1 Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged.2 The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe3 and went up to him again and again, saying, "Hail, king of the Jews!" And they slapped him in the face.4 Once more Pilate came out and said to the Jews gathered there, "Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him."5 When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, "Here is the man!"6 As soon as the chief priests and their officials saw him, they shouted, "Crucify! Crucify!" But Pilate answered, "You take him and crucify him. As for me, I find no basis for a charge against him."7 The Jewish leaders insisted, "We have a law, and according to that law he must die, because he claimed to be the Son of God."8 When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid,9 and he went back inside the palace. "Where do you come from?" he asked Jesus, but Jesus gave him no answer.10 "Do you refuse to speak to me?" Pilate said. "Don't you realize I have power either to free you or to crucify you?"11 Jesus answered, "You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin."12 From then on, Pilate tried to set Jesus free, but the Jewish leaders kept shouting, "If you let this man go, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar."13 When Pilate heard this, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judge's seat at a place known as the Stone Pavement (which in Aramaic is Gabbatha).14 It was the day of Preparation of the Passover; it was about noon. "Here is your king," Pilate said to the Jews.15 But they shouted, "Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!" "Shall I crucify your king?" Pilate asked. "We have no king but Caesar," the chief priests answered.16 Finally Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified. So the soldiers took charge of Jesus.17 Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha).18 There they crucified him, and with him two others —one on each side and Jesus in the middle.19 Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.20 Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and Greek.21 The chief priests of the Jews protested to Pilate, "Do not write 'The King of the Jews,' but that this man claimed to be king of the Jews."22 Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."23 When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes, dividing them into four shares, one for each of them, with the undergarment remaining. This garment was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.24 "Let's not tear it," they said to one another. "Let's decide by lot who will get it." This happened that the scripture might be fulfilled that said, "They divided my clothes among them and cast lots for my garment." "So this is what the soldiers did.25 Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.26 When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, "Woman, "here is your son,"27 and to the disciple, "Here is your mother." From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.28 Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, "I am thirsty."29 A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus' lips.30 When he had received the drink, Jesus said, "It is finished." With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.31 Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the Jewish leaders did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down.32 The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and then those of the other.33 But when they came to Jesus and found that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.34 Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus' side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water.35 The man who saw it has given testimony, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe.36 These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled: "Not one of his bones will be broken," [^3]37 and, as another scripture says, "They will look on the one they have pierced." [^4]38 Later, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jewish leaders. With Pilate's permission, he came and took the body away.39 He was accompanied by Nicodemus, the man who earlier had visited Jesus at night. Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds. [^5]40 Taking Jesus' body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen. This was in accordance with Jewish burial customs.41 At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid.42 Because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.

1 فحينئذ اخذ بيلاطس يسوع وجلده.2 وضفر العسكر اكليلا من شوك ووضعوه على راسه وألبسوه ثوب ارجوان.3 وكانوا يقولون السلام يا ملك اليهود وكانوا يلطمونه.4 فخرج بيلاطس ايضا خارجا وقال لهم ها انا اخرجه اليكم لتعلموا اني لست اجد فيه علة واحدة.5 فخرج يسوع خارجا وهو حامل اكليل الشوك وثوب الارجوان. فقال لهم بيلاطس هوذا الانسان.6 فلما رآه رؤساء الكهنة والخدام صرخوا قائلين اصلبه اصلبه. قال لهم بيلاطس خذوه انتم واصلبوه لاني لست اجد فيه علّة.7 اجابه اليهود لنا ناموس وحسب ناموسنا يجب ان يموت لانه جعل نفسه ابن الله.8 فلما سمع بيلاطس هذا القول ازداد خوفا.9 فدخل ايضا الى دار الولاية وقال ليسوع من اين انت. واما يسوع فلم يعطه جوابا.10 فقال له بيلاطس أما تكلمني. ألست تعلم ان لي سلطانا ان اصلبك وسلطانا ان اطلقك.11 اجاب يسوع لم يكن لك عليّ سلطان البتة لو لم تكن قد أعطيت من فوق. لذلك الذي اسلمني اليك له خطية اعظم.12 من هذا الوقت كان بيلاطس يطلب ان يطلقه ولكن اليهود كانوا يصرخون قائلين ان اطلقت هذا فلست محبا لقيصر. كل من يجعل نفسه ملكا يقاوم قيصر13 فلما سمع بيلاطس هذا القول اخرج يسوع وجلس على كرسي الولاية في موضع يقال له البلاط وبالعبرانية جبّاثا.14 وكان استعداد الفصح ونحو الساعة السادسة. فقال لليهود هوذا ملككم.15 فصرخوا خذه خذه اصلبه. قال لهم بيلاطس أاصلب ملككم. اجاب رؤساء الكهنة ليس لنا ملك الا قيصر.16 فحينئذ اسلمه اليهم ليصلب فأخذوا يسوع ومضوا به.17 فخرج وهو حامل صليبه الى الموضع الذي يقال له موضع الجمجمة ويقال له بالعبرانية جلجثة18 حيث صلبوه وصلبوا اثنين آخرين معه من هنا ومن هنا ويسوع في الوسط19 وكتب بيلاطس عنوانا ووضعه على الصليب. وكان مكتوبا يسوع الناصري ملك اليهود.20 فقرأ هذا العنوان كثيرون من اليهود لان المكان الذي صلب فيه يسوع كان قريبا من المدينة. وكان مكتوبا بالعبرانية واليونانية واللاتينية.21 فقال رؤساء كهنة اليهود لبيلاطس لا تكتب ملك اليهود بل ان ذاك قال انا ملك اليهود.22 اجاب بيلاطس ما كتبت قد كتبت.23 ثم ان العسكر لما كانوا قد صلبوا يسوع اخذوا ثيابه وجعلوها اربعة اقسام لكل عسكري قسما. واخذوا القميص ايضا. وكان القميص بغير خياطة منسوجا كله من فوق.24 فقال بعضهم لبعض لا نشقه بل نقترع عليه لمن يكون. ليتّم الكتاب القائل اقتسموا ثيابي بينهم وعلى لباسي ألقوا قرعة. هذا فعله العسكر25 وكانت واقفات عند صليب يسوع امه واخت امه مريم زوجة كلوبا ومريم المجدلية.26 فلما رأى يسوع امه والتلميذ الذي كان يحبه واقفا قال لامه يا امرأة هوذا ابنك.27 ثم قال للتلميذ هوذا امك. ومن تلك الساعة اخذها التلميذ الى خاصته28 بعد هذا رأى يسوع ان كل شيء قد كمل فلكي يتم الكتاب قال انا عطشان.29 وكان إناء موضوعا مملوّا خلا. فملأوا اسفنجة من الخل ووضعوها على زوفا وقدموها الى فمه.30 فلما اخذ يسوع الخل قال قد اكمل. ونكس راسه واسلم الروح31 ثم اذ كان استعداد فلكي لا تبقى الاجساد على الصليب في السبت لان يوم ذلك السبت كان عظيما سأل اليهود بيلاطس ان تكسر سيقانهم ويرفعوا.32 فأتى العسكر وكسروا ساقي الاول والآخر المصلوب معه.33 واما يسوع فلما جاءوا اليه لم يكسروا ساقيه لانهم رأوه قد مات.34 لكن واحدا من العسكر طعن جنبه بحربة وللوقت خرج دم وماء.35 والذي عاين شهد وشهادته حق وهو يعلم انه يقول الحق لتؤمنوا انتم.36 لان هذا كان ليتم الكتاب القائل عظم لا يكسر منه.37 وايضا يقول كتاب آخر سينظرون الى الذي طعنوه38 ثم ان يوسف الذي من الرامة وهو تلميذ يسوع ولكن خفية لسبب الخوف من اليهود سأل بيلاطس ان يأخذ جسد يسوع. فأذن بيلاطس فجاء واخذ جسد يسوع.39 وجاء ايضا نيقوديموس الذي أتى اولا الى يسوع ليلا وهو حامل مزيج مرّ وعود نحو مئة منا.40 فأخذا جسد يسوع ولفاه باكفان مع الاطياب كما لليهود عادة ان يكفنوا.41 وكان في الموضع الذي صلب فيه بستان وفي البستان قبر جديد لم يوضع فيه احد قط.42 فهناك وضعا يسوع لسبب استعداد اليهود لان القبر كان قريبا