Matthew 27:2

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.

I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’

For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

But Festus, desiring to gain favor with the Jews, answered Paul and said, “Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem, and be judged by me there concerning these things?”

and led him to Annas first, for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.

But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

As he stayed there many days, Festus laid Paul’s case before the king, saying, “There is a certain man left a prisoner by Felix;

When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

He put the wood in order, and cut the bull in pieces, and laid it on the wood. He said, “Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the burnt offering, and on the wood.”

and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, and to crucify; and the third day he will be raised up.”

Now Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus said to him, “So you say.”

Now in those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled.

Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” He answered him, “So you say.”

When he found out that he was in Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem during those days.

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

Jesus said these things, then lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;

Judas then, having taken a detachment of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.

that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what kind of death he should die.

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.

while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus.”

When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This was during the days of unleavened bread.

But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us publicly without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do they now release us secretly? No, most certainly, but let them come themselves and bring us out!”

But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.

About that time there arose no small disturbance concerning the Way.

except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.

Coming to us and taking Paul’s belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, “The Holy Spirit says: ‘So the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’ ”

Festus therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand: remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.

I command you in the sight of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

The sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar, and lay wood in order on the fire;

I was a stranger, and you didn’t take me in; naked, and you didn’t clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.’

Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.

Those who had taken Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.

They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”

saying, “Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: ‘After three days I will rise again.’

They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him.

“Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death, and will deliver him to the Gentiles.

in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness.

When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him.

The sergeants reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans,

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,

preaching God’s Kingdom, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, without hindrance.

It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.

Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News,

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—

The burden of Damascus. “Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap.

Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, ‘As your god, Dan, lives;’ and, ‘As the way of Beersheba lives;’ they will fall, and never rise up again.”

At that time, Herod the tetrarch heard the report concerning Jesus,

‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?’ God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”

Then he released to them Barabbas, but Jesus he flogged and delivered to be crucified.

For fear of him, the guards shook, and became like dead men.

If this comes to the governor’s ears, we will persuade him and make you free of worry.”

Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.

Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him; and he was very perplexed, because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead,

Now there were some present at the same time who told him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on.

Jesus answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”

They cried out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!”

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

Here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name.”

But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;

But Felix, having more exact knowledge concerning the Way, deferred them, saying, “When Lysias, the commanding officer, comes down, I will decide your case.”

Agrippa said to Festus, “This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”

I command you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,

They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood.

They said to him, “We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines.” Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not attack me yourselves.”

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Jews seized Jesus and bound him,

Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas, the high priest.

“For truly, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed,

and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison.

Then the commanding officer came near, arrested him, commanded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he was and what he had done.

When they had tied him up with thongs, Paul asked the centurion who stood by, “Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman, and not found guilty?”

Immediately those who were about to examine him departed from him, and the commanding officer also was afraid when he realized that he was a Roman, because he had bound him.

But on the next day, desiring to know the truth about why he was accused by the Jews, he freed him from the bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all the council to come together, and brought Paul down and set him before them.

He asked them to provide animals, that they might set Paul on one, and bring him safely to Felix the governor.

But when two years were fulfilled, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and desiring to gain favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul in bonds.

For this cause therefore I asked to see you and to speak with you. For because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.”

in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.

Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.