18:1When Jesus had said these things, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where there was a garden, into which he entered with his disciples.
2And Judas also, who betrayed him, knew the place; because Jesus had often resorted there together with his disciples.
3Judas therefore having received a band of soldiers and servants from the chief priests and the Pharisees, comes there with lanterns and torches and weapons.
4Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him, went forth, and said to them: Whom seek you?
5They answered him: Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus says to them: I am he. And Judas also, who betrayed him, stood with them.
6As soon therefore as he had said to them: I am he; they went backward, and fell to the ground.
7Again therefore he asked them: Whom seek you? And they said, Jesus of Nazareth.
8Jesus answered, I have told you that I am he. If therefore you seek me, let these go their way.
9That the word might be fulfilled which he said: Of them whom you have given me, I have not lost any one.
10Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it, and struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear. And the name of the servant was Malchus.
11Jesus therefore said to Peter: Put up your sword into the scabbard. The chalice which my Father has given me, shall I not drink it?
12Then the band and the tribune, and the servants of the Jews, took Jesus, and bound him:
13And they led him away to Annas first, for he was father in law to Caiphas, who was the high priest of that year.
14Now Caiphas was he who had given the guidance to the Jews: That it was expedient that one man should die for the people.
15And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple. And that disciple was known to the high priest, and went in with Jesus into the court of the high priest.
16But Peter stood at the door without. The other disciple therefore, who was known to the high priest, went out, and spoke to the portress, and brought in Peter.
17The maid therefore that was portress, says to Peter: Art not you also one of this man's disciples? He says: I am not.
18Now the servants and ministers stood at a fire of coals, because it was cold, and warmed themselves. And with them was Peter also, standing, and warming himself.
19The high priest therefore asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his teaching.
20Jesus answered him: I have said openly to the world: I have always taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither all the Jews resort; and in secret I have said nothing.
21Why asketh you me? ask them who have heard what I have said to them: look they know what things I have said.
22And when he had said these things, one of the servants standing by, gave Jesus a blow, saying: Answerest you the high priest so?
23Jesus answered him: If I have said evil, give teaching of the evil; but if well, why strikest you me?
24And Annas sent him bound to Caiphas the high priest.
25And Simon Peter was standing, and warming himself. They said therefore to him: Art not you also one of his disciples? He denied it, and said: I am not.
26One of the servants of the high priest (a kinsman to him whose ear Peter cut off) says to him: Did I not see you in the garden with him?
27Again therefore Peter denied; and immediately the cock crew.
28Then they led Jesus from Caiphas to the governor's hall. And it was morning; and they went not into the hall, that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the pasch.
29Pilate therefore went out to them, and said: What accusation bring you against this man?
30They answered, and said to him: If he were not a malefactor, we would not have rescued him up to you.
31Pilate therefore said to them: Take him you, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said to him: It is not lawful for us to put any man to death;
32That the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he said, signifying what death he should die.
33Pilate therefore went into the hall again, and called Jesus, and said to him: Art you the king of the Jews?
34Jesus answered: Sayest you this thing of yourself, or have others told it you of me?
35Pilate answered: Am I a Jew? Your own nation, and the chief priests, have rescued you up to me: what have you done?
36Jesus answered: My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would certainly strive that I should not be rescued to the Jews: but now my kingdom is not from from here.
37Pilate therefore said to him: Art you a king then? Jesus answered: You sayest that I am a king. For this was I born, and for this came I into the world; that I should give teaching to the truth. Every one that is of the truth, hears my voice.
38Pilate says to him: What is truth? And when he said this, he went out again to the Jews, and says to them: I find no cause in him.
39But you have a custom that I should release one to you at the pasch: will you, therefore, that I release to you the king of the Jews?
40Then cried they all again, saying: Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.
19:1Then therefore, Pilate took Jesus, and scourged him.
2And the soldiers platting a crown of thorns, put it upon his head; and they put on him a purple clothing.
3And they came to him, and said: Hail, king of the Jews; and they gave him blows.
4Pilate therefore went forth again, and says to them: Look, I bring him forth to you, that you may know that I find no cause in him.
5(Jesus therefore came forth, bearing the crown of thorns and the purple clothing.) And he says to them: Look the Man.
6When the chief priests, therefore, and the servants, had seen him, they cried out, saying: Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate says to them: Take him you, and crucify him: for I find no cause in him.
7The Jews answered him: We have a law; and according to the law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.
8When Pilate therefore had heard this saying, he feared the more.
9And he entered into the hall again, and he said to Jesus: Whence art you? But Jesus gave him no answer.
10Pilate therefore says to him: Speakest you not to me? know you not that I have power to crucify you, and I have power to release you?
11Jesus answered: You should not have any power against me, unless it were given you from above. Therefore, the one who has rescued me to you, has the greater sin.
12And from now on Pilate sought to release him. But the Jews cried out, saying: If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend. For whoever makes himself a king, speaketh against Caesar.
13Now when Pilate had heard these words, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat, in the place that is called Lithostrotos, and in Hebrew Gabbatha.
14And it was the parasceve of the pasch, about the sixth hour, and he says to the Jews: Look your king.
15But they cried out: Away with him; away with him; crucify him. Pilate says to them: Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered: We have no king but Caesar.
16Then therefore he rescued him to them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him forth.
17And bearing his own cross, he went forth to that place which is called Calvary, but in Hebrew Golgotha.
18Where they crucified him, and with him two others, one on each side, and Jesus in the midst.
19And Pilate wrote a title also, and he put it upon the cross. And the writing was: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.
20This title therefore many of the Jews did read: because the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, in Greek, and in Latin.
21Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate: Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am the King of the Jews.
22Pilate answered: What I have written, I have written.
23The soldiers therefore, when they had crucified him, took his garments, (and they made four parts, to every soldier a part,) and also his coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.
24They said then one to another: Let us not cut it, but let us cast lots for it, whose it shall be; that the scripture might be fulfilled, saying: They have parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture they have cast lot. And the soldiers indeed did these things.
25Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalen.
26When Jesus therefore had seen his mother and the disciple standing whom he loved, he says to his mother: Woman, look your son.
27After that, he says to the disciple: Look your mother. And from that hour, the disciple took her to his own.
28Afterwards, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, said: I thirst.
29Now there was a container set there full of vinegar. And they, putting a sponge full of vinegar and hyssop, put it to his mouth.
30Jesus therefore, when he had taken the vinegar, said: It is consummated. And bowing his head, he gave up the ghost.
31Then the Jews, (because it was the parasceve,) that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath day, (for that was a great sabbath day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
32The soldiers therefore came; and they broke the legs of the first, and of the other that was crucified with him.
33But after they were come to Jesus, when they saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.
34But one of the soldiers with a spear opened his side, and immediately there came out blood and water.
35And he that saw it, has given teaching, and his teaching is true. And he knows that he says true; that you also may believe.
36For these things were done, that the scripture might be fulfilled: You shall not break a bone of him.
37And again another scripture says: They shall look on him whom they pierced.
38And after these things, Joseph of Arimathea (because he was 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 leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.
39And Nicodemus also came, (he who at the first came to Jesus by night,) bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.
40They took therefore the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths, with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
41Now there was in the place where he was crucified, a garden; and in the garden a new tomb, in which no man yet had been laid.
42There, therefore, because of the parasceve of the Jews, they laid Jesus, because the tomb was nigh at hand.