24 "Now Annas had sent him bound unto Caiaphas the high priest. 25 And Simon Peter stood into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled ; but that they might eat the passover. and warmed himself. " They 29 Pilate then went out unsaid therefore unto him, Art to them, and said, What accunot thou also one of his dis-sation bring ye against this ciples? He denied it, and said, man? I am not. 26 One of the servants of the high priest, being his kinsman whose ear Peter cut off, saith, Did not I see thee in the garden with him? 27 Peter then denied again: immediately the cock and crew. 30 They answered and said unto him, If he were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up unto thee. 31 Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye him, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for us to See Mat. xxvi. 57.-i Luke iii. 2. || And Annas sent put any man to death Christ bound unto Caiaphas the high priest, ver 24.-k ch. xi. 50.-/ Mat. xxvi. 58. Mark xiv. 54. Luke xxii. 54. -m Mat. xxvi. 69. Mark xiv. 66. Luke xxii. 54. n Mat. xxvi. 55. Luke iv. 15. ch. vii. 14, 26, 28; & vili. 2.-o Jer. xx. 2. Acts xxiii. 2.-[Or, with a rod.-p Mat. xxvi. 57.-q Mat. xxvii. 69, 71. Mark xiv. 69. Luke xxii. 58.-r Mat. xxvi. 74. Mark xiv. 72. Luke xxii. 60. ch. xiii. 38. น : 32 That the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spake, signifying what death he should die. 33 Then Pilate entered into the judgment hall again, and called Jesus, and said unto him, Art thou the King of the Jews? 34 Jesus answered him, Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or did others tell it thee of me? 35 Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Thine own nation and the chief priests have delivered thee unto me: what hast thou done? 36 Jesus answered, * My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence. 37 Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice. 38 Pilate saith unto unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, 'I find in him no fault at all. 8 Mat. xxvii. 2. Mark xv. 1. Luke xxiii. 1. Acts iii. 13. Or, Pilute's house, Mat. xxvii. 27.- Acts x. 28; & xi. 3.-u Mat. xx. 19. ch. xli. 32, 33.- Mat. xxvii. 11. -y 1 Tim. vi. 13.-≈ Dan. ii. 44; & vii. 14. Luke xii. 14. § CCLXXIV. CHAP. XIX. 1—16. Christ is scourged, crowned with thorns, and beaten. Pilate is desirous to release him, but, being overcome with the outrage of the Jews, he delivered him to be crucified. THEN " Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. 2 And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe, 3 And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands. 4 Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, 'that ye may know that I find no fault in him. 5 Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man! 6 "When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify ch. vi. 15 ; & vill. l5.-a ch. viii. 47. 1 John iii. 19; & him, crucify him. Pilate saith iv. 6.- Mat. xxvii. 24. Luke xxiii. 4. ch. xix. 4, 6.-c Mat. xxvii. 15. Mark xv. 6. Luke xxiii. 17.-d Acts iii. 14.-e Luke xxiii. 19. See Matthew XXVII. 11-23. unto them, Take ye him, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him. 7 The Jews answered him, d We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of 15 But they cried out, Away God. 8 When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid; But with him, away with him, cruPilate saith unto cify him. them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, 'We have no king but Cæsar. m 16 Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away. 9 And went again into the judgment hall, and saith unto Jesus, Whence art thou? Jesus gave him no answer. 10 Then saith Pilate unto him, Speakest thou not unto me? knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee? xxiii. 2.- Acts xvii. 7.- Mat. xxvii. 62.-1 Gen. xlix. 11 Jesus answered, "Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin. 12 And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him : but the Jews cried out, saying, "If thou let this man go, thou art not Cæsar's friend: 'who soever maketh himself a king speaketh against Cæsar. 13¶ When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat, in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha. 14 And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King! a Mat. xx. 19; & xxvii. 26. Mark xv. 15. Luke xviii. 33.-6 ch. xviii. 38. ver. 6-c Acts iii. 13.-d Lev. xxiv. 16.-e Mat. xxvi. 65. ch. v. 18; & x. 33.-f Is. liii. 7. Mat. xxvii. 12, 14.-g Luke xxii, 53. ch. vii. 30.-h Luke 10.-m Mat. xxvii. 26, 31. Mark xv. 15. Luke xxiii. 24. See Matthew XXVII. 24-32. § XC. § CCLXXV. CHAP. XIX. 17-24. Christ is crucified. The soldiers cast lots for his garments. 0 17 "And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha: 18 Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst. 19 And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS. 20 This title then read many 773 of the Jews for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin. 21 Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews. 22 Pilate answered, What I have written I have written. 23 'Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, 'woven from the top throughout. 24 They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did. n Mat. xxvii. 31, 33. Mark xv. 21, 22. Luke xxiii. 26, 33.-0 Num. xv. 36. Heb. xiii. 12.-p Mat. xxvii. 37. Mark xv. 26. Luke xxiii. 38-q Mat. xxvii. 35. Mark xv. 24. Luke xxiii. 34. Or, wrought.-r Ps. xxii. 18. See Matthew XXVII. 33-38. § CCLXXVI. CHAP. XIX. 25—42. Christ commendeth his mother to John. He dieth. His side is pierced. He is buried by Joseph and Nicodemus. and of the other which was he was crucified there was a 35 And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe. 36 For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken. 37 And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced. 38 And after this Joseph of Arimathæa, being 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 him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus. 39 And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight. 40 Then took they the body of Jesus, and 'wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury. 41 Now in the place where garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid. 42 "There laid they Jesus therefore " because of the Jews' preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand. Or, 8 Mat. xxvii. 55. Mark xv. 40. Luke xxiii. 49. Clopas.- Luke xxiv. 18-u ch. xiii. 23; & xx. 2; & xxi. 7, 20, 24.- ch. ii. 4.-y ch. i. 11; & xvi. 32.-z Ps. Ixix. 21.-a Mat. xxvii. 48.-6 ch. xvii. 4.-c ver. 42. Mark xv. 42.-d Deut. xxi. 23.-e 1 John v. 6. 8.-f Ex. xii. 46. Num. ix. 12. Ps. xxxiv. 20.-g Ps. xxii. 16, 17. Zech. xii. 10. Rev. i. 7.-h Mat. xxvii. 57. Mark xv. 42. Luke xxiii. 50.- ch. ix. 22; & xii. 42.-k ch. iii. 1, 2; & vii. 50.-/Acts v. 6.-m Is. liii. 9.-n ver. 31. See Matthew XXVII. 50-60. § CCLXXVII. CHAP. XX. 1-18. Mary cometh to the sepulchre; so do tion. Jesus appeareth to Mary Magdalene. Peter and John, ignorant of the resurrec THE "first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre. 2 Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him. 3 Peter therefore went forth, |