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¹ AND immediately in the morning the high priests took counsel together with the elders and the scribes and with the whole council; and they bound Jesus and took him away, and delivered him to Pilate the governor.² And Pilate asked him, Are you the King of the Jews? He answered and said to him, You say that.³ And the high priests accused him of many things.⁴ Then Pilate asked again and said to him, Do you not answer? see, how many are testifying against you.⁵ But Jesus gave no answer, so that Pilate marvelled.⁶ Now it was the custom on every feast to release to them one prisoner, whom they asked for.⁷ There was one called Bar-Abbas, who was bound with those who made insurrection, and who had committed murder during the insurrection.⁸ And the people cried out, and began to ask, to do for them according to the custom.⁹ Pilate answered and said, Are you willing that I release to you the King of the Jews?¹⁰ For Pilate knew that the high priests had delivered him because of envy.¹¹ But the high priests incited the people the more, that he should release Bar-Abbas to them.¹² Pilate said to them, What then do you wish me to do to this man whom you call the King of the Jews?¹³ And they cried out again, Crucify him!¹⁴ Then Pilate said to them, What evil has he done? but they cried aloud the more, Crucify him!

¹⁵ Now Pilate wanted to do the will of the people; so he released Bar-Abbas to them, and he delivered to them Jesus, scourged, to be crucified.¹⁶ Then the soldiers took him to the inner courtyard, which is the Praetorium; and they called together the whole company.¹⁷ And they dressed him in purple, and wove a crown of thorns and put it on him.¹⁸ And they began to salute him, Hail, O King of the Jews.¹⁹ And they stuck him on his head with a reed, and spat on his face, and knelt on their knees and worshipped him.²⁰ And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple, and put on him his own clothes, and took him out to crucify him.²¹ And they compelled one who was passing by, Simon the Cyrenian, who was coming from the field, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross.

²² And they brought him to Golgotha, a place which is interpreted The Skull.²³ And they gave him to drink wine mixed with myrrh; but he would not take it.²⁴ And when they had crucified him, they divided his clothes, and cast lots on them, what each man should take.²⁵ It was the third hour when they crucified him.²⁶ And the reason for his death was inscribed in writing, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.²⁷ And they crucified with him two bandits, one on his right and one on his left.²⁸ And the scripture was fulfilled which said, He was reckoned with the wicked.²⁹ Even those who passed by blasphemed against him, nodding their heads and saying, O destroyer of the temple and builder of it in three days,³⁰ Deliver yourself and come down from the cross.³¹ The high priests likewise were laughing among themselves, with the scribes, and saying, He saved others; but he cannot save himself.³² O Christ, the King of Israel! let him now come down from the cross, so that we may see and believe in him. Even those who were crucified with him reproached him.

³³ And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over all the land, until the ninth hour.³⁴ And at the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and said, Eli, Eli, Lmana, shabachthani! which means, My God, my God, for this I was kept!³⁵ Some of the men who were standing by, when they heard it, said, He called for Elijah.³⁶ And one ran and filled a sponge with vinegar, and tied it on a reed to give him a drink; and he said, Hush, let us see if Elijah will come to take him down.³⁷ But Jesus cried with a loud voice, and the end came.³⁸ And the door curtains of the temple were rent in two, from the top to the bottom.³⁹ And when the centurion, who stood by near him, saw that he cried out in this manner and passed away, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God.⁴⁰ There were also women who were looking from afar, Mary of Magdala, and Mary the mother of James the young and of Joses, and Salome;⁴¹ Who had followed him, when he was in Galilee, and ministered to him; and many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem.

⁴² And when it was Friday evening, which is before the sabbath,⁴³ There came Joseph of Arimathaea, an honorable counsellor, who was also waiting for the kingdom of God; and he dared and went to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus.⁴⁴ But Pilate marvelled that he was already dead. So he called the centurion and asked him if he had died before the time.⁴⁵ And when he learned it, he gave the body to Joseph.⁴⁶ And Joseph bought linen, and took him down and wrapped him in it, and laid him in a tomb which was hewn in a rock; and he rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.⁴⁷ But Mary of Magdala and Mary the mother of Joses, saw where he was laid.