A   And anone in the dawninge ^note the hye Prestes helde a counsell &wt; the elders ∧ the Scrybes, ∧ the whole congregacion, ∧ bounde Iesus, ∧ ledde him awaye, ∧ deliuered him to Pilate. And Pilate asked him: art thou þe; kynge of þe; Iewes? And he answered, ∧ sayd vnto hym: thou sayest it. And þe; hye prestes accused him of many th&ibar;ges. So Pilate asked h&ibar; agayne, sayinge: ^note Answerest thou nothing? Beholde, how many th&ibar;ges they lay vnto thy charge. Iesus yet answered nothing, so that Pilate merueyled.

At that feast Pilate dyd delyuer vnto th&ebar; a presoner: whomsoeuer they wolde desyre. And ther was one that was named Barrabas, whych laye bounde with them that made insurreccyon: he had commytted murther. And the people called vnto him, and began to desyre him, that he wolde do, accordynge as he had euer done vnto them. Pylate answered them say&ebar;ge: Will ye that I let lowse vnto you the kyng of the Iewes? For he knewe, that the hye Prestes had delyuered him of enuy. But the hye prestes moued the people, that he shulde rather delyuer Barrabas vnto them.

Pylate answered agayne, and sayde vnto them: ^note What wyll ye then that I do vnto him, wh&obar; ye call the kyng of þe; Iewes? And they cryed agayne: crucifye him: Pylate sayd vnto th&ebar;, What euyll hath he done: And they cryed the moare feruentlye: Crucifye hym: And so Pylate wyllinge to content the people, ^note let lose Barrabas vnto them ∧ delyuered vp Iesus (when he had scourged hym) for to be crucifyed.

B   And the soudyers leed him awaye into þe; commen hall, and called together the whole multitude, ∧ they clothed him with purple, ∧ they platted a croune of thornes, ∧ crouned him withall, ∧ beganne to salute him: Hayle kynge of the Iewes. And they smote hym, on the heed &wt; a rede and dyd spitt vpon hym ∧ bowed their knees, ∧ worshyped him.

And wh&ebar; they had mocked him, they toke the purple of hym, ∧ put his awne clothes on him, ∧ ledde hym out, to crucifye him. ^noteAnd they c&obar;pelled one that passed by, called Simon of Cyrene (the father of Alexander and Rufus) which came out of the felde, to beare his crosse. ^noteAnd they brought him to a place named Golgotha (whych is yf a man interprete C    it: the place of deed mens sculles) and they gaue him to drinke, wyne m&ibar;gled wyth myrre, but he receaued it not.

And when they had crucifyed him ^note they parted hys garmentes, castinge lotes vpon them, what euery man shulde take. And it was aboute þe; third houre, ∧ they crucifyed him. And the tytle of his cause was wrytt&ebar;: The kynge of the Iewes. ^noteAnd they crucified with him two theues. þe; one on the right hande, ∧ the other on his lyfte. And the scrypture was fulfylled which sayeth: ^note he was counted amonge the wycked.

^noteAnd they that went by, rayled on hym: wagging their heedes, &abar;d saying: A wretche thou that destroyest the temple, and byldest it in thre dayes: saue thy selfe, ∧ come doune from the crosse. Lykewyse also mocked hym the hye Prestes amonge them selues with þe; Scrybes ∧ sayde, he saued other men, hym selfe he cannot saue. Let Christ the kynge of Israell descende now fr&obar; the crosse, that we maye se, ∧ beleue. And they that were crucifyed with him checked him also.

^noteAnd wh&ebar; þe; syxte houre was come, darcknes arose ouer all the erth, vntyll the nynth houre. And at the nynth houre Iesus cryed with a loude voyce, saying: Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? whych is (yf one interpret it) ^note my God, my God why hast thou forsaken me? And some of them that stode by, when they hearde that, sayd: beholde, he calleth for Helias. ^note D   And one ran, and fylled a sponge full of veneger, and put it on a rede, ∧ gaue him to drincke, sayinge: let him alone, let vs se, whether Helias wyll come and take hym downe:

But Iesus cryed with a loude voyce, &abar;d gaue vp the goost. ^noteAnd the vayle of þe; temple dyd rent in two peces, from the toppe to þe; bottome. ^noteAnd when þe; Centurion (which stode before him) sawe, that he so cryed, and gaue vp the goost, he sayde: truly this man, was þe; sonne of God. ^noteTher were also wemen a good waye of, beholdinge him: am&obar;ge whom was ^note Mary Magdalen, and Mary the mother of Iames the lytle: ∧ of Ioses, ∧ Mary Salome ^note (which also when he was in Galile had folowed him ∧ mynistred vnto him) and many other wemen, whych came vp with him vnto Ierusalem.

And now when þe; euen was come (because

it was the daye of preparing that goeth before the Sabboth) ^note Ioseph of þe; cite of Aramathia, a noble Co&ubar;cellour which also loked for þe; kyngdome of God, came, ∧ w&ebar;t in boldely vnto Pilate, ∧ begged of hym the body of Iesu. And Pilate merueled, that he was alredy deed, and called vnto him the Centurion, and asked of him, whether he had bene eny whyle deed. And wh&ebar; he knewe the trueth of the Centurion, he gaue the body to Ioseph. And he bought a lynnen clothe, &abar;d toke him downe, and wrapped him in the lynnen clothe, and layde him in a sepulcre, that was hewen out of the rocke. And Mary Magdalen and Mary Ioses behelde where he was layde. &cross3;

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