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And as they ate, he sayde: Verely I saye vnto you: One of you shal betraye me.

And they were exceadinge soroufull, and beganne euery one of them to saye vnto him: Syr, is it I?

And as they ate, Iesus toke the bred, gaue thankes, brake it, and gaue it to the disciples, and sayde: Take, eate, this is my body.

And whan they had sayde grace, they wente forth vnto mount Oliuete.

And Iesus sayde vnto him: Frende, wherfore art thou come? Then came they, and layed hondes vpon Iesus, and toke him.

The all the disciples left him, and fled. But they that toke Iesus, led him to Caiphas the hye prest, where the scrybes and the elders were gathered together.

But the hye prestes and the elders, and the whole councell sought false wytnesse ageynst Iesus, that they might put him to death,

and founde none. And though many false wytnesses stepte forth, yet founde they none. At the last there stepte forth two false wytnesses,

And after a litle whyle, they that stode there, stepte forth, and sayde vnto Peter: Of a trueth thou art one of them also, for thy speach bewrayeth the.

Vpon the morow, all the hye prestes and elders of the people helde a councell agaynst Iesus, that they might put him to death,

and sayde: I haue done euell, in that I haue betrayed innocet bloude. They sayde: What haue we to do with yt? Se thou therto.

Neuertheles they helde a councell, and bought with the a potters felde, for to burye straugers in.

Then was that fulfylled, which was spoken by Ieremy the prophet sayenge: And they toke thirtie syluer pens, the pryce of him that was solde, whom they bought of the children of Israell:

and these they gaue for a potters felde, as the LORDE commaunded me.

And whan they were gathered together, Pylate sayde vnto them: Whether wil ye, that I geue lowse vnto you? Barrabas, or Iesus which is called Christ?

But the hye prestes and the elders persuaded the people, that they shulde axe Barrabas, and destroye Iesus.

The debyte saide: What euell hath he done the? Neuertheles they cried yet more and sayde, let him be crucified.

And wha they had mocked hi, they toke the robe of him ageyne, & put his owne clothes vpon him, and led him forth, yt they might crucifie hi.

And as they were goinge out, they founde a man of Cyren called Symon: him they compelled to beare his crosse.

And when they came vnto the place called Golgatha (that is to saye by interpretacio a place of deed mens sculles)