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FEBRUARY 14
26 While as yet He had not made the while He was being accused by the chief
earth or the fields, priests and elders, He answered nothing.
Or the primal dust of the world. 13 Then Pilate said to Him, “Do You not hear
When He prepared the heavens, how many things they testify against You?”
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I was there, 14 But He answered him not one word, so that
When He drew a circle on the face the governor marveled greatly.
of the deep, 15 Now at the feast the governor was accus-
When He established the clouds tomed to releasing to the multitude one pris-
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above, oner whom they wished. And at that time
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When He strengthened the fountains they had a notorious prisoner called Barabbas.
of the deep, 17 Therefore, when they had gathered together,
When He assigned to the sea Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to
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its limit, release to you? Barabbas, or Jesus who is
So that the waters would not called Christ?” For he knew that they had
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transgress His command, handed Him over because of envy.
When He marked out the foundations 19 While he was sitting on the judgment seat,
of the earth, his wife sent to him, saying, “Have nothing to
Then I was beside Him as a master do with that just Man, for I have suffered many
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craftsman; things today in a dream because of Him.”
And I was daily His delight, 20 But the chief priests and elders persuaded
Rejoicing always before Him,
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Rejoicing in His inhabited world, Barabbas and destroy Jesus. The governor
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And my delight was with the answered and said to them, “Which of the two
sons of men.
do you want me to release to you?”
Matthew 27:1–26 They said, “Barabbas!”
22 Pilate said to them, “What then shall I do
When morning came, all the chief
27 priests and elders of the people plotted with Jesus who is called Christ?”
They all said to him, “Let Him be crucified!”
against Jesus to put Him to death. And when 23 Then the governor said, “Why, what evil
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they had bound Him, they led Him away and has He done?”
delivered Him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
Then Judas, His betrayer, seeing that He
3 But they cried out all the more, saying, “Let
had been condemned, was remorseful and Him be crucified!”
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When Pilate saw that he could not prevail
brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the at all, but rather that a tumult was rising, he
chief priests and elders, saying, “I have took water and washed his hands before the
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sinned by betraying innocent blood.” multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood
And they said, “What is that to us? You see
to it!” of this just Person. You see to it.”
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Then he threw down the pieces of silver in
5 And all the people answered and said, “His
the temple and departed, and went and blood be on us and on our children.”
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Then he released Barabbas to them; and
hanged himself.
6 when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered
But the chief priests took the silver pieces Him to be crucified.
and said, “It is not lawful to put them into the
treasury, because they are the price of blood.”
7 And they consulted together and bought with
them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in.
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Therefore that field has been called the Field
of Blood to this day. 27:26 scourged. The whip used for scourging
consisted of several strands of leather
9 Then was fulfilled what was spoken by
Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “And they took attached to a wooden handle.Each strand had
a bit of metal or bone attached to the end.The
the thirty pieces of silver, the value of Him victim was bound to a post by the wrists, high
who was priced, whom they of the children of over his head, so that the flesh of the back
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Israel priced, and gave them for the potter’s would be taut. An expert at wielding the
field, as the LORD directed me.” scourge could literally tear the flesh from the
11 Now Jesus stood before the governor. And back, lacerating muscles, and sometimes even
the governor asked Him, saying, “Are You the exposing the kidneys or other internal organs.
King of the Jews?” Scourging alone was fatal in some cases.
Jesus said to him, “It is as you say.” And
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