1 - And having risen, the whole multitude of them did lead him to Pilate,
2 - and began to accuse him, saying, `This one we found perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying himself to be Christ a king.'
3 - And Pilate questioned him, saying, `Thou art the king of the Jews?' and he answering him, said, `Thou dost say <FI>it<Fi> .'
4 - And Pilate said unto the chief priests, and the multitude, `I find no fault in this man;'
5 - and they were the more urgent, saying--`He doth stir up the people, teaching throughout the whole of Judea--having begun from Galilee--unto this place.'
6 - And Pilate having heard of Galilee, questioned if the man is a Galilean,
7 - and having known that he is from the jurisdiction of Herod, he sent him back unto Herod, he being also in Jerusalem in those days.
8 - And Herod having seen Jesus did rejoice exceedingly, for he was wishing for a long <FI>time<Fi> to see him, because of hearing many things about him, and he was hoping some sign to see done by him,
9 - and was questioning him in many words, and he answered him nothing.
10 - And the chief priests and the scribes stood vehemently accusing him,
11 - and Herod with his soldiers having set him at nought, and having mocked, having put around him gorgeous apparel, did send him back to Pilate,
12 - and both Pilate and Herod became friends on that day with one another, for they were before at enmity between themselves.
13 - And Pilate having called together the chief priests, and the rulers, and the people,
14 - said unto them, `Ye brought to me this man as perverting the people, and lo, I before you having examined, found in this man no fault in those things ye bring forward against him;
15 - no, nor yet Herod, for I sent you back unto him, and lo, nothing worthy of death is having been done by him;
16 - having chastised, therefore, I will release him,'
17 - for it was necessary for him to release to them one at every feast,
18 - and they cried out--the whole multitude--saying, `Away with this one, and release to us Barabbas,'
19 - who had been, because of a certain sedition made in the city, and murder, cast into prison.
20 - Pilate again then--wishing to release Jesus--called to them,
21 - but they were calling out, saying, `Crucify, crucify him.'
22 - And he a third time said unto them, `Why, what evil did he? no cause of death did I find in him; having chastised him, then, I will release <FI>him<Fi> .'
23 - And they were pressing with loud voices asking him to be crucified, and their voices, and those of the chief priests, were prevailing,
24 - and Pilate gave judgment for their request being done,
25 - and he released him who because of sedition and murder hath been cast into the prison, whom they were asking, and Jesus he gave up to their will.
26 - And as they led him away, having taken hold on Simon, a certain Cyrenian, coming from the field, they put on him the cross, to bear <FI>it<Fi> behind Jesus.
27 - And there was following him a great multitude of the people, and of women, who also were beating themselves and lamenting him,
28 - and Jesus having turned unto them, said, `Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but for yourselves weep ye, and for your children;
29 - for, lo, days do come, in which they shall say, Happy the barren, and wombs that did not bare, and paps that did not give suck;
30 - then they shall begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us, and to the hills, Cover us; --
31 - for, if in the green tree they do these things--in the dry what may happen?'
32 - And there were also others--two evil-doers--with him, to be put to death;
33 - and when they came to the place that is called Skull, there they crucified him and the evil-doers, one on the right hand and one on the left.
34 - And Jesus said, `Father, forgive them, for they have not known what they do;' and parting his garments they cast a lot.
35 - And the people were standing, looking on, and the rulers also were sneering with them, saying, `Others he saved, let him save himself, if this be the Christ, the choice one of God.'
36 - And mocking him also were the soldiers, coming near and offering vinegar to him,
37 - and saying, `If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.'
38 - And there was also a superscription written over him, in letters of Greek, and Roman, and Hebrew, `This is the King of the Jews.'
39 - And one of the evil-doers who were hanged, was speaking evil of him, saying, `If thou be the Christ, save thyself and us.'
40 - And the other answering, was rebuking him, saying, `Dost thou not even fear God, that thou art in the same judgment?
41 - and we indeed righteously, for things worthy of what we did we receive back, but this one did nothing out of place;'
42 - and he said to Jesus, `Remember me, lord, when thou mayest come in thy reign;'
43 - and Jesus said to him, `Verily I say to thee, To-day with me thou shalt be in the paradise.'
44 - And it was, as it were, the sixth hour, and darkness came over all the land till the ninth hour,
45 - and the sun was darkened, and the vail of the sanctuary was rent in the midst,
46 - and having cried with a loud voice, Jesus said, `Father, to Thy hands I commit my spirit;' and these things having said, he breathed forth the spirit.
47 - And the centurion having seen what was done, did glorify God, saying, `Really this man was righteous;'
48 - and all the multitudes who were come together to this sight, beholding the things that came to pass, smiting their breasts did turn back;
49 - and all his acquaintances stood afar off, and women who did follow him from Galilee, beholding these things.
50 - And lo, a man, by name Joseph, being a counsellor, a man good and righteous,
51 - --he was not consenting to their counsel and deed--from Arimathea, a city of the Jews, who also himself was expecting the reign of God,
52 - he, having gone near to Pilate, asked the body of Jesus,
53 - and having taken it down, he wrapped it in fine linen, and placed it in a tomb hewn out, where no one was yet laid.
54 - And the day was a preparation, and sabbath was approaching,
55 - and the women also who have come with him out of Galilee having followed after, beheld the tomb, and how his body was placed,
56 - and having turned back, they made ready spices and ointments, and on the sabbath, indeed, they rested, according to the command.
