| 1 | And having risen, the whole multitude of them did lead him to Pilate, |
| 2 | and began to accuse him, saying, `This one we found perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying himself to be Christ a king.` |
| 3 | And Pilate questioned him, saying, `Thou art the king of the Jews?` and he answering him, said, `Thou dost say [it].` |
| 4 | And Pilate said unto the chief priests, and the multitude, `I find no fault in this man;` |
| 5 | and they were the more urgent, saying -- `He doth stir up the people, teaching throughout the whole of Judea -- having begun from Galilee -- unto this place.` |
| 6 | And Pilate having heard of Galilee, questioned if the man is a Galilean, |
| 7 | and having known that he is from the jurisdiction of Herod, he sent him back unto Herod, he being also in Jerusalem in those days. |
| 8 | And Herod having seen Jesus did rejoice exceedingly, for he was wishing for a long [time] to see him, because of hearing many things about him, and he was hoping some sign to see done by him, |
| 9 | and was questioning him in many words, and he answered him nothing. |
| 10 | And the chief priests and the scribes stood vehemently accusing him, |
| 11 | and Herod with his soldiers having set him at nought, and having mocked, having put around him gorgeous apparel, did send him back to Pilate, |
| 12 | and both Pilate and Herod became friends on that day with one another, for they were before at enmity between themselves. |
| 13 | And Pilate having called together the chief priests, and the rulers, and the people, |
| 14 | said unto them, `Ye brought to me this man as perverting the people, and lo, I before you having examined, found in this man no fault in those things ye bring forward against him; |
| 15 | no, nor yet Herod, for I sent you back unto him, and lo, nothing worthy of death is having been done by him; |
| 16 | having chastised, therefore, I will release him,` |
| 17 | for it was necessary for him to release to them one at every feast, |
| 18 | and they cried out -- the whole multitude -- saying, `Away with this one, and release to us Barabbas,` |
| 19 | who had been, because of a certain sedition made in the city, and murder, cast into prison. |
| 20 | Pilate again then -- wishing to release Jesus -- called to them, |
| 21 | but they were calling out, saying, `Crucify, crucify him.` |
| 22 | And he a third time said unto them, `Why, what evil did he? no cause of death did I find in him; having chastised him, then, I will release [him].` |
| 23 | And they were pressing with loud voices asking him to be crucified, and their voices, and those of the chief priests, were prevailing, |
| 24 | and Pilate gave judgment for their request being done, |
| 25 | and he released him who because of sedition and murder hath been cast into the prison, whom they were asking, and Jesus he gave up to their will. |
| 26 | And as they led him away, having taken hold on Simon, a certain Cyrenian, coming from the field, they put on him the cross, to bear [it] behind Jesus. |
| 27 | And there was following him a great multitude of the people, and of women, who also were beating themselves and lamenting him, |
| 28 | and Jesus having turned unto them, said, `Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but for yourselves weep ye, and for your children; |
| 29 | for, lo, days do come, in which they shall say, Happy the barren, and wombs that did not bare, and paps that did not give suck; |
| 30 | then they shall begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us, and to the hills, Cover us; -- |
| 31 | for, if in the green tree they do these things -- in the dry what may happen?` |
| 32 | And there were also others -- two evil-doers -- with him, to be put to death; |
| 33 | and when they came to the place that is called Skull, there they crucified him and the evil-doers, one on the right hand and one on the left. |
| 34 | And Jesus said, `Father, forgive them, for they have not known what they do;` and parting his garments they cast a lot. |
| 35 | And the people were standing, looking on, and the rulers also were sneering with them, saying, `Others he saved, let him save himself, if this be the Christ, the choice one of God.` |
| 36 | And mocking him also were the soldiers, coming near and offering vinegar to him, |
| 37 | and saying, `If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.` |
| 38 | And there was also a superscription written over him, in letters of Greek, and Roman, and Hebrew, `This is the King of the Jews.` |
| 39 | And one of the evil-doers who were hanged, was speaking evil of him, saying, `If thou be the Christ, save thyself and us.` |
| 40 | And the other answering, was rebuking him, saying, `Dost thou not even fear God, that thou art in the same judgment? |
| 41 | and we indeed righteously, for things worthy of what we did we receive back, but this one did nothing out of place;` |
| 42 | and he said to Jesus, `Remember me, lord, when thou mayest come in thy reign;` |
| 43 | and Jesus said to him, `Verily I say to thee, To-day with me thou shalt be in the paradise.` |
| 44 | And it was, as it were, the sixth hour, and darkness came over all the land till the ninth hour, |
| 45 | and the sun was darkened, and the vail of the sanctuary was rent in the midst, |
| 46 | and having cried with a loud voice, Jesus said, `Father, to Thy hands I commit my spirit;` and these things having said, he breathed forth the spirit. |
| 47 | And the centurion having seen what was done, did glorify God, saying, `Really this man was righteous;` |
| 48 | and all the multitudes who were come together to this sight, beholding the things that came to pass, smiting their breasts did turn back; |
| 49 | and all his acquaintances stood afar off, and women who did follow him from Galilee, beholding these things. |
| 50 | And lo, a man, by name Joseph, being a counsellor, a man good and righteous, |
| 51 | -- he was not consenting to their counsel and deed -- from Arimathea, a city of the Jews, who also himself was expecting the reign of God, |
| 52 | he, having gone near to Pilate, asked the body of Jesus, |
| 53 | and having taken it down, he wrapped it in fine linen, and placed it in a tomb hewn out, where no one was yet laid. |
| 54 | And the day was a preparation, and sabbath was approaching, |
| 55 | and the women also who have come with him out of Galilee having followed after, beheld the tomb, and how his body was placed, |
| 56 | and having turned back, they made ready spices and ointments, and on the sabbath, indeed, they rested, according to the command. |
