The Passion of Christ. His death and burial.

MATTHEW 27

CHAPTER XXVII.

The continuation of the history of the passion of Christ.  His death and burial.

1 And when morning was come, all the chief priests and ancients of the people held a counsel against Jesus, to put him to death.

2 *And they brought him bound, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

3 Then Judas, who betrayed him, seeing that he was condemned, repenting himself, brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the ancients,

4 Saying: I have sinned in betraying innocent blood.  But they said: What is that to us? look thou to it.

5 And casting down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed: *and went and hanged himself with a halter.

6 But the chief priests having taken the pieces of silver, said: It is not lawful to put them into the Corbona, because it is the price of blood.

7 And having consulted together, they bought with them the potter's field, to be a burying place for strangers.

8 *Wherefore that field was called Haceldama; that is, The field of blood, even to this day.

9 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremias, the prophet, saying: *And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they prized of the children of Israel.

10 And they gave them unto the potter's field, as the Lord appointed to me.

11 And Jesus stood before the governor, *and the governor asked him, saying: Art thou the king of the Jews?  Jesus saith to him: Thou sayest it.

12 And when he was accused by the chief priests and ancients, he answered nothing.

13 Then Pilate saith to him: Dost not thou hear how great testimonies they allege against thee?

14 And he answered him not to any word; so that the governor wondered exceedingly.

15 Now upon the solemn day the governor was accustomed to release to the people one prisoner, whom they would.

16 And he had then a notorious prisoner, that was called Barabbas.

17 They therefore being gathered together, Pilate said: Whom will you that I release to you, Barabbas, or Jesus, who is called Christ?

18 For he knew that through envy they had delivered him up.

19 And as he was sitting on the judgment-seat, his wife sent to him, saying: Have thou nothing to do with that just man.  For I have suffered many things this day in a dream on account of him.

20 *But the chief priests and ancients persuaded the people, that they should ask Barabbas, and make Jesus away.

21 And the governor answering, said to them: Which will you of the two to be released unto you?  But they said, Barabbas.

22 Pilate saith to them: What shall I do then with Jesus that is called Christ?  They all say: Let him be crucified.

23 The governor said to them: Why, what evil hath he done?  But they cried out the more, saying: Let him be crucified.

24 And Pilate seeing that he prevailed nothing, but that rather a tumult was made; having taken water, washed his hands before the people, saying: I am innocent of the blood of this just man: look you to it.

25 And all the people answering, said: His blood be upon us, and upon our children.

26 Then he released to them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, delivered him to them to be crucified.

27 Then the soldiers of the governor taking Jesus into the hall, *gathered together unto him the whole band:

28 And stripping him, they put a scarlet cloak about him.

29 *And platting a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand.  And bowing the knee before him, they mocked him, saying: Hail, king of the Jews.

30 And spitting upon him, they took the reed, and struck his head.

31 And after they had mocked him, they took off the cloak from him, and put on him his own garments, and led him away to crucify him.

32 *And going out, they found a man of Cyrene, named Simon: him they forced to take up his cross.

33 *And they came to the place that is called Golgotha, which is the place of Calvary.

34 And they gave him wine to drink, mingled with gall.  And when he had tasted, he would not drink.

35 *And after they had crucified him, they divided his garments, casting lots; that the word might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: **They divided my garments among them; and upon my vesture they cast lots.

36 And sitting down they watched him.

37 And they put over his head his cause written: This is Jesus, the King of the Jews.

38 Then were crucified with him two thieves: one on the right hand, and the other on the left.

39 And they that passed by, blasphemed him, wagging their heads,

40 And saying: *Vah, thou who destroyest the temple of God, and in three days dost rebuild it, save thy own self: if thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.

41 In like manner also the chief priests with the Scribes and ancients mocking: said:

42 He saved others; himself he cannot save: *if he be the king of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.

43 *He trusted in God; let him deliver him now if he will have him: for he said: I am the Son of God.

44 And the same thing the thieves also, that were crucified with him, reproached him with.

45 Now from the sixth hour, there was darkness over all the earth, until the ninth hour.

46 And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying: *Eli, Eli, lamma sabacthani? that is, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

47 And some that stood there and heard, said: This man calleth Elias.

48 And immediately one of them running, took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar; and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.

49 And the others said: Stay, let us see whether Elias will come to deliver him.

50 And Jesus again crying with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.

51 *And behold the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top even to the bottom, and the earth quaked, and the rocks were rent.

52 And the graves were opened: and many bodies of the saints that had slept arose:

53 And coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, came into the holy city and appeared to many.

54 Now the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, having seen the earthquake and the things that were done, were greatly afraid, saying: Indeed this was the Son of God.

55 And there were there many women afar off, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him:

56 Among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary, the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

57 *And when it was evening, there came a certain rich man of Arimathea, named Joseph, who also himself was a disciple of Jesus.

58 He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.  Then Pilate commanded that the body should be delivered.

59 And Joseph taking the body wrapped it up in a clean linen cloth,

60 And laid it in his own new monument, which he had hewed out in a rock.  And he rolled a great stone to the door of the monument, and went his way.

61 And there was there Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary sitting over-against the sepulchre.

62 And the next day, which followed the day of preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees came together to Pilate,

63 Saying: Sir, we have remembered, that that seducer said, while he was yet alive: After three days I will rise again.

64 Command, therefore, the sepulchre to be guarded until the third day: lest his disciples come, and steal him away, and say to the people: He is risen from the dead; and the last error shall be worse than the first.

65 Pilate saith to them: You have a guard: go, guard it as you know.

66 And they departing, made the sepulchre sure, with guards, sealing the stone.

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2:  A.D. 33.; Mark xv. 1.; Luke xxiii. 1.; John xviii. 28.

5:  Acts i. 18.

8:  Acts i. 19.

9:  Zach. xi. 12.

11:  Mark xv. 2.; Luke xxiii. 3.; John xviii. 33.

20:  Mark xv. 11.; Luke xxiii. 18.; John xviii. 40.; Acts iii. 14.

27:  Mark xv. 16.; Ps. xxi. 17.

29:  John xix. 2.

32:  Mark xv. 21.; Luke xxii. 26.

33:  Mark xv. 22.; Luke xxiii. 33.; John xix. 17.

35:  Mark xv. 24.; Luke xxiii. 34.; John xix. 23. --- ** Ps. xxi. 19.

40:  John ii. 19.

42:  Wisd. ii. 18.

43:  Ps. xxi. 9.

46:  Ps. xxi. 1.

51:  2 Par. iii. 14.

57:  Mark xv. 42.; Luke xxiii. 50.; John xix. 38.

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The Catholic Creed: The meaning of the Pasch of Christians.

The Crucifixion of the Lord Jesus Christ, Mary and John and the women at the foot of the Cross

Matthew 27:45 Now from the sixth hour, there was darkness over all the earth, until the ninth hour.

Origen tell us this darkness was only in Palestine, and the neighbouring countries: for as to the words, over the whole earth, or over the whole land, we find one kingdom or empire, by a common way of speaking, called the whole earth, or the whole world. As to the cause of the obscuration of the sun; and secondly, as to the extent of its darkness.  Origen tells us that the darkness was partial, and confined to Judea and the neighbouring countries, as the darkness of Egypt was only perceived in that country, and not in Gessen, where the children of Israel were. Saint Jerome tells us that the obscurity was caused by the rays of the sun being suddenly withdrawn by divine power, as was the case in Egypt. The darkness in Egypt during the Passover of Moses was due to God's protection withdrawn from that land at that time. The darkness when Christ was Crucified for us is the judgement of God upon His Son Jesus Christ, in our place. For Jesus Christ knew NO sin. He never sinned, nor could He ever.

The Catholic Creed: The meaning of the Pasch of Christians.

The meaning of the Pasch of Christians.

The Book of Wisdom, Chapter 17, describes the devils and demons thrown back upon the Egyptians when the Israelites under Moses were brought out of Egypt by God for God’s purposes (to prepare a place for the Crucifixion of Our Lord for the Redemption of the whole world of those who are saved). In the same way the same false gods and goddesses that the Egyptians served and which in so doing were the reason the Egyptians sacrificed their sons and daughters to the devils and demons behind the false gods/goddesses were the spirits that killed the Egyptian children that perished when the Israelites were brought out of Egypt. God does not murder children, period. The angel of death which destroyed in Egypt was one of the fallen spirits. God did not cause any of the fallen spirits to hurt anyone. God allowed the fallen spirits to do what it is their nature do to when He brought the Israelites out of the gates of hell which was Egypt. The children below the age of reason that died went to be with God for eternity, they will be resurrected with the just at the Second Coming of Christ. This principle of God allowing the innocent to be afflicted along with guilty finds its ultimate fulfillment in Christ’s singular and only salvific Kenosis. Jesus Christ committed no sin, not ever nor could He, and was and is and only could be utterly and absolutely and completely innocent of any and all wrongdoing and sin by His very nature as the Holy and True God. The guiltless sacrificed by His own will for the guilty. Even when the innocent are afflicted by the actions and evils instigated by the fallen spirits in the world, the innocent are not possessed by those fallen spirits. The principle of all being afflicted by the evil set loose upon the world for its unrepentant sin will occur when the universal plagues are let loose upon the world. See Apocalypse 16 – 

And see: The Plagues will be real - Three Looks at the 16th Chapter of the Book of the Revelation

The principle of our always, for our part, protecting children is given us by Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in the Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 18

1 At *that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying: Who, thinkest thou, is the greater in the kingdom of heaven?

2 *And Jesus calling unto him a little child, set him in the midst of them,

3 And said: Amen I say unto you, *unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, he is the greater in the kingdom of heaven.

5 And he that shall receive one such little child in my name, receiveth me.

10 Take heed that you despise not one of these little ones: for I say to you, *that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

The principle of our ONLY worshipping the True God, the Father and the Son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit is given first in the historical truth of the Garden of Eden when Christ, who is the Tree of Life commands the first man and his wife, Adam and Eve to not have anything to do with the tree of the knowledge of good and evil which is Satan, the first fallen angel, nor with any of the fallen angels with Satan. Assisi of Babylon/Vatican/Rome is absolute and complete violation of that principle and is the Great Apostasy in full blown Satanic evil. Have nothing to do with the Vatican or suffer its eternal damnation in hell with it. The devil and demon worshipping pagans and the perfidious deicidal Jews are not ever any part of the Salvific action of Christ upon Golgotha/Calvary. Individual pagans and Jews if they repent of their not confessing Jesus Christ as the Immortal Son of God become flesh for our sake and sacrificed for our salvation and who confess publicly their sin of devil and demon worshipping and perfidy and deicide and who beg the Lord of all, the Lord God, the Father and the Son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit for forgiveness of their horrid and abominable sins, can and will be forgiven if they do so now in this life and will enter into the only path of salvation there is as dictated by God Himself. The Church, all the faithful – there is no other meaning acceptable to God for the word Church, is commanded by God to not have anything to do with the Apostasy.

Book of Wisdom, Chapter 17

1 For thy judgments, O Lord, are great, and thy words cannot be expressed: therefore undisciplined souls have erred.

2 For while the wicked thought to be able to have dominion over the holy nation, they themselves being fettered with the bonds of darkness, and a long night, shut up in their houses, lay there exiled from the eternal providence.

3 And while they thought to lie hid in their obscure sins, they were scattered under a dark veil of forgetfulness, being horribly afraid and troubled with exceeding great astonishment.

4 For neither did the den that held them, keep them from fear: for noises coming down troubled them, and sad visions appearing to them, affrighted them.

5 And no power of fire could give them light, neither could the bright flames of the stars enlighten that horrible night.

6 But there appeared to them a sudden fire, very dreadful: and being struck with the fear of that face, which was not seen, they thought the things which they saw to be worse:

7 And the delusions of their magic art were put down, and their boasting of wisdom was reproachfully rebuked.

8 For they who promised to drive away fears and troubles from a sick soul, were sick themselves of a fear worthy to be laughed at.

9 For though no terrible thing disturbed them: yet being scared with the passing by of beasts, and hissing of serpents, they died for fear: and denying that they saw the air, which could by no means be avoided.

10 For whereas wickedness is fearful, it beareth witness of its condemnation: for a troubled conscience always forecasteth grievous things.

11 For fear is nothing else but a yielding up of the succours from thought.

12 And while there is less expectation from within, the greater doth it count the ignorance of that cause which bringeth the torment.

13 But they that during that night, in which nothing could be done, and which came upon them from the lowest and deepest hell, slept the same sleep.

14 Were sometimes molested with the fear of monsters, sometimes fainted away, their soul failing them: for a sudden and unlooked for fear was come upon them.

15 Moreover if any of them had fallen down, he was kept shut up in prison without irons.

16 For if any one were a husbandman, or a shepherd, or a labourer in the field, and was suddenly overtaken, he endured a necessity from which he could not fly.

17 For they were all bound together with one chain of darkness. Whether it were a whistling wind, or the melodious voice of birds, among the spreading branches of trees, or a fall of water running down with violence,

18 Or the mighty noise of stones tumbling down, or the running that could not be seen of beasts playing together, or the roaring voice of wild beasts, or a rebounding echo from the highest mountains: these things made them to swoon for fear.

19 For the whole world was enlightened with a clear light, and none were hindered in their labours.

20 But over them only was spread a heavy night, an image of that darkness which was to come upon them. But they were to themselves more grievous than the darkness.