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They said, "Why do we need any more witness? For we ourselves have heard from his own mouth!"

Pilate said to the chief Kohanim and the multitudes, "I find no basis for a charge against this man."

Now when Herod saw Yeshua, he was exceedingly glad, for he had wanted to see him for a long time, because he had heard many things about him. He hoped to see some miracle done by him.

Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, for before that they were enemies with each other.

and said to them, "You brought this man to me as one that perverts the people, and see, I have examined him before you, and found no basis for a charge against this man concerning those things of which you accuse him.

Neither has Herod, for I sent you to him, and see, nothing worthy of death has been done by him.

one who was thrown into prison for a certain revolt in the city, and for murder.

Pilate adjudged that what they asked for should be done.

He released him who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Yeshua up to their will.

But Yeshua, turning to them, said, "Daughters of Yerushalayim, don't weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.'

For if they do these things in the green tree, what will be done in the dry?"

Yeshua said, "Father, forgive them, for they don't know what they are doing." Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong."

(he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Ramatayim, a city of the Yehudim, who was also waiting for the kingdom of God:

this man went to Pilate, and asked for Yeshua' body.

They urged him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over." He went in to stay with them.

See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn't have flesh and bones, as you see that I have."

While they still didn't believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them, "Do you have anything here to eat?"

He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Messiah to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,