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of witnesses have we?

See, now you have heard the blasphemy. What do you think?"

"He ought to be put to death."

Then they spat in his face and cuffed him, and some struck him with rods, and said:

"Prophesy to us, O Christ, who is he who struck you?"

Now Peter was sitting outside in the court, and a maid came to him and said:

"Why, you were with Jesus the Galilean." But he denied it before them all and said: "I do not know what you are saying."

And when he had gone out into the porch another maid saw him, and said to those there : "This man was with Jesus the Nazarene."

And he again denied with an oath :

"I do not know the man."

And after a little those standing by came and said to Peter:

"Surely you are one of them. For your talk betrays you."

Then he began to curse and to swear:

"I do not know the man."

And at once the cock crew.

And Peter remembered the word Jesus had said: "Before the cock crows you will deny me

three times."

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He went out and wept bitterly.

Now when the morning had come, all the chief priests and elders of the people consulted against Jesus to put him to death. And when they had bound him, they led him away and handed him over to Pilate, the Governor.

Then when Judas, the traitor, saw he was condemned, he was sorry, and brought back the hundred dollars to the chief priests and the elders, and said:

"I sinned. I betrayed innocent blood." "What is that to us?" they said.

to that."

"You see

He threw down the silver pieces in the Holy Place and left there and went away and hung himself.

But the chief priests took the silver and said: "It is not right to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood."

So they consulted and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in. So that field has been called The Field of Blood, to this day. Then was fulfilled the saying by Jeremiah the prophet:

They took the thirty pieces of silver,

The price of him who was valued,

Whom they of the children of Israel valued,

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And gave them for the potter's field,

As the Lord appointed me.

Now Jesus stood before the Governor.
And the Governor asked him :

"Are you the King of the Jews?"
"It is as you say."

And while the charges were being brought against him by the chief priests and the elders he made no answer.

Then Pilate said to him:

"Do you not hear how many things they are witnessing against you?"

And he did not answer him,-not even a word, so that the Governor was greatly astonished.

Now at the feast the Governor was accustomed to release to the crowd any one prisoner whom they wished. And they had then a notorious prisoner called Barabbas. So when they were gathered together, Pilate said to them:

"Whom do you wish me to release for you, Barabbas or Jesus, who is called Christ?"

For he knew that for envy they had handed him over. And while he was sitting on the judgment seat his wife sent to him, and said:

"Have nothing to do with that righteous man,

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for I have suffered a great deal to-day in a dream because of him."

Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas, and to destroy Jesus.

But the Governor answered:

"Which of the two do you wish me to release for you?"

"Barabbas."

"What then shall I do with Jesus who is

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'Why, what harm has he done?"

"Let him be crucified!!"

So when Pilate saw he gained nothing, but rather that a riot was being stirred up, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, and said:

"I will not answer for this bloodshed. You must see to it yourselves."

And all the people answered:

"His blood be on us and on our children." Then he released for them Barabbas, but he beat Jesus and handed him over to be crucified.

Then the soldiers of the Governor took Jesus into the Governor's quarters and gathered to

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him the whole band. And they stripped him and put on him a scarlet robe, and plaited a crown of thorns and put it on his head and a reed in his right hand. Then they kneeled down before him and mocked him and said:

"Hail! King of the Jews!"

And they spat upon him, and they took the reed and kept striking him on the head; and when they had mocked him they took off the robe from him, put his own clothes on him and led him away to crucify him.

As they were coming out they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, and they compelled him to go with them to carry his cross.

And when they had come to a place called Golgotha, that is to say, Skull's Place, they gave him a drink of wine mixed with gall. But when he had tasted it he refused to drink.

Now when they had crucified him, they divided his clothes among them by casting lots. And they sat down and kept watch over him there. And they put up over his head the written charge against him:

THIS IS JESUS

THE KING OF the Jews.

Then they crucified with him two robbers, one on his right and one on his left.

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