Then<n id="1" /> Jesus said to the chief priests, the officers of the temple guard,<n id="2" /> and the elders who had come out to get him, &#8220;Have you come out with swords and clubs like you would against an outlaw?<n id="3" />

Then a slave girl,<n id="1" /> seeing him as he sat in the firelight, stared at him and said, &#8220;This man was with him too!&#8221;

Then<n id="1" /> a little later someone else<n id="2" /> saw him and said, &#8220;You are one of them too.&#8221; But Peter said, &#8220;Man,<n id="3" /> I am not!&#8221;

But Peter said, &#8220;Man, I don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;re talking about!&#8221; At that moment,<n id="1" /> while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.<n id="2" />

and said, &#8220;If<n id="1" /> you are the Christ,<n id="2" /> tell us.&#8221; But he said to them, &#8220;If<n id="3" /> I tell you, you will not<n id="4" /> believe,

But they persisted<n id="1" /> in saying, &#8220;He incites<n id="2" /> the people by teaching throughout all Judea. It started in Galilee and ended up here!&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

Even Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him. Then,<n id="1" /> dressing him in elegant clothes,<n id="2" /> Herod<n id="3" /> sent him back to Pilate.

That very day Herod and Pilate became friends with each other,<n id="1" /> for prior to this they had been enemies.<n id="2" />p>

A third time he said to them, &#8220;Why? What wrong has he done? I have found him guilty<n id="1" /> of no crime deserving death.<n id="2" /> I will therefore flog<n id="3" /> him and release him.&#8221;

But Jesus turned to them and said, &#8220;Daughters of Jerusalem,<n id="1" /> do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves<n id="2" /> and for your children.

So<n id="1" /> when they came to the place that is called &#8220;The Skull,&#8221;<n id="2" /> they crucified<n id="3" /> him there, along with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left.

But the other rebuked him, saying,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Don&#8217;t<n id="2" /> you fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?<n id="3" />

Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, &#8220;Father, <b><i>into your hands I commit my spirit!i>b>&#8221;<n id="1" /> And after he said this he breathed his last.p>

<p class="bodytext">Now when the centurion<n id="1" /> saw what had happened, he praised God and said, &#8220;Certainly this man was innocent!&#8221;<n id="2" />

And all those who knew Jesus<n id="1" /> stood at a distance, and the women who had followed him from Galilee saw<n id="2" /> these things.p>

The<n id="1" /> women who had accompanied Jesus<n id="2" /> from Galilee followed, and they saw the tomb and how his body was laid in it.

The<n id="1" /> women<n id="2" /> were terribly frightened<n id="3" /> and bowed<n id="4" /> their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, &#8220;Why do you look for the living<n id="5" /> among the dead?

Now it was Mary Magdalene,<n id="1" /> Joanna,<n id="2" /> Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them who told these things to the apostles.

Then<n id="1" /> 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.&#8221;<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar,<n id="1" /> when Pontius Pilate<n id="2" /> was governor of Judea, and Herod<n id="3" /> was tetrarch<n id="4" /> of Galilee, and his brother Philip<n id="5" /> was tetrarch of the region of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias<n id="6" /> was tetrarch of Abilene,