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[1]And when it was morning, the chief priests and the elders of the people held a council against Jesus, how they might put him to death.
[2]And they bound him, and carried him and delivered him up to Pilate, the president.
[3]Then Judas the betrayer, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, repented. And he went and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders;
[4]and said: I have sinned, by betraying innocent blood. And they said: What is that to us? See to it thyself.
[5]And he cast down the silver in the temple, and retiring, went and strangled himself
[6]And the chief priests took up the silver, and said: It is not lawful to put it into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.
[7]And they took counsel, and bought with it the potter's field, for a place to bury strangers.
[8]Wherefore that field is called the field of blood, unto this day.
[9]Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by the prophet, saying: I took the thirty [shekels] of silver, the price of the precious one, which they of the children of Israel had stipulated;
[10]and I gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord directed me.
[11]And Jesus stood before the president. And the resident asked him, and said to him: Art thou the king of the Jews? And Jesus said to him: Thou hast said.
[12]And when the chief priests and elders accused him, he made no reply.
[13]Then Pilate said to him: Hearest thou not how much they testify against thee?
[14]But he gave him no answer, not even one word: and therefore Pilate wondered greatly.
[15]And at each festival, the president was accustomed to release to the people one prisoner, such as they preferred.
[16]And they had then in bonds a noted prisoner, called Bar Abas.
[17]And when they were assembled, Pilate said to them: Whom will ye, that I release to you, Bar Abas, or Jesus who is called Messiah?
[18]For Pilate knew that it was from enmity they had delivered him up.
[19]And as the president was sitting on his tribunal, his wife sent to him, and said: Have thou nothing to do with that just man; for I have suffered much this I day in a dream because of him.
[20]But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitude that they should demand Bar Abas, and destroy Jesus.
[21]And the president answered, and said to them: Which of the two, will ye, that I release to you? And they said: Bar Abas.
[22]Pilate said to them: And what shall I do to Jesus who is called Messiah? They all replied: Let him be crucified.
[23]The president said to them: But what hath he done, that is evil? And they cried out the more, and said: Let him be crucified.
[24]And Pilate, when he saw that it availed nothing, but rather that tumult was produced, took water, and washed his hands before the eyes of the multitude, and said: I am pure from the blood of this just man: see ye to it.
[25]And all the people answered, and said His blood be on us, and on our children!
[26]Then released he to them Bar Abas; and scourged Jesus with whips and delivered him to be crucified.
[27]Then the soldiers of the president took Jesus into the Praetorium, and assembled the whole regiment against him.
[28]And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet military cloak.
[29]And they wove a crown of thorns, and set it on his head, and [put] a reed in his hand, and they bowed their knees before him, and mocked him, and said: Hail, thou king of the Jews.
[30]And they spit in his face, and took the reed, and smote him on his head.
[31]And when they had mocked him, they divested him of the cloak, and clothed him in his own garments, and led him out to be crucified.
[32]And as they went out, they found a man of Cyrene whose name was Simon; him they compelled to bear his cross.
[33]And they came to a place which is called Golgotha, which is interpreted a skull.
[34]And they gave him to drink vinegar mixed with gall. And he tasted [it], and would not drink.
[35]And when they had crucified him, they distributed his garments by lot. ⓘ
[36]And they sat down, and watched him there
[37]And they placed over his head the cause of his death, in the writing: THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS.
[38]And there were crucified with him two robbers, the one on his right hand, and the other on his left.
[39]And they that passed by reviled him, and shook their heads
[40]and said: Destroyer of the temple, and builder of it in three days, deliver thyself; if thou art the Son of God, and come down from the cross.
[41]So also the chief priests mocked, with the Scribes and Elders and Pharisees,
[42]and said: He gave life to others, his own life he cannot preserve. If he is the king of Israel, let him now descend from the cross, and we will believe in him. ⓘ
[43]He trusted in God; let him rescue him now, if he hath pleasure in him: for he said, I am the Son of God.
[44]In like manner the marauders also, that were crucified with him, reproached him.
[45]And from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land, until the ninth hour.
[46]And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice and said: O God, O God; why hast thou forsaken me? ⓘ
[47]And some of them that stood there, when they heard [it], said: He calleth for Elijah.
[48]And immediately one of them ran, and took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.
[49]But the rest said: Desist; we will see if Elijah will come to rescue him.
[50]Then Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up his spirit.
[51]And instantly, the curtain of the door of the temple was torn asunder, from the top to the bottom; and the earth shook; and the rocks rived;
[52]and graves were opened; and many bodies of saints who slept, arose,
[53]and came forth; and, after his resurrection, entered into the holy city, and appeared to many.
[54]And the centurion, and they that were with him guarding Jesus, when they saw the earthquake and the things that occurred, feared greatly, and said: Verily, this was the Son of God.
[55]And many women were there, looking on from a distance; the same who had followed Jesus from Galilee, and had ministered to him.
[56]One of them was Mary of Magdala, also Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's children.
[57]And when it was evening, there came a rich man of Ramath, whose name was a Joseph, who was also a disciple of Jesus.
[58]This man went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. And Pilate directed the body to be given him.
[59]And Joseph took the body, and wrapped it in a winding-sheet of clean linen;
[60]and laid it in his new sepulchre, that was excavated in a rock. And he rolled a great stone against the door of the sepulchre, and departed:
[61]And there were present Mary of Magdala, and the other Mary, who sat over against the grave.
[62]And on the day that was next after the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees assembled before Pilate,
[63]and said to him: Our Lord, we remember that this deceiver said, while he was alive, After three days, I shall arise.
[64]Command, therefore to guard the sepulchre; until the third day; lest his disciples come and steal him away by night, and say to the people that he hath risen from the dead; and the last delusion be worse than the first.
[65]Pilate said to them: Ye have soldiers: go and guard it, as ye know how.
[66]And they went and set a guard to the sepulchre, and sealed the stone.
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