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for it was cold; and they were warming themselves: and Peter also was with them, standing and warming himself.

The high priest therefore asked Jesus of his disciples, 20 and of his teaching. Jesus answered him, I have spoken openly to the world; I ever taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where all the Jews come together; and in 21 secret spake I nothing. Why askest thou me? ask them that have heard me, what I spake unto them: behold, these know the things which 22 I said. And when he had said this, one of the officers standing by struck Jesus 2 with his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest 23 so? Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: but if well, 24 why smitest thou me? Annas therefore sent him bound unto Caiaphas the high priest.

from Caiaphas into the palace: and it was early; and they themselves entered not into the palace, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the passover. Pi- 29 late therefore went out unto them, and saith, What accusation bring ye against this man? They answered and 30 said unto him, If this man were not an evil-doer, we should not have delivered him up unto thee. Pilate 31 therefore said unto them, Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law. The Jews said unto him, It is not lawful for us to put any man to death: that the word of Jesus might 32 be fulfilled, which he spake, signifying by what manner of death he should die.

Pilate therefore entered 33 again into the palace, and called Jesus, and said unto him, Art thou the King of the Jews? Jesus answered, 34 Sayest thou this of thyself, or did others tell it thee concerning me? Pilate answered, 35 Am I a Jew? Thine own nation and the chief priests delivered thee unto me: what hast thou done? Jesus an- 36 swered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my 5servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence. Pilate therefore said

Prætorium.

3 Gr. bondservants.

unto 37

4 Gr.

him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, 1 Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end have I been born, and to this end am I come into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth hear38 eth my voice. Pilate saith unto him, What is truth?

And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I 39 find no crime in him. But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the 40 King of the Jews? They cried out therefore again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.

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Then Pilate therefore took 2 Jesus, and scourged him. And the soldiers plaited a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and arrayed him in a 3 purple garment; and they came unto him, and said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they struck him 2 with their 4 hands. And Pilate went out again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him out to you, that ye may know that I 5 find no crime in him. Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold, the 6 man!

When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him.

Pilate saith unto them, Take him yourselves, and crucify him: for I find no crime in him.

The Jews answered 7 him, We have a law, and by that law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God. When Pilate 8 therefore heard this saying, he was the more afraid; and 9 he entered into the palace again, and saith unto Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer. Pilate 10 therefore saith unto him, Speakest thou not unto me? knowest thou not that I have power to release thee, and have power to crucify thee? Jesus answered him, Thou 11 wouldest have no power against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath greater sin. Upon this Pilate sought to 12 release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou release this man, thou art not Cæsar's friend: every one that maketh himself a king 5 speaketh against Cæsar. When Pilate therefore heard 13 these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgement-seat at a place called The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha. Now it 14 was the Preparation of the passover: it was about the sixth hour. And he saith unto the Jews, Behold, your King! They therefore cried 15 out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate

2 Or, with rods 5 Ör, opposeth Cæsar

3 Gr.

saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Cæsar. 16 Then therefore he delivered him unto them to be crucified. 17 They took Jesus therefore: and he went out, bearing the cross for himself, unto the place called The place of a skull, which is called in He18 brew Golgotha: where they crucified him, and with him two others, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst. 19 And Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. And there was written, JESUS OF

NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE 20 JEWS. This title therefore read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and in Latin, and in Greek. 21 The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but, that he said, I am King 22 of the Jews. Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.

scripture might be fulfilled,
which saith,

They parted my garments
among them,

And upon my vesture did
they cast lots.

These things therefore the
soldiers did. But there were 25
standing by the cross of Jesus
his mother, and his mother's
sister, Mary the wife of Clo-
pas, and Mary Magdalene.
When Jesus therefore saw 26
his mother, and the disciple
standing by, whom he loved,
he saith unto his mother,
Woman, behold, thy son!
Then saith he to the disciple, 27
Behold, thy mother! And
from that hour the disciple
took her unto his own home.

now

After this Jesus, knowing 28 that all things are finished, that the scripture might be accomplished, saith, I thirst. There was set there 29 a vessel full of vinegar: so they put a sponge full of the vinegar upon hyssop, and brought it to his mouth. When Jesus therefore had 30 received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.

The Jews therefore, because 31 it was the Preparation, that the bodies should not remain on the cross upon the sabbath (for the day of that sabbath was a high day), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. The soldiers 32

therefore came, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified 33 with him: but when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they 34 brake not his legs: howbeit one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and straightway there came out 35 blood and water. And he that hath seen hath borne witness, and his witness is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye also 36 may believe. For these things came to pass, that the scripture might be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be 1broken. 37 And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.

38 And after these things Joseph of Arimathæa, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took 39 away his body. And there came also Nicodemus, he who at the first came to him by night, bringing a 2mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a 40 hundred pound weight. So they took the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom 41 of the Jews is to bury. Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new tomb wherein was never man yet 42 laid. There then because

1 Or, crushed

of the Jews' Preparation (for the tomb was nigh at hand) they laid Jesus.

Now on the first day of the 1 20 week cometh Mary Magdalene early, while it was yet dark, unto the tomb, and seeth the stone taken away from the tomb. She runneth therefore, 2 and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we know not where they have laid him. Peter therefore went forth, 3 and the other disciple, and they went toward the tomb. And they ran both together: 4 and the other disciple outran Peter, and came first to the tomb; and stooping and look-5 ing in, he seeth the linen cloths lying; yet entered he not in. Simon Peter there- 6 fore also cometh, following him, and entered into the tomb; and he beholdeth the linen cloths lying, and the 7 napkin, that was upon his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself. Then entered 8 in therefore the other disciple also, which came first to the tomb, and he saw, and believed. For as yet they knew 9 not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead. So the disciples went 10. away again unto their own home.

But Mary was standing 11 without at the tomb weeping: