The Crucifixion

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Carrying the stake himself he went out to the place called Skull (in Aramaic, Gulgolta).

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There they nailed him to the stake along with two others, one on either side, with Yeshua in the middle.

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Pilate also had a notice written and posted on the stake; it read, YESHUA FROM NATZERET THE KING OF THE JEWS

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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.

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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.”’”

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

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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;

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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.

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

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

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

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