Thematic Bible




Thematic Bible



and saying: You that destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself; if you are the Son of God, come down from the cross. In like manner also the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, derided him, and said: He saved others; himself he can not save. If he is the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe on him. read more.
He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he delights in him; for he said: I am the Son of God. The robbers also that were crucified with him, uttered the same reproaches against him.

and said: Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will arise.


When the evening had come, there came a rich man of Arimathea, named Joseph; and he also was a disciple of Jesus. This man went to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given. And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in clean linen, read more.
and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock. And he rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, and departed. And Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting opposite the tomb. On the morrow, which was the day after the preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees came together to Pilate, and said: Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will arise. Therefore, command that the sepulcher be made safe till the third day, lest his disciples come and steal him away, and say to the people, He has risen from the dead; and the last error will be worse than the first. Pilate said to them: You have a guard; go, make it as safe as you know how. And they went and made the sepulcher safe, by placing a seal upon the stone, and setting the guard.

And when the evening had come, because it was the preparation, which is the eve of the sabbath, Joseph of Arimathea, an honorable counselor, who was himself looking for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus. But Pilate was astonished that he was already dead; and having called the centurion to him, he inquired of him whether he had been any while dead. read more.
And having learned the fact from the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph. And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulcher that had been hewed out of a rock: and he rolled a stone to the door of the sepulcher. And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where he was laid.

And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counselor, a good and a just man; (he had not given his consent to their counsel and deed;) he was of Arimathea, a city of the Jews, and he himself also waited for the kingdom of God: this man came to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus. read more.
And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulcher that had been hewed in rock, in which no one had yet been laid. And the day was the preparation, and the sabbath was beginning. And the women that had come with him from Galilee followed after and saw the sepulcher, and how his body was laid. And they returned, and prepared spices and ointment; and they rested on the sabbath, according to the commandment.

Then the Jews, as it was the preparation, that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath, for that sabbath day was a great day, besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken down. Then came the soldiers and broke the legs of the first, and of the other that was crucified with him. But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs: read more.
but one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear; and immediately there came out blood and water. And he that saw it has given testimony, and his testimony is true, and he knows that he speaks the truth, that you may believe; for these things were done that the scripture might be fulfilled: A bone of him shall not be broken. And again another scripture says: They shall look on him whom they pierced. And after this, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly, for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus. And Pilate gave him permission. He then came and took away the body of Jesus. Then came Nicodemus also, (who, at the first, had come to Jesus by night,) bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds. Then they took the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths, with the spices, according to the Jewish custom of burying. Now, in the place where he was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid. There, then, on account of the preparation-day of the Jews, they laid Jesus, for the tomb was near.


and said: Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will arise. Therefore, command that the sepulcher be made safe till the third day, lest his disciples come and steal him away, and say to the people, He has risen from the dead; and the last error will be worse than the first. Pilate said to them: You have a guard; go, make it as safe as you know how. read more.
And they went and made the sepulcher safe, by placing a seal upon the stone, and setting the guard.