The Life of Jesus

What thinke yee? They answered, and said, He is guiltie of death.

Then spet they in his face, and buffeted him, and other smote him with roddes,

Saying, Prophecie to vs, O Christ, Who is he that smote thee?

Peter sate without in the hall, and a maide came to him, saying, Thou also wast with Iesus of Galile:

But hee denied before them all, saying, I wote not what thou saiest.

And when hee went out into the porche, another maide sawe him, and sayde vnto them that were there, This man was also with Iesus of Nazareth.

And againe he denied with an othe, saying, I knowe not the man.

So after a while, came vnto him they that stoode by, and sayde vnto Peter, Surely thou art also one of them: for euen thy speache bewraieth thee.

Then began hee to curse himselfe, and to sweare, saying, I knowe not the man. And immediately the cocke crewe.

Then Peter remembred the wordes of Iesus, which had sayde vnto him, Before the cocke crowe thou shalt denie me thrise. So he went out, and wept bitterly.

When the morning was come, all the chiefe Priests, and the elders of the people tooke counsell against Iesus, to put him to death,

And led him away bounde, and deliuered him vnto Pontius Pilate the gouernour.

Then when Iudas which betraied him, sawe that hee was condemned, hee repented himselfe, and brought againe the thirtie pieces of siluer to the chiefe Priestes, and Elders,

Saying, I haue sinned, betraying the innocent bloud. But they sayde, What is that to vs? see thou to it.

And when hee had cast downe the siluer pieces in the Temple, hee departed, and went, and hanged himselfe.

And the chiefe Priestes tooke the siluer pieces, and sayde, It is not lawfull for vs to put them into the treasure, because it is the price of bloud.

And they tooke counsell, and bought with them a potters fielde, for the buriall of strangers.

Wherefore that field is called, The field of bloud, vntill this day.

(Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Ieremias the Prophet, saying, And they tooke thirtie siluer pieces, ye price of him that was valued, whom they of ye children of Israel valued.

And they gaue them for the potters fielde, as the Lord appointed me.)

And Iesus stood before ye gouernour, and the gouernour asked him, saying, Art thou that King of the Iewes? Iesus said vnto him, Thou sayest it.

And when he was accused of the chiefe Priestes, and Elders, he answered nothing.

Then saide Pilate vnto him, Hearest thou not howe many things they lay against thee?

But he answered him not to one worde, in so much that the gouernour marueiled greatly.

Nowe at the feast, the gouernour was wont to deliuer vnto the people a prisoner whom they would.