Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Behold your King!”
The next day, that is, after the day of Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate
So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Behold the man!”
So because of the Jewish day of Preparation, since the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there.
And it was the third hour when they crucified him.
Since it was the day of Preparation, and so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away. So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who had been crucified with him.
Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.” Many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Aramaic, in Latin, and in Greek. So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but rather, ‘This man said, I am King of the Jews.’” Pilate answered, “What I have written I have written.”
They came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and struck him with their hands.
It was the day of Preparation, and the Sabbath was beginning.
And when evening had come, since it was the day of Preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath,
And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
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