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Matthew 27, NEW REVISED STANDARD VERSION
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Study Bible Notes
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When morning came,
all the chief priests and the elders of the people conferred together
against Jesus in order to bring about his death. |
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They bound him, led
him away, and handed him over to Pilate the governor. |
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When Judas, his
betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he repented and brought back the
thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders. |
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He said, “I have
sinned by betraying innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us?
See to it yourself.” |
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Throwing down the
pieces of silver in the temple, he departed; and he went and hanged himself.
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But the chief
priests, taking the pieces of silver, said, “It is not lawful to put them
into the treasury, since they are blood money.” |
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After conferring
together, they used them to buy the potter's field as a place to bury
foreigners. |
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For this reason that
field has been called the Field of Blood to this day. |
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Then was fulfilled
what had been spoken through the prophet Jeremiah, “And they took the thirty
pieces of silver, the price of the one on whom a price had been set, on whom
some of the people of Israel had set a price, |
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and they gave them
for the potter's field, as the Lord commanded me.” |
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Now Jesus stood
before the governor; and the governor asked him, “Are you the King of the
Jews?” Jesus said, “You say so.” |
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But when he was
accused by the chief priests and elders, he did not answer. |
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Then Pilate said to
him, “Do you not hear how many accusations they make against you?” |
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But he gave him no
answer, not even to a single charge, so that the governor was greatly
amazed. |
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Now at the festival
the governor was accustomed to release a prisoner for the crowd, anyone whom
they wanted. |
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At that time they
had a notorious prisoner, called Jesus Barabbas. |
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So after they had
gathered, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release for you,
Jesus Barabbas or Jesus who is called the Messiah?”
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For he realized that
it was out of jealousy that they had handed him over. |
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While he was sitting
on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, “Have nothing to do with
that innocent man, for today I have suffered a great deal because of a dream
about him.” |
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Now the chief
priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to have
Jesus killed. |
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The governor again
said to them, “Which of the two do you want me to release for you?” And
they said, “Barabbas.” |
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Pilate said to them,
“Then what should I do with Jesus who is called the Messiah?” All of them
said, “Let him be crucified!” |
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Then he asked, “Why,
what evil has he done?” But they shouted all the more, “Let him be
crucified!” |
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So when Pilate saw
that he could do nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took some
water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this
man's blood; see to it yourselves.” |
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Then the people as a
whole answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!” |
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So he released
Barabbas for them; and after flogging Jesus, he handed him over to be
crucified. |
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Then the soldiers of
the governor took Jesus into the governor's headquarters, and they gathered
the whole cohort around him. |
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They stripped him
and put a scarlet robe on him, |
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and after twisting
some thorns into a crown, they put it on his head. They put a reed in his
right hand and knelt before him and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the
Jews!” |
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They spat on him,
and took the reed and struck him on the head. |
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After mocking him,
they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led
him away to crucify him. |
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As they went out,
they came upon a man from Cyrene named Simon; they compelled this man to
carry his cross. |
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And when they came
to a place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull), |
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they offered him
wine to drink, mixed with gall; but when he tasted it, he would not drink
it. |
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And when they had
crucified him, they divided his clothes among themselves by casting lots;
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then they sat down
there and kept watch over him. |
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Over his head they
put the charge against him, which read, “This is Jesus, the King of the
Jews.” |
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Then two bandits
were crucified with him, one on his right and one on his left. |
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Those who passed by
derided him, shaking their heads |
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and saying, “You who
would destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! If you
are the Son of God, come down from the cross.” |
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In the same way the
chief priests also, along with the scribes and elders, were mocking him,
saying, |
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“He saved others; he
cannot save himself. He is the King of Israel; let him come down from the
cross now, and we will believe in him.
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He trusts in God;
let God deliver him now, if he wants to; for he said, ‘I am God's Son.’ ” |
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The bandits who were
crucified with him also taunted him in the same way. |
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From noon on,
darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. |
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And about three
o'clock Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Eli,
Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you
forsaken me?” |
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When some of the
bystanders heard it, they said, “This man is calling for Elijah.” |
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At once one of them
ran and got a sponge, filled it with sour wine, put it on a stick, and gave
it to him to drink. |
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But the others said,
“Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to save him.”
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Then Jesus cried
again with a loud voice and breathed his last. |
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At that moment the
curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. The earth shook,
and the rocks were split. |
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The tombs also were
opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised. |
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After his
resurrection they came out of the tombs and entered the holy city and
appeared to many. |
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Now when the
centurion and those with him, who were keeping watch over Jesus, saw the
earthquake and what took place, they were terrified and said, “Truly this
man was God's Son!” |
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Many women were also
there, looking on from a distance; they had followed Jesus from Galilee and
had provided for him. |
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Among them were Mary
Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the
sons of Zebedee. |
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When it was evening,
there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who was also a disciple
of Jesus. |
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He went to Pilate
and asked for the body of Jesus; then Pilate ordered it to be given to him.
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So Joseph took the
body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth |
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and laid it in his
own new tomb, which he had hewn in the rock. He then rolled a great stone to
the door of the tomb and went away.
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Mary Magdalene and
the other Mary were there, sitting opposite the tomb. |
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The next day, that
is, after the day of Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees
gathered before Pilate |
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and said, “Sir, we
remember what that impostor said while he was still alive, ‘After three days
I will rise again.’ |
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Therefore command
the tomb to be made secure until the third day; otherwise his disciples may
go and steal him away, and tell the people, ‘He has been raised from the
dead,’ and the last deception would be worse than the first.” |
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Pilate said to them,
“You have a guard of soldiers; go, make it as secure as you can.”
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So they went with
the guard and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone. |
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