Matthew 27:41-66 ▼

41 And in like manner also the chief priests mocking, with the scribes and elders, said,

42 “He saved others; He is not able to save Himself! If He is King of Israel, let Him come down now from the cross, and we will believe Him;

43 He has trusted on God, let Him now deliver Him if He wants Him, because He said, I am [the] Son of God”;

44 with the same also the robbers, who were crucified with Him, were reproaching Him.

45 And from the sixth hour darkness came over all the land to the ninth hour,

46 and about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a great voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” That is, “My God, My God, why did You forsake Me?”

47 And certain of those standing there having heard, said, “He calls Elijah”;

48 and immediately, one of them having run, and having taken a sponge, having filled [it] with vinegar, and having put [it] on a reed, was giving Him to drink,

49 but the rest said, “Let alone, let us see if Elijah comes—about to save Him.”

50 And Jesus having again cried with a great voice, yielded the spirit;

51 and behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom, and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split,

52 and the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the holy ones who have fallen asleep, arose,

53 and having come forth out of the tombs after His rising, they went into the holy city, and appeared to many.

54 And the centurion, and those with him watching Jesus, having seen the earthquake, and the things that were done, were exceedingly afraid, saying, “Truly this was God’s Son.”

55 And there were there many women beholding from afar, who followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to Him,

56 among whom was Mary the Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and of Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

57 And evening having come, there came a rich man from Arimathea named Joseph, who also himself was discipled to Jesus,

58 he having gone near to Pilate, asked for himself the body of Jesus; then Pilate commanded the body to be given back.

59 And having taken the body, Joseph wrapped it in clean linen,

60 and laid it in his new tomb that he hewed in the rock, and having rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, he went away;

61 now Mary the Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting opposite the grave.

62 And on the next day that is after the Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered together to Pilate,

63 saying, “Lord, we have remembered that this deceiver said while yet living, After three days I rise;

64 command, then, the grave to be made secure until the third day, lest His disciples, having come by night, may steal Him away, and may say to the people, He rose from the dead, and the last deceit will be worse than the first.”

65 And Pilate said to them, “You have a guard, go away, make [it] secure—as you have known”;

66 and they, having gone, made the grave secure, having sealed the stone, together with the guard.