36 Jesus answered, My king-5 Then came Jesus forth, dom is not of this world: If my wearing the crown of thorns, kingdom were of this world, and the purple robe. And Pithen would my servants fight, late saith unto them, Behold the that I should not be delivered man!

to the Jews: but now is my 6 When the chief priests kingdom not from hence. therefore and officers saw him, 37 Pilate therefore said unto they cried out, saying, Crucify him, Art thou a king then? Jesus him, crucify him. Pilate saith answered, Thou sayest that I am unto them, Take ye him, and a king. To this end was I born, crucify him: for I find no fault and for this cause came I into the in him.

world, that I should bear wit- 7 The Jews answered him, ness unto the truth. Every one We have a law, and by our law that is of the truth, heareth my he ought to die, because he voice. made himself the Son of God. 38 Pilate saith unto him, 8 When Pilate therefore What is truth! And when he heard that saying, he was the had said this, he went out again more afraid;

unto the Jews, and saith unto 9 And went again into the them, I find in him no fault at all. judgment-hall, and saith unto 39 But ye have a custom that Jesus, Whence art thou? But I should release unto you one at Jesus gave him no answer. the passover: will ye therefore, 10 Then saith Pilate unto that I release unto you the King him, Speakest thou not unto of the Jews? me? knowest thou not, that I 40 Then cried they all again, have power to crucify thee, and saying, Not this man, but Bar- have power to release thee? abbas. Now Barabbas was a 11 Jesus answered, Thou robber.

CHAP. XIX.

1 Jesus is scourged and crowned with thorns....11 Pilate delivereth him to be crucified, &c.

THE

HEN Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. 2 And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe,

3 And said, Hail, King of the Jews! And they smote him with their hands.

couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given. thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.

12 And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Cesar's friend. Whosoever maketh himself a king, speaketh against Cesar.

13 When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought 4 Pilate therefore went forth Jesus forth, and sat down in the again, and saith unto them, Be- judgment-seat, in a place that is hold, I bring him forth to you, called The Pavement, but in that ye may know that I find the Hebrew, Gabbatha.

no fault in him.

14 And it was the prepar

ation of the passover, and about themselves, Let us not rend it, the sixth hour: and he saith but cast lots for it whose it shall unto the Jews, Behold your be: that the scripture might be King! fulfilled, which saith, They part

15 But they cried out, Away ed my raiment among them, and with him, away with him, cruci- for my vesture they did cast lots. fy him. Pilate saith unto them, These things therefore the solShall I crucify your King? The diers did.

chief priests answered, We have 25 I Now there stood by no king but Cesar. the cross of Jesus, his mother, 16 Then delivered he him and his mother's sister, Mary therefore unto them to be cruci- the wife of Cleophas, and Mary fied. And they took Jesus, and Magdalene.

led him away.

26 When Jesus therefore

17 And he bearing his cross saw his mother, and the disciwent forth into a place called ple standing by whom he loved, the place of a scull, which is he saith unto his mother, Wocalled in the Hebrew, Golgo-man, behold thy son!

tha:

27 Then saith he to the dis18 Where they crucified him, ciple, Behold thy mother! And and two others with him, on ei- from that hour that disciple took ther side one, and Jesus in the her unto his own home. midst. 28 ¶ After this, Jesus know19 ¶ And Pilate wrote a ti-ing that all things were now tle, and put it on the cross. accomplished, that the scripture And the writing was, JESUS might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. OF NAZARETH, THE 29 Now there was set a vesKING OF THE JEWS. sel full of vinegar: and they fill20 This title then read many ed a sponge with vinegar, and of the Jews: for the place where put it upon hyssop, and put it to Jesus was crucified was nigh to his mouth.

the city and it was written in 30 When Jesus therefore had Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin. received the vinegar, he said, It 21 Then said the chief priests is finished: and he bowed his of the Jews to Pilate, Write head, and gave up the Ghost. not, The King of the Jews; but 31 The Jews therefore, bethat he said, I am King of the cause it was the preparation, Jews. that the bodies should not re22 Pilate answered, What I main upon the cross on the sabhave written, I have written. bath-day, (for that sabbath-day 23 ¶ Then the soldiers, when was a high day) besought Pithey had crucifiedJesus, took his late that their legs might be garments, and made four parts, to broken, and that they might be every soldier a part; and also taken away.

his coat: now the coat was 32 Then came the soldiers, without seam, woven from the and brake the legs of the first, top throughout. and of the other which was cruci24 They said therefore among fied with him.

33 But when they came to

CHAP. XX.

Jesus, and saw that he was dead 1 Mary cometh to the sepulchre; 11 she already, they brake not his seeth two angels; Jesus himself appear

legs:

eth to her.

34 But one of the soldiers THE first day of the week with a spear pierced his side, and cometh Mary Magdalene forthwith came thereout blood early, when it was yet dark, and water. unto the sepulchre, and seeth 35 And he that saw it, bare the stone taken away from the record, and his record is true: sepulchre.

and he knoweth that he saith 2 Then she runneth, and comtrue, that ye might believe. eth to Simon Peter, and to the 36 For these things were other disciple whom Jesus loved, done, that the scripture should and saith unto them, They have be fulfilled, A bone of him shall taken away the Lord out of the not be broken. sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.

37 And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.

3 Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulchre.

38 ¶ And after this, Joseph of Arimathea (being a disciple of 4 So they ran both together: Jesus, but secretly for fear of and the other disciple did outrun the Jews) besought Pilate that Peter, and came first to the sehe might take away the body pulchre.

of Jesus: and Pilate gave him 5 And he stooping down, and leave. He came therefore and looking in, saw the linen clothes took the body of Jesus. lying; yet went he not in.

39 And there came also 6 Then cometh Simon Peter Nicodemus (which at the first following him, and went into came to Jesus by night) and the sepulchre,and seeth the linen brought a mixture of myrrh and clothes lie; aloes, about a hundred pounds weight.

7 And the napkin that was about his head, not lying with 40 Then took they the body the linen clothes, but wrapped of Jesus, and wound it in linen together in a place by itself. clothes with the spices, as the 8 Then went in also that othmanner of the Jews is to er disciple which came first to bury. the sepulchre, and he saw, and

41 Now in the place where believed. he was crucified, there was a 9 For as yet they knew not garden; and in the garden a the scripture, that he must rise new sepulchre, wherein was again from the dead. 10 Then the disciples went 42 There laid they Jesus away again unto their own therefore, because of the Jews' home. preparation-day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.

never man yet laid.

11 ¶ But Mary stood withlout at the sepulchre weeping:

and as she wept she stooped 20 And when he had so said, down and looked into the sepul- he shewed unto them his hands chre, and his side. Then were the 12 And seeth two angels in disciples glad when they saw white, sitting, the one at the the Lord.

head, and the other at the feet, 21 Then said Jesus to them where the body of Jesus had lain. again, Peace be unto you: as my 13 And they say unto her, Father hath sent me, even so Woman, why weepest thou send I you.

She saith unto them, Because 22 And when he had said they have taken away my Lord, this, he breathed on them, and and I know not where they have saith unto them, Receive ye the laid him. Holy Ghost.

14 And when she had thus 23 Whose soever sins ye resaid, she turned herself back, mit, they are remitted unto and saw Jesus standing, and them; and whose soever sins knew not that it was Jesus. ye retain, they are retained.

15 Jesus saith unto her, Wo- 24 I But Thomas, one of the man, why weepest thou? whom twelve, called Didymus, was seekest thou? She, supposing not with them when Jesus him to be the gardener, saith came.

unto him, Sir, if thou have borne 25 The other disciples therehim hence, tell me where thou fore said unto him, We have hast laid him, and I will take seen the Lord. But he said him away. unto them, Except I shall see

16 Jesus saith unto her, Mary. in his hands the print of the She turned herself, and saith un-nails, and put my finger into to him, Rabboni, which is to say, the print of the nails, and thrust Master. my hand into his side, I will

17 Jesus saith unto her, not believe. Touch me not: for I am not 26 And after eight days yet ascended to my Father: but again his disciples were within, go to my brethren, and say unto and Thomas with them: then them, I ascend unto my Father came Jesus, the doors being and your Father, and to my God shut, and stood in the midst, and and your God. said, Peace be unto you.

18 Mary Magdalene came 27 Then saith he to Thomas, and told the disciples that she Reach hither thy finger, and behad seen the Lord, and that he hold my hands; and reach hithhad spoken these things unto her. er thy hand, and thrust it into 19 Then the same day at my side; and be not faithless, but evening, being the first day of believing.

the week, when the doors were 28 And Thomas answered shut where the disciples were and said unto him, My Lord and assembled for fear of the Jews, my God.

came Jesus and stood in the 29 Jesus saith unto him, midst, and saith unto them, Thomas, because thou hast seen Peace be unto you.

me, thou hast believed: blessed

are they that have not seen, and er's coat unto him, (for he was yet have believed. naked) and did cast himself into

8 And the other disciples

30 And many other signs the sea. truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not came in a little ship (for they written in this book. were not far from land, but as it 31 But these are written, were two hundred cubits) dragthat ye might believe that Jesus ging the net with fishes. is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.

CHAP. XXI.

1 Christ appeareth to his disciples; 15 his charge to Peter, and foretelleth his death.

FTER these things Jesus shewed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias and on this wise shewed he himself.

9 As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread.

10 Jesus saith unto them, Bring of the fish which ye have now caught.

11 Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, a hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so

2 There were together Simon many, yet was not the net brokPeter, and Thomas called Didy-en.

mus, and Nathanael of Cana in 12 Jesus saith unto them, Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, Come and dine. And none of and two other of his disciples. the disciples durst ask him, Who

3 Simon Peter saith unto art thou? knowing that it was them, I go a fishing. They say the Lord.

unto him, We also go with thee. 13 Jesus then cometh, and They went forth, and entered taketh bread, and giveth them, into a ship immediately; and and fish likewise.

that night they caught nothing. 14 This is now the third time

4 But when the morning was that Jesus shewed himself to his now come, Jesus stood on the disciples, after that he was risen shore; but the disciples knew from the dead.

not that it was Jesus.

15 ¶ So when they had din5 Then Jesus saith unto them, ed, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Children, have ye any meat? Simon son of Jonas, lovest thou They answered him, No. me more than these? He saith

6 And he said unto them, unto him, Yea, Lord: thou Cast the net on the right side of knowest that I love thee. He the ship, and ye shall find. They saith unto him, Feed my lambs. cast therefore, and now they 16 He saith to him again the were not able to draw it for the second time, Simon son of Jonas, multitude of fishes. lovest thou me! He saith unto disciple him, Yea, Lord: thou knowest unto that I love thee. He saith unto Now him, Feed my sheep.

7 Therefore that whom Jesus loved saith Peter, It is the Lord.

when Simon Peter heard that 17 He saith unto him the it was the Lord, he girt his fish- third time, Simon son of Jonas,