mocking him, arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him back to Pilate :

12 and Herod and Pilate were made friends that day: for before, they were at enmity between themselves.

13 And Pilate, calling together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,

14 said to them, Ye have

brought this man to me, as one who perverteth the people: and, behold, I have examined him before you, and have found in this man no guilt of the things of which ye accuse him: 15 nor yet Herod; for he hath sent him back to you, and, lo, nothing worthy of death hath been done by him: 16 I will therefore chastise him, and release him:

17 and they all cried out, saying, Away with this man! and release to us Barabbas; (who for a certain insurrection made in the city, and for murder, had been cast into prison.)

18 Then Pilate, wishing to Acts, iii. 13. release Jesus, spake to them again;

19 but they cried out, saying, Crucify him! crucify him!

20 and he said to them the third time, Why, what evil hath he done? I have found no guilt of death in him: I will therefore chastise him, and release him:

21 and they were urgent, with loud voices, requiring that he should be crucified:

22 and their voices prevailed; and Pilate gave sentence, that it should be done as they required;

23 and he released to them him whom they desired, who for sedition and murder had been cast into prison; but he delivered up Jesus to their will.

24 And as they led him away, they seized on one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and laid on him the cross, that he should bear it after Jesus:

25 and a great number of the people followed him: also of women, who bewailed and lamented him;

26 but Jesus turning to these, said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children :

27 for behold, the days are coming, in which they will say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps that never gave suck:

28 then will they begin to say to the mountains, "Fall Hos. x. 8. "on us; and to the hills, Cover "us:"

29 for, if they do these things in a green tree, what will befall the dry!

c. xix. 41.

30 And two others, who were malefactors, were also led with him to be put to death.

31 And when they were come to the place called Kranion, that is, Skull, they there crucified him, and the malefactors, one on his right hand, and the other on his left:

32 and they divided his garments among them, casting lots for them: and the people stood by looking on.

33 But the rulers derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he is the Christ, the chosen of God: 34 and the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar;

35 and saying, If thou art the king of the Jews, save thyself.

36 And an inscription was over him; THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.

37 And one of the malefactors which were hanged, railed on him, saying, If thou art the Christ, save thyself and us:

38 but the other answering, rebuked him, saying, Dost thou not fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?

39 and we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds; but this man hath done nothing amiss:

40 and he said to Jesus, Remember me, when thou goest to thy kingdom:

41 and Jesus said to him, Verily, I tell thee, To day thou shalt be with me in paradise.

42 And it was now about the sixth hour; yet, darkness came 12 Noon. over all the land until the ninth hour, the sun failing of 3 Afternoon. its light:

43 and the veil of the sanc- Heb. x. 20. tuary was rent in the midst :

44 and Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit: and having said this, he expired.

45 But when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Truly, this Matt. xxvii. was a just man!

46 and all the multitudes that came together to that sight, when they had seen the things which were done, smote their breasts, and returned:

47 but all his acquaintance, and the women that had followed him from Galilee, stood beholding these things afar off. 48 And, behold, a man named Joseph, who was a counsellor ; a good and just man,

49 who had not consented to their counsel and deed; of Arimathea, a city of the Judeans; who himself also was expecting the kingdom of God:

50 this man went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus: 51 and he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre hewn in a

53.

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ND on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they went to the sepulchre, carrying the spices which they had prepared;

2 and they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre : 3 but when they entered, they found not the body of the Lord Jesus:

4 and it came to pass, while they were perplexed thereat, that, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments; 5 and as they were terrified, and bent down their faces to the ground; they said to them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?

6 he is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake to you, while he was yet in Galilee ;

7 saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again;

8 and they remembered his words:

9 and returning from the sepulchre, they told all these things to the eleven, and to all the rest:

10 Mary the Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them, were they who told these things to the apostles:

11 and those words seemed to them as an idle tale, and they believed them not;

12 but Peter arose, and ran to the sepulchre; and stooping down, beheld the linen clothes only and he went away, wondering in himself what had come to pass.

13 And, behold, two of them were going that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was distant from Jerusalem about sixty furlongs ;

14 and they talked together of all these things that had happened:

15 and it came to pass, while they were talking and reasoning together, that Jesus himself drew near them, and went on with them; but their eyes were withheld from knowing him: 16 and he said to them, What are these discourses that ye

hold one to another, as ye walk?

17 and they stopped, sorrowful; and one of them, by name Cleopas, answering, said to him, Art thou the only one dwelling in Jerusalem that knoweth not the things which are come to pass there in these days?

18 and he said to them, What things? and they said to him, Those concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet powerful in deed and word, before God and all the people: 19 and how the chief priests, and our rulers, delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him:

20 but we hoped, that it was he who is to redeem Israel: and, moreover, this is the third day since these things were done: 21 yea, and some women amongst us have astonished us, who were early at the sepulchre ;

22 and when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive;

23 and some of those who are with us went to the sepulchre, and found it as the women had said; but him they

saw not.

24 And he said to them, O thoughtless, and slow in heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

25 Ought not the Christ to suffer these things, and to enter into his glory?

26 and beginning with Moses, and all the prophets, he expounded to them, in all the scriptures, the things concerning himself.

27 And they drew near to the village to which they were going; and he made, as if he would go further:

28 but they constrained him, saying, Abide with us; for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent; and he went in, to abide with them:

29 and it came to pass, as he sat at table with them, that he took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to them: 30 and their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he disappeared from them:

31 and they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us in the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures? 32 And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem; and found the eleven, and them that were with them, gathered together,

33 who said, The Lord is in- 1 Cor. xv. 5. deed risen, and hath appeared to Simon:

34 and they told the things that had passed on the way; and how he became known to them in the breaking of the bread.