One Unity Resource Bible Matthew [Gift of Yah] 27

1 Now early in the morning (Nissan 14), all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Yeshua [Salvation] to put him to death: 2 and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate [Armed with javelin], the governor. 3 * † Then Judas [Praised], who betrayed him, when he saw that Yeshua [Salvation] was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, 4 saying, “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.”

But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”

5 He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and departed. He went away and hanged himself. 6 ‡ The chief priests took the pieces of silver, and said, “It’s not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood.” 7 They took counsel, and bought the potter’s field with them, to bury strangers in. 8 Therefore that field was called “The Field of Blood” to this day. 9 Then that which was spoken through Jeremiah [Yah lifts up] § * the prophet was fulfilled, saying,

“They took the thirty pieces of silver, † ‡

which was the price the people of Israel [God prevails]

had agreed to pay him,

10 and used them to buy the potter’s field § *

just as MarYah [Master Yahweh] commanded me.” †

11 ‡ Now Yeshua [Salvation] stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, “Are you the King of the Jews [Praisers]?”

Yeshua [Salvation] said to him, “So you say.”

12 § When he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing. 13 Then Pilate [Armed with javelin] said to him, “Don’t you hear how many things they testify against you?”

14 * He gave him no answer, not even one word, so that the governor marveled greatly. 15 Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release to the multitude one prisoner, whom they desired. 16 They had then a notable prisoner, called Bar-Abba [Son Father]. 17 When therefore they were gathered together, Pilate [Armed with javelin] said to them, “Whom do you want me to release to you? Bar-Abba [Son Father], or Yeshua [Salvation], who is called Messiah [Anointed one]?” 18 For he knew that because of envy they had delivered him up.

19 While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, “Have nothing to do with that upright man, for I have suffered many things today in a dream because of him.” 20 Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for Bar-Abba [Son Father], and destroy Yeshua [Salvation]. 21 But the governor answered them, “Which of the two do you want me to release to you?”

They said, “Bar-Abba [Son Father]!”

22 Pilate [Armed with javelin] said to them, “What then shall I do to Yeshua [Salvation], who is called Messiah [Anointed one]?”

They all said to him, “Put him to death on the stake!”

23 But the governor said, “Why? What evil has he done?”

But they cried out exceedingly, saying, “Death on the stake!”

24 So when Pilate [Armed with javelin] saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this upright person. You see to it.”

25 All the people answered, “May his blood be on us, and on our children!”

26 Then he released to them Bar-Abba [Son Father], but Yeshua [Salvation] he flogged and delivered to be nailed to the execution-stake. 27 Then the governor’s soldiers took Yeshua [Salvation] into the Praetorium, and gathered the whole garrison together against him. 28 They stripped him, and put a scarlet robe on him. 29 They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they knelt down before him, and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews [Praisers]!” 30 † They spat on him, ‡ and took the reed and struck him on the head. 31 When they had mocked him, they took the robe off of him, and put his clothes on him, and led him away to crucify him.

32 As they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simeon [Hearing] by name, and they compelled him to go with them, that he might carry his execution-stake. 33 When they came to a place called “Golgotha,” that means, “The place of a skull,” 34 § they gave him sour wine to drink mixed with gall. When he had tasted it, he would not drink. 35 * When they had nailed him to the stake, they divided his clothing among them, casting lots, † 36 and they sat and watched him there. 37 They set up over his head the accusation against him written, “This Is Yeshua [Salvation], The King of The Jews [Praisers] .”

38 ‡ § Then there were two robbers placed on execution-stakes with him, one on his right hand and one on the left . 39 * Those who passed by blasphemed him, shaking their heads, † 40 and saying, “You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Ben-Elohim ·Son of Elohim God·, come down from the execution-stake!”

41 ‡ § * Likewise the chief priests also mocking, with the Torah-Teachers, the Pharisees [Separated], and the elders, said, 42 † “He saved others, but he can’t save himself. If he is the Melek Isra'el [King of God prevails], let him come down from the execution-stake now, and we will believe in him. 43 ‡ He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; § for he said, ‘I am the Ben-Elohim ·Son of Elohim God·.’ ” 44 The robbers also who were placed on execution-stakes with him cast on him the same reproach.

45 * Now from noon until three o'clock there was darkness over all the land. 46 About three o'clock in the afternoon, † Yeshua [Salvation] cried with a loud voice, saying, ‡ “Eli, Eli, lima sabachthani?” That is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” §

47 Some of them who stood there, when they heard it, said, “This man is calling Elijah [My God Yah].”

48 * Immediately one of them ran, and took a sponge, † and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink. ‡ 49 The rest said, “Let him be. Let’s see whether Elijah [My God Yah] comes to save him.”

50 § Yeshua [Salvation] cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up his spirit. 51 Behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks were split. 52 * The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; 53 and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, they entered into the holy city and appeared to many. 54 Now the centurion, and those who were with him watching Yeshua [Salvation], when they saw the earthquake, and the things that were done, feared exceedingly, saying, “Truly this was the Ben-Elohim ·Son of Elohim God·.”

55 Many women were there watching from afar, who had followed Yeshua [Salvation] from Galilee [District, Circuit], serving him. 56 Among them were Mary of Magdala [Rebellion of City tower], Mary [Rebellion] the mother of James [Surplanter] and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee [Bestowed by Yah]. 57 † When evening had come, a rich man from Arimathaea, named Joseph [May he add], who himself was also Yeshua [Salvation]'s disciple came. 58 This man went to Pilate [Armed with javelin], and asked for Yeshua [Salvation]’s body (Nissan 14). Then Pilate [Armed with javelin] commanded the body to be given up. 59 Joseph [May he add] took the body, and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60 and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out in the rock, and he rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, and departed. 61 Mary of Magdala [Rebellion of City tower] was there, and the other Mary [Rebellion], sitting opposite the tomb. 62 Now on the next day, which was the day after the Preparation Day ‡ (Nissan 15), the chief priests and the Pharisees [Separated] were gathered together to Pilate [Armed with javelin], 63 saying, “Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: ‘After three days I will rise again.’ 64 Command therefore that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest perhaps his disciples come at night and steal him away, and tell the people, ‘He is risen from the dead;’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”

65 Pilate [Armed with javelin] said to them, “You have a guard. Go, make it as secure as you can.” 66 So they went with the guard and made the tomb secure, sealing the stone.

*27:3 MP: Thirty pieces of silver are thrown into the house of the Lord. (Zech 11:12-13)

†27:3 MP: The Messiah’s betrayer will have a short life. (Ps 109:8)

‡27:6 MP: Thirty pieces of silver is used to buy the potter’s field. (Zech 11:12-13)

§27:9 Note: In the Hebrew Bible, the prophetic books are in a different order then Christian Bible. The first book is Jeremiah, not Isaiah. Therefore, a citation of the first book could reference all the prophet books section. Just as quoting the first verse of a chapter refers to the whole chapter (See Matt 27:46 with Ps 22:1)

*27:9 Note: It is agreed upon that the book of Zecheriah chapters 1-8 and 9-14 were written at different points of time. Zecheriah wrote the first section, but it is not known who wrote the second section. Some scholars speculate that Jeremiah wrote the second section because they were contemporaries in history as prophets.

†27:9 Quoted from Zech 11:12-13

‡27:9 Note: 30 pieces of silver was the standard price for purchasing a slave.

§27:10 Quoted from Jer 32:7

*27:10 Hebrew: The term “Potter’s Field,” when it is owned by the Priests, refers to graveyard used for those unnamed, strangers, and gentile people. (See Matt 27:7)

†27:10 Paraphrase Quoted from Jer 32:8

‡27:11 MP: Messiah is oppressed and afflicted but does not speak out in his own defense. (Is 53:7)

§27:12 MP: Messiah, in likeness of a sacrificial lamb, is silent before his accusers. (See also Ps 35:11). (Is 53:7)

*27:14 MP: Messiah will be silent before his accusers. (Ps 38:14)

†27:30 MP: Messiah is spat upon in his face. “I did not hide my face from... spitting”. (Is 50:6)

‡27:30 MP: Smitten “...They will strike Israel’s ruler on the cheek with a reed.” (Mic 5:1)

§27:34 MP: Messiah has gall offered him as food. Gall is a medicinal poison; poisons have a bitter taste and acids, like vinegar, have a sour taste. This mixture has various English simile terms: poisoned water, mixed drink with serpent poison, drinking viper’s poison (Deut 32:32-33; Jer 9:15, 23:15). Gall is a mixture of liver or gallbladder digestive juice, called bile, possibly mixed with poppy seed opium or wormwood. Gall would be offered to a person as an end to pain, cure illness, or overdosing to kill. Ingesting opium, wormwood, or bile is like taking very bitter medicine. Therefore descriptions of eating and drinking the substances are metaphors for very bitter experiences. (See also Ps 22:15). (Ps 69:21, 69:21)

*27:35 MP: The Messiah’s garments are divided; lots are divided; lots are cast for his clothes. (Ps 22:18)

†27:35 Quoted from Ps 22:18

‡27:38 MP: Messiah is surrounded by Gentiles “dogs” at his crucifixion. “Dog” is a derogatory term for non-Jews, Gentiles. New Covenant example of metaphor (Matt 15:21-27). (Ps 22:16)

§27:38 MP: By being killed along with other criminals, Messiah is assigned a grave with the wicked. (Is 53:9)

*27:39 MP: Messiah is mocked by people shaking their heads. (Ps 22:7)

†27:39 Quoted from Ps 22:7

‡27:41 MP: Messiah is surrounded by enemies at his death. (Ps 22:16)

§27:41 MP: The Messiah will not die but be Resurrected, himself being protected by Yahweh. The discipline is not for unrighteousness. (Combined with Is 53:4-5, 53:10-11; Ps 16:10, 30:3, 49:15, 118:17-18). (Ps 118:17-18)

*27:41 MP: Messiah perceived to be cursed by God. (See also Ps 22:1, 118:17-18). (Is 53:4)

†27:42 MP: Messiah trusts Yahweh to maintain faithfulness that he will continue to live and not die under false accusations. (Ps 27:12-13)

‡27:43 MP: Mockers will say of the Messiah, “he trusted God, let Him deliver him.” (Ps 22:8)

§27:43 Quoted from Ps 22:8

*27:45 MP: God will cause the sky to be darkened in the mid-day. Possible illusion to “The day of Yahweh” and the 70th week of Daniel. Roman Historian Thallus cites Roman Historian Phlegon record that in the time of Tiberius Caesar, at full moon (middle of the Hebrew month), there was a full eclipse of the sun from the sixth hour to the ninth hour. (Amos 8:9) Note: The Hebrew Calendar counts twelve hours from sunrise to sunset. This makes the sixth hour about noon, and the ninth hour near three in the afternoon. Skeptic: An eclipse cannot happen during a full moon. Answer: Scientificly that is correct, and historically this was recorded, so it has to be a miracle or nothing. Note: We do not have evidence to denounce the cited Historians as their books no longer exist.

†27:46 MP: When Yeshua quotes the first line, this is traditional Jewish method of making reference to the entire passage, by quoting the first few lines. Because people memorized the Bible back then, the entire passage and context was brought to memory. This is probably why the Rabbis said that Yeshua is calling to Elijah (misdirection) and not quoting Psalm 22:1, because the entire Psalm speaks of this moment. They could see Yeshua's intention for people to compare the Psalm with his current execution. (Ps 22:1 reference to all chapter)

‡27:46 MP: Messiah will cry out to God, “My God! My God! Why have you abandoned me? Why so far from helping me, so far from my anguished cries?” (Ps 22:1)

§27:46 Quoted from Ps 22:1, 27:46. In this time period of Judaism, when the first verse in a section is referenced, this refers to the entire chapter. Therefore the entire chapter of Ps 22 is referred to.

*27:48 MP: Messiah will thirst. (See also Ps 69:21, 69:21). (Ps 22:15)

†27:48 MP: Messiah will thirst and be given vinegar / sour wine to drink. Vinegar is an acid and constricts the throat. Vinegar was used for digestive medicine or possibly to suffocate or lower the vocalizations of victims. If myrrh was added to the sour wine vinegar, the purpose is to act as a pain duller, easing the victim’s sense of pain. Myrrh then is used like morphine is today. (See also Ps 22:15). (Ps 69:21)

‡27:48 Quoted from Ps 69:21

§27:50 MP: Messiah is killed before the destruction of the temple. (Dan 9:26)

*27:52 MP: The dead in Messiah will bodily resurrect at the same time Messiah is resurrected from the dead. (Is 26:19)

†27:57 MP: Buried in a rich man’s grave. Evidence: Raymond Brown comments on Roman attitudes to the bodies of the crucified. The Digest of Justinian 48:24 (200 CE) gives two Roman political legal people’s decisions about criminals executed. Ulpian: “The bodies of those who suffer capital punishment are not to be refused to their relatives.” Julius Paulus adds: “Nor to any who seek them for burial.” Ulpian states this might be refused if the criminal was executed for treason. Therefore Yeshua was not convicted of Roman treason, but likely killed for a political motive. (The Burial of Yeshua Mark 15:42-47 by Raymond Brown (1988)). (Is 53:9)

‡27:62 Preparation Day is Nissan 14, the one day of Passover, the Passover meal is prepared. The next evening begins Nissan 15, the start of Unleavened Bread, a feast for seven days.