The Life of Jesus

And the chief priests and the scribes stood vehemently accusing him,

and Herod with his soldiers having set him at nought, and having mocked, having put around him gorgeous apparel, did send him back to Pilate,

and both Pilate and Herod became friends on that day with one another, for they were before at enmity between themselves.

And Pilate having called together the chief priests, and the rulers, and the people,

said unto them, `Ye brought to me this man as perverting the people, and lo, I before you having examined, found in this man no fault in those things ye bring forward against him;

no, nor yet Herod, for I sent you back unto him, and lo, nothing worthy of death is having been done by him;

having chastised, therefore, I will release him,'

for it was necessary for him to release to them one at every feast,

and they cried out--the whole multitude--saying, `Away with this one, and release to us Barabbas,'

who had been, because of a certain sedition made in the city, and murder, cast into prison.

Pilate again then--wishing to release Jesus--called to them,

but they were calling out, saying, `Crucify, crucify him.'

And he a third time said unto them, `Why, what evil did he? no cause of death did I find in him; having chastised him, then, I will release him .'

And they were pressing with loud voices asking him to be crucified, and their voices, and those of the chief priests, were prevailing,

and Pilate gave judgment for their request being done,

and he released him who because of sedition and murder hath been cast into the prison, whom they were asking, and Jesus he gave up to their will.

And as they led him away, having taken hold on Simon, a certain Cyrenian, coming from the field, they put on him the cross, to bear it behind Jesus.

And there was following him a great multitude of the people, and of women, who also were beating themselves and lamenting him,

and Jesus having turned unto them, said, `Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but for yourselves weep ye, and for your children;

for, lo, days do come, in which they shall say, Happy the barren, and wombs that did not bare, and paps that did not give suck;

then they shall begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us, and to the hills, Cover us; --

for, if in the green tree they do these things--in the dry what may happen?'

And there were also others--two evil-doers--with him, to be put to death;

and when they came to the place that is called Skull, there they crucified him and the evil-doers, one on the right hand and one on the left.

And Jesus said, `Father, forgive them, for they have not known what they do;' and parting his garments they cast a lot.