Then Jesus said to them, “When I sent you out with no money bag, or traveler’s bag, or sandals, you didn’t lack anything, did you?” They replied, “Nothing.”

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?

So they all said, “Are you the Son of God, then?” He answered them, “You say that I am.”

So Pilate asked Jesus, “Are you the king of the Jews?” He replied, “You say so.”

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.

For this is certain: The days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that never nursed!’

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 the crowds that had assembled for this spectacle, when they saw what had taken place, returned home beating their breasts.

(He had not consented to their plan and action.) He was from the Judean town of Arimathea, and was looking forward to the kingdom of God.

While they were perplexed about this, suddenly two men stood beside them in dazzling attire.

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

So they got up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem. They found the eleven and those with them gathered together

John said, “I am the voice of one shouting in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way for the Lord,’ as Isaiah the prophet said.”

John answered them, “I baptize with water. Among you stands one whom you do not recognize,

This is the one about whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is greater than I am, because he existed before me.’

He first found his own brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is translated Christ).