1    ^{note note}And vvhen morning vvas come, al the cheefe Priestes and auncients of the people consulted together against Iesvs, that they might put him to death. ^note

2   And they brought him bound and deliuered him to Ponce Pilate the President.

3   Then Iudas that betrayed him, seeing that he vvas condemned, 09Q0577 repenting him, returned the thirtie siluer peeces to the cheefe Priestes and auncients,

4   saying, I haue sinned, betraying iust bloud. But they said, what is that to vs? looke thou to it.

5   And casting dovvne the siluer peeces in the temple, he departed: and vvent and09Q0578 hanged him self vvith an halter.

6   And the cheefe Priestes hauing taken the siluer peeces, said, It is not lavvful to cast them into the ^note Córbana: because it is the price of bloud.

7   And after they had consulted together, they bought vvith them the potters field, to be a burying place for strangers.

8   For this cause that field vvas called Hacéldama, that is, the field of bloud, euen to this present day.

9   Then vvas fulfilled that vvhich vvas spoken by Ieremie the Prophet, saying, And they tooke the thirtie peeces of siluer, the price of the priced, vvhom they did price of the children of Israel:

10   and they gave them into the potters field, as our Lord did appoint to me. ^note

11   And Iesvs stoode before the President, and the President asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Ievves? Iesvs saith to him, Thou sayest.

12   And vvhen he vvas accused of the cheefe Priestes and auncients, he ansvvered nothing.

13   Then Pilate saith to him, Doest thou not heare hovv many testimonies they alleage against thee?

14   And he ansvvered him not to any vvord: so that the President did maruel excedingly.

15    ^noteAnd vpon the solemne day the President had accustomed to release vnto the people one prisoner vvhom they

vvould.

16   And he had then a notorius prisoner, that vvas called Barabbas.

17   They therfore being gathered together, Pilate said: Whom vvil you that I release to you, Barabbas, or Iesvs that is called Christ?

18   For he knevve that for enuie they had deliuered him.

19   And as he vvas sitting in place of iudgment, his vvife sent vnto him, saying: Haue thou nothing to doe vvith that iust man. for I haue suffred many things this day in my sleepe for him.

20   But the cheefe Priestes and auncients persuaded the people, that they should aske Barabbas, and make Iesvs avvay.

21   And the President ansvvering, said to them: Whether vvil you of the tvvo to be released vnto you? But they said, Barabbas.

22   Pilate saith to them, what shal I doe then vvith Iesvs that is called Christ? They say al, Let him be crucified.

23   The President said to them, why vvhat euil hath he done? But they cried the more, saying, Let him be crucified.

24   And Pilate seeing that he nothing preuailed, but rather tumult vvas tovvard: taking vvater he vvashed his hands before the people, saying, I am09Q0579 innocent of the bloud of this iust man: looke you to it.

25   And the vvhole people ansvvering, said, His bloud be vpon vs, and vpon our children.

26   Then he released to them Barabbas, and hauing scourged Iesvs, deliuered him vnto them for to be crucified.

27   Then the Presidents souldiars taking Iesvs into the Palace, gathered together vnto him the vvhole band:

28    ^noteand stripping him, put a scarlet cloke about him,

29   and platting a crovvne of thornes, put it vpon his head, and a reede in his right hand. And bovving the knee before him, they mocked him, saying, Haile King of the Ievves.

30   And spitting vpon him, they tooke the reede, and smote his head.

31   And after they had mocked him, they tooke of the cloke from him, and put on him his ovvne garments, and led him avvay to crucifie him.

32   And in going they found a man of Cyréne, named Simon: him they forced to take vp his crosse.

33   And they came into the place that is called Golgotha, vvhich is, the place of Caluarie. ^note

34   And they gaue him vvine to drinke mingled vvith gall. And vvhen he had tasted, he vvould not drinke.

35   And after they had crucified him, they deuided his garments, casting lottes: that it might be fulfilled vvhich vvas spoken by the Prophet, saying: They deuided my garments among

them: and vpon my vesture they did cast lottes. ^note

36   And they sate and vvatched him.

37   And they put ouer his head his cause vvritten, This is Iesvs the king of the iewes.

38   Then vvere crucified vvith him tvvo theeues: one on the right hand, and one on the left.

39   And they that passed by, blasphemed him, vvagging their heades,

40   and saying, Vah, thou that destroyest the temple of God, and in three daies doest reedifie it: saue thine ovvne self:09Q0580 if thou be the sonne of God, come dovvne from the Crosse.

41   In like maner also the cheefe Priestes with the Scribes and auncients mocking, said:

42   He saued other: him self he can not saue: if he be the King of Israel, let him novv come dovvne from the Crosse, and vve vvil beleeue him.

43    ^noteHe trusted in God: let him novv deliuer him if he vvil: for he said, That I am the sonne of God.

44   And the self same thing the theeues also that vvere crucified vvith him, reproched him vvithal.

45   And from the sixt houre, there vvas darkenesse made vpon the vvhole earth, vntil the ninthe houre.

46   And about the ninthe houre Iesvs cried vvith a mighty voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lamma-sabacthani? that is, My God, my God,09Q0581 vvhy hast thou forsaken me?

47   And certaine that stoode there and heard, said, He calleth Elias.

48   And incontinent one of them running, tooke a sponge, & filled it vvith vinegre: and put it on a reede, and gaue him to drinke.

49   And other said, Let be, let vs see vvhether Elias come to deliuer him.

50   And Iesvs againe crying vvith a mighty voice, yelded vp the ghost. ^note

51   And behold the vele of the temple vvas rent in tvvo peeces, from the toppe euen to the botome, and the earth did quake, and the rockes vvere rent,

52   and the graues vvere opened: and many bodies of the saincts that had slept, rose.

53   And they going forth out of the graues after his resurrection, came into the holy citie: and appeared to many.

54   And the Centurion and they that vvere vvith him vvatching Iesvs, hauing seen the earth-quake and the things that vvere done, vvere sore afraid, saying, In deede this vvas the sonne of God.

55   And there vvere there many vvomen a farre of, vvhich had folovved Iesvs from Galilee, ministring vnto him:

56   among vvhom vvas Marie Magdalene, and Marie the mother of Iames and Ioseph, and the mother of the sonnes of Zebedee. ^note

57   And vvhen it vvas euening, there came a certaine

rich man of Arimathæa, named Ioseph, vvho also him self was disciple to Iesvs.

58   He vvent to Pilate, and asked the body of Iesvs. Then Pilate commaunded that the body should be deliuered. ^note

59   And Ioseph taking the body,09Q0582 vvrapt it in cleane sindon,

60   and laid it in his ovvne nevve monument, vvhich he had hevved out in a rocke. And he rolled a great stone to the doore of the monument, and vvent his vvay.

61   And there was there Marie Magdalene, and the other Marie, sitting ouer against the sepulchre.

62    ^noteAnd the next day, vvhich is after the Parasceue, the cheefe Priestes and the Pharisees came together to Pilate,

63   saying, Sir, vve haue remembred, that that seducer said yet liuing, After three dayes I vvil rise againe.

64   Commaund therfore the sepulchre to be kept vntil the third day: lest perhaps his Disciples come, and steale him, and say to the people, He is risen from the dead: and the last errour shal be vvorse then the first.

65   Pilate said to them, You haue a gard: goe, gard it as you knovv.

66   And they departing, made the sepulchre sure: sealing vp the stone, vvith vvatchmen.

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