Luke 23:39-56 ▼

39 Now one of the criminals hanging there kept insulting him, |You are the Messiah, aren't you? Save yourself...and us!|

40 But the other criminal rebuked him, |Aren't you afraid of God, since you are suffering the same penalty?

41 We have been condemned justly, because we are getting what we deserve for what we have done, but this man has done nothing wrong.|

42 Then he went on to plead, |Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom!|

43 Jesus told him, |I tell you with certainty, today you will be with me in Paradise.|

44 It was already about noon, and the whole land became dark until three in the afternoon

45 because the sun had stopped shining, and the curtain in the sanctuary was torn in two.

46 Then Jesus cried out with a loud voice and said, |Father, into your hands I entrust my spirit.| After he said this, he breathed his last.

47 When the centurion saw what had taken place, he praised God and said, |This man certainly was righteous!|

48 When all the crowds who had come together for this spectacle saw what had taken place, they beat their chests and left.

49 But all his acquaintances, including the women who had followed him from Galilee, were standing at a distance watching these things.

50 Now there was a man named Joseph, a member of the Council, a good and righteous man—

51 he had not voted for their plan and action—from the Jewish town of Arimathea; and he was waiting for the kingdom of God.

52 He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.

53 Then he took it down, wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid it in a tomb cut in the rock, in which no one had yet been laid.

54 It was the Preparation Day, and the Sabbath was just beginning.

55 So the women who had come with Jesus from Galilee, following close behind, saw the tomb and how his body was laid.

56 Then they went back and prepared spices and perfumes, and on the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.