Matthew 27:44

There were also others, two criminals, led with him to be put to death.

They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

One of the criminals who was hanged insulted him, saying, “If you are the Christ, save yourself and us!”

Therefore the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with him;

Therefore hear Yahweh’s word, you scoffers, that rule this people in Jerusalem:

lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.

Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown,

Therefore I will give him a portion with the great. He will divide the plunder with the strong; because he poured out his soul to death and was counted with the transgressors; yet he bore the sins of many and made intercession for the transgressors.

“They have heard that I sigh. There is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble. They are glad that you have done it. You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they will be like me.

He will make a firm covenant with many for one week. In the middle of the week he will cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease. On the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that determined, wrath will be poured out on the desolate.”

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

The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!”

and saying, “If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!”

An inscription was also written over him in letters of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew: “THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.”

Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city!” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.

Everyone who keeps approaching Yahweh’s tabernacle, dies! Will we all perish?”

Then the king sent a captain of fifty with his fifty to him. He went up to him; and behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. He said to him, “Man of God, the king has said, ‘Come down!’ ”

He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldy!”

So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun, but people ridiculed them and mocked them.

Therefore Yahweh brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?

He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.

“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.

“If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him

For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease.

Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.

For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.

“An evil disease”, they say, “has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.”

My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.

Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you? Yah, your faithfulness is around you.

For he has broken the gates of bronze, and cut through bars of iron.

If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.

Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will make a full end, and that determined, throughout all the earth.

Now therefore don’t be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, on the whole earth.

This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

I didn’t sit in the assembly of those who make merry and rejoice. I sat alone because of your hand, for you have filled me with indignation.

Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded. You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day. Everyone mocks me.

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

You will mention the message from Yahweh no more: for every man’s own word has become his message; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of Yahweh of Armies, our God.

This whole land will be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.

For wasn’t Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves? For as often as you speak of him, you shake your head.

“The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand. They are knit together. They have come up on my neck. He made my strength fail. The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.

Tell them therefore, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “I will make this proverb to cease, and they will no more use it as a proverb in Israel;” ’ but tell them, ‘ “The days are at hand, and the fulfillment of every vision.

Yahweh has taken away your judgments. He has thrown out your enemy. The King of Israel, Yahweh, is among you. You will not be afraid of evil any more.

Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; from David to the exile to Babylon fourteen generations; and from the carrying away to Babylon to the Christ, fourteen generations.

Then there were two robbers crucified with him, one on his right hand and one on the left.

Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,

Likewise the chief priests also mocking, with the scribes, the Pharisees, and the elders, said,

He said to them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised?

Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with fists, and to tell him, “Prophesy!” The officers struck him with the palms of their hands.

The superscription of his accusation was written over him, “THE KING OF THE JEWS.”

With him they crucified two robbers; one on his right hand, and one on his left.

Let the Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe him.” Those who were crucified with him also insulted him.

They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

For I tell you that this which is written must still be fulfilled in me: ‘He was counted with transgressors.’ For that which concerns me has an end.”

Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!”

They said therefore to him, “What then do you do for a sign, that we may see and believe you? What work do you do?

Some of them said, “Couldn’t this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?”

they took the branches of the palm trees and went out to meet him, and cried out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!”

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

He went out, bearing his cross, to the place called “The Place of a Skull”, which is called in Hebrew, “Golgotha”,

where they crucified him, and with him two others, on either side one, and Jesus in the middle.

For I see that you are in the poison of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity.”

But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”

For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?

for He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the LORD will make a short work upon the earth.”

doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”

men who have erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past, and overthrowing the faith of some.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Jesus therefore said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.