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And they went, and found as he had said to them: and they made ready the passover.

And in like manner also concerning the cup, after they had supped, he said: This cup is the new testament in my blood, which, for your sakes, is poured out !

And they began to inquire among themselves, which of them it was, that would do this.

And he said to them: When I sent you without purses, without wallets and shoes, lacked ye any thing? They say to him: Nothing.

And they said to him: Our Lord, lo, here are two swords. He said to them: They are sufficient.

And when they that were with him, saw what occurred, they said to him: Our Lord, shall we smite them with the sword?

And they took him, and conducted him to the house of the high priest. And Simon followed after him, at a distance.

And they kindled a fire in the middle of the court, and sat around it; and Simon also sat among them.

And many other things they revilingly uttered, and spoke against him.

And when the day dawned, the Elders and chief priests and Scribes assembled together; and they led him to the place of their meeting,

And they all said: Thou art then, the Son of God? Jesus said to them: Ye say that I am.

And they began to accuse him, and said: We have found this man seducing our people, and forbidding to pay the capitation money to Caesar, and declaring himself to be king Messiah.

And they vociferated, and said: He raiseth disturbance among our people, by teaching in all Judaea, commencing from Galilee, and quite to this place.

But they cried out, and said: Crucify him; crucify him.

But they were urgent, with a loud voice; and demanded of him, that they might crucify him.

And he released to them him, who for sedition and murder had been cast into prison, for whom they petitioned; and he delivered up Jesus to their pleasure.

And as they led him away, they seized Simon the Cyrenian, coming from the fields. and laid upon him the cross, to bear [fn] after Jesus.

For lo, the days are coming, in which they will say: Happy the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.

Then will they begin to say to the mountains, Fall upon us! and to the hills, Cover us!

And when they came to a certain place which is called a Skull, they crucified him there; and the two malefactors, the one on his right hand, and the other on his left.