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¹ Then Pilate, therefore, took Jesus, and scourged him.² And, the soldiers, plaiting a crown out of thorns, placed it upon his head, and, a purple robe, cast they about him;³ and kept coming unto him, and saying - Joy to thee! O King of the Jews! - and were giving unto him smart blows.⁴ And Pilate went forth again outside, and saith unto them - See! I lead him unto you outside, that ye may take knowledge, that, no single fault, do I find in him.⁵ Jesus, therefore, came forth outside, wearing the thorn crown, and the purple mantle. And he saith unto them - Lo! the Man!⁶ When, therefore, the High-priests and the officers saw him, they cried aloud, saying - Crucify! Crucify! Pilate saith unto them - Ye, take him, and crucify; for, I, find not in him, a fault.⁷ The Jews answered him - We, have, a law, and, according to the law, he ought to die, because, Son of God, himself, he made.⁸ When, therefore, Pilate heard this word, he was the more afraid;⁹ and entered into the judgment-hail again, and saith unto Jesus - Whence, art, thou? But, Jesus, gave him no, answer.¹⁰ Pilate, therefore, saith unto him - Unto me, dost thou not speak? Knowest thou not, that, authority, have I to release thee, and, authority, have I to crucify thee?¹¹ Jesus answered him - Thou couldst have had no authority against me, at all, if it had not been given unto thee from above. Therefore, he that delivered me unto thee, hath, greater sin.¹² For this cause, Pilate, began seeking to release him; but, the Jews, cried aloud saying - If this man thou release, thou art not a friend of Caesar, for, every one who maketh himself king, speaketh against Caesar.¹³ Pilate, therefore, when he heard these words, led Jesus outside, and sat down upon a raised seat, in a place called Pavement, but, in Hebrew, Gabbatha.¹⁴ Now it was the preparation of the passover, - it was about the sixth hour. And he saith unto the Jews - See! your King!¹⁵ They, therefore, cried aloud - Away! away! Crucify him! Pilate saith unto them - Your king, shall I crucify? The High-priests answered - We have no king but Caesar!

¹⁶ Then, therefore, he delivered him up unto them, that he might be crucified. They took possession, therefore, of Jesus.¹⁷ And, bearing for himself the cross, he went forth unto the so-called Skull-place, which is named, in Hebrew, Golgotha;¹⁸ where, him, they crucified; and, with him, other two, on this side and on that, and, in the midst, Jesus.

¹⁹ And Pilate wrote a title also, and placed on the cross; and there was written - JESUS, THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS.²⁰ This title, therefore, read many of the Jews, because, near, was the place to the city where Jesus was crucified; ad it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, in Greek.²¹ The High-priests of the Jews, therefore, were saying unto Pilate - Do not be writing, The King of the Jews; but that, he, said: King of the Jews, I am.²² Pilate answered - What I have written, I have written!²³ The soldiers, therefore, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, unto each soldier, a part; also the tunic. Howbeit, the tunic was without seam, from above, woven throughout.²⁴ They said, therefore, one to another - Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose, it shall be; - that, the Scripture, might be fulfilled - They parted my garments amongst them, and, for my vestment, they cast lots: - yes verily, the soldiers, these things did.²⁵ And there were standing by the cross of Jesus, his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary the Magdalene.²⁶ Jesus, therefore, seeing his mother and the disciple whom he loved, saith unto his mother - O woman, see! thy son!²⁷ Afterwards, he saith unto the disciple - See! thy mother! And, from that hour, the disciple took her unto his own home.²⁸ After this, Jesus, knowing that, already, all things, have been finished, - that the Scripture might be fulfilled, saith - I thirst!²⁹ A vessel, was standing, full of vinegar. A sponge, therefore, full of the vinegar, put about, hyssop, brought they unto his mouth.³⁰ When, therefore, he had received the vinegar, Jesus said - It is finished! And, bowing his head, delivered up his spirit.

³¹ The Jews, therefore, since it was, a preparation, that the bodies might not remain upon the cross during the Sabbath, - for that Sabbath day was, great, requested Pilate that their legs might be broken, and they be taken away.³² The soldiers, therefore, came; and, of the first, indeed, brake the legs, and of the other who was crucified with him, - ³³ but coming, unto Jesus, when they saw that, already, he was dead, they brake not his legs; - ³⁴ but, one of the soldiers, with a spear, pierced, his side, and there came out, straightway, blood and water.³⁵ And, he that hath seen, hath borne witness; and, genuine, is his testimony, and, he, knoweth that he saith, what is true, that, ye also, may believe.³⁶ For these things came to pass, that, the Scripture, might be fulfilled - A bone thereof, shall not be crushed;³⁷ and, again, a different Scripture, saith - They shall look unto him whom they pierced.

³⁸ But, after these things, Joseph from Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but having kept it secret for fear of the Jews, requested Pilate, that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave permission. He came, therefore, and took away his body.³⁹ There came, moreover, Nicodemus also, - he that came unto him by night at the first, - bearing a roll of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds' weight.⁴⁰ So they received the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen-bandages with the spices, - just as it is, a custom, with the Jews to prepare for burial.⁴¹ Now there was, in the place where he was crucified, a garden; and, in the garden, an unused tomb, wherein, as yet, no one had been laid.⁴² So, there, by reason of the preparation of the Jews, because, near, was the tomb, laid they Jesus.