March 24

Old Testament

Numbers 29-30

29:1In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing of trumpets to you. 29:2You shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savor to Yahweh: one young bull, one ram, seven he-lambs a year old without blemish; 29:3and their meal-offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for the bull, two tenth parts for the ram, 29:4and one tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs; 29:5and one male goat for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you; 29:6besides the burnt offering of the new moon, and the meal-offering of it, and the continual burnt offering and the meal-offering of it, and their drink-offerings, according to their ordinance, for a sweet savor, an offering made by fire to Yahweh. 29:7On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation; and you shall afflict your souls: you shall do no manner of work; 29:8but you shall offer a burnt offering to Yahweh for a sweet savor: one young bull, one ram, seven he-lambs a year old; they shall be to you without blemish; 29:9and their meal-offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for the bull, two tenth parts for the one ram, 29:10a tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs: 29:11one male goat for a sin-offering; besides the sin-offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and the meal-offering of it, and their drink-offerings. 29:12On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no servile work, and you shall keep a feast to Yahweh seven days: 29:13and you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh; thirteen young bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old; they shall be without blemish; 29:14and their meal-offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for every bull of the thirteen bulls, two tenth parts for each ram of the two rams, 29:15and a tenth part for every lamb of the fourteen lambs; 29:16and one male goat for a sin-offering, besides the continual burnt offering, the meal-offering of it, and the drink-offering of it. 29:17On the second day you shall offer twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish; 29:18and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; 29:19and one male goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal-offering of it, and their drink-offerings. 29:20On the third day eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish; 29:21and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; 29:22and one male goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal-offering of it, and the drink-offering of it. 29:23On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish; 29:24their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; 29:25and one male goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt offering, the meal-offering of it, and the drink- offering of it. 29:26On the fifth day nine bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish; 29:27and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; 29:28and one male goat for a sin-offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal-offering of it, and the drink-offering of it. 29:29On the sixth day eight bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish; 29:30and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; 29:31and one male goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt offering, the meal-offering of it, and the drink-offerings of it. 29:32On the seventh day seven bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish; 29:33and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; 29:34and one male goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt offering, the meal-offering of it, and the drink-offering of it. 29:35On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly: you shall do no servile work; 29:36but you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh: one bull, one ram, seven he-lambs a year old without blemish; 29:37their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the ordinance: 29:38and one male goat for a sin-offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal-offering of it, and the drink-offering of it. 29:39These you shall offer to Yahweh in your set feasts, besides your vows, and your freewill-offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meal-offerings, and for your drink-offerings, and for your peace-offerings. 29:40Moses told the children of Israel according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses.

30:1Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded. 30:2When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth. 30:3Also when a woman vows a vow to Yahweh, and binds herself by a bond, being in her father's house, in her youth, 30:4and her father hears her vow, and her bond with which she has bound her soul, and her father holds his peace at her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she has bound her soul shall stand. 30:5But if her father disallow her in the day that he hears, none of her vows, or of her bonds with which she has bound her soul, shall stand: and Yahweh will forgive her, because her father disallowed her. 30:6If she be married to a husband, while her vows are on her, or the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul, 30:7and her husband hear it, and hold his peace at her in the day that he hears it; then her vows shall stand, and her bonds with which she has bound her soul shall stand. 30:8But if her husband disallow her in the day that he hears it, then he shall make void her vow which is on her, and the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul: and Yahweh will forgive her. 30:9But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, even everything with which she has bound her soul, shall stand against her. 30:10If she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath, 30:11and her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and didn't disallow her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she bound her soul shall stand. 30:12But if her husband made them null and void in the day that he heard them, then whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband has made them void; and Yahweh will forgive her. 30:13Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void. 30:14But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows, or all her bonds, which are on her: he has established them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them. 30:15But if he shall make them null and void after that he has heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity. 30:16These are the statutes, which Yahweh commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her father's house.

 

New Testament

John 19

19:1So Pilate then took Jesus, and flogged him. 19:2The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown, and put it on his head, and dressed him in a purple garment. 19:3They kept saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and they kept slapping him.

19:4Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, "Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him."

19:5Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, "Behold, the man!"

19:6When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify!"

Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him."

19:7The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God."

19:8When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid. 19:9He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, "Where are you from?" But Jesus gave him no answer. 19:10Pilate therefore said to him, "Aren't you speaking to me? Don't you know that I have power to release you, and have power to crucify you?"

19:11Jesus answered, "You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin."

19:12At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, "If you release this man, you aren't Caesar's friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!"

19:13When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called "The Pavement," but in Hebrew, "Gabbatha." 19:14Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, "Behold, your King!"

19:15They cried out, "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!"

Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?"

The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar!"

19:16So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away. 19:17He went out, bearing his cross, to the place called "The Place of a Skull," which is called in Hebrew, "Golgotha," 19:18where they crucified him, and with him two others, on either side one, and Jesus in the middle. 19:19Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, "JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS." 19:20Therefore many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek. 19:21The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, "Don't write, 'The King of the Jews,' but, 'he said, I am King of the Jews.'"

19:22Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."

19:23Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. 19:24Then they said to one another, "Let's not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide whose it will be," that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says,

 "They parted my garments among them.
      For my cloak they cast lots."

Therefore the soldiers did these things. 19:25But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 19:26Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold your son!" 19:27Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.

19:28After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, "I am thirsty." 19:29Now a vessel full of vinegar was set there; so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop, and held it at his mouth. 19:30When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, "It is finished." He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.

19:31Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn't remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. 19:32Therefore the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with him; 19:33but when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was already dead, they didn't break his legs. 19:34However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out. 19:35He who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe. 19:36For these things happened, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, "A bone of him will not be broken." 19:37Again another Scripture says, "They will look on him whom they pierced."

19:38After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away Jesus' body. Pilate gave him permission. He came therefore and took away his body. 19:39Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds. 19:40So they took Jesus' body, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury. 19:41Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden. In the garden a new tomb in which no man had ever yet been laid. 19:42Then because of the Jews' Preparation Day (for the tomb was near at hand) they laid Jesus there.