1 Então Pilatos tomou a Jesus e o mandou açoitar.2 Os soldados, tendo tecido uma coroa de espinhos, puseram-lha na cabeça e vestiram-no com um manto de púrpura;3 chegavam-se a ele e diziam: Salve, Rei dos judeus! e davam-lhe bofetadas.4 Outra vez saiu Pilatos e disse-lhes: Eis que vo-lo trago fora, para que saibais que não acho nele crime algum.5 Saiu, pois, Jesus, trazendo a coroa de espinhos e o manto de púrpura. Disse-lhes Pilatos: Eis o homem!6 Logo que o viram, os principais sacerdotes e os oficiais de justiça clamaram: Crucifica-o! Crucifica-o! Disse-lhes Pilatos: Tomai-o vós mesmos e crucificai-o; porque eu não acho nele crime.7 Responderam-lhe os judeus: Nós temos uma Lei, e segundo a nossa Lei ele deve morrer, porque se fez Filho de Deus.8 Pilatos, ouvindo isto, temeu ainda mais9 e, tornando a entrar no Pretório, perguntou a Jesus: Donde és? Mas Jesus não lhe respondeu.10 Perguntou-lhe Pilatos: Não me falas? não sabes que tenho poder para te soltar e poder para te crucificar?11 Respondeu Jesus: Não terias sobre mim poder algum, se ele te não fosse dado lá de cima; por isso o que me entregou a ti, tem maior pecado.12 Desde então Pilatos procurava soltá-lo, mas os judeus clamavam: Se soltares este homem, não és amigo de César; todo aquele que se faz rei, opõe-se a César.13 Pilatos, ouvindo estas palavras, trouxe a Jesus para fora e sentou-se no tribunal, no lugar chamado Pavimento, e em hebraico Gábata.14 Era a Parasceve e cerca da hora sexta. Pilatos disse aos judeus: Eis o vosso Rei!15 Eles, porém, clamaram: Tira-o! tira-o! crucifica-o! Disse-lhes Pilatos: Hei de crucificar o vosso Rei? Responderam os principais sacerdotes: Não temos outro rei senão César.16 Então Pilatos lhes entregou Jesus para ser crucificado.17 Eles tomaram a Jesus; e ele próprio, carregando a sua cruz, saiu para o lugar chamado Calvário, e em hebraico Gólgota,18 onde o crucificaram, e com ele outros dois, um de cada lado, e Jesus no meio.19 Pilatos escreveu também um título e o mandou colocar no alto da cruz; nele estava escrito: JESUS O NAZARENO, REI DOS JUDEUS.20 Muitos judeus leram este título, porque o lugar em que Jesus fora crucificado, era perto da cidade; e estava escrito em hebraico, latim e grego.21 Os principais sacerdotes disseram a Pilatos: Não escrevas: Rei dos Judeus, mas sim que ele disse: Eu sou Rei dos Judeus.22 Respondeu Pilatos: O que escrevi, escrevi.23 Os soldados, depois de terem crucificado a Jesus, tomaram-lhe as vestes (dividiram-nas em quatro partes, uma para cada um), e também a túnica. Ora a túnica não tinha costura, porque era toda tecida de alto a baixo.24 Disseram, pois, uns aos outros: Não a rasguemos, mas deitemos sortes sobre ela para ver a quem tocará, para se cumprir a Escritura: Repartiram entre si as minhas vestes, E deitaram sortes sobre a minha vestidura.25 Assim, pois, fizeram os soldados. Perto da cruz de Jesus estavam sua mãe, e a irmã de sua mãe, Maria, mulher de Cléopas, e Maria Madalena.26 Jesus, vendo a sua mãe e perto dela o discípulo a quem ele amava, disse a sua mãe: Mulher, eis aí teu filho!27 Depois disse ao discípulo: Eis aí tua mãe! Dessa hora em diante o discípulo a tomou para sua casa.28 Depois disto sabendo Jesus que tudo já estava consumado, para se cumprir a Escritura, disse: Tenho sede.29 Estava ali um vaso cheio de vinagre; ensopando nele uma esponja e pondo-a em um hissopo, chegaram-lha à boca.30 Jesus, depois de ter tomado o vinagre, disse: Está consumado; e inclinando a cabeça, rendeu o espírito.31 Os judeus, porém, como era a Parasceve, e para que os corpos não ficassem na cruz ao sábado (pois aquele sábado era um grande dia), pediram a Pilatos que se lhes quebrassem as pernas, e que fossem eles dali retirados.32 Os soldados foram e quebraram as pernas ao primeiro e ao outro que fora com ele crucificado;33 chegando-se, porém, a Jesus, como o vissem já morto, não lhe quebraram as pernas,34 mas um dos soldados lhe abriu o lado com uma lança, e logo saiu sangue e água.35 Aquele que isto viu, deu testemunho, e o seu testemunho é verdadeiro; e ele sabe que diz a verdade, para que também vós creiais.36 Pois estas coisas aconteceram para se cumprir a Escritura: Nenhum dos seus ossos será quebrado.37 Diz ainda outra passagem: Olharão para aquele a quem traspassaram.38 Depois disto José de Arimatéia, que era discípulo de Jesus, ainda que oculto por medo dos judeus, pediu a Pilatos permissão para tirar o corpo de Jesus; e Pilatos concedeu-a. Foi José e tirou o corpo.39 Nicodemos, aquele que no princípio viera ter com Jesus de noite, foi também, levando uma composição de cerca de cem libras de mirra e aloés.40 Tomaram o corpo de Jesus e envolveram-no em panos de linho com os aromas, como é costume entre os judeus sepultar os mortos.41 No lugar em que Jesus fora crucificado, havia um jardim, e neste um túmulo novo, em que ninguém tinha sido ainda posto.42 Ali, pois, por causa da Parasceve dos judeus, e por estar perto o túmulo, depositaram a Jesus.

1 Then therefore, Pilate took Jesus, and scourged him.2 And the soldiers platting a crown of thorns, put it upon his head; and they put on him a purple garment.3 And they came to him, and said: Hail, king of the Jews; and they gave him blows.4 Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith to them: Behold, I bring him forth unto 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 garment.) And he saith to them: Behold the Man.6 When the chief priests, therefore, and the servants, had seen him, they cried out, saying: Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith to them: Take him you, and crucify him: for I find no cause in him.7 The Jews answered him: We have a law; and according to the law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.8 When Pilate therefore had heard this saying, he feared the more.9 And he entered into the hall again, and he said to Jesus: Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer.10 Pilate therefore saith to him: Speakest thou not to me? knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and I have power to release thee?11 Jesus answered: Thou shouldst not have any power against me, unless it were given thee from above. Therefore, he that hath delivered me to thee, hath the greater sin.12 And from henceforth Pilate sought to release him. But the Jews cried out, saying: If thou release this man, thou art not Caesar's friend. For whosoever maketh himself a king, speaketh against Caesar.13 Now 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.14 And it was the parasceve of the pasch, about the sixth hour, and he saith to the Jews: Behold your king.15 But they cried out: Away with him; away with him; crucify him. Pilate saith to them: Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered: We have no king but Caesar.16 Then therefore he delivered him to them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him forth.17 And bearing his own cross, he went forth to that place which is called Calvary, but in Hebrew Golgotha.18 Where they crucified him, and with him two others, one on each side, and Jesus in the midst.19 And Pilate wrote a title also, and he put it upon the cross. And the writing was: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.20 This 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.21 Then 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.22 Pilate answered: What I have written, I have written.23 The 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.24 They 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.25 Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalen.26 When Jesus therefore had seen his mother and the disciple standing whom he loved, he saith to his mother: Woman, behold thy son.27 After that, he saith to the disciple: Behold thy mother. And from that hour, the disciple took her to his own.28 Afterwards, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, said: I thirst.29 Now there was a vessel set there full of vinegar. And they, putting a sponge full of vinegar and hyssop, put it to his mouth.30 Jesus therefore, when he had taken the vinegar, said: It is consummated. And bowing his head, he gave up the ghost.31 Then 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.32 The soldiers therefore came; and they broke the legs of the first, and of the other that was crucified with him.33 But after they were come to Jesus, when they saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.34 But one of the soldiers with a spear opened his side, and immediately there came out blood and water.35 And he that saw it, hath given testimony, and his testimony is true. And he knoweth that he saith true; that you also may believe.36 For these things were done, that the scripture might be fulfilled: You shall not break a bone of him.37 And again another scripture saith: They shall look on him whom they pierced.38 And 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.39 And 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.40 They took therefore the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths, with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.41 Now there was in the place where he was crucified, a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein no man yet had been laid.42 There, therefore, because of the parasceve of the Jews, they laid Jesus, because the sepulchre was nigh at hand.