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Luke 23 - Read-Along · The Five Minute Bible Podcast

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  Luke chapter 23 Then the whole body of them got up and brought
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  him before Pilate, and they began to accuse him, saying, We
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  found this man misleading our nation, and forbidding to pay
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  taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ a king.
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  So Pilate asked him, saying, Are you the king of the Jews?
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  And he answered him and said, It is as you say.
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  Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, I find
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  no guilt in this man. But they kept on insisting,
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  saying, He stirs up the people teaching all over Judea,
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  starting from Galilee, even as far as this place.
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  When Pilate heard it, he asked whether the man was a Galilean.
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  And when he learned that he belonged to Herod's
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  jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who himself also was in
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  Jerusalem at that time. Now Herod was very glad when he
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  saw Jesus, for he had wanted to see him for a long time because
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  he had been hearing about him and was hoping to see some sign
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  performed by him. And he questioned him at some
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  length, but he answered him nothing.
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  And the chief priests and the scribes were standing there
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  accusing him vehemently. And Herod with his soldiers,
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  after treating him with contempt and mocking him, dressed him in
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  a gorgeous robe and sent him back to Pilate.
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  Now Herod and Pilate became friends with one another that
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  very day, for before they had been enemies with each other.
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  Pilot summoned the chief priests and the rulers and the people,
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  and said to them, You brought this man to me as one who
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  incites the people to rebellion. And behold, having examined him
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  before you, I found no guilt in this man regarding the charges
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  which you make against him. No, nor has Herod, for he sent
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  him back to us, and behold, nothing deserving death has been
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  done by him. Therefore I will punish him and
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  release him. Now he was obliged to release to
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  them at the feast 1 prisoner. But they cried out altogether,
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  saying away with this man and release for us Barabbas.
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  He was one who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection
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  made in the city and for murder. Pilate, wanting to release
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  Jesus, addressed them again, but they kept on calling out, saying
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  crucify, crucify him. And he said to them the third
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  time, why? What evil has this man done?
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  I have found in him no guilt demanding death, therefore I
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  will punish him and release him. But they were insistent with
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  loud voices asking that he be crucified.
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  And their voices began to prevail.
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  And Pilate pronounced sentence that their demand be granted.
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  And he released the man they were asking for, who had been
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  thrown into prison for insurrection and murder.
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  But he delivered Jesus to their will.
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  When they led him away, they seized a man, Simon of Cyrene,
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  coming in from the country, and placed on him the cross to carry
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  behind Jesus. And following him was a large
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  crowd of the people and of women who were mourning and lamenting
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  him. But Jesus turning to them, said,
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  Daughters of Jerusalem, stop weeping for me, but weep for
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  yourselves and for your children.
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  For behold, the days are coming when they will say, Blessed are
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  the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that
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  never nursed. Then they will begin to say, to
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  the mountains fall on us, and to the hills cover us.
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  For if they do these things when the tree is green, what will
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  happen when it is dry? Two others also who were
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  criminals, were being LED away to be put to death with Him.
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  When they came to the place called the Skull.
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  There they crucified him and the criminals, one on the right and
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  the other on the left. But Jesus was saying, Father,
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  forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing, and
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  they cast lots, dividing up His garments among themselves.
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  The people stood by looking on, and even the rulers were
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  sneering at him, saying He saved others, let him save himself.
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  If this is the Christ of God, his chosen one.
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  The soldiers also mocked him, coming up to him, offering him
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  sour wine and saying, If you are the King of the Jews, save
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  yourself. Now there was also an
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  inscription above him. This is the King of the Jews.
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  One of the criminals who was hanging there was hurling abuse
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  at him, saying, Are you not the Christ?
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  Save yourself and us. But the other answered and
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  rebuking him, said, Do you not even fear God, since you are
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  under the same sentence of condemnation?
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  And we indeed are suffering justly, for we are receiving
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  what we deserve for our deeds. But this man has done nothing
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  wrong. And he was saying, Jesus,
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  Remember Me when you come in your Kingdom.
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  And he said to him, truly I say to you to day, you shall be with
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  me in paradise. It was now about the 6th hour,
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  and darkness fell over the whole land until the 9th hour, because
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  the sun was obscured and the veil of the temple was torn in
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  two. And Jesus crying out with a loud
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  voice, said, Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.
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  Having said this, he breathed his last.
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  Now when the centurion saw what had happened, he began praising
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  God, saying certainly this man was innocent.
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  And all the crowds who came together for this spectacle,
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  when they observed what had happened, began to return,
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  beating their breasts. And all his acquaintances and
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  the women who accompanied him from Galilee were standing at a
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  distance seeing these things. And a man named Joseph, who was
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  a member of the council, a good and righteous man, He had not
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  consented to their plan in action.
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  A man from Arimathea, a city of the Jews, who was waiting for
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  the Kingdom of God. This man went to Pilate and
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  asked for the body of Jesus. And he took it down and wrapped
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  it in linen cloth and laid him in a tomb cut into the rock
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  where no one had ever lain. It was the preparation day, and
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  the Sabbath was about to begin. Now the women who had come with
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  him out of Galilee followed and saw the tomb and how his body
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  was laid. Then they returned and prepared
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  spices and perfumes, and on the Sabbath they rested according to
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  the commandment.