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Text -- Matthew 27:1-56 (NET)
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Jesus Brought Before Pilate
27:1 When it was early in the morning , all the chief priests and the elders of the people plotted against Jesus to execute him .
27:2 They tied him up , led him away , and handed him over to Pilate the governor .
Judas’ Suicide
27:3 Now when Judas , who had betrayed him , saw that Jesus had been condemned , he regretted what he had done and returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and the elders ,
27:4 saying , “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood !” But they said , “What is that to us ? You take care of it yourself!”
27:5 So Judas threw the silver coins into the temple and left . Then he went out and hanged himself .
27:6 The chief priests took the silver and said , “It is not lawful to put this into the temple treasury , since it is blood money .”
27:7 After consulting together they bought the Potter’s Field with it , as a burial place for foreigners .
27:8 For this reason that field has been called the “Field of Blood ” to this day .
27:9 Then what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled : “They took the thirty silver coins , the price of the one whose price had been set by the people of Israel ,
27:10 and they gave them for the potter’s field , as the Lord commanded me .”
Jesus and Pilate
27:11 Then Jesus stood before the governor , and the governor asked him , “Are you the king of the Jews ?” Jesus said , “You say so.”
27:12 But when he was accused by the chief priests and the elders , he did not respond .
27:13 Then Pilate said to him , “Don’t you hear how many charges they are bringing against you ?”
27:14 But he did not answer even one accusation , so that the governor was quite amazed .
27:15 During the feast the governor was accustomed to release one prisoner to the crowd , whomever they wanted .
27:16 At that time they had in custody a notorious prisoner named Jesus Barabbas .
27:17 So after they had assembled , Pilate said to them , “Whom do you want me to release for you , Jesus Barabbas or Jesus who is called the Christ ?”
27:18 (For he knew that they had handed him over because of envy .)
27:19 As he was sitting on the judgment seat , his wife sent a message to him : “Have nothing to do with that innocent man ; I have suffered greatly as a result of a dream about him today .”
27:20 But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus killed .
27:21 The governor asked them , “Which of the two do you want me to release for you ?” And they said , “Barabbas !”
27:22 Pilate said to them , “Then what should I do with Jesus who is called the Christ ?” They all said , “Crucify him!”
27:23 He asked , “Why? What wrong has he done ?” But they shouted more insistently , “Crucify him!”
Jesus is Condemned and Mocked
27:24 When Pilate saw that he could do nothing , but that instead a riot was starting , he took some water , washed his hands before the crowd and said , “I am innocent of this man’s blood . You take care of it yourselves !”
27:25 In reply all the people said , “Let his blood be on us and on our children !”
27:26 Then he released Barabbas for them . But after he had Jesus flogged , he handed him over to be crucified .
27:27 Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the governor’s residence and gathered the whole cohort around him .
27:28 They stripped him and put a scarlet robe around him ,
27:29 and after braiding a crown of thorns , they put it on his head . They put a staff in his right hand , and kneeling down before him , they mocked him : “Hail , king of the Jews !”
27:30 They spat on him and took the staff and struck him repeatedly on the head .
27:31 When they had mocked him , they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes back on him . Then they led him away to crucify him.
The Crucifixion
27:32 As they were going out , they found a man from Cyrene named Simon , whom they forced to carry his cross .
27:33 They came to a place called Golgotha (which means “Place of the Skull ”)
27:34 and offered Jesus wine mixed with gall to drink . But after tasting it, he would not drink it.
27:35 When they had crucified him , they divided his clothes by throwing dice .
27:36 Then they sat down and kept guard over him there .
27:37 Above his head they put the charge against him , which read : “This is Jesus , the king of the Jews .”
27:38 Then two outlaws were crucified with him , one on his right and one on his left .
27:39 Those who passed by defamed him , shaking their heads
27:40 and saying , “You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days , save yourself ! If you are God’s Son , come down from the cross !”
27:41 In the same way even the chief priests – together with the experts in the law and elders – were mocking him:
27:42 “He saved others , but he cannot cannot save himself ! He is the king of Israel ! If he comes down now from the cross , we will believe in him !
27:43 He trusts in God – let God, if he wants to, deliver him now because he said , ‘I am God’s Son ’!”
27:44 The robbers who were crucified with him also spoke abusively to him .
Jesus’ Death
27:45 Now from noon until three , darkness came over all the land .
27:46 At about three o’clock Jesus shouted with a loud voice , “Eli , Eli , lema sabachthani ?” that is , “My God , my God , why have you forsaken me ?”
27:47 When some of the bystanders heard it, they said , “This man is calling for Elijah .”
27:48 Immediately one of them ran and got a sponge , filled it with sour wine , put it on a stick , and gave it to him to drink.
27:49 But the rest said , “Leave him alone! Let’s see if Elijah will come to save him .”
27:50 Then Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and gave up his spirit .
27:51 Just then the temple curtain was torn in two , from top to bottom . The earth shook and the rocks were split apart .
27:52 And tombs were opened , and the bodies of many saints who had died were raised .
27:53 (They came out of the tombs after his resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people.)
27:54 Now when the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and what took place , they were extremely terrified and said , “Truly this one was God’s Son !”
27:55 Many women who had followed Jesus from Galilee and given him support were also there , watching from a distance .
27:56 Among them were Mary Magdalene , Mary the mother of James and Joseph , and the mother of the sons of Zebedee .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Pilate, Pontius |
Prayer |
Prisoners |
Month |
Homicide |
JESUS CHRIST, 4E2 |
Jesus, The Christ |
Barabbas |
PILATE; PONTIUS |
Death |
Rulers |
Judge |
JUDAS ISCARIOT |
Persecution |
Soldiers |
Mocking |
Demagogism |
Complicity |
Judas |
EARTHQUAKE |
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NET Notes -> Mat 27:1; Mat 27:2; Mat 27:2; Mat 27:2; Mat 27:3; Mat 27:3; Mat 27:5; Mat 27:6; Mat 27:7; Mat 27:9; Mat 27:9; Mat 27:10; Mat 27:11; Mat 27:11; Mat 27:11; Mat 27:11; Mat 27:11; Mat 27:15; Mat 27:16; Mat 27:17; Mat 27:17; Mat 27:17; Mat 27:18; Mat 27:19; Mat 27:19; Mat 27:19; Mat 27:19; Mat 27:19; Mat 27:19; Mat 27:19; Mat 27:21; Mat 27:22; Mat 27:22; Mat 27:22; Mat 27:22; Mat 27:24; Mat 27:24; Mat 27:25; Mat 27:26; Mat 27:26; Mat 27:26; Mat 27:26; Mat 27:27; Mat 27:27; Mat 27:27; Mat 27:28; Mat 27:28; Mat 27:29; Mat 27:29; Mat 27:29; Mat 27:29; Mat 27:29; Mat 27:29; Mat 27:29; Mat 27:30; Mat 27:30; Mat 27:30; Mat 27:31; Mat 27:31; Mat 27:32; Mat 27:32; Mat 27:32; Mat 27:33; Mat 27:33; Mat 27:33; Mat 27:34; Mat 27:34; Mat 27:35; Mat 27:35; Mat 27:35; Mat 27:35; Mat 27:37; Mat 27:37; Mat 27:37; Mat 27:39; Mat 27:40; Mat 27:40; Mat 27:41; Mat 27:41; Mat 27:41; Mat 27:41; Mat 27:42; Mat 27:43; Mat 27:44; Mat 27:44; Mat 27:45; Mat 27:45; Mat 27:46; Mat 27:46; Mat 27:46; Mat 27:47; Mat 27:48; Mat 27:48; Mat 27:48; Mat 27:49; Mat 27:51; Mat 27:51; Mat 27:51; Mat 27:52; Mat 27:53; Mat 27:54; Mat 27:55; Mat 27:55; Mat 27:55
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NET Notes: Mat 27:2 The Jews most assuredly wanted to put Jesus to death, but they lacked the authority to do so. For this reason they handed him over to Pilate in hopes ...
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NET Notes: Mat 27:3 Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
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NET Notes: Mat 27:5 Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of the leaders’ response to Judas.
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NET Notes: Mat 27:9 Grk “the sons of Israel,” an idiom referring to the people of Israel as an ethnic entity (L&N 11.58).
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NET Notes: Mat 27:10 The source of this citation is debated (see the tc note on Jeremiah in v. 9 above for a related discussion). The quotation is most closely related to ...
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NET Notes: Mat 27:11 The reply “You say so” is somewhat enigmatic, like Jesus’ earlier reply to the Jewish leadership in 26:64.
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NET Notes: Mat 27:15 The custom of Pilate to release one prisoner is unknown outside the gospels in Jewish writings, but it was a Roman custom at the time and thus probabl...
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NET Notes: Mat 27:16 Although the external evidence for the inclusion of “Jesus” before “Barabbas” (in vv. 16 and 17) is rather sparse, being restr...
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NET Notes: Mat 27:19 Or “suffered greatly in a dream.” See the discussion on the construction κατ᾿ ὄναρ (kat’ o...
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NET Notes: Mat 27:21 Grk “answering, the governor said to them.” This construction is somewhat redundant in English and has been simplified in the translation....
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NET Notes: Mat 27:24 You take care of it yourselves! Compare the response of the chief priests and elders to Judas in 27:4. The expression is identical except that in 27:4...
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NET Notes: Mat 27:25 Grk “answering, all the people said.” This construction is somewhat redundant in English and has been simplified in the translation.
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NET Notes: Mat 27:28 The scarlet robe probably refers to a military garment which had the color of royal purple, and thus resembled a king’s robe. The soldiers did t...
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NET Notes: Mat 27:29 The statement Hail, King of the Jews! is a mockery patterned after the Romans’ cry of Ave, Caesar (“Hail, Caesar!”).
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NET Notes: Mat 27:31 Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
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NET Notes: Mat 27:32 Jesus was beaten severely with a whip before this (the prelude to crucifixion, known to the Romans as verberatio, mentioned in Matt 27:26; Mark 15:15;...
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NET Notes: Mat 27:33 A place called Golgotha (which means “Place of the Skull”). This location is north and just outside of Jerusalem. The hill on which it is ...
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NET Notes: Mat 27:34 It is difficult to say for certain who gave Jesus this drink of wine mixed with gall (e.g., the executioner, or perhaps women from Jerusalem). In any ...
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NET Notes: Mat 27:40 ‡ Many important witnesses (א* A D pc it sy[s],p) read καί (kai, here with the force of “then”) before κ...
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NET Notes: Mat 27:42 Here the aorist imperative καταβάτω (katabatw) has been translated as a conditional imperative. This fits the ...
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NET Notes: Mat 27:44 Matthew’s wording suggests that both of the criminals spoke abusively to him. If so, one of them quickly changed his attitude toward Jesus (see ...
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NET Notes: Mat 27:45 This imagery has parallels to the Day of the Lord: Joel 2:10; Amos 8:9; Zeph 1:15.
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NET Notes: Mat 27:49 Early and important mss (א B C L Γ pc) have another sentence at the end of this verse: “And another [soldier] took a spear and pierce...
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NET Notes: Mat 27:52 The verb κοιμάω (koimaw) literally means “sleep,” but it is often used in the Bible as a euphemism for the d...
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