not be delivered to the Jews; but now is my king37 dom not from hence. Pilate therefore said to him:

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Art thou a king then? Jesus answered: Thou sayest it; for I am a king. To this end have I been born, and to this end have I come into the world, that I may bear witness to the truth. Every one that is of the truth hears my voice.

Pilate says to him, What is truth? And having said this, he went out again to the Jews, and says 39 to them, I find no fault in him. But ye have a custom, that I should release to you one at the passover. Do ye desire therefore that I release to you 40 the King of the Jews? They all therefore cried out again, saying: Not this one, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.

1 XIX. THEN therefore Pilate took Jesus, and 2 scourged him. And the soldiers platted a crown

of thorns, and put it on his head, and put on him a 3 purple robe; and they came to him, and said: Hail, King of the Jews! And they gave him blows on the face.

4 Pilate went forth again, and says to them: Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know 5 that I find no fault in him. Jesus therefore came forth, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And he says to them, Behold the man! 6 When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, saying: Crucify him, crucify

him. Pilate says to them: Do ye take him, and crucify him; for I find no fault in him. The Jews 7 answered him: We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God. When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was 8 the more afraid. And he went again into the palace, 9 and says to Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer. Then says Pilate to him: 10 Dost thou not speak to me? Knowest thou not that I have power to release thee, and have power to crucify thee? Jesus answered: Thou wouldst 11 have no power against me, except it were given thee from above. Therefore he that delivers me to thee has the greater sin. Thenceforth Pilate sought to 12 release him. But the Jews cried out, saying: If thou let this man go, thou art not a friend of Cæsar. Whosoever makes himself a king speaks against Cæsar.

When therefore Pilate heard these words, he 13 brought Jesus forth, and sat down on the judgment seat in a place called the Pavement, and in Hebrew, Gabbatha. And it was the preparation of the pass- 14 over, and about the sixth hour. And he says to the Jews, Behold your king! But they cried out, Away 15 with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate says

to them, Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Cæsar. Then 16 therefore he delivered him to them to be crucified.

And they took Jesus, and led him away.

17 And bearing his cross he went forth into the place called the place of a skull, which in Hebrew is called 18 Golgotha; where they crucified him, and two others

with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst. 19 And Pilate also wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.

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

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Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part, and also his coat.

Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. 24 They said therefore to one another: Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be; that the scripture might be fulfilled which says: They parted my garments among them, and for my vesture they cast lots.

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These things the soldiers did. And there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary 26 the Magdalene. Jesus therefore seeing his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing by, says 27 to his mother: Woman, behold thy son! Then he

says to the disciple: Behold thy mother! And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.

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

The Jews therefore, since it was the preparation, 31 that the bodies might not remain upon the cross on the sabbath, (for that sabbath day was a great day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. came, and brake the legs of the other who was crucified with him.

So the soldiers 32 first, and of the

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came to Jesus, and saw that he was already dead, they brake not his legs. But one of the soldiers 34 with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith there came out blood and water.

And he that has seen has borne witness, and his 35 witness is true and he knows that he says what is true, that ye also might believe. For these things 36 came to pass, that the scripture might be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken. And again another 37 scripture says, They shall look on him whom they pierced.

And after this, Joseph from Arimathea, being a 38

disciple of Jesus but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave him leave. He came 39 therefore, and took away the body of Jesus. And there came also Nicodemus, who at the first came to Jesus by night, bringing a mixture of myrrh and 40 aloes, about a hundred pounds weight. Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the custom of the Jews to prepare for burial.

41 Now in the place where he was crucified there

was a garden, and in the garden a new sepulchre, 42 wherein no one was yet laid. There they laid Jesus therefore, on account of the preparation of the Jews, because the sepulchre was nigh at hand.

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XX. Now on the first day of the week comes Mary the Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, to the sepulchre, and sees the stone taken away from 2 the sepulchre. She runs therefore and comes to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and says to them: They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.

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Peter therefore went forth, and the other disciple, 4 and they went to the sepulchre. And the two ran together; and the other disciple outran Peter, and 5 came first to the sepulchre. And stooping down he sees the linen cloths lying; yet went he not in.