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The words in the following puzzle are from part of
Matthew 27:27-54 (see below), the story of the Crucifixion . The clues have the letters of the answer scrambled. Unscramble them
and place them in the puzzle.
Some of the governor's soldiers took Jesus into their headquarters
and called out the entire battalion. They stripped him and put a
scarlet robe on him. They made a crown of long, sharp thorns and put
it on his head, and they placed a stick in his right hand as a
scepter. Then they knelt before him in mockery, yelling, "Hail! King
of the Jews!" And they spit on him and grabbed the stick and beat
him on the head with it. When they were finally tired of mocking
him, they took off the robe and put his own clothes on him again.
Then they led him away to be crucified.
As they were on the way, they came across a man named Simon, who was
from Cyrene, and they forced him to carry Jesus' cross. Then they
went out to a place called Golgotha (which means Skull Hill). The
soldiers gave him wine mixed with bitter gall, but when he had
tasted it, he refused to drink it. After they had nailed him to the
cross, the soldiers gambled for his clothes by throwing dice. Then
they sat around and kept guard as he hung there. A signboard was
fastened to the cross above Jesus' head, announcing the charge
against him. It read: "This is Jesus, the King of the Jews." Two
criminals were crucified with him, their crosses on either side of
his. And the people passing by shouted abuse, shaking their heads in
mockery. "So! You can destroy the Temple and build it again in three
days, can you? Well then, if you are the Son of God, save yourself
and come down from the cross!" The leading priests, the teachers of
religious law, and the other leaders also mocked Jesus. "He saved
others," they scoffed, "but he can't save himself! So he is the king
of Israel, is he? Let him come down from the cross, and we will
believe in him! He trusted God--let God show his approval by
delivering him! For he said, `I am the Son of God.' " And the
criminals who were crucified with him also shouted the same insults
at him. At noon, darkness fell across the whole land until three
o'clock. At about three o'clock, Jesus called out with a loud voice,
"Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?" which means, "My God, my God, why have
you forsaken me?" Some of the bystanders misunderstood and thought
he was calling for the prophet Elijah. One of them ran and filled a
sponge with sour wine, holding it up to him on a stick so he could
drink. But the rest said, "Leave him alone. Let's see whether Elijah
will come and save him." Then Jesus shouted out again, and he gave
up his spirit. At that moment the curtain in the Temple was torn in
two, from top to bottom. The earth shook, rocks split apart, and
tombs opened. The bodies of many godly men and women who had died
were raised from the dead after Jesus' resurrection. They left the
cemetery, went into the holy city of Jerusalem, and appeared to many
people. The Roman officer and the other soldiers at the crucifixion
were terrified by the earthquake and all that had happened. They
said, "Truly, this was the Son of God!"
.New Living Translation
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