¹And the soldiers led Him away within the courtyard, that is, the  ²praetorium, and called together the whole cohort.

And they clothed Him in  ¹purple and wove a thorny crown and put it  ²around His head.

And they began to salute Him:  ¹Rejoice, King of the Jews!

And they beat His head with a reed and spat at Him. And kneeling down, they bowed before Him.

And when they had mocked Him, they stripped Him of the purple and put His garments on Him. And they led Him out to crucify Him.

 ¹And they compelled a certain passerby coming from the country, Simon a Cyrenian, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to take up His cross.

And they brought Him to the place Golgotha, which is interpreted, the Place of a Skull.

And they  ¹tried to give Him wine mixed with myrrh, but He did not take it.

And they crucified Him and divided His garments, casting lots for them to see what each should take.

Now it was the  ¹third hour and they crucified Him.

And there was an inscription of the charge against Him inscribed: The King Of The JEWS.

And with Him they crucified two robbers, one on His right and one on His left.

 ¹And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “And He was counted with the lawless.”

And those who were passing by blasphemed Him, wagging their heads and saying, Aha!  ¹You who destroy the temple and build it in three days,

 ¹Save Yourself and come down from the cross!

Likewise also the chief priests with the scribes mocked Him with one another and said, He saved others; Himself He cannot save.

Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross that we may see and believe. Those who were crucified with Him also reproached Him.

And when the  ¹sixth hour came, darkness fell over the whole land until the  ²ninth hour.

And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice,  ¹Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is interpreted, My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?

And some of those standing by heard this and said, Behold, He is calling for Elijah.

And someone ran and filled a sponge with vinegar, and putting it on a reed, gave it to Him to drink, saying, Let Him be. Let us see if Elijah is coming to take Him down.

And Jesus let out a loud cry and expired.

And the veil of the temple was split in two from top to bottom.

And the centurion standing by opposite Him, seeing that He expired in this way, said, Truly this man was the Son of God.

And there were also some women looking on from a distance, among whom were Mary the Magdalene, and  ¹Mary the mother of the  ²younger James and of Joses, and  ³Salome,

Who, when He was in Galilee, followed Him and ministered to Him, as well as many other women who came up with Him to Jerusalem.

And when  ¹evening had fallen, since it was the day of preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath,

Joseph,  ¹the honorable member of the Council, from Arimathea, who was also himself awaiting the kingdom of God, came; and gathering courage, he went in to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.

And Pilate marveled that He had already died, and calling to him the centurion, he questioned him whether He had been dead long.

And when he found out from the centurion, he granted the corpse to Joseph.

And Joseph purchased a piece of fine linen, took Him down, and wrapped Him in the fine linen. And he  ¹laid Him in a tomb which was hewn out of rock and rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.

And Mary the Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where He was laid.

 ¹These are the words which  ²Moses spoke to all Israel across the Jordan in the wilderness, in the  ³Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

It is eleven days' journey from  ¹Horeb to Kadesh-barnea by the way that leads to Mount Seir.

And in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that Jehovah had commanded him for them,

After he had slain  ¹Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and  ¹Og the king of Bashan, who dwelt in Ashtaroth and in Edrei.

Across the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses set himself to expound this law, saying,

 ¹Jehovah our God spoke to us at Horeb, saying, You have dwelt long enough at this mountain.

Turn and set out, and go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all their neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the hill country and in the lowland, and in the  ¹Negev and by the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

See, I have set the land before you; go in and possess the land which Jehovah swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to them and to their seed after them.

And I spoke to you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you alone.

Jehovah your God has multiplied you, and now today you are as the stars of heaven in multitude.

Jehovah, the God of your fathers, add to you a thousandfold ones like you and bless you as He has promised you!

How can I alone bear the trouble and burden of you and your strife?

Choose for yourselves men who are wise and prudent and well-attested, according to your tribes, and I will make them your leaders.

And you answered me and said, The thing that you have said to do is good.

So I took the leaders of your tribes, men who were wise and well-attested, and I made them leaders over you, captains over thousands and captains over hundreds and captains over fifties and captains over tens and officials for your tribes.

And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the cases between your brothers, and  ¹judge righteously between a man and his brother or the sojourner with him.

You shall not respect persons in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not fear the face of man, for judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me; and I will hear it.

And I commanded you at that time all the things that you should do.

And we set out from Horeb, and we went through all that great and awesome wilderness, which you saw, on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as Jehovah our God commanded us; and we came to  ¹Kadesh-barnea.

And I said to you, You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which Jehovah our God is giving us.

See, Jehovah your God has set the land before you; go up, possess it, as Jehovah the God of your fathers has spoken to you. Do not fear, neither be dismayed.

Then all of you came near to me and said, Let us send men before us that they may search out the land for us and bring back to us word concerning the way by which we should go up and the cities into which we should go.

And the thing pleased me, so I took twelve men from among you, one for each tribe.

And they turned and went up into the hill country, and they came to the Valley of Eshcol; and they spied out  ¹the land.

And in their hands they took some of the fruit of the land, and they brought it down to us. And they brought word back to us and said, It is a good land which Jehovah our God is giving us.

Yet you would not go up. Rather you rebelled against the word of Jehovah your God;

And you murmured in your tents and said, Because Jehovah hates us, He has brought us out from the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites in order to destroy us.

Where shall we go up? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying, The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are big and fortified up to heaven; and furthermore we have seen the children of the Anakim there.

Then I said to you, Do not be terrified, neither be afraid of them.

Jehovah your God, who goes before you, He will fight for you according to all that He did for you in Egypt before your eyes,

And in the wilderness, where you have seen that Jehovah your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.

Yet in spite of this word you did not believe in Jehovah your God,

Who went before you in the way, to seek out for you a place for you to camp, in the fire by night to show you by which way you should go and in the cloud by day.

And Jehovah heard the voice of your words, and He became furious and swore, saying,

Not one of these men, this evil generation, shall by any means see the good land which I have sworn to give to your fathers,

Except Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it. And to him I will give the land on which he has trodden, and to his children, because he has fully followed Jehovah.

With me also Jehovah was angry on your account, saying, You also shall not enter there;

Joshua the son of Nun, who attends to you, he shall enter there. Strengthen him, for it is he who will cause Israel to inherit it.

Moreover your little ones, who you said would be prey, and your children, who this day do not know good and evil, they shall enter there. And to them I will give it, and they will possess it.

But as for you, turn and set out into the wilderness by the way that leads to the Red Sea.

Then you answered and said to me, We have sinned against Jehovah; we ourselves will go up and fight according to all that Jehovah our God has commanded us. And you girded yourselves, every man with his weapons of war, and thought it a light thing to go up to the hill country.

And Jehovah said to me, Say to them, You shall not go up and fight, for I am not among you, so that you are not struck down before your enemies.

So I spoke to you, but you did not listen; rather, you rebelled against the word of Jehovah and went up presumptuously to the hill country.

And the Amorites who dwell in that hill country came out against you and chased you as bees do; and they beat you back in Seir as far as Hormah.

And you returned and wept before Jehovah; but Jehovah did not listen to your voice nor give ear to you.

So you remained in Kadesh for many days, as many days as you remained.

And we turned and set out for the wilderness by the way that leads to the Red Sea, as Jehovah spoke to me; and we circled Mount Seir for many days.

Then Jehovah spoke to me, saying,

You have circled this mountain long enough; turn northward,

And command the people, saying, You are about to pass through the territory of your brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. Take careful heed to yourselves therefore;

Do not engage them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even as much as a footstep; for I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.

You shall buy food from them with money, that you may eat; and you shall also obtain water from them with money, that you may drink.

For Jehovah your God has  ¹blessed you in all your doings; He knows your journeying through this great wilderness. These forty years Jehovah your God has been with you; you have not lacked a thing.

So we passed on from our brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, away from the way of the Arabah, away from Elath and from Ezion-geber; and we turned and passed on by the way that leads to the wilderness of Moab.

And Jehovah said to me, Do not harass Moab, nor engage them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land as a possession; for to the children of Lot I have given Ar as a possession.

(The Emim dwelt there before that, a people great and numerous and as tall as the  ¹Anakim;

They were considered  ¹Rephaim, as were the Anakim, but the Moabites called them Emim.

The Horites also dwelt in Seir before that, but the children of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them; and they dwelt there in their place, as Israel did with the land of their possession, which Jehovah gave to them.)

Now rise up and cross over the brook Zered. And we crossed over the brook Zered.

And the time that we spent in going from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war was  ¹consumed from the midst of the camp, as Jehovah had sworn to them.

Moreover the hand of Jehovah was against them to purge them from the midst of the camp until they were consumed.

So when all the men of war were consumed from the midst of the people and dead,

Then Jehovah spoke to me, saying,

You are to pass through the territory of Moab, through Ar, today.

And when you come near to the children of Ammon, do not harass them, nor engage them, for I will not give any of the land of the children of Ammon to you as a possession; for I have given it to the children of Lot as a possession.

(It was also considered a land of Rephaim; Rephaim formerly dwelt in it. But the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,

A people great and numerous and as tall as the Anakim. Yet Jehovah destroyed them from before them, and they dispossessed them and dwelt there in their place;

As He did for the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, when He destroyed the Horites from before them. And they dispossessed them and have dwelt there in their place to this day.

And the Avvim, who dwell in the villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came from Caphtor, destroyed them and dwelt there in their place.)