23:1And all their multitude, getting up, led him to Pilate. 23:2And they began to accuse him, saying: "We have found this man subverting our nation, and forbidding tributes to be given to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ the king." 23:3And Pilate asked him, saying: "Are you the king of the Jews?" 23:3But he, answering, said: "You say it." 23:4And Pilate said to the chiefs of the priests and the crowds: "I find no case in this man." 23:5But they were growing more insistent, saying: "He stirs up the people, teaching through all Judea, beginning from Galilee as far as here." 23:6And Pilate, hearing Galilee, asked whether the man was a Galilean.
23:7And when he learnt that he was from the jurisdiction of Herod, he sent him back to Herod, who himself too was in Jerusalem in those days. 23:8And Herod, Jesus having been seen, rejoiced greatly. 23:8For he had been desiring for a long time to see him, because he had heard many things about him, and he was hoping to see some sign done by him. 23:9And he was questioning him with many words. 23:9But he was answering him nothing. 23:10And the chiefs of the priests and the scribes were standing by, persistently accusing him. 23:11And Herod with his soldiery despised him: and he mocked him, clothed in a white garment, and sent him back to Pilate.
23:12And Herod and Pilate became friends on that very day: for before they had been enemies to one another. 23:13And Pilate, the chiefs of the priests, and the magistrates, and the people having been called together, said to them: "You have brought before me this man as one turning the people away, and look, I, questioning him before you, have found no case in this man out of those things in which you accuse him. 23:15But neither has Herod: for I sent you back to him, and look, nothing worthy of death has been done by him. 23:16Having corrected him, therefore, I will let him go." 23:17Now he had of necessity to release to them one man for the feast day.
23:18But the whole crowd cried out together, saying: "Take this man away, and release to us Barabbas": who had been put into prison on account of a certain uprising which had happened in the city, and murder. 23:20And again Pilate spoke to them, wishing to release Jesus. 23:21But they were shouting back, saying: "Crucify, crucify him." 23:22But he said to them a third time: "Why, what evil has this man done? 23:22I find no case for death in him: I will therefore chastise him and let him go." 23:23But they were pressing with great voices, demanding that he be crucified: and their voices were prevailing. 23:24And Pilate adjudged that their request be done.
23:25And he released to them him who had been put into prison on account of murder and uprising, whom they were asking for: but Jesus he handed over to their will. 23:26And as they were leading him away, they seized a certain Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country: and they laid the cross on him to carry behind Jesus. 23:27And there was following him a great crowd of the people and of women, who were beating their breasts and lamenting him. 23:28But Jesus, turning to them, said: "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep over me, but weep over yourselves and over your children. 23:29For look, days will come in which they will say: 'Blessed are the barren, and the wombs which did not bear, and the breasts which did not give suck.' 23:30Then they will begin to say to the mountains: 'Fall upon us'; 23:30And to the hills: 'Cover us.' 23:31For if they do these things in the green wood, what will happen in the dry?"
23:32And two others also, criminals, were being led with him, to be put to death. 23:33And after they came to the place which is called of the Skull, there they crucified him: and the robbers, one at the right, and the other at the left. 23:34And Jesus was saying: "Father, forgive them: for they do not know what they do." 23:34And dividing his garments, they cast lots. 23:35And the people stood watching, and the rulers with them were mocking him, saying: "Others he made safe, let him make himself safe, if this is the Christ, the chosen of God." 23:36And the soldiers too were mocking him, coming up, and offering him vinegar, and saying: "If you are the king of the Jews, make yourself safe."
23:38And there was also an inscription written over him in Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew letters: "This is the king of the Jews." 23:39And one of the robbers who were hanging was blaspheming him, saying: "If you are the Christ, make yourself and us safe." 23:40But the other, answering, was rebuking him, saying: "Do you not even fear God, since you are in the same condemnation? 23:41And we indeed justly, for we are receiving things worthy of our deeds: but this man has done nothing evil." 23:42And he was saying to Jesus: "Lord, remember me when you have come into your kingdom." 23:43And Jesus said to him: "Amen I say to you: today you will be with me in paradise."
23:44Now it was about the sixth hour, and darkness came about over the whole land until the ninth hour. 23:45And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in the middle. 23:46And crying out with a great voice, Jesus said: "Father, into your hands I commend my spirit." 23:46And saying these things, he breathed his last. 23:47And the centurion, seeing what had been done, glorified God, saying: "Truly this man was just." 23:48And all the crowd of those who were present together at that spectacle, and were seeing the things which were being done, beating their breasts, were going back. 23:49And all his acquaintances were standing far off, and the women who had followed him from Galilee, seeing these things.
23:50And look, a man by name Joseph, who was a councillor, a good and just man: this man had not consented to their plan and their deeds: from Arimathea, a city of Judea, who himself too was awaiting the kingdom of God: this man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus: and having taken it down he wrapped it in a linen cloth, and placed him in a hewn-out tomb, in which no one had yet been placed. 23:54And it was the day of the Preparation, and the sabbath was dawning. 23:55And the women who had come with him from Galilee, following after, saw the tomb, and how his body had been placed.
23:56And going back they prepared spices and ointments: and on the sabbath indeed they rested according to the commandment.