Luke 23:39-56 ▼

39 One of the criminals who hung there insulted him, saying, |Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us.|

40 But the other answered, and rebuking him said, |Do you not even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation?

41 And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong.|

42 And he said, |Jesus, remember me when you come into your Kingdom.|

43 And he said to him, |Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.|

44 And it was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon,

45 for the sun's light failed. And the veil of the temple was torn in two.

46 And Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, |Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.| Having said this, he breathed his last.

47 When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, |Certainly this was a righteous man.|

48 All the crowds that came together to see this, when they saw the things that were done, returned home beating their breasts.

49 All his acquaintances, and the women who followed with him from Galilee, stood at a distance, watching these things.

50 And look, a man named Joseph, who was a member of the council, a good and righteous man

51 (he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Judeans, who was also waiting for the Kingdom of God:

52 this man went to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus.

53 He took it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and placed him in a tomb that was cut in stone, where no one had ever been placed.

54 It was the day of the Preparation, and the Sabbath was drawing near.

55 The women, who had come with him out of Galilee, followed after, and saw the tomb, and how his body was placed.

56 They returned, and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.