When morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put Him to death.

And when they had bound Him, they led Him away and delivered Him to Pontius Pilate the governor.

saying, I have sinned by betraying innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? You see to it.

And the chief priests took the silver pieces and said, It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.

Therefore that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day.

and gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord directed me.

And immediately, in the morning, the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council; and they bound Jesus, led Him away, and delivered Him to Pilate.

And the chief priests accused Him of many things, but He answered nothing.

But Jesus still answered nothing, so that Pilate marveled.

Then the whole multitude of them arose and led Him before Pilate.

Then Pilate asked Him, saying, Are You the King of the Jews? He answered him and said, It is as you say.

But they were the more insistant, saying, He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee to this place.

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified His Son Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to set Him free.

Then Pilate entered the Praetorium again, called Jesus, and said to Him, Are You the King of the Jews?

and went again into the Praetorium, and said to Jesus, Where are You from? But Jesus gave him no answer.

Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole garrison against Him.

And the soldiers led Him away into the hall called Praetorium, and they called together the whole garrison.

for their feet run to evil and they make haste to shed blood.

For they do not sleep unless they have done evil, and their sleep is taken away unless they cause someone to fall.

Woe to those who devise wickedness and do evil on their beds! In the morning light they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people, both chief priests and scribes, came together and led Him into their council, saying,

with the hypocrites, mockers, for a cake, they gnashed at me with their teeth.

Hear the Word of Jehovah, you rulers of Sodom. Give heed to the Law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.

When you come to appear before Me, who has required this at your hand, to trample My courts?

My soul hates your new moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them.

Behold, you trust in lying words that are of no benefit.

and then come and stand before Me in this house which is called by My name, and say, We are delivered to do all those abominations?

I hate, I despise your feast days; and I will not savor your solemn assemblies.

Take away from Me the noise of your songs; for I will not hear the melody of your lutes.

who build up Zion with blood and Jerusalem with iniquity:

Therefore, on account of you, Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house like the high places of the forest.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin, and have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: judgment and mercy and faith. It is necessary to do these, and not to leave the others undone.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and self-indulgence.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.

And the chief priests took the silver pieces and said, It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.

Then he said to them, You know how unlawful it is for a Jewish man to keep company with or go to one of another nation. But God has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean.

saying, You went in to uncircumcised men and ate with them!

But you have a custom that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Do you therefore want me to release to you the King of the Jews?

Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, and about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, Behold your King!

You shall sacrifice the Passover unto Jehovah your God, from the flock and the herd, in the place where Jehovah chooses to establish His name.

So the children of Israel found at Jerusalem kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with great joy; and the Levites and the priests were praising Jehovah day by day, with loud instruments unto Jehovah.

And the whole assembly took counsel to keep the feast another seven days, and they kept it another seven days with joy.

And his rulers contributed willingly to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave to the priests two thousand six hundred Passover lambs, and three hundred oxen.

Thus the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their places, and the Levites in their divisions, according to the king's command.

And they removed the burnt offerings to distribute them by the divisions of the fathers' houses to the sons of the people, to offer unto Jehovah, as it is written in the Book of Moses; and also with the oxen.

Then afterward they prepared for themselves and for the priests, because the priests, the sons of Aaron, were busy in offering burnt offerings and fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests, the sons of Aaron.

In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall observe the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.