Matthew 27:32-44 - Jesus Is Crucified

³² As they went out of the city they came upon a Cyrenian named Simon, and they forced him to carry Jesus' cross. ³³ When they came to a place called Golgotha, which means the Place of the Skull, ³⁴ they offered him a drink of wine mixed with gall, and when he tasted it he would not drink it. ³⁵ And they crucified him and divided up his clothes among them by drawing lots, ³⁶ and sat down there to keep watch of him. ³⁷ They put above his head the charge against him, which read, "This is Jesus, the king of the Jews."

³⁸ There were two robbers crucified with him at the time, one at his right and one at his left. ³⁹ And the passers-by jeered at him, shaking their heads ⁴⁰ and saying, "You who would tear down the sanctuary, and build one in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!" ⁴¹ And the high priests, too, made sport of him with the scribes and elders, and said, ⁴² "He saved others, but he cannot save himself! He is King of Israel; let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him. ⁴³ He trusts in God; let God deliver him if he cares for him, for he said he was God's son." ⁴⁴ Even the robbers who were crucified with him abused him in the same way.

²¹ And they forced a passer-by, who was coming in from the country, to carry his cross??ne Simon, a Cyrenian, the father of Alexander and Rufus. ²² And they took him to the place called Golgotha, which means the Place of the Skull. ²³ They offered him drugged wine, but he would not take it. ²⁴ Then they crucified him, and divided up his clothes, drawing lots for them to see what each of them should have. ²⁵ It was nine in the morning when they crucified him. ²⁶ And the notice of the charge against him read, "The king of the Jews."

²⁷ They crucified two robbers along with him, one at his right and one at his left. ²⁸ OMITTED TEXT ²⁹ And the passers-by jeered at him, shaking their heads and saying, "Aha! you who would tear down the sanctuary and build one in three days! ³⁰ Come down from the cross and save yourself!" ³¹ The high priests too made sport of him to one another with the scribes and said, "He saved others, but he cannot save himself! ³² Let this Christ, the king of Israel, come down from the cross now, so that we may see it and believe!" And the men who were crucified with him abused him.

²⁶ As they led Jesus away, they seized a man named Simon, from Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and put the cross on his back, for him to carry behind Jesus. ²⁷ He was followed by a great crowd of people and of women who were beating their breasts and lamenting him. ²⁸ But Jesus turned to them and said, "Women of Jerusalem, do not weep for me but weep for yourselves and for your children, ²⁹ for a time is coming when they will say, 'Happy are the childless women, and those who have never borne or nursed children!' ³⁰ Then people will begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall on us!' and to the hills, 'Cover us up!' ³¹ For if this is what they do when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?"

³² Two criminals were also led out to execution with him. ³³ When they reached the place called the Skull, they crucified him there, with the criminals one at his right and one at his left. ³⁴ And they divided up his clothes among them by drawing lots for them,

³⁵ while the people stood looking on. Even the leading councilors jeered at him, and said, "He has saved others, let him save himself, if he is really God's Christ, his Chosen One!" ³⁶ The soldiers also made sport of him, coming up and offering him sour wine, ³⁷ saying, "If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself!"

³⁸ For there was a notice above his head, "This is the king of the Jews!"

³⁹ One of the criminals who were hanging there, abused him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us too!"

⁴⁰ But the other reproved him and said, "Have you no fear even of God when you are suffering the same penalty? ⁴¹ And we are suffering it justly, for we are only getting our deserts, but this man has done nothing wrong." ⁴² And he said, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom!"

⁴³ And he said to him, "I tell you, you will be in Paradise with me today!"

¹⁷ and he went out carrying the cross by himself to a spot called the Place of the Skull, or in Hebrew, Golgotha. ¹⁸ There they crucified him, with two others, one on each side and Jesus in the middle. ¹⁹ Pilate had written a placard and had it put on the cross; it read "Jesus the Nazarene, the king of the Jews."

²⁰ Many of the Jews read this placard, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek. ²¹ So the Jewish high priests said to Pilate, "Do not write 'The king of the Jews,' but write 'He said, I am the king of the Jews.' "

²² Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written!"

²³ When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, one for each soldier, besides his shirt. Now his shirt had no seam; it was woven in one piece from top to bottom. ²⁴ So they said to one another, "Let us not tear it, but let us draw for it, to see who gets it." This was to fulfil what the Scripture says: "They divided my garments among them, And for my clothing they cast lots." This was what the soldiers did.

²⁵ Near Jesus' cross stood his mother and her sister Mary, the daughter of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. ²⁶ So Jesus, seeing his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing near, said to his mother, "There is your son!" ²⁷ Then he said to his disciple, "There is your mother!" And from that time his disciple took her into his home.