Bible Verses About The Death of Christ

Then he released to them Bar-Abba; but Yeshua, after having him whipped, he handed over to be executed on a stake.

The governor's soldiers took Yeshua into the headquarters building, and the whole battalion gathered around him.

They stripped off his clothes and put on him a scarlet robe,

wove thorn-branches into a crown and put it on his head, and put a stick in his right hand. Then they kneeled down in front of him and made fun of him: "Hail to the King of the Jews!"

They spit on him and used the stick to beat him about the head.

When they had finished ridiculing him, they took off the robe, put his own clothes back on him and led him away to be nailed to the execution-stake.

As they were leaving, they met a man from Cyrene named Shim`on; and they forced him to carry Yeshua's execution-stake.

When they arrived at a place called Gulgolta (which means "place of a skull"),

they gave him wine mixed with bitter gall to drink; but after tasting it, he would not drink it.

After they had nailed him to the stake, they divided his clothes among them by throwing dice.

At that moment the parokhet in the Temple was ripped in two from top to bottom; and there was an earthquake, with rocks splitting apart.

Also the graves were opened, and the bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life;

and after Yeshua rose, they came out of the graves and went into the holy city, where many people saw them.

Don’t you know that those of us who have been immersed into the Messiah Yeshua have been immersed into his death?

Through immersion into his death we were buried with him; so that just as, through the glory of the Father, the Messiah was raised from the dead, likewise we too might live a new life.

For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will also be united with him in a resurrection like his.

We know that our old self was put to death on the execution-stake with him, so that the entire body of our sinful propensities might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin.

For someone who has died has been cleared from sin.

Now since we died with the Messiah, we trust that we will also live with him.

For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord, until he comes.

Therefore, whoever eats the Lord’s bread or drinks the Lord’s cup in an unworthy manner will be guilty of desecrating the body and blood of the Lord!

So let a person examine himself first, and then he may eat of the bread and drink from the cup;

for a person who eats and drinks without recognizing the body eats and drinks judgment upon himself.