1    ^noteThen therfore Pilate tooke Iesvs, and scourged him.

2   And the souldiars platting a crovvne of thornes, put it vpon his head: and they put about him a purple garment.

3   And they came to him, and said, Haile king of the Ievves, and they gaue him blovves.

4   Pilate vvent forth againe, and saith to them, Behold I bring him forth vnto you, that you may knovv that I finde no cause in him.

5   Iesvs therfore vvent forth carying the crovvne of thornes, and the purple vestiment. And he saith to them, Loe the man.

6   Vvhen the cheefe priests therfore and the ministers had seen him,

they cried, saying, Crucifie, crucifie him. Pilate saith to them, Take him you, and crucifie him. for I finde no cause in him.

7   The Ievves ansvvered him, Vve haue a Law: and according to the Law he ought to die, because he hath made him self the sonne of God.

8   Vvh&ebar; Pilate therfore had heard this saying, he feared more.

9   And he entred into the Palace againe: and he saith to Iesvs, Vvhence art thou? But Iesvs gaue him no ansvver.

10   Pilate therfore saith to him, Speakest thou not to me? knovvest thou not that I haue povver to crucifie thee, and I haue povver to release thee?

11   Iesvs ansvvered, Thou shouldest not haue any povver against me, vnles it vvere giuen thee from aboue. Therfore he that hath betraied me to thee, hath the greater sinne.

12   From thence forth Pilate sought to release him. But the Ievves cried, saying, If thou release this man, thou art not Cæsars frend. euery one that maketh him self a king, speaketh against Cæsar.

13   But Pilate vvhen he had heard these vvordes, brought forth Iesvs: and he sate in the iudgem&ebar;t seate, in the place that is called Lithóstrotos, and in Hebrevv Gábbatha.

14   And it vvas the Parasceue of Pasche, about the ^note sixt houre, and he saith to the Ievves, Loe your king.

15   But they cried, Avvay, avvay vvith him, crucifie him. Pilate saith to them, Shal I crucifie your king? The cheefe priests ansvvered, Vve haue no king, but Cæsar.

16   Then therfore he deliuered him vnto them for to be crucified.

16   And they tooke Iesvs, and led him forth.

17    ^noteAnd bearing 09Q0848 his ovvne crosse he vvent forth into that vvhich is called the place of Caluarie, in Hebrevv Gólgotha.

18   vvhere they crucified him, and vvith him two others, on the one side and on the other, and in the middes Iesvs.

19   And Pilate vvrote a title also: and he put it vpon the crosse. And it vvas vvritten, Iesvs of Nazareth the king of the Ievves.

20   This title therfore many of the Ievves did reade: because the place vvhere Iesvs vvas crucified, vvas nigh to the citie: and it vvas vvritten in ^note Hebrevv, in Greeke, and in Latin.

21   The cheefe priests therfore of the Ievves said to Pilate, Vvrite not, The king of the Ievves: but that he said, I am king of the Ievves.

22   Pilate ansvvered, That vvhich I haue vvritten, I haue vvritten.

23   The ^note souldiars therfore vvhen they had crucified

him, tooke his garments (and they made foure partes, to euery souldiar a part) & his coate. And his ^note coate vvas vvithout seame, vvrought from the toppe through out.

24   They said therfore one to an other, Let vs not cut it, but let vs cast lottes for it vvhose it shal be. That the scripture might be fulfilled saying, They haue parted my garments among them: and vpon my vesture they haue cast lottes. ^note And the souldiars did these things.

25    ^noteAnd there stoode beside the crosse of Iesvs, ^note his mother, and his mothers sister, Marie of Cléophas, and Marie Magdalene.

26   Vvhen Iesvs therfore had seen his mother and the disciple standing vvhom he loued, he saith09Q0849 to his mother: Vvoman, behold thy sonne.

27   After that, he saith 09Q0850 to the disciple, Behold thy mother. And from that houre the disciple tooke her to his ovvne. &cross4;

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28   Aftervvard Iesvs knovving that al things vvere novv consummate, that the ^note scripture might be fulfilled, he saith, I thirst.

29   A vessel therfore stoode there ful of vinegre. And they putting a spongeful of vinegre about hyssope, offered it to his mouth.

30   Iesvs therfore vvhen he had taken the vinegre, said, It is c&obar;summate. And bovving his head, he gaue vp the ghost.

31   The Ievves therfore (because it vvas the Parafceue) that the bodies might not remaine vpon the crosse on the Sabboth (for that vvas a greate Sabboth day) they desired Pilate that their legges might be broken, and they might be taken avvay.

32   The souldiars therfore came: and of the first in deede they brake the legges, and of the other that vvas crucified vvith him.

33   But after they vvere come to Iesvs, vvhen they savv that he vvas dead, they did not breake his legges,

34   but one of the souldiars vvith a speare opened his side, and incontinent there came forth09Q0851 bloud and vvater.

35   And he that savv it, hath giuen testimonie: and his testimonie is true. &cross4; And he knovveth that he saith true, that you also may beleeue.

36   For these things vvere done that the scripture might be fulfilled, You shal not breake a bone of him. ^note

37   And againe an other scripture saith, They shal looke on him vvhom they pearsed. ^note

38   And after these things ^note Ioseph of Arimathæa (because he vvas a disciple of Iesvs, but secrete for feare of the Iewes) desired Pilate that he might take avvay the body of Iesvs. And Pilate permitted. He came therfore, and tooke avvay the body of Iesvs.

39    ^noteNicodemus also came, he that at the

first came to Iesvs by night, bringing a mixture of myrrhe and aloés, about an hundred poundes.

40   They tooke therfore the body of Iesvs, and bound it in linnen clothes vvith the spices, as the maner is vvith the Ievves to burie.

41   And there vvas in the place vvhere he vvas crucified, a garden: and in the garden a nevv monument, vvherein no man yet had been laide.

42   There therfore because of the Parasceue of the Ievves, they laid Iesvs, because the monument vvas hard by.

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