Then Jesus said to the chief priests, the officers of the temple guard, and the elders who had come out to get him, “Have you come out with swords and clubs like you would against an outlaw?

Then a slave girl, seeing him as he sat in the firelight, stared at him and said, “This man was with him too!”

Then a little later someone else saw him and said, “You are one of them too.” But Peter said, “Man, I am not!”

But Peter said, “Man, I don’t know what you’re talking about!” At that moment, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.

and said, “If you are the Christ, tell us.” But he said to them, “If I tell you, you will not believe,

But they persisted in saying, “He incites the people by teaching throughout all Judea. It started in Galilee and ended up here!”

Even Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him. Then, dressing him in elegant clothes, Herod sent him back to Pilate.

That very day Herod and Pilate became friends with each other, for prior to this they had been enemies.

A third time he said to them, “Why? What wrong has he done? I have found him guilty of no crime deserving death. I will therefore flog him and release him.”

But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

So when they came to the place that is called “The Skull,” they crucified him there, along with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left.

But the other rebuked him, saying, “Don’t you fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?

Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And after he said this he breathed his last.

Now when the centurion saw what had happened, he praised God and said, “Certainly this man was innocent!”

And all those who knew Jesus stood at a distance, and the women who had followed him from Galilee saw these things.

The women who had accompanied Jesus from Galilee followed, and they saw the tomb and how his body was laid in it.

The women were terribly frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead?

Now it was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them who told these things to the apostles.

Then some of those who were with us went to the tomb, and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see him.”

In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip was tetrarch of the region of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene,