Part 10 (1/2)

[6] But the chief priests and elders persuaded the mult.i.tude that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.

[7] The governor answered and said unto them, Whether of the twain will ye that I release unto you? They said, Barabbas.

[8] Pilate saith unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ? They all say unto him, Let him be crucified.

[9] And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.

[10] Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.

[11] Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers.

[12] And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!

[13] And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head.

[14] And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him.

[15] Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, [16] Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.

[17] And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.

[18] And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.

[19] And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.

[20] Wherefore that field was called, The Field of Blood, unto this day.

[21] And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.

[22] And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.

[23] But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.

[24] For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.

[25] Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.

[26] For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?

[27] And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.

[28] And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha: [29] Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst.

[30] And Pilate wrote a t.i.tle, and put it on the cross. And the writing was JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.

[31] This t.i.tle then read many 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.

[32] 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.

[33] Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.

[34] 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.