Study Desk

They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man misleading our nation, opposing payment of taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is the Messiah, a king.”

That very day Herod and Pilate became friends. Previously, they had been enemies.

But they kept up the pressure, demanding with loud voices that he be crucified, and their voices won out.

and released the one they were asking for, who had been thrown into prison for rebellion and murder. But he handed Jesus over to their will.

As they led him away, they seized Simon, a Cyrenian, who was coming in from the country, and laid the cross on him to carry behind Jesus.

Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us!’

When they arrived at the place called The Skull, they crucified him there, along with the criminals, one on the right and one on the left.

Then they returned and prepared spices and perfumes. And they rested on the Sabbath according to the commandment.

And they remembered his words.

Returning from the tomb, they reported all these things to the Eleven and to all the rest.

But these words seemed like nonsense to them, and they did not believe the women.

And while they were discussing and arguing, Jesus himself came near and began to walk along with them.

and how our chief priests and leaders handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him.

and when they didn’t find his body, they came and reported that they had seen a vision of angels who said he was alive.

Some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they didn’t see him.”

They came near the village where they were going, and he gave the impression that he was going farther.

But they urged him, “Stay with us, because it’s almost evening, and now the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay with them.

Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, but he disappeared from their sight.

They said to each other, “Weren’t our hearts burning within us while he was talking with us on the road and explaining the Scriptures to us?”

That very hour they got up and returned to Jerusalem. They found the Eleven and those with them gathered together,