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Was it a Good Friday/Weekend for Jesus? Book of Luke NKJV


Luke 22:39-46 Coming out, He went to the Mount of Olives, as He was accustomed, and His disciples also followed Him.

When He came to the place, He said to them, "Pray that you may not enter into temptation."

And He was withdrawn from them about a stone's throw; and He knelt down and prayed.

saying, "Father, if it Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done."

Then the angel appeared to him from heaven, strengthening Him.

And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. Then His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

When He rose up from prayer, and had come to His disciples, He found them sleeping from sorrow.

Then He said to them, "Why do your sleep? Rise and pray, lest you enter into temptation."

Luke 22:63-65 Now the men who held Jesus mocked Him and beat him.

And having blindfolded Him, they struck Him on the face and asked Him, saying, "Prophesy! Who is the one who struck You?"

And many other things they blasphemously spoke against Him.

Luke 23:1-16 Then the whole multitude of them arose and led Him to Pilate.

And they began to accuse Him, saying, "We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to pay taxes to Caesar, saying that He Himself is Christ, a King."

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

So Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowd, "I find no fault in this Man."

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

When Pilate heard of Galilee, he asked if the Man were a Galilean.

And as soon as he knew that He belonged to Herod's jurisdiction, he sent Him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem at that time.

Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad; for he had desired for a long time to see Him, because he had heard many things about Him, and he hoped to see some miracle done by Him.

Then he questioned Him with many words, but He answered him nothing.

And the chief priests and scribes stood and vehemently accused Him.

Then Herod, with his men of war, treated Him with contempt and mocked Him, arrayed Him in a gorgeous robe, and sent Him back to Pilate.

That very day Pilate and Herod became friends with each other, for previously they had been at enmity with each other.

Then Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests, the rulers, and the people,

said to them, "You have brought this Man to me, as won who misleads the people. And indeed, having examined  Him in your presence, I have found no fault in this Man concerning those things of which you accuse Him;

"no, neither did Herod, for I sent you back to him; and indeed nothing deserving of death has been done by Him.

"I will therefore chastise Him and release Him"