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and they blindfolded Him and repeatedly asked Him, saying, "Prophesy, who is the one who hit You?"

And they were saying many other things against Him, blaspheming.

When it was day, the Council of elders of the people assembled, both chief priests and scribes, and they led Him away to their council chamber, saying,

And they all said, "So You are the Son of God?" And He said to them, "You say correctly that I am."

And then they said, "What further need do we have of testimony? For we have heard it ourselves from His own mouth!"

And they began to bring charges against Him, saying, "We found this Man misleading our nation and forbidding us to pay taxes to Caesar, and saying that He Himself is Christ, a King."

And so Herod and Pilate became friends with one another that very day; for previously, they had been enemies toward each other.

But they cried out all together, saying, "Away with this Man, and release to us Barabbas!"

But they were insistent, with loud voices, demanding that He be crucified. And their voices began to prevail.

And he released the man for whom they were asking, who had been thrown into prison for a revolt and murder; but he handed Jesus over to their will.

And when they led Him away, they seized a man, Simon of Cyrene, as he was coming in from the country, and placed on him the cross to carry behind Jesus.

"For behold, days are coming when they will say, 'Blessed are those who cannot bear, and the wombs that have not given birth, and the breasts that have not nursed.'

"Then they will begin TO SAY TO THE MOUNTAINS, 'FALL ON US,' AND TO THE HILLS, 'COVER US.'

And when they came to the place called The Skull, there they crucified Him and the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left.

[But Jesus was saying, "Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing."] And they cast lots, dividing His garments among themselves.

Now the women who had come with Him from Galilee followed, and they saw the tomb and how His body was laid.

And then they returned and prepared spices and perfumes. And on the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb,

And they remembered His words,

But these words appeared to them as nonsense, and they would not believe the women.