Luke 23:33

Easy To Read Version

Jesus and the two criminals were led to a place called “The Skull.” There the soldiers nailed Jesus to his cross. They also nailed the criminals to their crosses. They put one criminal beside Jesus on the right, and they put the other criminal beside Jesus on the left.

Cross References

Psalm 22:16

The “dogs” are all around me.\par That pack {\cf2\super [128]} of evil people\par has trapped me.\par Like a lion, \{they have pierced\}\par my hands and my feet.” {\cf2\super [129]} \par

Matthew 20:19

They will give the Son of Man to the non-Jewish people. Those people will laugh at him and beat him with whips, and then they will kill him on a cross. But on the third day after his death, he will be raised to life again.”

Matthew 26:2

“You know that the day after tomorrow is Passover. {\cf2\super [391]} On that day the Son of Man {\cf2\super [392]} will be given \{to his enemies\} to be killed on a cross.”

Luke 24:7

Jesus said that the Son of Man {\cf2\super [387]} must be given to evil men, be killed on a cross, and rise from death on the third day.”

John 18:32

(This happened so that what Jesus said about how he would die would be true.)

John 3:14

“Moses lifted up the snake in the desert. {\cf2\super [49]} It is the same with the Son of Man. The Son of Man must be lifted up too.

Acts 13:29

These Jews did all the bad things that the Scriptures {\cf2\super [270]} said would happen to Jesus. Then they took Jesus down from the cross and put him in a grave.

Acts 2:23

Jesus was given to you, and you killed him. With the help of bad men you nailed Jesus to a cross. But God knew all this would happen. This was God’s plan. God made this plan long ago.

Acts 5:30

You killed Jesus. You hung him on a cross. But God, the same God our fathers {\cf2\super [99]} had, raised Jesus up from death!

Galatians 3:13

The law put a curse on us. But Christ took away that curse. He changed places with us. Christ put himself under that curse. The Scriptures say, “When a person’s body is put (hung) on a tree, {\cf2\super [32]} that person is under a curse.” {\cf2\super [33]}

Deuteronomy 21:23

You must not let that body stay on the tree all night. You must be sure to bury this man on the same day. Why? Because the person that hangs on a tree is cursed by God. You must not ruin the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

1 Peter 2:24

Christ carried our sins in his body on the cross. He did this so that we would stop living for sin and live for what is right. By his (Christ’s) wounds you were healed.