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         <div class="label">23</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LUK.23.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">AND the whole multitude of them rising up, led him to Pilate.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LUK.23.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LUK.23.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And they began to accuse him, saying: We have found this man perverting our nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he is Christ the king.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LUK.23.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.23.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And Pilate asked him, saying: Art thou the king of the Jews? But he answering, said: Thou sayest it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.23.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.23.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">And Pilate said to the chief priests and to the multitudes: I find no cause in this man.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.23.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.23.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But they were more earnest, saying: He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee to this place.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.23.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.23.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But Pilate hearing Galilee, asked if the man were of Galilee?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.23.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.23.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">And when he understood that he was of Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him away to Herod, who was also himself at Jerusalem, in those days.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.23.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LUK.23.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">And Herod, seeing Jesus, was very glad; for he was desirous of a long time to see him, because he had heard many things of him; and he hoped to see some sign wrought by him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LUK.23.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LUK.23.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">And he questioned him in many words. But he answered him nothing.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LUK.23.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.23.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And the chief priests and the scribes stood by, earnestly accusing him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.23.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LUK.23.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And Herod with his army set him at nought, and mocked him, putting on him a white garment, and sent him back to Pilate.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LUK.23.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LUK.23.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">And Herod and Pilate were made friends, that same day; for before they were enemies one to another.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LUK.23.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.23.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And Pilate, calling together the chief priests, and the magistrates, and the people,</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.23.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.23.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Said to them: You have presented unto me this man, as one that perverteth the people; and behold I, having examined him before you, find no cause in this man, in those things wherein you accuse him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.23.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.23.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">No, nor Herod neither. For I sent you to him, and behold, nothing worthy of death is done to him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.23.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.23.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I will chastise him therefore, and release him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.23.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.23.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Now of necessity he was to release unto them one upon the feast day.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.23.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.23.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But the whole multitude together cried out, saying: Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas:</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.23.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.23.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Who, for a certain sedition made in the city, and for a murder, was cast into prison.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.23.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.23.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">And Pilate again spoke to them, desiring to release Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.23.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.23.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">But they cried again, saying: Crucify him, crucify him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.23.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.23.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">And he said to them the third time: Why, what evil hath this man done? I find no cause of death in him. I will chastise him therefore, and let him go.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.23.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.23.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified; and their voices prevailed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.23.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LUK.23.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LUK.23.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.23.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">And he released unto them him who for murder and sedition, had been cast into prison, whom they had desired; but Jesus he delivered up to their will.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.23.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LUK.23.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">And as they led him away, they laid hold of one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country; and they laid the cross on him to carry after Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LUK.23.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.23.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">And there followed him a great multitude of people, and of women, who bewailed and lamented him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.23.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LUK.23.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">But Jesus turning to them, said: Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not over me; but weep for yourselves, and for your children.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LUK.23.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LUK.23.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">For behold, the days shall come, wherein they will say: Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that have not borne, and the paps that have not given suck.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LUK.23.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.23.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Then shall they begin to say to the mountains: Fall upon us; and to the hills: Cover us.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.23.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LUK.23.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">For if in the green wood they do these things, what shall be done in the dry?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LUK.23.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LUK.23.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">And there were also two other malefactors led with him to be put to death.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LUK.23.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LUK.23.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">And when they were come to the place which is called Calvary, they crucified him there; and the robbers, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LUK.23.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LUK.23.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">And Jesus said: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. But they, dividing his garments, cast lots.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LUK.23.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LUK.23.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">And the people stood beholding, and the rulers with them derided him, saying: He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the elect of God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LUK.23.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LUK.23.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar,</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LUK.23.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LUK.23.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">And saying: If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LUK.23.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="LUK.23.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">And there was also a superscription written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew: THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="LUK.23.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="LUK.23.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">And one of those robbers who were hanged, blasphemed him, saying: If thou be Christ, save thyself and us.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="LUK.23.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="LUK.23.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">But the other answering, rebuked him, saying: Neither dost thou fear God, seeing thou art condemned under the same condemnation?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="LUK.23.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="LUK.23.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds; but this man hath done no evil.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="LUK.23.41"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="LUK.23.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">And he said to Jesus: Lord, remember me when thou shalt come into thy kingdom.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="LUK.23.42"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="LUK.23.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">And Jesus said to him: Amen I say to thee, this day thou shalt be with me in paradise.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="LUK.23.43"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="LUK.23.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">And it was almost the sixth hour; and there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="LUK.23.44"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="LUK.23.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="LUK.23.45"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="LUK.23.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">And Jesus crying out with a loud voice, said: Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. And saying this, he gave up the ghost.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="LUK.23.46"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="LUK.23.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">Now the centurion, seeing what was done, glorified God, saying: Indeed this was a just man.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="LUK.23.47"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="LUK.23.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">And all the multitude of them that were come together to that sight, and saw the things that were done, returned striking their breasts.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="LUK.23.48"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="LUK.23.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">And all his acquaintance, and the women that had followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="LUK.23.49"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="LUK.23.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">And behold there was a man named Joseph, who was a counsellor, a good and just man,</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="LUK.23.50"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="LUK.23.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content">(The same had not consented to their counsel and doings;) of Arimathea, a city of Judea; who also himself looked for the kingdom of God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="LUK.23.51"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="LUK.23.52"><span class="label">52</span><span class="content">This man went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="LUK.23.52"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="LUK.23.53"><span class="label">53</span><span class="content">And taking him down, he wrapped him in fine linen, and laid him in a sepulchre that was hewed in stone, wherein never yet any man had been laid.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="LUK.23.53"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="LUK.23.54"><span class="label">54</span><span class="content">And it was the day of the Parasceve, and the sabbath drew on.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="LUK.23.54"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="LUK.23.55"><span class="label">55</span><span class="content">And the women that were come with him from Galilee, following after, saw the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="LUK.23.55"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="LUK.23.56"><span class="label">56</span><span class="content">And returning, they prepared spices and ointments; and on the sabbath day they rested, according to the commandment.</span></span></div>
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An historical text. In 1955 the Douay-Rheims Challoner Bible received the Imprimatur ✠ of the English Catholic Church from the Archbishop of Westminster.

AND the whole multitude of them rising up, led him to Pilate.
And they began to accuse him, saying: We have found this man perverting our nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he is Christ the king.
And Pilate asked him, saying: Art thou the king of the Jews? But he answering, said: Thou sayest it.
And Pilate said to the chief priests and to the multitudes: I find no cause in this man.
But they were more earnest, saying: He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee to this place.
But Pilate hearing Galilee, asked if the man were of Galilee?
And when he understood that he was of Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him away to Herod, who was also himself at Jerusalem, in those days.
And Herod, seeing Jesus, was very glad; for he was desirous of a long time to see him, because he had heard many things of him; and he hoped to see some sign wrought by him.
And he questioned him in many words. But he answered him nothing.
And the chief priests and the scribes stood by, earnestly accusing him.
And Herod with his army set him at nought, and mocked him, putting on him a white garment, and sent him back to Pilate.
And Herod and Pilate were made friends, that same day; for before they were enemies one to another.
And Pilate, calling together the chief priests, and the magistrates, and the people,
Said to them: You have presented unto me this man, as one that perverteth the people; and behold I, having examined him before you, find no cause in this man, in those things wherein you accuse him.
No, nor Herod neither. For I sent you to him, and behold, nothing worthy of death is done to him.
I will chastise him therefore, and release him.
Now of necessity he was to release unto them one upon the feast day.
But the whole multitude together cried out, saying: Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas:
Who, for a certain sedition made in the city, and for a murder, was cast into prison.
And Pilate again spoke to them, desiring to release Jesus.
But they cried again, saying: Crucify him, crucify him.
And he said to them the third time: Why, what evil hath this man done? I find no cause of death in him. I will chastise him therefore, and let him go.
But they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified; and their voices prevailed.
And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required.
And he released unto them him who for murder and sedition, had been cast into prison, whom they had desired; but Jesus he delivered up to their will.
And as they led him away, they laid hold of one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country; and they laid the cross on him to carry after Jesus.
And there followed him a great multitude of people, and of women, who bewailed and lamented him.
But Jesus turning to them, said: Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not over me; but weep for yourselves, and for your children.
For behold, the days shall come, wherein they will say: Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that have not borne, and the paps that have not given suck.
Then shall they begin to say to the mountains: Fall upon us; and to the hills: Cover us.
For if in the green wood they do these things, what shall be done in the dry?
And there were also two other malefactors led with him to be put to death.
And when they were come to the place which is called Calvary, they crucified him there; and the robbers, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.
And Jesus said: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. But they, dividing his garments, cast lots.
And the people stood beholding, and the rulers with them derided him, saying: He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the elect of God.
And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar,
And saying: If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.
And there was also a superscription written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew: THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
And one of those robbers who were hanged, blasphemed him, saying: If thou be Christ, save thyself and us.
But the other answering, rebuked him, saying: Neither dost thou fear God, seeing thou art condemned under the same condemnation?
And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds; but this man hath done no evil.
And he said to Jesus: Lord, remember me when thou shalt come into thy kingdom.
And Jesus said to him: Amen I say to thee, this day thou shalt be with me in paradise.
And it was almost the sixth hour; and there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.
And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.
And Jesus crying out with a loud voice, said: Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. And saying this, he gave up the ghost.
Now the centurion, seeing what was done, glorified God, saying: Indeed this was a just man.
And all the multitude of them that were come together to that sight, and saw the things that were done, returned striking their breasts.
And all his acquaintance, and the women that had followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things.
And behold there was a man named Joseph, who was a counsellor, a good and just man,
(The same had not consented to their counsel and doings;) of Arimathea, a city of Judea; who also himself looked for the kingdom of God.
This man went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.
And taking him down, he wrapped him in fine linen, and laid him in a sepulchre that was hewed in stone, wherein never yet any man had been laid.
And it was the day of the Parasceve, and the sabbath drew on.
And the women that were come with him from Galilee, following after, saw the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.
And returning, they prepared spices and ointments; and on the sabbath day they rested, according to the commandment.

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