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Matthew 27 :: New International Version (NIV)

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Judas Hangs Himself

(Mar 15:1; Luk 23:1; Jhn 18:28 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:1 - Early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people made their plans how to have Jesus executed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:2 - So they bound him, led him away and handed him over to Pilate the governor.
(Act 1:18, 19 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:3 - When Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was seized with remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:4 - “I have sinned,” he said, “for I have betrayed innocent blood.” “What is that to us?” they replied. “That’s your responsibility.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:5 - So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:6 - The chief priests picked up the coins and said, “It is against the law to put this into the treasury, since it is blood money.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:7 - So they decided to use the money to buy the potter’s field as a burial place for foreigners.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:8 - That is why it has been called the Field of Blood to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 27:9

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:9 - Then what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled: “They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price set on him by the people of Israel,

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:10 - and they used them to buy the potter’s field, as the Lord commanded me.”[fn]

Jesus Before Pilate

(Mar 15:2–5; Luk 23:2–5; Jhn 18:29–38 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:11 - Meanwhile Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?” “You have said so,” Jesus replied.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:12 - When he was accused by the chief priests and the elders, he gave no answer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 27:13

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:13 - Then Pilate asked him, “Don’t you hear the testimony they are bringing against you?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:14 - But Jesus made no reply, not even to a single charge—to the great amazement of the governor.
(Mar 15:6–15; Luk 23:13–25; Jhn 18:39, 40 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:15 - Now it was the governor’s custom at the festival to release a prisoner chosen by the crowd.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:16 - At that time they had a well-known prisoner whose name was Jesus[fn] Barabbas.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:17 - So when the crowd had gathered, Pilate asked them, “Which one do you want me to release to you: Jesus Barabbas, or Jesus who is called the Messiah?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:18 - For he knew it was out of self-interest that they had handed Jesus over to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:19 - While Pilate was sitting on the judge’s seat, his wife sent him this message: “Don’t have anything to do with that innocent man, for I have suffered a great deal today in a dream because of him.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:20 - But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus executed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:21 - “Which of the two do you want me to release to you?” asked the governor. “Barabbas,” they answered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:22 - “What shall I do, then, with Jesus who is called the Messiah?” Pilate asked. They all answered, “Crucify him!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:23 - “Why? What crime has he committed?” asked Pilate. But they shouted all the louder, “Crucify him!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:24 - When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. “I am innocent of this man’s blood,” he said. “It is your responsibility!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:25 - All the people answered, “His blood is on us and on our children!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:26 - Then he released Barabbas to them. But he had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified.

The Soldiers Mock Jesus

(Mar 15:16–20 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:27 - Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company of soldiers around him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:28 - They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him,

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:29 - and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand. Then they knelt in front of him and mocked him. “Hail, king of the Jews!” they said.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:30 - They spit on him, and took the staff and struck him on the head again and again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:31 - After they had mocked him, they took off the robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him away to crucify him.

The Crucifixion of Jesus

(Mar 15:21–32; Luk 23:26–43; Jhn 19:17–27 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:32 - As they were going out, they met a man from Cyrene, named Simon, and they forced him to carry the cross.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:33 - They came to a place called Golgotha (which means “the place of the skull”).

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:34 - There they offered Jesus wine to drink, mixed with gall; but after tasting it, he refused to drink it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:35 - When they had crucified him, they divided up his clothes by casting lots.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:36 - And sitting down, they kept watch over him there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:37 - Above his head they placed the written charge against him: this is jesus, the king of the jews.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:38 - Two rebels were crucified with him, one on his right and one on his left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:39 - Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:40 - and saying, “You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:41 - In the same way the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders mocked him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:42 - “He saved others,” they said, “but he can’t save himself! He’s the king of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:43 - He trusts in God. Let God rescue him now if he wants him, for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:44 - In the same way the rebels who were crucified with him also heaped insults on him.

The Death of Jesus

(Mar 15:33–41; Luk 23:44–49; Jhn 19:28–30 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:45 - From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over all the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:46 - About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli,[fn] lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”).[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:47 - When some of those standing there heard this, they said, “He’s calling Elijah.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:48 - Immediately one of them ran and got a sponge. He filled it with wine vinegar, put it on a staff, and offered it to Jesus to drink.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:49 - The rest said, “Now leave him alone. Let’s see if Elijah comes to save him.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:50 - And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:51 - At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:52 - and the tombs broke open. The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:53 - They came out of the tombs after Jesus’ resurrection and[fn] went into the holy city and appeared to many people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:54 - When the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and all that had happened, they were terrified, and exclaimed, “Surely he was the Son of God!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:55 - Many women were there, watching from a distance. They had followed Jesus from Galilee to care for his needs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:56 - Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph,[fn] and the mother of Zebedee’s sons.

The Burial of Jesus

(Mar 15:42–47; Luk 23:50–56; Jhn 19:38–42 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:57 - As evening approached, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:58 - Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus’ body, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:59 - Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:60 - and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut out of the rock. He rolled a big stone in front of the entrance to the tomb and went away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:61 - Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting there opposite the tomb.

The Guard at the Tomb

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:62 - The next day, the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees went to Pilate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:63 - “Sir,” they said, “we remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:64 - So give the order for the tomb to be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples may come and steal the body and tell the people that he has been raised from the dead. This last deception will be worse than the first.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:65 - “Take a guard,” Pilate answered. “Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:66 - So they went and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone and posting the guard.
See the NIV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NIV Footnotes
See Zech. 11:12,13; Jer. 19:1-13; 32:6-9.
Many manuscripts do not have Jesus; also in verse 17.
Some manuscripts Eloi, Eloi
Psalm 22:1
Or tombs, and after Jesus’ resurrection they
Greek Joses, a variant of Joseph
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