Good Friday of the Lord's Passion (March 30, 2018)
Gospel (Joh 18:1-19:42)
Jesus Arrested
1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the valley of the Kidron, where there was a garden, in which he entered with his disciples.
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Gen 2:15
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And the Lord God took the man [with pleasant, enticing words] and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and to guard it.
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Rashi’s Commentary
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Took—He took him with kind words and induced him to enter (Genesis Rabbah 16:3).
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2 Now Judas also, who was betraying him, knew the place, for Jesus had often met there with his disciples.
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3 Judas then, having received the Roman cohort and officials from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with torches and lanterns and weapons.
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4 So Jesus, knowing all the things that were coming upon him, went forth and said to them, “Whom do you seek?”
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5 They answered him, “Jesus the Nazarene.”
He said to them, “I am he.” (And Judas also, who was betraying him, was standing with them.)
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6 So when he said to them, “I am he,” they drew back and fell to the ground.
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7 Therefore he again asked them, “Whom do you seek?”
And they said, “Jesus the Nazarene.”
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8 Jesus answered, “I told you that I am he; so if you seek me, let these go their way,”
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9 to fulfill the word which he spoke: “Of those whom you have given me I lost not one.”
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10 Simon Peter then, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest’s servant, and cut off his right ear; and the servant’s name was Malchus.
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11 So Jesus said to Peter, “Put the sword into the sheath; the cup which the Father has given me, shall I not drink it?”
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12 So the Roman cohort and the commander and the officials of the Jews, arrested Jesus and bound him
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13 and brought him to Annas first; for he was father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.
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14 Now Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jews that it was good for one man to die on behalf of the people.
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Peter’s First Denial
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15 Simon Peter was following Jesus, and so was another disciple. Now that disciple was known to the high priest, and went with Jesus into the courtyard of the high priest,
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16 but Peter was standing at the door outside. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the doorkeeper, and brought Peter in.
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17 Then the slave-girl who kept the door said to Peter, “You are not also one of this man’s disciples, are you?”
He replied, “I am not.”
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18 Now the servants and the officials were standing there, having made a charcoal fire, for it was cold and they were warming themselves; and Peter was also with them, standing and warming himself.
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The High Priest Questions Jesus
19 The high priest then questioned Jesus about his disciples, and about his teaching.
20 Jesus answered him, “I have spoken openly to the world; I always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where all the Jews come together; and I said nothing in secret.
21 Why do you question me? Ask those who have heard what I spoke to them; they know what I said.”
22 When he had said this, one of the officials standing nearby struck Jesus, saying, “Is that the way you answer the high priest?”
23 Jesus answered him, “If I have spoken wrongly, testify of the wrong; but if rightly, why do you strike me?”
24 So Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.
Peter’s Second and Third Denials
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25 Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. So they said to him, “You are not also one of his disciples, are you?”
He denied it, and said, “I am not.”
Gen 18:15
Sarah denied it however, saying, “I did not laugh,” because she was afraid.
And he said, “No, but you did laugh.”
Rashi’s Commentary
Because she was afraid . . . but you did laugh—The first ×›Ö¼Ö´×™ is used in the sense of “because,” giving a reason for the former statement—Sarah denied . . . because she was afraid; the second ×›Ö¼Ö´×™ is used in the meaning of “but”—“And he said, ‘It is not as you say, but you did laugh.’ ” For our Rabbis say (Rosh Hashanah 3a) that the word ×›Ö¼Ö´×™ has four meanings: “if,” “perhaps,” “but,” “because.”
26 One of the servants of the high priest, being a relative of the one whose ear Peter cut off, said, “Did I not see you in the garden with him?”
27 Peter then denied it again, and immediately a rooster crowed.
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Jesus Before Pilate
28 Then they took Jesus from Caiaphas into the Praetorium, and it was early; and they themselves did not enter into the Praetorium so that they would not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.
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29 Therefore Pilate came out to them and asked, “What accusation do you bring against this man?”
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30 They answered and said to him, “If this man were not a criminal, we would not have delivered him to you.”
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31 So Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and judge him according to your law.”
The Jews said to him, “We are not permitted to put anyone to death,”
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32 to fulfill the word of Jesus which he spoke, signifying by what kind of death he was about to die.
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33 Therefore Pilate entered again into the Praetorium, and summoned Jesus and said to him, “Are you the king of the Jews?”
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34 Jesus asked, “Are you saying this on your own initiative, or did others tell you about me?”
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35 Pilate replied. “I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered you to me; what have you done?”
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36 Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, then my servants would be fighting so that I would not be handed over to the Jews; but as it is, my kingdom is not of this place.”
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37 Therefore Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?”
Jesus answered, “You say correctly that I am a king. For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice.”
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38 Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews and said to them, “I find no guilt in him.
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39 But you have a custom that I release someone for you at the Passover; do you wish then that I release for you ‘the king of the Jews’?”
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40 So they cried out again, saying, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber.
Jesus Sentenced to Be Crucified
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1 Pilate then took Jesus and flogged him.
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2 And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and put a purple robe on him;
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3 and they began to come up to him and say, “Hail, king of the Jews!” and to give him slaps in the face.
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4 Pilate came out again and said to them, “Look, I am bringing him out to you so that you may know that I find no guilt in him.”
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5 Jesus then came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Behold, the man!”
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6 So when the chief priests and the officials saw him, they cried out saying, “Crucify! Crucify!”
Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no guilt in him.”
7 The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by that law he ought to die because he made himself out to
be the Son of God.”
8 Therefore when Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid,
9 and he entered into the Praetorium again and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.
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10 So Pilate said to him, “You do not speak to me? Do you not know that I have power to free you, and I have power to crucify you?”
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11 Jesus answered, “You would have no power over me, unless it had been given you from above; for this reason he who delivered me to you has the greater sin.”
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12 As a result of this Pilate made efforts to release him, but the Jews cried out shouting, “If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar. Everyone who makes himself out to be a king opposes Caesar.”
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13 Therefore when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called the Pavement (but in Aramaic, Gabbatha).
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14 Now it was the day of Preparation for the Passover; it was about the sixth hour.
And he said to the Jews, “Behold, your king!”
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15 So they cried out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!”
Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your king?”
The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.”
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16 So he then handed him over to them to be crucified.
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The Crucifixion of Jesus
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17 They took Jesus, therefore, and he went out, carrying his own cross, to the place called the place of the Skull (which is called in Aramaic, Golgotha).
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18 There they crucified him, and with him two other men—one on either side, and Jesus in between.
19 Pilate also prepared a notice and put it on the cross. It was written, JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS.
20 Therefore many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Aramaic, Latin and in Greek.
21 So the chief priests of the Jews were saying to Pilate, “Do not write ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that he said, ‘I am king of the Jews.’ ”
22 Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”
23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his outer clothes and made four shares, a part to every soldier and also the undergarment; now the garment was seamless, woven in one piece.
24 So they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, to decide whose it shall be.”
This was to fulfill the scripture:
“They divided my outer clothes among them
and for my garment they cast lots.”
25 Therefore the soldiers did these things.
But standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
26 When Jesus then saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!”
27 Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” From that hour the disciple took her into his own home.
The Death of Jesus
28 After this, Jesus, knowing that all things had already been finished, to fulfill the Scripture, said, “I am thirsty.”
29 A jar full of sour wine was standing there; so they put a sponge full of the sour wine upon a stalk of
hyssop and brought it up to his mouth.
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30 Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished.” And he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
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31 Then the Jews, because it was the day of Preparation, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special Sabbath), asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
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32 So the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first man and of the other who was crucified with him;
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33 but coming to Jesus, when they found that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.
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34 But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.
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35 And he who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true; and he knows that he is telling the truth, so that you also may believe.
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36 For these things came to pass to fulfill the scripture: “Not a bone of him will be broken.”
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37 And again another scripture says, “They will look on him whom they pierced.”
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The Burial of Jesus
38 After these things Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but a secret one for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate granted permission. So he came and took away his body.
39 Nicodemus, who had first come to him by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds weight.
40 So they took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in linen strips with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.
41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid.
42 Therefore because of the Jewish day of Preparation, since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.
This work is a derivative of "The Rashi Chumash" and "The Rashi Ketuvim" by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein used under CC BY 3.0