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NOW they led Jeshu from Kaiapha into the praetorium, and it was early. But they would not enter the praetorium, that they might not be defiled, until they should have eaten the petscha.

But Pilatos came forth to them without, and said to them, What accusation have you against this man ?

But Pilatos entered the Praetorium, and called Jeshu, and said to him, Art thou the king of the Jihudoyee ?

Jeshu saith to him, My kingdom is not from this world. If from this world were my kingdom, my servants would have fought, that I should not have been delivered to the Jihudoyee. But now my kingdom is not from hence.

But you have a custom that one I should release to you at the petscha. Will you, therefore, that I release to you this King of the Jihudoyee ?

And they all cried and said, Not this, but Bar Aba. Now this Bar Aba was a robber.

But when the chief priests and officials saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him ! [fn] Pilatos saith to them, Take you him and crucify him; [fn] for I find in him no cause.

And he entered again the praetorium, and said to Jeshu, Whence art thou ? But Jeshu gave him no answer.

On this account Pilatos willed to release him: but the Jihudoyee cried out, If this (man) thou releasest, thou art not the friend of Cesar: for whosoever maketh himself a king is the adversary of Cesar.

But when Pilatos heard that word, he brought Jeshu without, and sat down upon the tribunal in the place which is called the Pavement of Stones, but in Hebrew it is called Gaphiphtha.

15 But they cried out, Take him away, take him away ! crucify him, [fn] crucify him ! Pilatos saith to them, Your king shall I crucify ? The chief priests say to him, We have no king but Cesar.

And they took Jeshu, and led him forth, bearing his cross to a place which is called A Skull, but in Hebrew is Gogultha:

And the chief priests said to Pilatos, Do not write that he is king of the Jihudoyee, but that he said, I am the king of the Jihudoyee.

BUT the soldiers, when they had crucified Jeshu, took his vestments and made four parts, a part unto each one of the soldiers: but his tunic was without seam, from the top woven all of it.

And they said one to another, Let us not rend it, but play for it by playing, [fn] (to decide) whose it shall be: and fulfilled was the scripture which had said,

They divided my garments among them, And upon my raiment did they cast the lot. These things did the soldiers. But there stood by the cross of Jeshu his mother, and the sister of his mother, and Mariam, she who was (the wife) of Cleopha, and Mariam Magdalitha.

but when they came unto Jeshu, they saw that he was dead already, and they brake not his legs.

But one of the soldiers struck him in his side with the lance, and forthwith there came out blood and water.

After these Jauseph, he who was of Rometha, begged of Pilatos, for he was a disciple of Jeshu, but secretly for fear of the Jihudoyee, that he might take the body of Jeshu: and Pilatos permitted. And he came and took the body of Jeshu.

BUT in the first in the week came Mariam Magdalitha in the early-morn, (while it was) yet dark, unto the house of burial.