The Life of Jesus

Many of the Judeans read this notice, because the place where Yeshua was put on the stake was close to the city; and it had been written in Hebrew, in Latin and in Greek.

The Judeans’ head cohanim therefore said to Pilate, “Don’t write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but ‘He said, “I am King of the Jews.”’”

Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”

When the soldiers had nailed Yeshua to the stake, they took his clothes and divided them into four shares, a share for each soldier, with the under-robe left over. Now the under-robe was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom;

so they said to one another, “We shouldn’t tear it in pieces; let’s draw for it.” This happened in order to fulfill the words from the Tanakh, “They divided my clothes among themselves and gambled for my robe.” This is why the soldiers did these things.

Nearby Yeshua’s execution stake stood his mother, his mother’s sister Miryam the wife of K’lofah, and Miryam from Magdala.

When Yeshua saw his mother and the talmid whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Mother, this is your son.”

Then he said to the talmid, “This is your mother.” And from that time on, the talmid took her into his own home.

After this, knowing that all things had accomplished their purpose, Yeshua, in order to fulfill the words of the Tanakh, said, “I’m thirsty.”

A jar full of cheap sour wine was there; so they soaked a sponge in the wine, coated it with oregano leaves and held it up to his mouth.

After Yeshua had taken the wine, he said, “It is accomplished!” And, letting his head droop, he delivered up his spirit.

It was Preparation Day, and the Judeans did not want the bodies to remain on the stake on Shabbat, since it was an especially important Shabbat. So they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies removed.

The soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man who had been put on a stake beside Yeshua, then the legs of the other one;

but when they got to Yeshua and saw that he was already dead, they didn’t break his legs.

However, one of the soldiers stabbed his side with a spear, and at once blood and water flowed out.

The man who saw it has testified about it, and his testimony is true. And he knows that he tells the truth, so you too can trust.

For these things happened in order to fulfill this passage of the Tanakh: “Not one of his bones will be broken.”

And again, another passage says, “They will look at him whom they have pierced.”

After this, Yosef of Ramatayim, who was a talmid of Yeshua, but a secret one out of fear of the Judeans, asked Pilate if he could have Yeshua’s body. Pilate gave his consent, so Yosef came and took the body away.

Also Nakdimon, who at first had gone to see Yeshua by night, came with some seventy pounds of spices — a mixture of myrrh and aloes.

They took Yeshua’s body and wrapped it up in linen sheets with the spices, in keeping with Judean burial practice.

In the vicinity of where he had been executed was a garden, and in the garden was a new tomb in which no one had ever been buried.

So, because it was Preparation Day for the Judeans, and because the tomb was close by, that is where they buried Yeshua.

Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Miryam from Magdala went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb.

So she came running to Shim‘on Kefa and the other talmid, the one Yeshua loved, and said to them, “They’ve taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they’ve put him!”