Study Desk

While he was sitting in court, his wife sent him a message, "Leave that innocent man alone. Today in a dream I suffered terribly because of him."

When Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but rather that a riot was starting, he took water, washed his hands in front of the crowd, and said, "My hands are clean of this man's blood; it's your responsibility."

All the people answered, "His blood is on us and on our children!"

They stripped off his clothes and put on him a scarlet robe,

wove thorn-branches into a crown and put it on his head, and put a stick in his right hand. Then they kneeled down in front of him and made fun of him: "Hail to the King of the Jews!"

When they had finished ridiculing him, they took off the robe, put his own clothes back on him and led him away to be nailed to the execution-stake.

After they had nailed him to the stake, they divided his clothes among them by throwing dice.

Above his head they placed the written notice stating the charge against him, THIS IS YESHUA THE KING OF THE JEWS

But Yeshua, again crying out in a loud voice, yielded up his spirit.

and laid it in his own tomb, which he had recently had cut out of the rock. After rolling a large stone in front of the entrance to the tomb, he went away.

His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were as white as snow.

So they left the tomb quickly, frightened yet filled with joy; and they ran to give the news to his talmidim.

Suddenly Yeshua met them and said, "Shalom!" They came up and took hold of his feet as they fell down in front of him.

and said to them, "Tell people, ‘His talmidim came during the night and stole his body while we were sleeping.'

Yochanan wore clothes of camel's hair, with a leather belt around his waist; he ate locusts and wild honey.

He proclaimed: "After me is coming someone who is more powerful than I — I'm not worthy even to bend down and untie his sandals.

Going on a little farther, he saw Ya‘akov Ben-Zavdai and Yochanan, his brother, in their boat, repairing their nets.

A man afflicted with tzara‘at came to Yeshua and begged him on his knees, "If you are willing, you can make me clean."

Moved with pity, Yeshua reached out his hand, touched him and said to him, "I am willing! Be cleansed!"

But immediately Yeshua, perceiving in his spirit what they were thinking, said to them, "Why are you thinking these things?