The Crucifixion – The Passion of Jesus – The Brick Bible

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Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the praetorium and mocked him, saying, 'Hail, king of the Jews!' and struck him repeatedly on the head.

1 of 24 Matthew 27:27, 29–30

After they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes back on him, and they led him away to crucify him.

2 of 24 Matthew 27:31

As they were going out, they found a man from Cyrene named Simon, and they forced him to carry the cross.

3 of 24 Matthew 27:32

So they took Jesus and, carrying his own cross, he went out to the place called the Place of the Skull. Two other criminals were also led away to be executed with him.

4 of 24 John 19:16–17, Luke 23:32

Then they crucified him.

5 of 24 Mark 15:24

Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala, and the disciple whom he loved.

6 of 24 John 19:25

When the soldiers had finished crucifying Jesus they took his clothing and divided it into four shares, one for each soldier.

7 of 24 John 19:23

Passersby mocked him, and the chief priests and the experts in the law said, 'He saved others, but he can't save himself! He's the King of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him.'

8 of 24 Matthew 27:39, 41–42

'He trusts in God,' they said, 'so let God rescue him now if he wants him. For he said, "I am the Son of God."'

9 of 24 Matthew 27:43

The soldiers mocked him too, saying 'If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself.'

10 of 24 Luke 23:36–37

Even those who were crucified with him taunted him, saying, 'Are you not the messiah? Save yourself and us too!'

11 of 24 Mark 15:32, Luke 23:39

It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until 3 PM, and the sun was darkened.

12 of 24 Luke 23:44–45

At 3 PM, Jesus cried out in a loud voice, 'My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?' When he had said this, he breathed his last.

13 of 24 Mark 15:34, Luke 23:46

At that moment the tombs broke open and the bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life.

14 of 24 Matthew 27:51–52

They came out of the tombs, and after Jesus' rising, they went into the holy city and appeared to many people.

15 of 24 Matthew 27:53

Because the Jews did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down. So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man.

16 of 24 John 19:31–32

And then those of the other man who had been crucified with Jesus.

17 of 24 John 19:32

But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. Instead, one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water flowed out.

18 of 24 John 19:33–34

After this, Joseph of Arimathea, a rich man who was a disciple of Jesus, asked Pilate if he could remove the body of Jesus. Pilate, surprised that Jesus was already dead, gave him permission.

19 of 24 John 19:38, Matthew 27:57, Mark 15:44

So he went and took the body of Jesus away. He was accompanied by Nicodemus, the man who had first visited Jesus at night.

20 of 24 John 19:38–39

They took Jesus’ body and wrapped it in strips of linen cloth, with aromatic spices, according to Jewish burial customs.

21 of 24 John 19:40

At the place where he had been crucified there was a garden which had a new tomb in which no one had yet been buried. They laid Jesus there. And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where he was laid.

22 of 24 John 19:41, Mark 15:47

The next day, the chief priests and the Pharisees came before Pilate and said, 'Give orders to guard the tomb, otherwise his disciples may come and steal his body and say to the people, "He has been raised from the dead!"'

23 of 24 Matthew 27:62–64

And they went and sealed the stone and posted a guard.

24 of 24 Matthew 27:66

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