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I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from evil.

And not for them only do I pray, but for them also who through their word shall believe in me.

Just Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee. And these have known that thou hast sent me.

But Peter stood at the door without. The other disciple therefore, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the portress and brought in Peter.

Jesus answered him: If I have spoken evil, give testimony of the evil; but if well, why strikest thou me?

Then they led Jesus from Caiphas to the governor’s hall. And it was morning: and they went not into the hall, that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the pasch.

Jesus answered: My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would certainly strive that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now my kingdom is not from hence.

But you have a custom that I should release one unto you at the Pasch. Will you, therefore, that I release unto you the king of the Jews?

Then cried they all again, saying: Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.

And he entered into the hall again; and he said to Jesus: Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer.

And from henceforth Pilate sought to release him. But the Jews cried out, saying: If thou release this man, thou art not Caesar’s friend. For whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar.

But they cried out: Away with him: Away with him: Crucify him. Pilate saith to them: shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered: We have no king but Caesar.

And bearing his own cross, he went forth to the place which is called Calvary, but in Hebrew Golgotha.

Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate: Write not: The King of the Jews. But that he said: I am the King of the Jews.

They said then one to another: Let us not cut it but let us cast lots for it, whose it shall be; that the scripture might be fulfilled, saying: They have parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture they have cast lots. And the soldiers indeed did these things.

But after they were come to Jesus, when they saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.

But one of the soldiers with a spear opened his side: and immediately there came out blood and water.

And after these things, Joseph of Arimathea (because he was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews), besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus. And Pilate gave leave. He came therefore and took away the body of Jesus.

And when he stooped down, he saw the linen cloths lying: but yet he went not in.

And the napkin that had been about his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but apart, wrapped up into one place.