42:023:020 Pilate therefore, willing to release Jesus,
spake again to
them.
42:023:021 But they cried, saying, Crucify him, crucify him.
42:023:022 And he said unto them the third time, Why,
what evil hath he
done?
I have found no cause of death in him: I will
therefore
chastise
him, and let him go.
42:023:023 And they were instant with loud voices,
requiring that he
might
be crucified. And the voices of them and of the
chief
priests
prevailed.
42:023:024 And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required.
42:023:025 And he released unto them him that for
sedition and murder was
cast
into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered
Jesus
to their will.
42:023:026 And as they led him away, they laid hold
upon one Simon, a
Cyrenian,
coming out of the country, and on him they laid the
cross,
that he might bear it after Jesus.
42:023:027 And there followed him a great company
of people, and of
women,
which also bewailed and lamented him.
42:023:028 But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters
of Jerusalem, weep
not
for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.
42:023:029 For, behold, the days are coming, in the
which they shall say,
Blessed
are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and
the
paps
which never gave suck.
42:023:030 Then shall they begin to say to the mountains,
Fall on us; and
to
the hills, Cover us.
42:023:031 For if they do these things in a green
tree, what shall be
done
in the dry?
42:023:032 And there were also two other, malefactors,
led with him to be
put
to death.
42:023:033 And when they were come to the place, which
is called Calvary,
there
they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the
right
hand, and the other on the left.
42:023:034 Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them;
for they know not what
they
do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.
42:023:035 And the people stood beholding. And
the rulers also with them
derided
him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself,
if
he
be Christ, the chosen of God.
42:023:036 And the soldiers also mocked him, coming
to him, and offering
him
vinegar,
42:023:037 And saying, If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.
42:023:038 And a superscription also was written over
him in letters of
Greek,
and Latin, and Hebrew, this is the king
of the Jews.
42:023:039 And one of the malefactors which were hanged
railed on him,
saying,
If thou be Christ, save thyself and us.


