The Life of Jesus

In like manner also the chief priests, with the scribes and ancients, mocking said:

He saved others: himself he cannot save. If he be the king of Israel, let him now come down from the cross: and we will believe him.

He trusted in God: let him now deliver him if he will have him. For he said: I am the Son of God.

And the selfsame thing the thieves also that were crucified with him reproached him with.

Now from the sixth hour, there was darkness over the whole earth, until the ninth hour.

And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying: Eli, Eli, lamma sabacthani? That is, My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?

And some that stood there and heard said: This man calleth Elias.

And immediately one of them running took a sponge and filled it with vinegar and put it on a reed and gave him to drink.

And the others said: Let be. Let us see whether Elias will come to deliver him.

And Jesus again crying with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.

And behold the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top even to the bottom: and the earth quaked and the rocks were rent.

And the graves were opened: and many bodies of the saints that had slept arose,

And coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, came into the holy city and appeared to many.

Now the centurion and they that were with him watching Jesus, having seen the earthquake and the things that were done, were sore afraid, saying: Indeed this was the Son of God.

And there were there many women afar off, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him:

Among whom was Mary Magdalen and Mary the mother of James and Joseph and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

And when it was evening, there came a certain rich man of Arimathea, named Joseph, who also himself was a disciple of Jesus.

He went to Pilate and asked the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded that the body should be delivered.

And Joseph taking the body wrapped it up in a clean linen cloth:

And laid it in his own new monument, which he had hewed out in a rock. And he rolled a great stone to the door of the monument and went his way.

And there was there Mary Magdalen and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.

And the next day, which followed the day of preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees came together to Pilate,

Saying: Sir, we have remembered, that that seducer said, while he was yet alive: After three days I will rise again.

Command therefore the sepulchre to be guarded until the third day: lest perhaps his disciples come and steal him away and say to the people: He is risen from the dead. And the last error shall be worse than the first.

Pilate saith to them: You have a guard. Go, guard it as you know.