²¹ And they set a she’elah (question) before him, saying, Rabbi, we have daas that you speak beemes in the shiurim you say and you show no deference toward anyone, but on the basis of HaEmes you give torah about HaDerech Hashem.

²² Is it mutar for us to pay tax to Caesar or not?

²³ But having noticed the ORMAH (cunning, craftiness, BERESHIS 3:1) in their manner, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them,

²⁴ Show me a denarius. Whose demut (likeness) has it? And whose inscription? And they said, Caesar’s.

²⁵ And he said to them, Then give the things of Caesar to Caesar and the things of Hashem to Hashem.

²⁶ And they were not able to catch him in his dvar before the people and, having been mishpoyel (marveled) at his teshuva (answer), they were silent.

²⁷ And some of the Tzedukim—the Tzedukim are the ones speaking against the Techiyas HaMesim, who say there is none—approached Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach. They set a she’elah (question) before him,

²⁸ Saying, Rabbi, Moshe Rabbenu laid it down in writing to us, if someone’s ach dies and has an isha, and UVEN EIN LO (and there is no son to him), that he should take the almanah of his ach and he should raise up a zera (seed) to his ach. [Dt 25:5]

²⁹ Now there were shiva achim. And the first took an isha, and died UVEN EIN LO (and there is no son to him).

³⁰ And the second took her to be his isha, and he died childless.

³¹ And the third took her; and likewise also the seventh did not leave behind a ben and they all died.

³² And lemaskana (finally) the isha died.

³³ The isha, then, in the Techiyas HaMesim, of which of them does she become the wife? For shiva had her as isha (wife).

³⁴ And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to them, The banim of the Olam Hazeh marry and are given in marriage:

³⁵ But the ones having been considered worthy to attain to the Olam HaBah and the Techiyas HaMesim neither marry nor are given in marriage.

³⁶ For neither is it possible any longer for them to die, for they are like malachim and they are bnei haElohim, being bnei haTechiyas HaMesim.

³⁷ But that the Mesim are made to stand up alive, even Moshe revealed at the burning bush, as he calls Adonoi ELOHEI AVRAHAM ELOHEI YITZCHAK VELOHEI YAAKOV. [SHEMOT 3:6]

³⁸ But Hashem is not the G-d of Mesim but is Elohei HaChayyim, for to Hashem all are alive.

³⁹ And, in reply, some of the Sofrim said, Rabbi, you spoke well.

⁴⁰ For no longer were they daring to set a she’elah (question) before him regarding anything.

⁴¹ And he said to them, How do they say that the Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach is to be [merely] Dovid’s ben?

⁴² For Dovid himself says in the book of Tehillim, NEUM HASHEM LADONI: SHEV LIMINI,

⁴³ AD ASHIT OYVECHA L’RAGLECHA. [TEHILLIM 110:1]

⁴⁴ Therefore, if Dovid calls him Adon, how is he [merely] ben Dovid?

⁴⁵ In the hearing of all the people, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to his talmidim,

⁴⁶ Beware of the Sofrim (Rabbonim), the ones wanting to strut around in long kaftans and loving [obsequious] Birkat Shalom greetings in the marketplaces and the rashei hamoshavot (chief seats) in the shuls and the places of kavod at seudos tishen,

⁴⁷ Which devour the batim (houses) of the almanot (widows) and for the sake of appearance daven lengthy tefillos (prayers): the same shall receive greater damnation.

21 And having looked up, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach saw the ashirim (rich people) putting into the Beis Hamikdash Otzar (Treasury) their matanot (gifts).

² And he saw a certain poor almanah (widow) putting in there two leptas.

³ And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Omein, I say to you that this poor almanah (widow) put in more tzedakah than everyone.

⁴ For all these put in matanot (gifts) out of their abundance, but this almanah (widow), out of her need, put in her michyah (subsistence).

⁵ And as some were speaking about the Beis Hamikdash, that with beautiful avanim (stones) and with matanot (gifts) it has been decorated, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said,

⁶ Yamim (Days) will come in which of these things which you see there will not be left an even (stone) upon an even (stone) which will not be thrown down.

⁷ And they questioned him, saying, Rebbe, ad mosai? (how much longer?) When will these things be, and what will be the ot when these things are about to take place?

⁸ And he said, Beware, you should not be deceived. For many will come Bishmi (in my Name [Moshiach]) saying, “I am he [I am the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach]. And, the time [of the Geulah] has drawn near.” Do not follow after them.

⁹ But whenever you hear about wars and intifadas, do not be a pachdan (coward). For it is necessary for these things to occur barishonah, but it is not immediately HaKetz.

¹⁰ Then he was saying to them, Ethnic group will have an intifada against ethnic group, and malchut against malchut, [2Ch 15:6; Isa 19:2]

¹¹ There will be great earthquakes and in various places, raav (famine) and makkot (plagues), both horrible portents and great moftim (signs) in Shomayim. [YESHAYAH 29:6; YOEL 2:30]

¹² But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and bring redifot (persecutions) on you, handing you over to the shuls and the batei hasohar (prisons), being led away before melachim (kings) and moshelim (governors) because of my Name (Yehoshua, Yeshua).

¹³ It will turn out for you to be an opportunity for being an eidus (witness) to the edut (testimony).

¹⁴ Therefore, keep in your levavot (hearts) not to prepare to defend yourselves.

¹⁵ For I will give to you a peh (mouth) and chochmah which none of your mitnaggedim will be able to resist or to contradict.

¹⁶ And you will be handed over also by horim and achim and krovey mishpachot (relatives) and chaverim (friends), and they will have some of you executed and you will die al kiddush ha-Shem,

¹⁷ And you will be the focus of sinas chinom (baseless hatred) from everyone because of my Name (Yehoshua, Yeshua).

¹⁸ And not even a hair of your rosh will by any means perish.

¹⁹ In your savlanut (patience) and endurance you will gain your nefashot (souls).

²⁰ But when you see Yerushalayim being surrounded by machanot (encamping armies), then have daas that the sho’ah of it has drawn near.

²¹ Then the ones in Yehudah, flee to the mountains, and the ones inside HaIr (the City), let them get out, and the ones in the sadot (fields), let them not enter into HaIr (the City),

²² Because these are the Yemei Nekamah (Days of Vengeance), as a fulfillment of all the Kitvei Hakodesh. [Isa 63:4; Dan 9:24-27; Hos 9:7]

²³ Oy to the ones with child and to the ones nursing in yamim hahem (those days). For there will be Tzarah Gedolah (Great Tribulation) upon Eretz Yisroel and kaas (anger) against this people,

²⁴ And they will fall by the edge of the cherev (sword) and they will all be led captive into the Golus, and Yerushalayim will be trampled down by the Goyim, until the times of the Goyim are fulfilled. [YESHAYAH 5:5; 63:18; DANIEL 8:13]

²⁵ And there will be otot (miraculous signs) in the shemesh (sun) and the levanah (moon) and the kochavim (stars), and upon the earth there will be dismay among the Goyim, in perplexity at the sound of the sea and the waves;

²⁶ Bnei Adam will be fainting from pachad (terror) and from expectation of the things coming upon the Olam Hazeh, for the kochot (powers) of the heavens will be shaken.

²⁷ And then you will see the Ben HaAdam (Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13-14) and his Bias HaMoshiach on an Anan (Cloud) with gevurah (miraculous power of Hashem) and kavod rav (great glory).

²⁸ And when the Reshit (the Beginning) of these things occurs, stand erect and lift up your roshim (heads), because your Geulah (Redemption) draws near.

²⁹ And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach told a mashal (parable) to them. You see the etz te’enah (fig tree) and all the etz.

³⁰ When they sprout leaves already, you see for yourselves and you have daas that Kayits (Summer) is already near.

³¹ So also you, when you see these things happening, you have daas that the Malchut Hashem is near.

³² Omein, I say to you, that HaDor HaZeh will not pass away until all these things may occur.

³³ HaShomayim and HaAretz will pass away, but my Dvarim will by no means pass away.

³⁴ And be shomer regarding yourselves lest your levavot (hearts) may be burdened with dissipation and drunkenness and the cares of the Olam HaZeh and Yom HaHu (That Day) may come upon you PITOM (suddenly, MALACHI 3:1).

³⁵ For as a mokesh (trap) it will come upon all the ones dwelling on the pnei kol haAretz (the face of all the Earth).

³⁶ But be shomer (on guard, alert), always davening that you may be able to escape all these things that are about to happen and that you may be able to stand before the Ben HaAdam (Moshiach DANIEL 7:13-14).

³⁷ Now in those days Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying shiurim in the Beis Hamikdash, and balailah (at night) he was going out into the Har HaZeytim.

³⁸ And all the people were getting up early in the boker to come to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach in the Beis Hamikdash to hear him.

22 And the Chag HaMatzot was approaching, the feast called Pesach.

² And the Rashei Hakohanim and the Sofrim were seeking how they might destroy him, for they were afraid of the people.

³ And Hasatan entered into Yehudah, the one being called Yehudah from Kriot, being one of the Shneym Asar.

⁴ And having departed, Yehudah spoke with the Rashei Hakohanim and Ketzinim (Officers) of the Beis Hamikdash how he might hand him over to them.

⁵ And they got a lot of geshmak out of this, and they agreed to pay him kesef. [ZECHARYAH 11:12]

⁶ And Yehudah consented and he was seeking an opportunity to betray him when there was no multitude with them.

⁷ Shoin (already) now came the Yom HaMatzot, in which it was necessary to sacrifice the Pesach Korban, the Seh (Lamb, Isa 53:7). [Ex 12:18-20; Dt 16:5 8]

⁸ And he sent Kefa and Yochanan, having said, Go and make our preparations that we may eat and have the Pesach Seder.

⁹ And they said to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Where do you wish that we should prepare it?

¹⁰ And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Hinei. When you enter into HaIr, you will meet a man carrying a jar of mayim. Follow him into the bais (house) into which he enters,

¹¹ And you will say to the Baal Bayit, The Rebbe says to you, Where is the mekom linah (guest room) where I may conduct the Pesach Seder with my talmidim?

¹² And that one will show you a large aliyyah having been furnished: there prepare the Seder.

¹³ And having departed, they found things just as he had told them, and they prepared the Seder.

¹⁴ And when the hour came, he reclined at tish and the Moshiach’s Shlichim were with him.

¹⁵ And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, With great tshuka (deep and sincere desire, longing) I have desired to eat this Pesach with you before I suffer.

¹⁶ For I say to you, I may by no means eat it until it is fulfilled in the Malchut Hashem.

¹⁷ And having taken the Cup of Redemption, having made the bracha, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Take this, and share it among yourselves.

¹⁸ For I say to you, from now on by no means shall I drink from the p’ri hagefen until the Malchut Hashem comes.

¹⁹ And having taken the Afikoman and having made the hamotzi, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach broke the matzah and gave it to them, saying, This is my BASAR (SHEMOT 12:8) being given for you: this do in zikaron (remembrance) of me. [Lv 5:7; 6:23; Ezek 43:21; Isa 53:8]

²⁰ And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach took the kos (cup) similarly after they ate, saying, This kos (cup) is HaBrit HaChadasha in my dahm, being shed for you. [Ex 24:8; Isa 42:6; Jer 31:31-34; Zech 9:11; 53:10-12]

²¹ Nevertheless, hinei, the hand of the one betraying me is with me on the tish (table) [TEHILLIM 41:9]

²² Because the Ben HaAdam (Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13-14) indeed goes according to the thing having been determined: but oy to that man through whom he is betrayed.

²³ And they began to discuss among themselves who then it might be among them that would do this.

²⁴ And there came about also a dispute among them, as to which of them seemed to be the Gadol.

²⁵ And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, The melachim (kings) of the Goyim domineer them and the ones having shlita (control) over the Goyim are called benefactors.

²⁶ But with you it is not so, but he of the Gedolim among you, let him be as the youngest, and he of the Manhigim, as the one serving.

²⁷ For who is HaGadol? The one reclining at tish or the one serving? Is it not the one reclining at tish? But I am in your midst as one serving.

²⁸ But you are the ones having remained with me in my nisyonos (temptations).

²⁹ And I assign shlita (authority) to you, just as Avi assigned shlita to me; a Malchut (Kingdom),

³⁰ That you may eat and drink at my tish in my Malchut, and you will sit upon kissot (thrones) judging the Shneym Asar Shivtei Yisroel (Twelve Tribes of Yisroel).

³¹ Shimon, Shimon, hinei, Hasatan asked for you, to sift you like wheat [IYOV 1:6-12; AMOS 9:9]

³² But I davened for you, that your emunah may not fail: and when you have made teshuva, give chizzuk to your Achim bMoshiach.

³³ But Shimon Kefa said to him, Adoni, with you I am prepared even to go to the beis hasohar, even to die al kiddush ha-Shem.

³⁴ But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, I say to you, a tarnegol will not crow hayom until shalosh paamim you, Kefa, will make hakhchashah (denial) of your daas of me.

³⁵ He said to them, When I sent you without a money belt and a bag and sandals, did you lack anything? And they said, Nothing.

³⁶ Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, But now the one having a money belt, let him take it; likewise also a bag; and the one not having, let him sell his kaftan and let him buy a cherev.

³⁷ For I say to you, that it is necessary that what stands written be fulfilled in me, VES POSHEIM NIMNAH (and with lawless persons he was numbered YESHAYAH 53:12). For indeed what was written about me is being fulfilled.

³⁸ And they said, Adoni, hinei, here are shtei charavot (two swords). And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, It is enough.

³⁹ And having gone out, he went according to his kvius (regimen) to the Har HaZeytim, and his talmidim followed him also.

⁴⁰ And having come to the place, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Daven and offer tefillos, lest you enter lidey nisayon (into temptation, Mt.6:13).

⁴¹ And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach had withdrawn from them about a stone’s throw, and, having fallen down, he was davening,

⁴² Saying, Avi, im yirtzeh Hashem, if You are willing, take this kos (cup) away from me. Nevertheless not the ratzon of me but rtzonechah (Thy will) be done. (Mt. 6:10)

⁴³ And a malach min HaShomayim appeared to him, strengthening him.

⁴⁴ And having been in agony, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was davening more fervently; and his sweat became like drops of dahm falling down upon the adamah.

⁴⁵ And having got up from davening and having come to the talmidim, he found them sleeping, because of agmat nefesh (grief).

⁴⁶ And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Why are you sleeping? Get up, daven, lest you enter lidey nisayon (into temptation).

⁴⁷ Yet as he was speaking, hinei, a multitude! And going at their head was the one being called Yehudah, one of the Shneym Asar, and he drew near to Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach to give him a neshikah (kiss).

⁴⁸ And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to him, Yehudah, do you with a neshikah the Ben HaAdam (Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13-14) betray?

⁴⁹ But having seen what was coming, the ones around Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Adoni, should we strike with the cherev (sword)?

⁵⁰ And a certain one of them struck the eved (servant) of the Rashei Hakohanim and cut off his right ear.

⁵¹ And, in reply, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said, Blaib shtein! (Stop!) No more of this! And having touched the ear, he healed him.

⁵² And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said to the ones having come against him, the Rashei Hakohanim and the Beis Hamikdash shomrim and the Ziknei HaAm, Do you have the chutzpah to come out as against a ganav (thief) with charavot and clubs?

⁵³ Yom Yom (Daily) I was with you in the Beis Hamikdash and you did not stretch out your hands against me, but this is your hour and the shlita of choshech (power of evil, sitra ahra).

⁵⁴ And having seized Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, they led him away and brought him into the bais of the Rashei Hakohanim. And Kefa was following from a distance.

⁵⁵ And some kindled a hadlakah (bonfire) in the middle of the courtyard, and having sat down together, Kefa was sitting in their midst.

⁵⁶ And a certain shifcha, seeing him sitting in the light of the hadlakah (bonfire), staring intently at Kefa, said, And this one was with him.

⁵⁷ But Kefa denied it, saying, I do not have daas of him, isha.

⁵⁸ And after a short while, another, having seen him, said, And you are of them! But Kefa said, Man, I am not!

⁵⁹ And about one hour had passed, and still another was insisting, saying, Beemes (in actuality) this one was with him also, for he also is a Gelili (inhabitant of the Galil)!

⁶⁰ But Kefa said, Ben Adam, I do not have daas what you are saying. And immediately, while Kefa was speaking, a tarnegol crowed.

⁶¹ And having turned, Adoneinu looked at Kefa, and Kefa was reminded of the dvar of Moshiach Adoneinu when he said to him, Before the tarnegol crows hayom (today) you will make hakhchashah (denial) of me shalosh paamim.

⁶² And having gone outside Kefa wept bitterly.

⁶³ And the men, the ones having Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach in custody, were ridiculing and beating him.

⁶⁴ And having blindfolded him, they were setting a she’elah in front of him, saying, Give a dvar nevuah, who is the one having given you a klap (blow)?

⁶⁵ And with much other Chillul Hashem gadfanut they were speaking against Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.

⁶⁶ And when boker came, the Ziknei HaAm were gathered together, both the Rashei Hakohanim and the Sofrim, and they led him away to their Sanhedrin,

⁶⁷ Saying, If you are the Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, tell us. But he said to them, If I say this to you, you will by no means have emunah.

⁶⁸ And if I set a she’elah before you, you will by no means give answer.

⁶⁹ But from now on the Ben HaAdam (Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13-14) will be YOSHEV LIMIN as the gevurat Hashem. (TEHILLIM 110:1)

⁷⁰ And everyone said, Then you are the Ben HaElohim? Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, You are saying that I am.

⁷¹ And to them they said, Why still do we have need of an eidus (witness)? For we ourselves heard from his peh (mouth).

23 And the whole multitude of them got up and led Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach before Pilate.

² And they began to accuse him saying, This one we found misleading our nation and making it asur to pay taxes to Caesar and calling himself Moshiach and that he is to be a Melech.

³ And Pilate crossexamined him, saying, Are you the Melech HaYehudim? And in reply, he said to him, You say so?

⁴ And Pilate said to the Rashei Hakohanim and the multitudes, I find no ashmah (guilt) in this man.

⁵ But they were insisting, saying, He incites the people, from where he began with his torah (teaching), throughout all of Yehudah, from the Galil even to this place.

⁶ And when Pilate heard this, he asked whether the man was a Gelili (an inhabitant of the Galil).

⁷ And having learned that he is under the jurisdiction of Herod, he sent him to Herod, who was also in Yerushalayim during those days.

⁸ And Herod, having laid eyes on Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, had great simcha. For he was for a long time wanting to see him, because he keeps hearing things about him and was hoping to watch some ot (miraculous sign) being performed by him.

⁹ And Herod was questioning him with many words, but he answered him nothing.

¹⁰ And the Rashei Hakohenim and the Sofrim had stood by vehemently accusing Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.

¹¹ And having treated him with contempt, Herod with his chaiyalim also ridiculed him, having clothed him in an elegant royal robe. So they thus sent back him to Pilate.

¹² And Herod and Pilate became fast friends with one another on that very day, for they were previously at enmity toward each other.

¹³ And Pilate, when he had assembled the Rashei Hakohanim and the manhigim and the people,

¹⁴ Said to them, You brought to me this man causing the people to rise up in mered (revolt), and, hinei, I have cross-examined him before you and I found nothing in this man of the crime of which you make accusations against him.

¹⁵ And neither did Herod, for he sent him back to us, and, hinei, nothing worthy of mishpat mavet has been done by him.

¹⁶ Therefore, having disciplined him, I will release him.

¹⁷ [Now he was obliged to release to them one at the Chag (Festival).]

¹⁸ But they cried out with one kol, saying, Away with this one! And release to us Bar-Abba!

¹⁹ (Bar-Abba was a man who was thrown into the beis hasohar, because of some insurrection which occurred in HaIr as well as a retzach.)

²⁰ And again Pilate addressed them, wishing to release Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach.

²¹ But they were crying out saying, Let him be talui al HaEtz! Let him be hanged on HaEtz! [DEVARIM 21:23]

²² And a paam shlishit (third time), Pilate said to them, But what raah did this one do? No crime worthy of mavet did I find in him. Therefore, having disciplined him, I will release him.

²³ But they insisted with a kol gadol demanding him to be hanged on HaEtz and their voices were roiv (the larger portion) prevailing.

²⁴ And Pilate decided that their demand be accomplished.

²⁵ And Pilate released the one they were requesting, the one who had been thrown into the beis hasohar on account of an insurrection and retzach, but Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach he delivered over to their ratzon.

²⁶ And as they led him away, having seized a certain Shimon, a Cyrenian, coming in from the country, they put upon him Moshiach’s Etz to carry, following Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach.

²⁷ And a great multitude of HaAm were following him and nashim, who were acting as avelim, lamenting for him.

²⁸ And having turned to them, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach said, Benot HaYerushalayim (Daughters of Yerushalayim), stop weeping for me; weep for yourselves and for your yeladim,

²⁹ Because, hinei, yamim are coming in which they will say, Ashrey are the barren and the wombs which did not bear and the breasts which did not nurse.

³⁰ Then they will begin to say to the mountain, Fall on us! And to the hills, Bury us. [Hos 10:8; Isa 2:19]

³¹ Because if while an etz (tree) is green they do these things, what may happen when it is dry? [Ezek 20:47]

³² And two POSHA’IM (criminals, resha’im, YESHAYAH 53:9,12) were also being led away with Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach to be executed.

³³ And when they came upon the place being called The Skull, there they hanged each on his etz, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and the POSHA’IM (criminals, YESHAYAH 53:12), one on the right, and one on the left.

³⁴ But Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was saying, Abba, grant selicha to them, for they have no daas of what they are doing. And dividing up his garments, VAPPILU GORAL (they cast lots). [TEHILLIM 22:19(18)]

³⁵ And HaAm had stood watching. And the manhigim were mocking him also, saying, Others he saved, let him save himself, if this one is the Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach of Hashem, the Bechir Hashem. [Psa 22:17; Isa 42:1]

³⁶ And the chaiyalim also ridiculed him as they approached, offering CHOMETZ (wine vinegar Psa 69:21) to him, [Psa 22:7]

³⁷ and saying, If you are HaMelech HaYehudim, save yourself.

³⁸ And there was also an inscription over him, THIS IS HAMELECH HAYEHUDIM.

³⁹ And one of the POSHA’IM (criminals, YESHAYAH 53:12) having been hanged with him was speaking Chillul Hashem gadfanut against him, saying, Are you not the Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach?

⁴⁰ Save yourself and us. And in reply the other, rebuking him, said, Do you not have yirat Shomayim? For you are under the same gezar din (verdict) of harshaah (condemnation as guilty).

⁴¹ And this is a just gezar din against us, for we deserve what we are getting for our ma’asim (deeds). But this one did nothing rah.

⁴² And he was saying, Yehoshua, remember me when you come into your Malchut.

⁴³ And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, Omein, I say to you, hayom (today) with me you will be in Gan Eden.

⁴⁴ It was already the sixth hour [noon] and choshech was over the whole land until the ninth hour. [Amos 8:9]

⁴⁵ The shemesh being obscured; and the Parochet [between the Kodesh HaKodashim and HaKodesh] in the Beis Hamikdash was torn in two. [Ex 26:31-33]

⁴⁶ And having cried out with a kol gadol, he said, Abba, BYADCHA AFKID RUCHI (into your hands I commit my ruach TEHILLIM 31:6[5]). And this having said, he breathed out his last.

⁴⁷ And the centurion who saw the thing that happened was saying, Baruch Hashem, surely this man was a Tzaddik.

⁴⁸ And when all the hamon (crowd) that had assembled at this spectacle had observed the things that had happened, they went away beating their chests.

⁴⁹ And all his acquaintances stood at a distance and the nashim, the ones following him from the Galil, observed these things.

⁵⁰ And, hinei, a man by name Yosef being a member of the Sanhedrin, and an ish tov and a tzaddik

⁵¹ (This one had not consented to their cheshbon and action) came from Ramatayim, a shtetl of Yehudah. He was waiting expectantly for the Malchut Hashem.

⁵² He approached Pilate, and asked for the gufat Yehoshua. [TEHILLIM 16:9-10; IYOV 19:25-27; YESHAYAH 53:11]

⁵³ And, having taken down geviyyato (his body), he wrapped it in a linen [tachrichim] and placed it in a hewn kever (tomb) where not anyone had yet been laid. [Psa 16:9-10; Job 19:25-27; Isa 53:11]

⁵⁴ And it was nearly Erev Shabbat, Shabbos was drawing near.

⁵⁵ And following along after, the nashim who had come out of the Galil with him, saw the kever (tomb) and how his NEVELAH (body, DEVARIM 21:23) was laid. [Gn 47:18; Ps 16:9-10; Job 19:25-27; Isa 53:11]

⁵⁶ And having returned, they prepared spices and ointments. And on Shabbos they rested according to the mitzvah (commandment). [SHEMOT 12:16; 20:10]

24 But on Yom HaRishon, the first day of the shavua (week), very early in the boker, they went to the kever (tomb) bringing what spices they prepared.

² But they found the even (stone) having been rolled away from the kever (tomb),

³ and, having entered, they did not find geviyyato (his body, DEVARIM 21:23; BERESHIS 47:18) of the Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu. [TEHILLIM 16:9-10; IYOV 19:25-27; YESHAYAH 26:19; 53:11]

⁴ It came about while they were perplexed about this, indeed, hinei, shnayim (two), who were garmented in dazzling robes, stood by them.

⁵ And having become terrified, the nashim bowed their faces to the ground. They said to the nashim, Why are you seeking HaChai (the One living) among HaMesim?

⁶ He is not here, he kam (stood up) litechiyyah (to come to life again). Have zikaron (recollection) how he spoke to you while he was still in the Galil,

⁷ Saying, It is necessary for the Ben HaAdam (Moshiach, DANIEL 7:13-14) to be delivered over into the hands of anashim choteim and to be talui al HaEtz [to be hanged on the Tree, DEVARIM 21:23] and on HaYom HaShlishi to stand up alive again.

⁸ And they remembered the words of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.

⁹ And having returned from the kever (tomb), they reported all these things to the Achad Asar (the Eleven) and to all the others.

¹⁰ Now there were Miryam of Magdala and Yochanah and Miryam the Em (mother) of Yaakov, and the others with them. They were telling the Moshiach’s Shlichim these things,

¹¹ And these words of theirs appeared to the Moshiach’s Shlichim as utter narrishkait, and the Shlichim had no emunah in what they said.

¹² Kefa got up and ran to the kever (tomb). And when he bent over, Kefa sees the tachrichim linen clothes only, and he departed wondering to himself with tzorich iyun (unresolved puzzlement) about the thing that had happened.

¹³ And, hinei, shnayim (two) of them that same day were traveling to a shtetl being distant sixty stadia from Yerushalayim, a shtetl the name of which is Ammaus.

¹⁴ And they were speaking to one another concerning all these things that had happened.

¹⁵ And it came about while they were talking and discussing these things that also Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach himself had come near and was traveling along with them,

¹⁶ But the eynayim (eyes) of them were prevented from recognizing Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.

¹⁷ And he said to them, What dvarim (words) are these which you are exchanging with one another as you are walking along? And they stood with a look of agmat nefesh (tzubrochen, broken-hearted).