Luke 23

Luke 23:1

• Then the whole
• The whole
• Then the entire
• And the whole

• assembly
• group
• assembly of

• got
• them rose
• stood
• rose

• up and

• brought
• led
• took

• Him before
• him before
• Jesus to
• Jesus before
• Him to
• him to
• Jesus off to

• Pilate,
• Pilate.

Luke 23:2

• They
• And they

• began to
• brought

• accuse
• charges against

• him,
• Him,
• Jesus.
• Jesus,

• saying, “
• saying, ‘

• We

• found this
• have found this
• caught this

• man

• misleading
• subverting

• our

• nation,
• nation and

• opposing the
• opposing

• payment of

• taxes to
• taxes to the

• Caesar. And
• Caesar, and
• Caesar and
• Caesar.
• Caesar,
• Emperor, and
• emperor, and
• Emperor and

• saying that he
• saying that He
• claiming that he himself
• He calls
• he calls
• saying that He Himself
• saying that he himself
• He claims to
• he claims to
• claiming to

• is the
• is ‘
• is
• be
• himself is
• Himself is
• himself the

• Christ, a
• Christ a
• Messiah, a

• king.”
• King.’
• king. ”’
• king!”
• king.’
• King.”

Luke 23:3

• So Pilate
• Pilate
• And Pilate

• asked

• him,
• Him, “
• him, “
• Him,
• Jesus,
• Jesus, “

• Are
• saying, “Are

• you the
• You the

• king of the
• King of the

• Jews?’
• Jews?”
• Jews?” And

• He
• he

• answered him, “You

• say.
• say.”
• say so.”

Luke 23:4

• Then Pilate
• Pilate
• Pilate then
• So Pilate
• And Pilate

• said to the
• told the
• spoke to the

• chief
• leading

• priests and the
• priests and to the

• crowds, “
• crowd, “
• crowd, ’
• people, “
• people, ‘
• multitudes, “

• I

• find no
• find

• fault in this
• guilt in this

• Man.”
• man!”
• man.”
• Man.
• man.’

Luke 23:5

• But they

• kept on
• insisted,

• saying, “He

• stirs up the
• incites the
• makes

• people,
• people by

• teaching throughout all

• Judea,
• Judea—
• Judea;
• Judea.

• beginning from
• starting from
• He began in

• Galilee and
• Galilee

• even to this

• place.
• place.”

Luke 23:6

• When Pilate
• Now when Pilate
• But when Pilate
• Pilate

• heard this,
• heard
• heard this and
• heard that,

• he asked if the
• asked if the
• he asked whether the
• it, he asked whether the
• asked if

• man
• Jesus

• was a
• was from
• were a

• Galilean?”
• Galilean,
• Galilean.
• Galilean;
• Galilean?
• Galilee?’
• Galilee.
• Galilee?”

Luke 23:7

• When he learned that Jesus
• And when he learned that he
• And when he learned that He
• When he learned that he
• He learned that Jesus

• was under
• was from
• belonged to

• Herod’s

• jurisdiction,
• jurisdiction—
• jurisdiction

• he
• Pilate

• sent

• Him to
• him to
• him over to
• Him over to
• Jesus to
• him off to

• Herod, who
• Herod who
• Herod
• Herod. Herod

• was
• was in
• was himself in

• Jerusalem at that
• also in Jerusalem at that
• also in Jerusalem during those
• Jerusalem at the
• also in Jerusalem in those

• time.
• days.

Luke 23:8

• [Translation pending]

Luke 23:9

• He
• So he
• So Herod
• And he

• questioned

• him at some
• Him at some
• him with
• Him with
• him in
• him at

• length, but
• length; but
• many words, but
• many words; but
• many questions, but

• He
• he
• Jesus

• gave
• answered

• him no
• him

• answer,
• answer.
• nothing.

Luke 23:10

• The chief
• And the chief
• Meanwhile the chief
• Meanwhile, the chief
• The leading

• priests and the
• priests and

• scribes
• teachers of the Law
• teachers of the law

• were standing
• were
• stood by,
• stood,
• stood

• vehemently
• there vehemently
• there, vehemently

• accusing
• accused

• Him.
• him,
• him.
• Jesus.
• him vehemently.
• Him vehemently.

Luke 23:11

• Then Herod and
• And Herod, with
• And Herod with
• Herod and
• Even Herod with
• Then Herod, with

• his

• soldiers
• soldiers,

• treated

• him with
• Him with
• Jesus with

• contempt and

• mocked
• ridiculed
• mocking

• him by
• Him,
• him. Then,
• him; then,

• dressing
• dressed

• Him in a
• him in a
• him in

• elegant
• gorgeous

• robe, and
• robe and
• robe on him and
• robe on him, and

• sent

• Him
• him

• back to Pilate.

Luke 23:12

• In the past
• In the past,

• Pilate and Herod had always been

• enemies. But on that
• enemies, but on that

• day they became friends.

Luke 23:13

• Pilate
• Pilate then
• Then Pilate
• So Pilate

• called
• summoned the
• called the

• together the chief
• chief
• together the leading

• priests, the
• priests and the
• priests, and the

• rulers, and the
• rulers and the
• leaders, and the
• leading men, and the
• leading men and the

• people.
• people
• people,

Luke 23:14

• [Translation pending]

Luke 23:15

• Neither has
• Neither did
• neither did
• Nor did
• nor did

• Herod, for
• Herod, because

• he
• I

• sent

• Him
• him

• back to

• us.
• us; and
• us. And

• behold,
• Behold,
• Look,

• nothing deserving death has been done by

• Him.
• him.
• him;

Luke 23:16

• So I
• so I
• I
• Therefore, I
• Therefore I

• will
• will therefore
• shall
• ’ll

• have

• Him
• him

• flogged and
• whipped and

• let
• then let

• Him
• him

• go.’
• go.
• go.”

Luke 23:17

• Now he
• He

• had to
• was obliged to

• release one
• release

• prisoner for them at the

• festival.
• feast.)
• feast).

Luke 23:18

• But they all
• But the whole crowd

• shouted, ‘
• shouted, “
• shouted out, “
• shouted out

• Away with this
• Kill
• Kill this

• man!
• him!

• Let Barabbas go

• free!”
• free for us!”
• free for us!’

Luke 23:19

• (Barabbas

• had been
• was

• thrown into
• put in

• prison for a
• prison because of a

• certain
• rebellion that
• riot that

• had taken place in the

• city, and for
• city and for
• city and

• murder.)
• murder).
• murder.

Luke 23:20

• Pilate,
• Pilate

• wanting to release

• Jesus—
• Jesus,

• addressed
• called to

• them

• again.
• again,
• again;

Luke 23:21

• But they
• but they

• shouted,
• shouted

• back, ‘
• back, “
• again, “

• Crucify
• Kill

• him,
• him!
• Him,

• Crucify
• crucify
• Kill

• him.
• Him!
• Him!”
• him.’
• him!’
• him!”
• him on a cross!”

Luke 23:22

• A third
• For the third

• time
• time,

• he
• Pilate

• said to
• spoke to

• them: ‘Why, what
• them, “Why, what
• them, “Why? What
• them: “Why? What

• evil
• wrong
• crime

• has
• has this

• He
• he
• man

• done?
• committed?

• I

• have
• have not

• found in

• him no
• Him no

• guilt
• crime

• deserving

• death.
• death;

• I will therefore punish and release him.”

Luke 23:23

• But they were

• insistent,
• urgent,

• demanding with loud

• voices that
• cries that
• shouts that

• He
• he
• Jesus
• Jesus to

• be
• should be

• crucified; and
• crucified, and
• crucified. And
• crucified.

• their
• Their

• voices
• shouts
• cries

• prevailed.
• prevailed
• won out.

Luke 23:24

• So Pilate decided to grant their

• demand.
• demand

Luke 23:25

• He
• And he
• So he

• released the man who had been

• thrown into
• put in
• thrown in

• prison for
• prison because of

• insurrection and
• riot and
• rebellion and

• murder, for whom
• murder, whom

• they asked, but he

• handed
• delivered

• Jesus over to
• Jesus to
• Jesus up to

• their will.

Luke 23:26

• As they
• And as they
• And, as they
• The soldiers
• As the soldiers
• When they
• They

• led
• were leading

• Him
• him
• Jesus

• away
• away,

• they took hold of a certain

• Simon of
• Simon a
• Simon, a
• Simon from

• Cyrene, who
• Cyrenian, who

• was

• coming in from the
• coming from the

• country, and
• country, and they

• put the cross on

• him
• him to
• him, to

• carry it behind Jesus.

Luke 23:27

• And there followed him a great

• multitude of the
• crowd of the

• people and of
• people, and of

• women, who
• women who
• women

• were mourning and
• bewailed and
• were beating their breasts and
• also mourned and

• wailing for
• lamented
• lamenting

• Him.
• him,
• him.

Luke 23:28

• But Jesus
• But Jesus,
• Jesus

• turned to
• turned and
• turning to
• turned to the

• them and
• them
• them,
• said to
• women and

• said, ‘
• said,
• said:
• said, “
• them, “
• them. “
• them: “

• Daughters of
• Women of

• Jerusalem,”
• Jerusalem!
• Jerusalem
• Jerusalem,

• Do
• do
• weep

• not weep for
• n’t cry for
• not cry for
• n’t weep for
• not for

• Me, but
• me, but
• me. But
• me!
• me.
• me;
• Me.

• weep for
• Cry for
• cry for
• Rather, cry for

• yourselves and for
• yourselves, and for
• yourselves and

• your

• children,
• children.
• children!
• children;
• children too!
• children too.

Luke 23:29

• For the days are surely

• coming when
• coming, in which
• coming in which

• they
• people
• you

• will
• shall

• say, “
• say, ‘

• Blessed
• Happy

• are the

• barren and the
• barren, and the
• barren, the

• wombs that never

• bore, and the
• bore and the

• breasts that

• never
• never gave
• have never

• nursed!’
• nursed.’
• suck!’
• suck;
• suck.

Luke 23:30

• then
• Then “‘
• Then
• At that time

• they
• people

• will

• begin to say to the
• begin ‘to say to the
• say to the
• beg the

• mountains ‘
• mountains, “
• mountains, ‘
• mountains,

• Fall on

• us’; and to the
• us, and to the
• us,’ and to the
• us; and to the
• us!’ and to the
• us!” and to the
• us”, and to the

• hills, ‘
• hills ‘
• hills,
• hills, “

• Cover
• Hide

• us.’
• us!’
• us;—
• us!”
• us.”
• us’!
• us.
• us! ”’

Luke 23:31

• For if they
• If they

• do these things when the

• wood
• tree

• is

• green, what
• green what
• good, what

• will happen when it is

• dry?
• dry?’
• dry?”
• dry one?”

Luke 23:32

• Two others
• Two others, who

• also, who were
• were

• criminals—
• criminals
• criminals,

• were
• were also

• led away to be

• executed with
• put to
• put to death with

• Him.
• him.
• death with him.
• death with Him.
• Jesus.

Luke 23:33

• When they
• And when they
• and when they
• They

• came to the
• reached the
• came to a
• arrived at the

• place
• place that
• place which

• called “The
• called The
• called the
• called ‘The
• is called The
• is called “The
• called

• Skull,”
• Skull,
• skull, there
• Skull,” there
• Skull, there
• Skull,’ there
• Skull. There
• Skull.” There the
• Skull. There the

• they
• soldiers

• crucified

• him and the
• him, and the
• him, along with the
• Jesus and the

• criminals, one on
• criminals—one on

• his

• right and the
• right, the

• other on his left.

Luke 23:34

• Jesus
• Then Jesus
• But Jesus
• And Jesus

• said, ‘
• said: “
• said, “
• was saying, “

• Father, forgive

• them; for
• them, for
• them,
• them!
• them.
• them;
• them, because

• they
• They

• do

• not
• n’t

• know what they

• are
• ’re

• doing.’
• doing!”
• doing.”
• doing.” The
• doing.” And

• they
• They
• soldiers

• divided
• divided up

• his
• His

• clothes by
• clothes among themselves by

• casting
• throwing

• lots.
• dice.
• lots for them.

Luke 23:35

• The people
• And the people

• stood there
• stood
• stood around
• stood by,

• watching. The
• watching, but the

• rulers,
• rulers

• even

• made fun of
• scoffed at

• him.
• him,
• Jesus.
• Jesus,

• saying, “
• They said, ‘
• They said, “

• He saved

• others.
• others,
• others;

• Let
• let

• Him
• him

• save

• Himself if
• himself if
• himself, if

• he
• He

• is the Christ of

• God, the
• God

• Chosen One.’
• chosen one.”
• chosen one!”
• Chosen One.”
• chosen one!’
• Chosen One!”
• chosen!”
• Chosen.’

Luke 23:36

• The soldiers
• The soldiers,
• And the soldiers
• Even the soldiers

• also,
• also
• made

• mocked
• made fun of
• fun of

• him.
• him,
• him:
• Him,

• coming to
• coming up to
• They came up to
• they came up to

• him,
• Him,
• him and

• offering
• offered

• Him
• him
• him some
• Him sour

• wine
• wine,
• wine.
• vinegar.
• vinegar,
• sour wine
• sour wine,
• wine vinegar
• wine vinegar.

Luke 23:37

• and saying, If
• and saying, ‘If
• and saying, “If
• They said, ‘If
• They said, “If
• and said, “If

• you
• You

• are the
• ’re the

• king of the
• King of the

• Jews, save

• yourself.’
• yourself!’
• Yourself.”
• Yourself!”
• yourself!”
• yourself.”
• thyself.
• thyself.’

Luke 23:38

• Above him
• (At the top of the cross these words
• Above him there

• was
• was an
• was a
• were

• also an inscription over
• placed above
• inscription above

• him, “This
• him: “This

• is the

• king of the
• King of the

• jews.
• Jews.
• Jews.’
• Jews.”
• Jews’.
• Jews.”)
• jews.”)

Luke 23:39

• One of the criminals who
• One of the criminals

• were
• hanging
• was

• hanged
• hanging there

• railed at him, saying, “Are

• you
• You

• not the

• Christ,
• Christ?
• Messiah?

• Save
• save

• Yourself and
• yourself and
• yourself, and
• yourself—and

• us.’
• us?”
• us!”
• us!
• us.”
• us?’

Luke 23:40

• But the other
• But the other,
• But the other criminal

• rebuked
• stopped
• answered, and rebuking

• him,
• him

• saying,
• saying, “

• Do you not

• fear
• even fear
• fear of

• God, since
• God!
• God?

• you
• You

• are under the same

• sentence of
• sentence as

• condemnation?
• he did.
• he did,

Luke 23:41

• And we indeed

• justly, for
• justly; for

• we

• are receiving the
• receive the

• due reward of our

• deeds; but this
• deeds, but this

• Man
• man

• has
• hasn’t

• done

• nothing
• anything

• wrong.’
• wrong!”
• wrong.
• wrong.”

Luke 23:42

• Then he
• And he
• He

• said, ‘
• said, “
• said to

• Jesus, ‘
• Jesus, “
• Jesus,
• Jesus, Lord,
• Jesus, “Lord,

• Remember
• remember

• me when

• you
• You

• come into
• come in
• enter

• your
• Your

• Kingdom.”
• kingdom!”
• kingdom.’
• kingdom.”

Luke 23:43

• Jesus
• And Jesus
• He
• And he
• And He
• Then Jesus

• said to
• answered, ’
• answered, “
• answered
• answered: “
• replied, “

• him, ‘I
• him, “I
• I
• him, “Truly, I
• him, Truly I
• him, “Truly I
• him, “Assuredly I
• him, “Assuredly, I

• tell
• say to
• promise
• assure

• you, today
• you: Today
• you: today
• you the truth. Today
• you the truth, today
• you that today

• you

• will
• shall

• be with

• Me in
• me in

• paradise.”
• Paradise.”
• Paradise.
• paradise!”
• paradise.’
• paradise.
• Paradise.’

Luke 23:44

• It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness

• came over the
• covered the

• whole land until the ninth

• hour,
• hour.

Luke 23:45

• because the light of the sun

• failed. And the
• failed; and the

• curtain of the
• curtain in the

• Temple
• temple

• was torn in two.

Luke 23:46

• Jesus,
• Jesus
• Then Jesus
• Then Jesus,
• And Jesus,
• And Jesus

• cried out in a
• calling out with a
• crying with a
• called out with a
• crying out with a

• loud

• voice,
• voice
• voice, “
• voice, said, “

• Father, into
• said, Father, into
• said, “Father, into

• your
• Your

• hands I

• commit
• entrust
• put
• commend

• my
• My

• spirit.” When
• spirit!” And after

• He
• he

• said this
• said this,
• had said this,
• had said this

• He
• he

• breathed His last.
• breathed his last.
• died.
• expired.

Luke 23:47

• Now when the

• centurion
• centurion,

• saw what
• seeing what

• had
• was

• happened,
• happened.
• done,
• taken place,

• He
• he

• praised
• glorified

• God.
• God,
• God and
• God, and
• God. He

• saying, “
• saying, ‘
• said, “

• Certainly, this
• Certainly this

• man was

• innocent.
• innocent.”
• innocent!”
• innocent.’
• righteous!”
• righteous.”
• righteous;’

Luke 23:48

• And all the crowds that
• When all the people who
• And when all the crowds who
• And all the multitudes who
• and all the multitudes who
• All the crowds who

• had

• gathered for this
• assembled for this
• gathered to

• spectacle, when they saw what had

• happened,
• taken place,

• went
• they returned
• returned
• returned to

• home
• home,
• away
• their homes
• their homes,

• beating their

• breasts;
• breasts.
• chests.

Luke 23:49

• And all His
• And all his
• All His
• All his

• acquaintances, and the
• acquaintances and the
• friends and the

• women who

• had followed
• had come with
• accompanied

• him from
• Him from

• Galilee,
• Galilee

• stood at a
• were standing at a

• distance
• distance,
• distance and

• watching these things.

Luke 23:50

• Now there was a man named Joseph, a member of the

• Council, a
• council, a
• council. He

• good and
• was a good and

• righteous
• upright

• man
• man,
• man.

Luke 23:51

• (He had
• (he had
• He had
• who had
• But he had
• but he had
• had

• not

• consented to
• agreed with
• consenting to

• their

• plan and
• decision and
• purpose and

• action. He

• was from the
• came from the

• Jewish
• Judean

• town of

• Arimathea, and
• Arimathea and

• was

• waiting for the
• looking forward to the
• looking for the
• waiting expectantly for the

• kingdom of
• Kingdom of

• God,
• God.
• God:
• God;
• God to come.

Luke 23:52

• This man
• this man
• he,
• He
• Joseph

• went to
• approached

• Pilate, and
• Pilate and

• asked for the body of

• Jesus;
• Jesus.
• Jesus,

Luke 23:53

• Then he
• He
• And he
• After he

• took it down, wrapped

• it in a
• it in

• linen cloth and
• linen cloth, and
• linen and
• linen, and
• linen sheet, and
• shroud and
• shroud, and

• laid
• placed
• put

• it in a
• Him in a
• him in a

• tomb
• tomb that

• cut in the
• cut into the

• rock where no
• rock, where no
• rock. No
• rock, in which no

• one had

• ever
• yet
• never
• ever yet

• been

• laid.
• buried.
• used.
• used before.
• placed.

Luke 23:54

• It

• was
• was the day of

• preparation and the
• Preparation, and the
• preparation, and the
• Friday, and the

• Sabbath
• sabbath

• was about to
• was

• begin.
• beginning.
• drawing near.

Luke 23:55

• The women, who
• The women who
• And the women who

• had

• come with
• accompanied

• Jesus from
• him from
• Him from
• him out of
• Him out of

• Galilee,
• Galilee
• Galilee.

• followed and
• followed, and

• saw the

• tomb and how
• tomb, and how

• his
• His
• Jesus’

• body

• was
• had been

• laid;
• laid.
• laid,
• laid in it.
• laid in it,
• laid in it
• placed.

Luke 23:56

• Then they
• then they
• they
• They

• returned and
• left to

• prepared
• prepare

• spices and

• perfumes. And on the
• perfumes; and on the
• perfumes, and on the
• ointments. On the
• perfumes. On the

• Sabbath
• sabbath

• they rested according to the commandment.