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¹ And immediately, in the morning, the chief priests having made a consultation with the elders, and scribes, and the whole Sanhedrin, having bound Jesus, led [Him] away, and delivered [Him] to Pilate;² and Pilate questioned Him, "Are You the King of the Jews?" And He answering said to him, "You say [it]."³ And the chief priests were accusing Him of many things, [but He answered nothing.]⁴ And Pilate again questioned Him, saying, "You do not answer anything? Behold, how many things they testify against You!"⁵ And Jesus no longer answered anything, so that Pilate wondered.⁶ And at every celebration he was releasing to them one prisoner, whomsoever they were asking for;⁷ and there was [one] named Barabbas, bound with those making insurrection with him, who had committed murder in the insurrection.⁸ And the multitude having cried out, began to ask for themselves as he was always doing to them,⁹ and Pilate answered them, saying, "Will you [that] I will release to you the King of the Jews?"¹⁰ For he knew that the chief priests had delivered Him up because of envy;¹¹ and the chief priests moved the multitude that he might rather release Barabbas to them.¹² And Pilate answering, again said to them, "What, then, will you [that] I will do to Him whom you call King of the Jews?"¹³ And they again cried out, "Crucify Him!"¹⁴ And Pilate said to them, "Why—what evil did He do?" And they cried out the more vehemently, "Crucify Him!"

¹⁵ And Pilate, resolving to do that which [was] satisfactory to the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and delivered up Jesus—having scourged [Him]—that He might be crucified.¹⁶ And the soldiers led Him away into the hall, which is [the] Praetorium, and call together the whole band,¹⁷ and clothe Him with purple, and having plaited a garland of thorns, they put [it] on Him,¹⁸ and began to greet Him, "Hail, King of the Jews!"¹⁹ And they were striking Him on the head with a reed, and were spitting on Him, and having bent the knee, were prostrating to Him,²⁰ and when they [had] mocked Him, they took the purple from off Him, and clothed Him in His own garments, and they led Him forth, that they may crucify Him.²¹ And they impress a certain one passing by—Simon, a Cyrenian, coming from the field, the father of Alexander and Rufus—that he may carry His cross,

²² and they bring Him to the place [called] Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, "Place of [the] Skull";²³ and they were giving Him wine mingled with myrrh to drink, and He did not receive [it].²⁴ And having crucified Him, they were dividing His garments, casting a lot on them, what each may take;²⁵ and it was the third hour, and they crucified Him;²⁶ and the inscription of His accusation was written above: "THE KING OF THE JEWS."²⁷ And they crucify two robbers with Him, one on the right hand and one on His left,²⁸ [[and the Writing was fulfilled that is saying, "And He was numbered with lawless ones."]]²⁹ And those passing by were slandering Him, shaking their heads, and saying, "Ha! The [One] throwing down the temple, and building [it] in three days!³⁰ Save Yourself, and come down from the cross!"³¹ And in like manner also the chief priests, mocking with one another, with the scribes, said, "He saved others; He is not able to save Himself.³² The Christ! The King of Israel—let Him come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe"; and those crucified with Him were reproaching Him.

³³ And the sixth hour having come, darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour,³⁴ and at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a great voice, saying, "Eloi, Eloi, lamma sabachthani?" Which is, being interpreted, "My God, My God, why did You forsake Me?"³⁵ And certain of those standing by, having heard, said, "Behold, He calls Elijah";³⁶ and one having run, and having filled a sponge with vinegar, having also put [it] on a reed, was giving Him to drink, saying, "Let alone, let us see if Elijah comes to take Him down."³⁷ And Jesus having uttered a loud cry, yielded the spirit,³⁸ and the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom,³⁹ and the centurion who was standing opposite Him, having seen that, having so cried out, He yielded the spirit, said, "Truly this Man was [the] Son of God."⁴⁰ And there were also women beholding far off, among whom was also Mary the Magdalene, and Mary of James the less, and of Joses, and Salome,⁴¹ who also, when He was in Galilee, were following Him and were ministering to Him, and many other women who came up with Him to Jerusalem.

⁴² And now evening having come, seeing it was the Preparation, that is, before Sabbath,⁴³ Joseph of Arimathea, an honorable counselor, who also himself was waiting for the Kingdom of God, came, boldly entered in to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus.⁴⁴ And Pilate wondered if He were already dead, and having called near the centurion, questioned him if He were long dead,⁴⁵ and having known [it] from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.⁴⁶ And he, having brought fine linen, and having taken Him down, wrapped Him in the linen, and laid Him in a tomb that had been hewn out of a rock, and he rolled a stone to the door of the tomb,⁴⁷ and Mary the Magdalene, and Mary of Joses, were beholding where He is laid.