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After Yeshua had said all this, he went out with his talmidim across the stream that flows in winter through the Vadi Kidron, to a spot where there was a grove of trees; and he and his talmidim went into it.

Now Y'hudah, who was betraying him, also knew the place; because Yeshua had often met there with his talmidim.

Then Shim‘on Kefa, who had a sword, drew it and struck the slave of the cohen hagadol, cutting off his right ear; the slave's name was Melekh.

The cohen hagadol questioned Yeshua about his talmidim and about what he taught.

Meanwhile, Shim‘on Kefa was standing and warming himself. They said to him, "Aren't you also one of his talmidim?" He denied it, saying, "No, I am not."

The soldiers twisted thorn-branches into a crown and placed it on his head, put a purple robe on him,

When the soldiers had nailed Yeshua to the stake, they took his clothes and divided them into four shares, a share for each soldier, with the under-robe left over. Now the under-robe was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom;

Nearby Yeshua's execution stake stood his mother, his mother's sister Miryam the wife of K'lofah, and Miryam from Magdala.

When Yeshua saw his mother and the talmid whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, "Mother, this is your son."

Then he said to the talmid, "This is your mother." And from that time on, the talmid took her into his own home.

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.

After Yeshua had taken the wine, he said, "It is accomplished!" And, letting his head droop, he delivered up his spirit.

but when they got to Yeshua and saw that he was already dead, they didn't break his legs.

However, one of the soldiers stabbed his side with a spear, and at once blood and water flowed out.

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.

For these things happened in order to fulfill this passage of the Tanakh: "Not one of his bones will be broken."

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.

also the cloth that had been around his head, lying not with the sheets but in a separate place and still folded up.

Having greeted them, he showed them his hands and his side. The talmidim were overjoyed to see the Lord.

When the other talmidim told him, "We have seen the Lord," he replied, "Unless I see the nail marks in his hands, put my finger into the place where the nails were and put my hand into his side, I refuse to believe it."