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Luke 23

Luke 23:2

AND THEY BEGAN TO ACCUSE HIM, SAYING, WE FOUND THIS FELLOW PERVERTING THE NATION, AND FORBIDDING TO GIVE TRIBUTE TO CAESAR, SAYING THAT HE HIMSELF IS CHRIST, A KING.... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 23:5

AND THEY WERE THE MORE FIERCE, SAYING, HE STIRRETH UP THE PEOPLE, TEACHING THROUGHOUT ALL JEWRY, BEGINNING FROM GALILEE TO THIS PLACE. The whole multitude of them arose; though it was so early in the morning, the members of the Sanhedrin had appeared practically in a body, most of them being pleased... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 23:7

AND AS SOON AS HE KNEW THAT HE BELONGED UNTO HEROD'S JURISDICTION, HE SENT HIM TO HEROD, WHO HIMSELF ALSO WAS AT JERUSALEM AT THAT TIME.... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 23:8

AND WHEN HEROD SAW JESUS, HE WAS EXCEEDING GLAD; FOR HE WAS DESIROUS TO SEE HIM OF A LONG SEASON BECAUSE HE HAD HEARD MANY THINGS OF HIM; AND HE HOPED TO HAVE SEEN SOME MIRACLE DONE BY HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 23:11

AND HEROD WITH HIS MEN OF WAR SET HIM AT NAUGHT, AND MOCKED HIM, AND ARRAYED HIM IN A GORGEOUS ROBE, AND SENT HIM AGAIN TO PILATE.... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 23:12

AND THE SAME DAY PILATE AND HEROD WERE MADE FRIENDS TOGETHER; FOR BEFORE THEY WERE AT ENMITY BETWEEN THEMSELVES. As soon as Pilate heard the word Galilee, he became intensely interested. Calm, judicious reasoning had told him from the start that Jesus was innocent, but his weak, vacillating nature f... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 23:14

SAID UNTO THEM, YE HAVE BROUGHT THIS MAN UNTO ME AS ONE THAT PERVERTETH THE PEOPLE; AND, BEHOLD, I, HAVING EXAMINED HIM BEFORE YOU, HAVE FOUND NO FAULT IN THIS MAN TOUCHING THOSE THINGS WHEREOF YE ACCUSE HIM;... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 23:19

(WHO FOR A CERTAIN SEDITION MADE IN THE CITY, AND FOR MURDER, WAS CAST INTO PRISON). One scheme of Pilate's, to place the responsibility on someone else, having failed, he hoped to have success along another line. The prisoner was once more before the court of Pilate, and so he formally called toget... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 23:22

AND HE SAID UNTO THEM THE THIRD TIME, WHY? WHAT EVIL HATH HE DONE? I HAVE FOUND NO CAUSE OF DEATH IN HIM; I WILL THEREFORE CHASTISE HIM AND LET HIM GO.... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 23:23

AND THEY WERE INSTANT WITH LOUD VOICES, REQUIRING THAT HE MIGHT BE CRUCIFIED. AND THE VOICES OF THEM AND OF THE CHIEF PRIESTS PREVAILED.... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 23:25

AND HE RELEASED UNTO THEM HIM THAT FOR SEDITION AND MURDER WAS CAST INTO PRISON, WHOM THEY HAD DESIRED; BUT HE DELIVERED JESUS TO THEIR WILL. When the first wrong step has been taken, a person is liable to be carried forward by his own impetus. Pilate was no longer in control of the situation. And h... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 23:26

AND AS THEY LED HIM AWAY, THEY LAID HOLD UPON ONE SIMON, A CYRENIAN, COMING OUT OF THE COUNTRY, AND ON HIM THEY LAID THE CROSS, THAT HE MIGHT BEAR IT AFTER JESUS.... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 23:28

BUT JESUS, TURNING UNTO THEM, SAID, DAUGHTERS OF JERUSALEM, WEEP NOT FOR ME, BUT WEEP FOR YOURSELVES AND FOR YOUR CHILDREN.... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 23:29

FOR, BEHOLD, THE DAYS ARE COMING IN THE WHICH THEY SHALL SAY, BLESSED ARE THE BARREN, AND THE WOMBS THAT NEVER BARE, AND THE PAPS WHICH NEVER GAVE SUCK.... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 23:31

FOR IF THEY DO THESE THINGS IN A GREEN TREE, WHAT SHALL BE DONE IN THE DRY? See Matthew 27:31; Mark 15:21. In accordance with the decision of Pilate, Jesus was led away from the Praetorium, out to a spot without the walls, where the malefactors were crucified. On the way, the cross of Jesus, which H... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 23:33

AND WHEN THEY WERE COME TO THE PLACE WHICH IS CALLED CALVARY, THERE THEY CRUCIFIED HIM, AND THE MALEFACTORS, ONE ON THE RIGHT HAND, AND THE OTHER ON THE LEFT.... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 23:34

THEN SAID JESUS, FATHER, FORGIVE THEM; FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO. AND THEY PARTED HIS RAIMENT AND CAST LOTS. At the same time that Jesus was led out of the city to be crucified, and in accordance with the word of prophecy, two other men were taken to the same place. But these men were really ma... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 23:35

AND THE PEOPLE STOOD BEHOLDING. AND THE RULERS ALSO WITH THEM DERIDED HIM, SAYING, HE SAVED OTHERS; LET HIM SAVE HIMSELF, IF HE BE CHRIST, THE CHOSEN OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 23:38

AND A SUPERSCRIPTION ALSO WAS WRITTEN OVER HIM IN LETTERS OF GREEK AND LATIN AND HEBREW, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS. The anticlimax of the people's frenzy had now been reached. Their bloodthirstiness had been satisfied, and it was only their curiosity that kept them at Calvary. They watched the so... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 23:43

AND JESUS SAID UNTO HIM, VERILY I SAY UNTO THEE, TODAY SHALT THOU BE WITH ME IN PARADISE. During the first hour of the excruciating agony of the crucifixion, both malefactors had joined the surging throngs in Revelation ling and cursing and mocking the man hanging in the middle between them, Matthew... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 23:46

AND WHEN JESUS HAD CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE, HE SAID, FATHER, INTO THY HANDS I COMMEND MY SPIRIT; AND HAVING SAID THUS, HE GAVE UP THE GHOST.... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 23:48

AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT CAME TOGETHER TO THAT SIGHT, BEHOLDING THE THINGS WHICH WERE DONE, SMOTE THEIR BREASTS AND RETURNED.... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 23:49

AND ALL HIS ACQUAINTANCE, AND THE WOMEN THAT FOLLOWED HIM FROM GALILEE, STOOD AFAR OFF, BEHOLDING THESE THINGS. It was the sixth hour according to Jewish, high noon according to modern reckoning, when the miracle here narrated came to pass. See Matthew 27:45; Mark 15:33. Suddenly, not only in Judea,... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 23:51

(The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them.) HE WAS OF ARIMATHEA, A CITY OF THE JEWS; WHO ALSO HIMSELF WAITED FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 23:53

AND HE TOOK IT DOWN, AND WRAPPED IT IN LINEN, AND LAID IT IN A SEPULCHER THAT WAS HEWN IN STONE, WHEREIN NEVER MAN BEFORE WAS LAID.... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 23:55

AND THE WOMEN ALSO, WHICH CAME WITH HIM FROM GALILEE, FOLLOWED AFTER, AND BEHELD THE SEPULCHER, AND HOW HIS BODY WAS LAID.... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 23:56

AND THEY RETURNED, AND PREPARED SPICES AND OINTMENTS; AND RESTED THE SABBATH-DAY ACCORDING TO THE COMMANDMENT. See Matthew 27:57; Mark 15:42. The hearts of the apostles failed them in this great emergency; they were hidden away behind locked doors. But other men that had been timid heretofore, boldl... [ Continue Reading ]

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