¹ And forthwith in the morning, the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole Sanhedrin, having held a consultation, and having bound Jesus, led him away, and delivered him to Pilate.

² And Pilate asked him: Are you the King of the Jews? And he answering, said: You say it.

³ And the chief priests accused him of many things.

⁴ Pilate again asked him, saying: Do you make no answer? See, how many things they testify against you.

⁵ But Jesus gave no further answer; so that Pilate was astonished.

⁶ Now it was his custom to release to them, at the feast, one prisoner, whomever they desired.

⁷ And there was one called Barabbas, lying bound with his fellow-insurgents, who had committed murder in the insurrection.

⁸ And the multitude cried out, and began to ask him to do as he had always done for them.

⁹ But Pilate answered them, saying: Do you wish me to release to you the King of the Jews?

¹⁰ For he knew that, through envy, the chief priests had delivered him up.

¹¹ But the chief priests instigated the multitude, that he should rather release Barabbas to them.

¹² And Pilate answered and said again to them: What, then, do you wish me to do with him whom you call the King of the Jews?

¹³ They again cried out: Crucify him.

¹⁴ But Pilate said to them: Why, what evil has he done? But they cried vehemently: Crucify him.

¹⁵ And Pilate, willing to gratify the multitude, released to them Barabbas; and delivered Jesus, after he had scourged him, to be crucified.

¹⁶ And the soldiers led him away within the court, which is the governor’s house, and called together the whole band.

¹⁷ And they clothed him in purple; and having plaited a crown of thorn branches, they put it on him,

¹⁸ and began to salute him: Hail, King of the Jews!

¹⁹ And they struck him on the head with a reed, and spit upon him, and bowing their knees, did him homage.

²⁰ And when they had derided him, they took off the purple from him, and put his own clothes on him, and led him out to crucify him.

²¹ And they compelled one Simon, a Cyrenian, (the father of Alexander and Rufus,) who was passing by, coming in from the country, to bear his cross.

²² And they brought him to the place Golgotha, which is, when translated, the place of a skull.

²³ And they gave him wine mingled with myrrh, to drink: but he did not receive it.

²⁴ And when they had crucified him, they divided his clothes among themselves, casting lots for them, what each one should take.

²⁵ And it was the third hour, and they crucified him.

²⁶ And the superscription containing his accusation was written above him: THE KING OF THE JEWS.

²⁷ And with him they crucified two robbers, one on his right hand, and the other on his left.

²⁸ And the scripture was fulfilled, which says: And he was numbered with transgressors.

²⁹ And those who passed by reviled him, shaking their heads, and saying: Aha! you that destroy the temple, and build it in three days,

³⁰ save yourself, and come down from the cross.

³¹ Likewise the chief priests, with the scribes, speaking in derision one to another, said: He saved others; himself he can not save.

³² Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe. Those also who were crucified with him, reproached him.

³³ And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land, till the ninth hour.

³⁴ And at the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying: Eloi, Eloi, lamma sabachthani? which is, when translated, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

³⁵ And some of those who stood by, when they heard it, said: Behold, he calls for Elijah.

³⁶ And one ran, and filled a sponge with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying: Wait; let us see if Elijah is coming to take him down.

³⁷ But Jesus, having cried with a loud voice, gave up his spirit.

³⁸ And the vail of the temple was rent in two, from the top to the bottom.

³⁹ And when the centurion that was standing opposite him, saw that he thus cried out, and gave up his spirit, he said: Truly, this man was the Son of God.

⁴⁰ And there were, at a distance, women also, looking on; among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome;

⁴¹ who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and ministered to him; and many other women, who had come up with him to Jerusalem.

⁴² And when the evening had come, because it was the preparation, which is the eve of the sabbath,

⁴³ Joseph of Arimathea, an honorable counselor, who was himself looking for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus.

⁴⁴ But Pilate was astonished that he was already dead; and having called the centurion to him, he inquired of him whether he had been any while dead.

⁴⁵ And having learned the fact from the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph.

⁴⁶ And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulcher that had been hewed out of a rock: and he rolled a stone to the door of the sepulcher.

⁴⁷ And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where he was laid.