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"Show me a denarius! Whose name and picture does it have?" "The Emperor's," they replied.

and third took her, and likewise all seven, but they all died without leaving children.

They asked him, "Rabbi, if this is so, when will these events take place? And what sign will show that they are about to happen?"

But before all this, they will arrest you and persecute you, handing you over to the synagogues and prisons; and you will be brought before kings and governors. This will all be on account of me,

You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives and friends; some of you they will have put to death;

And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with tremendous power and glory.

and the head cohanim and the Torah-teachers began trying to find some way to get rid of Yeshua, because they were afraid of the people.

They were pleased and offered to pay him money.

They went and found things just as Yeshua had told them they would be, and they prepared for the Seder.

Having seized him, they led him away and brought him into the house of the cohen hagadol. Kefa followed at a distance;

but when they had lit a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Kefa joined them.

And they said many other insulting things to him.

They all said, "Does this mean, then, that you are the Son of God?" And he answered them, "You say I am."

where they started accusing him. "We found this man subverting our nation, forbidding us to pay taxes to the Emperor and claiming that he himself is the Messiah — a king!"

But they persisted. "He is inciting the people with his teaching throughout all Y'hudah — he started in the Galil, and now he's here!"

Herod and his soldiers treated Yeshua with contempt and made fun of him. Then, dressing him in an elegant robe, they sent him back to Pilate.

That day Herod and Pilate became friends with each other; previously they had been enemies.

But they went on yelling insistently, demanding that he be executed on the stake; and their shouting prevailed.

he released the man who had been thrown in prison for insurrection and murder, the one they had asked for; and Yeshua he surrendered to their will.

As the Roman soldiers led Yeshua away, they grabbed hold of a man from Cyrene named Shim‘on, who was on his way in from the country. They put the execution-stake on his back and made him carry it behind Yeshua.