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and said, I have sinned, for I have betrayed the innocent blood. But they said to him, To us ? what to us ? Thou knowest,-thou !

And they took counsel, and bought with it the field of the potter, for the burial-place of strangers.

And when they were assembled, Pilatos said to them, Whom will you that I release unto you, Bar-aba, or Jeshu who is called the Meshicha ?

But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that he should release to them Bar-aba, that they might destroy Jeshu.

And the governor answered and said to them, Whom will you that I shall release to you of these two? Then they said, Bar-aba.

Pilatos saith to them, And to Jeshu who is called the Meshicha, what shall I do with him ? They all said, Let him be crucified.

Pilatos saith to them, Why, what evil hath he done ? But they clamoured the more, and said, Let him be crucified !

And they stripped him, and invested him with a cloak of crimson.

And they interwove a crown of thorns, and set it upon his head, and a cane in his right hand: and they kneeled upon their knees before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, king of the Jihudoyee !

And they did spit in his face, and took the cane, and struck him upon his head.

And when they had derided him, they stripped him of the cloak, and clothed him with his own garments, and led him away to be crucified.

And when they had gone forth, they found a Kurinean man whose name was Shemun: this (man) they compel to carry his cross.

And they came to a place which is called Gogultho, which is expounded, The skull.

And they gave him to drink vinegar mingled with gall: and he tasted, but was not willing to drink.

And when they had crucified him, they divided his garments by lot: that what was spoken by the prophet might be fulfilled, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots.

And they sat down and watched him there.

And they placed over his head the occasion of his death, in the writing, This (is) Jeshu, the King of the Jihudoyee.

AND they crucified with him two thieves, one on his right hand, and one on his left.

But the centurion and those with him, who guarded Jeshu, when they saw the commotion and those (portents) which took place, feared greatly, and said, Assuredly this was the Son of Aloha.

and laid it in a new house of burial of his own, which was hewn out in the rock. And they rolled a great stone, and heaved it against the door of the sepulchre, and went.