Luke 23:26-56 ▼

26 And as they ledde hym away, they caught one Simon of Cyrene comming out of the fielde, and on hym layde they the crosse, that he myght beare it after Iesus.

27 And there folowed hym a great companie of people, and of women, which bewayled and lamented hym.

28 But Iesus turned backe vnto them, and sayde: Ye daughters of Hierusalem, wepe not for me, but wepe for your selues, and for your chyldren:

29 For beholde, the dayes wyll come, in the which they shal say : Happy are the barren, & the wombes that neuer bare, & the pappes which neuer gaue sucke.

30 Then shall they begin to say to the mountaynes, fall on vs, & to the hylles, couer vs.

31 For if they do these thinges in a greene tree, what shalbe done in the drye?

32 And there were two euyll doers, led with hym to be slayne.

33 And after that they were come to the place whiche is called Caluarie, there they crucified hym, and the euyll doers, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.

34 Then said Iesus, Father forgeue the, for they wote not what they do. And they parted his rayment, & cast lottes.

35 And the people stoode, and behelde: and the rulers mocked him with them, saying: He saued other men let hym saue him selfe, if he be very Christe the chosen of God.

36 The souldiours also mocked him, and came and offred him vineger,

37 And sayd: If thou be the kyng of the Iewes, saue thy selfe.

38 And a superscription was written ouer him, with letters of greke, and latin, and hebrue, This is the king of the Iewes.

39 And one of the euyll doers whiche were hanged, rayled on hym, saying: If thou be Christe, saue thy self and vs.

40 But the other aunswered, and rebuked hym, saying: Fearest thou not God, seing thou art in the same dampnation?

41 We are righteously punished for we receaue according to our deedes: But this man hath done nothing amisse.

42 And he sayde vnto Iesus: Lorde, remember me, when thou commest into thy kyngdome.

43 And Iesus sayde vnto hym: Ueryly I say vnto thee, to day shalt thou be with me in paradise.

44 And it was about the sixt houre: and there was a darknesse ouer al the earth vntyll the ninth houre.

45 And the sunne was darkned, and the vayle of the temple dyd rent, euen thorowe the middes.

46 And when Iesus had cryed with a loude voyce, he sayde: Father into thy handes I commende my spirite. And when he thus had sayde, he gaue vp the ghost.

47 When the Centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying: Ueryly this was a righteous man.

48 And all the people that came together to that sight, & sawe the thinges whiche were done, smote their brestes, and returned.

49 And all his acquaintaunce, and the women that folowed him from Galilee stode a farre of, beholding these thinges.

50 And beholde, there was a man named Ioseph, a councellour, and he was a good man and a iust:

51 The same had not consented to the counsell and deede of them, which was of Aramathia a citie of the Iewes, whiche same also wayted for the kyngdome of God.

52 He went vnto Pilate, and begged the body of Iesus,

53 And toke it downe, and wrapped it in a linnen cloth, and layde it in a sepulchre that was hewen in stone, wherin neuer man before was layde.

54 And that day was the preparing of the Sabbath, & the Sabbath drew on.

55 The women that folowed after, whiche had come with hym from Galilee, behelde the sepulchre, and how his body was layde.

56 And they returned, and prepared sweete odours and oyntmentes: but rested the Sabbath day, according to the commaundement.