Matthew 27
In the morning, the chief priests and elders, having taken counsel against Jesus to put Him to death, bound Jesus and led Him away to Pilate. Judas, who betrayed Jesus, hung himself, casting the thirty pieces of silver on the floor. With them the Jews bought the potters' field.
Pilate asked Him, "Art Thou the King of the Jews?" Jesus answered, 'Thou sayest." Being accused, He answered nothing. While Pilate was on the judgment seat, his wife sent him a message: "Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of Him." Pilate offered to release either Barabbas or Jesus. The people, urged on by the rulers, chose Barabbas. Pilate sentenced Jesus to be crucified, while washing his hands and saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this just person." Then answered all the people, "His blood be on us, and on our children." Barabbas, the murderer, was then released to them.
They stripped Jesus, putting on Him a scarlet robe and on His head a crown of thorns. Jesus would not take anything to relieve His pain as He was crucified. Over His head was placed the written accusation, "This is Jesus the King of the Jews." As they watched Him suffer, they mocked Him, saying, "He saved others; Himself He cannot save. If He be the King of Israel, let Him now come down from the cross, and we will believe Him."
From the sixth hour to the ninth hour there was darkness. Then "Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" When He had cried again with a loud voice, He yielded up His Spirit.
"The veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after His resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many."
The Gentile "centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus... feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God."
The women who ministered to Jesus in Galilee were there watching from a distance. Joseph of Arimathea, a rich man who was Jesus' disciple, begged Pilate to give him the body of Jesus. He prepared the body and laid it in a new tomb, which would have been his own, and rolled a great stone over the opening and departed. Pilate gave permission to the leaders of Israel to set a watch over the tomb.