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¹ And anone in the dawnyng, the hye priestes held a councel, with the elders, and the scribes, and the whole congregation, and bound Iesus, and ledde hym away, and deliuered hym to Pilate.² And Pilate asked hym: Art thou the kyng of the Iewes? And he aunswered and sayde vnto hym: thou sayest it?³ And the hye priestes accused hym of many thynges.⁴ So Pilate asked hym agayne, saying: Aunswerest thou nothyng? Beholde, howe many thynges they witnesse agaynst thee.⁵ Iesus yet aunswered nothyng, so that Pilate marueyled.⁶ At that feast, Pilate dyd delyuer vnto them a prisoner, whomsoeuer they woulde desire.⁷ And there was one, that was named Barabbas, which lay bounde, with them that made insurrection: Which [men] had committed murther also in the insurrection.⁸ And the people crying aloude, began to desire [hym] that he woulde do, according as he had euer done vnto them.⁹ Pilate aunswered them, saying: Wyll ye that I let loose vnto you the kyng of the Iewes?¹⁰ For he knewe, that the hye priestes had delyuered hym of enuie.¹¹ But the hye priestes moued the people, that he shoulde rather delyuer Barabbas vnto them.¹² Pilate aunswered agayne, and sayde vnto them: What wyll ye then that I do vnto hym, whom ye call the kyng of the Iewes?¹³ And they cryed agayne, crucifie hym.¹⁴ Pilate sayde vnto them: What euyll hath he done? And they cryed the more feruently, crucifie hym.

¹⁵ And so Pilate, wyllyng to content the people, let loose Barabbas vnto them, and deliuered vp Iesus, when he had scourged hym, for to be crucified.¹⁶ And the souldiers led hym away, into the hall, called Pr?torium, and called together the whole bande [of souldiers:]¹⁷ And they clothed hym with purple, and they platted a crowne of thornes, and crowned hym withall,¹⁸ And began to salute hym: Hayle kyng of the Iewes.¹⁹ And they smote hym on the head with a reede, & did spit vpon him, and bowed their knees, and worshipped hym.²⁰ And when they had mocked hym, they toke the purple of hym, and put his owne clothes on hym, and led hym out to crucifie hym.²¹ And they compelled one that passed by, called Simon of Cyrene (commyng out of the fielde, the father of Alexander and Rufus) to beare his crosse.

²² And they brought hym to a place named Golgotha, which is, if a man interprete it, the place of [dead mens] sculles.²³ And they gaue hym to drynke, wyne myngled with myrre: but he receaued it not.²⁴ And when they had crucified hym, they parted his garmentes, castyng lottes vpon them, what euery man shoulde take.²⁵ And it was the thyrde houre, and they crucified hym.²⁶ And the title of his cause was written: THE KYNG OF THE IEVVES.²⁷ And they crucifed with hym two thieues: the one on the ryght hande, and the other on his left.²⁸ And the Scripture was fulfylled which sayth: He was counted among the wycked.²⁹ And they that went by, rayled on him, wagging their heades, and saying: A wretche, thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three dayes,³⁰ Saue thy selfe, and come downe from the crosse.³¹ Lykewyse also mocked hym the hye priestes among them selues, with the scribes, and sayde: He saued other men, hym selfe he can not saue.³² Let Christe the kyng of Israel descende nowe from the crosse, that we may see, and beleue. And they that were crucified with hym, checked hym also.

³³ And when the sixth houre was come, darknesse arose ouer all the earth, vntill the nynth houre.³⁴ And at the nynth houre, Iesus cryed with a loude voyce, saying: Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, yf one interprete it, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?³⁵ And some of them that stoode by, whe they hearde that, sayde: Beholde, he calleth for Elias.³⁶ And one ran, and fylled a spunge full of vineger, and put it on a reede, & gaue hym to drynke, saying: let hym alone, let vs see whether Elias wyll come and take hym downe.³⁷ But Iesus cryed with a loude voyce, and gaue vp the ghost.³⁸ And the vayle of the temple dyd rent in two peeces, from the toppe to the bottome.³⁹ And when the Centurion, which stoode before hym, sawe, that he so cryed, and gaue vp the ghost, he sayde: Truely this man was the sonne of God.⁴⁰ There were also women a good way of, beholdyng hym: among whom was Marie Magdalene, and Marie the mother of Iames the litle, and of Ioses, and Salome.⁴¹ Which also when he was in Galilee, had folowed hym, and ministred vnto hym: and many other women, which came vp with hym vnto Hierusalem.

⁴² And nowe when the euen was come, (because it was the day of preparyng, that goeth before the Sabboth)⁴³ Ioseph [of the citie] of Aramathia, a noble councellour, which also loked for the kyngdome of God, came, and went in boldely vnto Pilate, and begged of hym the body of Iesu.⁴⁴ And Pilate marueyled that he was alredy dead: and called vnto hym the Centurion, and asked of hym, whether he had ben any whyle dead.⁴⁵ And when he knewe the trueth of the Centurion, he gaue the body to Ioseph.⁴⁶ And he bought a lynnen cloth, & toke hym downe, and wrapped hym in the lynnen cloth, & layde him in a sepulchre, that was hewe out of the rocke, & roulled a stone vnto the doore of ye sepulchre.⁴⁷ And Marie Magdalene, and Marie Ioses, behelde where he was layde.