We continue this issue to the Systematic Study of the New Testament, which includes the study of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and the book of Acts. The study is based on the Portuguese version of the New Testament that the reader can see from this link: http://www.bibliaonline.com.br/asv/mc/1. 

Relevant answers to questions are at the end of the text below. 

Questions 

1. As predicted by Jesus, Peter effectively betrayed him that night. How often and how Peter betrayed him?

2. Questioned by his inquisitors that he was the Christ, Jesus gave them that answer?

3. Who were and who were the wrongdoers behavior crucified next to Christ? 4. What time and how they took the death of Jesus?

5. How did Jesus' followers from the news that he raised? 

Text for reading 

55. Judas is worth a kiss to betray Jesus - After praying on the Mount of Olives, moments before being handed over by Judas, Jesus stood up and saw that his disciples were sleeping in sorrow. Then he told them: "Why are you sleeping? Arise, and pray, that ye enter not into temptation. " He was still talking when there was a crowd, and one of the twelve, called Judas, who went before her, came over to kiss him. The Master looked at him and told him: "Judas with a kiss betray the Son of man?" In this, one of the apostles, to defend him, the sword struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his right ear. Jesus said to them: "Let them thus far." And he touched the boy's ear and healed him. Addressing then to the chief priests, captains of the temple and elders who had gone against him, the Master told them: "Did you go out like a thief, with swords and clubs? I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me, but this is your hour and the power of darkness. " Jesus was then arrested and taken to the high priest's house, while Peter followed at a distance to everything. (Luke 22:45 to 22:54.) 

56. Caters to the crowd and Pilate hands Jesus over to the fury of the people - after being prompted by the elders of the people, the chief priests and scribes, Jesus was led by them to Pilate, before whom they began to accuse him, saying: "We have found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ a King. " Pilate asked him: "Thou art the King of the Jews?" He answered and said unto him: Thou sayest. " Pilate then said to the priests and the crowd did not see any fault in him, but they insisted, saying that Jesus stir up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee to here. Pilate then sent him to Herod, since Jesus was a Galilean. Returned to the presence of the governor, Pilate called together the chief priests, the magistrates and people, and said, "You have shown me how this man perverts the people: and behold, examining it in your presence, no fault in that to accuse, I think this man. Even Herod, because I sent you to him, and behold, they have not done anything worthy of death. I will chastise him therefore and loosen him up. " But the crowd cried with one voice, saying: "Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas", referring to the man who was cast into prison because of a sedition made in the city and for murder. Pilate said to them, then again, wanting to release Jesus, but otherwise they cried, saying, "Crucify him, crucify him." Pilate tried a third time to convince the mob, saying, "What evil has he done? I do not think it cause of death. I will chastise him therefore and loosen him up. " The crowd insisted, however, with loud voices, asking that Jesus be crucified, and their cries and the chief priests redoubled. Pilate thought he had to serve them, releasing Barabbas and delivering Jesus to their will. (Luke 23:1 to 23:25.) 

57. Simon of Cyrene, to carry the cross for Christ - On the path to crucifixion, they took a certain Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, and laid on him the cross, to bear it. Followed him a great multitude of people and of women who bewailed and lamented him. But Jesus turning to them said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. For behold, the days are coming in who say, 'Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore, and breasts which never nursed! Then begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us and to the hills: Cover us. Because if you do it the green tree, what shall be done in the dry? "(Luke 23:26 to 23:31.) 

58. Joseph of Arimathea takes care of the grave of Christ - A crowd of people who watched the crucifixion of Jesus, seeing what had happened, returned smiting their breasts. The acquaintance, and women who had followed him from Galilee to turn away everything that happened. Then a man named Joseph of Arimathea, who was a senator, a good and righteous man, who had not consented to the acts of others and also waited for the kingdom of God, went to Pilate and begged the body of the Master. Pilate agreed. Joseph wrapped it in linen and then placed in a tomb hewn in stone, where no one had yet been laid. The day of preparation has already ended, and the sabbath drew on. The women who followed Christ from Galilee and saw where Joseph put the body and returned, and prepared spices and ointments that would be applied on the body of Jesus. Before that, however, rested on Saturday, according to the command, scheduling the task to the dawn of Sunday. (Luke 23:48 to 23:56.) 

59. Jesus appeared to the apostles, and Bless - After appearing in two of his disciples on the road to Emmaus, which was distant sixty furlongs from Jerusalem, Jesus stood in the middle of the eleven Apostles gathered in Jerusalem, and told them: "Peace be unto you." Stunned and frightened, they thought they saw a spirit, but he told them: "Why are you troubled, and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?" "Behold my hands and my feet, that I myself: handle Me and see, for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. "And so saying, he showed them his hands and feet, asking them if there was something to eat. The disciples gave him a piece of a broiled fish and a honeycomb, which he took and ate before them. Then Jesus said to them: "These are the words that you said was yet with you: What needs have been fulfilled all that from me were written in the law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms." Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, adding: "It is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and the third day rise from the dead, and his name will preach repentance and remission of sins, in all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And ye are witnesses of these things. And behold, I send upon you the promise of my Father: but stay in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with the highest power. " That said, Jesus led them to Bethany, and lifted his hands and blessed them. It just so happened that as he blessed them, he parted from them and was raised to the sky. The apostles made then with great joy to Jerusalem and were always in the temple praising and blessing God. (Luke 00:33 to 00:53.)

 Answers to questions 

1. As predicted by Jesus, Peter effectively betrayed him that night. How often and how Peter betrayed him?  

Peter had told him: Lord, I'm ready to go with thee to prison and to death. But Jesus answered, I tell thee, Peter, the rooster will not crow today before three times deny that you know me. There was exactly what Jesus predicted. The first denial came when he was in the house of the high priest and a group of people, including Peter, was in the courtyard. A maid saw him sitting at the fire, said: This man was with him. But he denied it, saying, Woman, do not know. Shortly after seeing him, another said, Thou art also of them. But Peter said, Man, I'm not. After almost an hour, said another, saying, "This truly was with him, for he too is a Galilean. But Peter again denied it, saying: Man, I do not know what you mean. And immediately, while he yet spake, the cock crowed. At that moment, Jesus looked at Peter, and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, and went outside and wept bitterly. (Luke 22:54 to 22:62. See also Luke 22:34.) 

2. Questioned by his inquisitors that he was the Christ, Jesus gave them that answer?  

At dawn, gathered together the elders of the people and the chief priests and scribes, and led him into their council, and asked him, Art thou the Christ? Jesus replied: If I tell you will not believe, and also, if you ask, not answer me, nor let me go. Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right of the power of God. They then insisted on the question, Art thou then the Son of God? He said unto them, Ye say that I am. And they said, they need more evidence? for we ourselves have heard from his mouth. (Luke 22:63 to 22:71.) 

3. Who were and who were the wrongdoers behavior crucified next to Christ?  

Luke says only that there were two robbers who were crucified and conducted there, one right and one on the left of Jesus. At one point Jesus said, Father, forgive them for they know not what they do. The people just stared, but the rulers scoffed, saying, He saved others, save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God. Same behavior were the soldiers who mocked him and said: If thou be the King of the Jews, save thyself. At this point, one of the criminals also blasphemed, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us. The other, however, rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, in the same condemnation? We indeed justly, for we receive the reward of our deeds: but this man has done. And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom. Jesus answered, Verily I say to you today will be with me in Paradise. (Luke 23:32 to 23:43.) 

4. What time and how they took the death of Jesus?  

It was about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour, when the sun was darkened, and tore through the veil of the temple. At that moment, crying with a loud voice, Jesus said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. And having said this, he expired. (Luke 23:44 to 23:47.) 

5. How did Jesus' followers from the news that he raised? 

On the first day of the week, at dawn, Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and others that were with them, went to the tomb bringing the spices they had prepared, but they found the stone rolled away, and entering, not found the body of the Lord Jesus. Behold, two men stood by them in shining garments, and said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here but risen. Remember how you said, was yet in Galilee, saying, The Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and raised the third day. They remembered those words and returned from the sepulcher, and told all these things to the eleven and to all others, but they did not believe in what they're told. Then later, Jesus stood among them and said unto them, Peace be unto you. And they were terrified and frightened, thought they saw a spirit. (Luke 24:2 to 24:18. See also 24:28 to 24:38.)