¹ AND the whole multitude of them rising up, led him to Pilate,

² and began to accuse him, saying, We have found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to pay tribute to Caesar; pretending that he himself is the King Messiah.

³ Then Pilate interrogated him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answering said to him, Thou sayest so.

⁴ Then said Pilate unto the chief priests and the multitudes, I find nothing culpable in this man.

⁵ But they were urgent, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching through all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.

⁶ When Pilate heard of Galilee, he asked whether the man were a Galilean?

⁷ And when he knew that he came out of Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who was himself at Jerusalem in those days.

⁸ Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was vastly delighted: for he had been long desirous to see him, because he had heard many things of him; and he hoped to see some miracle wrought by him.

⁹ And he put a variety of questions to him; but he made him no reply.

¹⁰ And the chief priests and the scribes stood up vehemently accusing him.

¹¹ Then Herod with his guards treated him with contempt, and in derision clothed him in a splendid robe, and sent him back to Pilate.

¹² And Pilate and Herod the same day became friends together: for they had previously been at enmity with each other.

¹³ Then Pilate, convoking the chief priests and the rulers and the people,

¹⁴ said unto them, Ye have brought this man to me, as one who perverteth the people: and lo! on examining him before you, I have found nothing culpable in this man, respecting the charges ye bring against him:

¹⁵ nor Herod neither: for I referred you to him; and, lo, nothing is done to this man, as if he deserved death.

¹⁶ I will therefore, after scourging, discharge him.

¹⁷ (Now he held it necessary to release one to them at the feast.)

¹⁸ Then the whole multitude set up a cry, saying, Away with this fellow, and release unto us Barabbas!

¹⁹ (who for a certain sedition raised in the city, and for murder, had been cast into prison.)

²⁰ Again therefore Pilate called out to them, desirous to see Jesus at liberty.

²¹ But they clamoured the more, saying, Crucify, crucify him.

²² Then the third time he said to them, What evil hath this man done? I have found nothing deserving death in him: I will therefore, after scourging, discharge him.

²³ But they were instant with the most clamorous vociferations, soliciting that he might be crucified. And their clamours, and those of the chief priests, bore him down.

²⁴ Then Pilate decreed that their petition should be granted.

²⁵ Then released he to them him who for sedition and murder had been cast into prison; but he gave up Jesus to their will.

²⁶ And as they led him out, laying hold on one Simon, a Cyrenian, who was coming from the country, they laid on him the cross, to carry after Jesus.

²⁷ And a great multitude of the people and of women followed him, who also beat their breasts and lamented him bitterly.

²⁸ But Jesus turning to them, said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but for yourselves, and for your children.

²⁹ For, behold, the days are coming, in which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs which have not borne, and the breasts which never suckled.

³⁰ Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us! and to the hills, Cover us!

³¹ For if they do all these things with the green wood, what will be done with the dry?

³² Now there were two other persons, malefactors, led out with him to be executed.

³³ And when they came to a place called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, the one on the right hand, and the other on the left.

³⁴ And Jesus said, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. Then dividing his garments, they cast the lot.

³⁵ And the people stood looking on. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if this fellow is the Messiah, the elect of God.

³⁶ And the soldiers also insulted him, coming and offering him vinegar,

³⁷ and saying, if thou art the King of the Jews, save thyself.

³⁸ And there was an inscription written over him in Greek, Roman, and Hebrew characters, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.

³⁹ Then one of the suspended malefactors blasphemed him, saying, If thou art the Messiah, save thyself and us.

⁴⁰ But the other addressing him, rebuked him, saying, Hast thou no fear of God, when thou art under the same condemnation?

⁴¹ And we indeed justly, for we receive deserved punishment for the crimes we have committed: but this man hath done nothing amiss.

⁴² And he said to Jesus, Remember me, Lord, when thou comest in thy kingdom.

⁴³ And Jesus said to him. Verily I say unto thee, To-day thou shalt be with me in paradise.

⁴⁴ And it was about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.

⁴⁵ And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.

⁴⁶ And Jesus crying with a loud voice, said, Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit: and having said this, he expired.

⁴⁷ And the centurion observing what had come to pass, glorified God, saying, Verily this man was a righteous person.

⁴⁸ And all the multitudes who had come together for this spectacle, when they saw the things which were done, beating their breasts, returned.

⁴⁹ And all his acquaintance stood afar off, and the women which followed him from Galilee, beholding these things.

⁵⁰ And lo! a man named Joseph, being a member of the council, a good man, and a just;

⁵¹ (who had not given his assent to their determination and deed;) being of Arimathea, a city of the Jews: who himself also expected the coming of the kingdom of God.

⁵² He went in to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.

⁵³ And taking it down from the cross, he wrapped it in linen cloth, and laid it in a sepulchre hewn out of a rock, where none had ever yet lain.

⁵⁴ And that was the preparation-day, and the sabbath’s twilight¹ was approaching.

1. Their day commenced at sun-set.

⁵⁵ Then the women also, his attendants, who had followed him out of Galilee, observed the sepulchre, and how his corpse was laid out.

⁵⁶ And returning, they made preparation of aromatics and unguents; and they rested the sabbath-day, according to the commandment.