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but Kefa stood outside by the gate. So the other talmid, the one known to the cohen hagadol, went back out and spoke to the woman on duty at the gate, then brought Kefa inside.

so why are you questioning me? Question the ones who heard what I said to them; look, they know what I said."

So ‘Anan sent him, still tied up, to Kayafa the cohen hagadol.

So again Kefa denied it, and instantly a rooster crowed.

So Pilate went outside to them and said, "What charge are you bringing against this man?"

This was so that what Yeshua had said, about how he was going to die, might be fulfilled.

So Pilate went back into the headquarters, called Yeshua and said to him, "Are you the king of the Jews?"

"So then," Pilate said to him, "You are a king, after all." Yeshua answered, "You say I am a king. The reason I have been born, the reason I have come into the world, is to bear witness to the truth. Every one who belongs to the truth listens to me."

So Yeshua came out, wearing the thorn-branch crown and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, "Look at the man!"

So Pilate said to him, "You refuse to speak to me? Don't you understand that it is in my power either to set you free or to have you executed on the stake?"

Then Pilate handed Yeshua over to them to have him put to death on the stake. So they took charge of Yeshua.

so they said to one another, "We shouldn't tear it in pieces; let's draw for it." This happened in order to fulfill the words from the Tanakh, "They divided my clothes among themselves and gambled for my robe." This is why the soldiers did these things.

A jar full of cheap sour wine was there; so they soaked a sponge in the wine, coated it with oregano leaves and held it up to his mouth.

It was Preparation Day, and the Judeans did not want the bodies to remain on the stake on Shabbat, since it was an especially important Shabbat. So they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies removed.

The man who saw it has testified about it, and his testimony is true. And he knows that he tells the truth, so you too can trust.

After this, Yosef of Ramatayim, who was a talmid of Yeshua, but a secret one out of fear of the Judeans, asked Pilate if he could have Yeshua's body. Pilate gave his consent, so Yosef came and took the body away.

So, because it was Preparation Day for the Judeans, and because the tomb was close by, that is where they buried Yeshua.

So she came running to Shim‘on Kefa and the other talmid, the one Yeshua loved, and said to them, "They've taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they've put him!"

So the talmidim returned home,

But these which have been recorded are here so that you may trust that Yeshua is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by this trust you may have life because of who he is.