Old Testament

Leviticus 26

^26:1You shall make you no idols, neither shall you rear you up an engraved image, or a pillar, neither shall you place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it: for I am Yahweh your God. ^26:2You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am Yahweh. ^26:3If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; ^26:4then I will give your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. ^26:5Your threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the sowing time; and you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. ^26:6I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will cause evil animals to cease out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land. ^26:7You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. ^26:8Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. ^26:9I will have respect to you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you. ^26:10You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall bring forth the old because of the new. ^26:11I will set my tent among you: and my soul won't abhor you. ^26:12I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you shall be my people. ^26:13I am Yahweh your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their bondservants; and I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you go upright. ^26:14But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments; ^26:15and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhor my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant; ^26:16I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. ^26:17I will set my face against you, and you shall be struck before your enemies: those who hate you shall rule over you; and you shall flee when none pursues you. ^26:18If you will not yet for these things listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins. ^26:19I will break the pride of your power: and I will make your sky as iron, and your earth as brass; ^26:20and your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield its increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruit. ^26:21If you walk contrary to me, and won't listen to me, I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins. ^26:22I will send the animal of the field among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your ways shall become desolate. ^26:23If by these things you won't be reformed to me, but will walk contrary to me; ^26:24then will I also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins. ^26:25I will bring a sword on you, that shall execute the vengeance of the covenant; and you shall be gathered together within your cities: and I will send the pestilence among you; and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. ^26:26When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be satisfied. ^26:27If you won't for all this listen to me, but walk contrary to me; ^26:28then I will walk contrary to you in wrath; and I also will chastise you seven times for your sins. ^26:29You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall you eat. ^26:30I will destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-images, and cast your dead bodies on the bodies of your idols; and my soul shall abhor you. ^26:31I will make your cities a waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I won't smell the savor of your sweet odors. ^26:32I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein shall be astonished at it. ^26:33You will I scatter among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you: and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste. ^26:34Then shall the land enjoy its Sabbaths, as long as it lies desolate, and you are in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy its Sabbaths. ^26:35As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn't have in your Sabbaths, when you lived on it. ^26:36As for those who are left of you, I will send a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies: and the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword; and they shall fall when none pursues. ^26:37They shall stumble one on another, as it were before the sword, when none pursues: and you shall have no power to stand before your enemies. ^26:38You shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. ^26:39Those who are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them. ^26:40They shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me, ^26:41I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies: if then their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity; ^26:42then will I remember my covenant with Jacob; and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land. ^26:43The land also shall be left by them, and shall enjoy its Sabbaths, while it lies desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes. ^26:44Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God; ^26:45but I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am Yahweh. ^26:46These are the statutes and ordinances and laws, which Yahweh made between him and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai by Moses.

New Testament

Luke 23

^23:1The whole company of them rose up and brought him before Pilate. ^23:2They began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king."

^23:3Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?"

He answered him, "So you say."

^23:4Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, "I find no basis for a charge against this man."

^23:5But they insisted, saying, "He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place." ^23:6But when Pilate heard Galilee mentioned, he asked if the man was a Galilean. ^23:7When he found out that he was in Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem during those days.

^23:8Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad, for he had wanted to see him for a long time, because he had heard many things about him. He hoped to see some miracle done by him. ^23:9He questioned him with many words, but he gave no answers. ^23:10The chief priests and the scribes stood, vehemently accusing him. ^23:11Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate. ^23:12Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, for before that they were enemies with each other.

^23:13Pilate called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people, ^23:14and said to them, "You brought this man to me as one that perverts the people, and see, I have examined him before you, and found no basis for a charge against this man concerning those things of which you accuse him. ^23:15Neither has Herod, for I sent you to him, and see, nothing worthy of death has been done by him. ^23:16I will therefore chastise him and release him."

^23:17Now he had to release one prisoner to them at the feast. ^23:18But they all cried out together, saying, "Away with this man! Release to us Barabbas!" -- ^23:19one who was thrown into prison for a certain revolt in the city, and for murder.

^23:20Then Pilate spoke to them again, wanting to release Jesus, ^23:21but they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify him!"

^23:22He said to them the third time, "Why? What evil has this man done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and release him." ^23:23But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed. ^23:24Pilate decreed that what they asked for should be done. ^23:25He released him who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus up to their will.

^23:26When they led him away, they grabbed one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it after Jesus. ^23:27A great multitude of the people followed him, including women who also mourned and lamented him. ^23:28But Jesus, turning to them, said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, don't weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. ^23:29For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.' ^23:30Then they will begin to tell the mountains, 'Fall on us!' and to the hills, 'Cover us.' ^23:31For if they do these things in the green tree, what will be done in the dry?"

^23:32There were also others, two criminals, led with him to be put to death. ^23:33When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they crucified him there with the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left.

^23:34Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they don't know what they are doing."

Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots. ^23:35The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!"

^23:36The soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar, ^23:37and saying, "If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!"

^23:38An inscription was also written over him in letters of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew: "THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS."

^23:39One of the criminals who was hanged insulted him, saying, "If you are the Christ, save yourself and us!"

^23:40But the other answered, and rebuking him said, "Don't you even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation? ^23:41And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong." ^23:42He said to Jesus, "Lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom."

^23:43Jesus said to him, "Assuredly I tell you today, you will be with me in Paradise."

^23:44It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour. ^23:45The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two. ^23:46Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!" Having said this, he breathed his last.

^23:47When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, "Certainly this was a righteous man." ^23:48All the multitudes that came together to see this, when they saw the things that were done, returned home beating their breasts. ^23:49All his acquaintances, and the women who followed with him from Galilee, stood at a distance, watching these things.

^23:50Behold, a man named Joseph, who was a member of the council, a good and righteous man ^23:51(he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was also waiting for the Kingdom of God: ^23:52this man went to Pilate, and asked for Jesus' body. ^23:53He took it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb that was cut in stone, where no one had ever been laid. ^23:54It was the day of the Preparation, and the Sabbath was drawing near. ^23:55The women, who had come with him out of Galilee, followed after, and saw the tomb, and how his body was laid. ^23:56They returned, and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.