•1 And their whole assemblage rose up and brought him before Pilate. And they began to accuse him, saying: We found that this man was corrupting our people and interfering with the payment of taxes to Caesar and calling himself the King anointed. Pilate questioned him, saying: Are you the King of the Jews? He answered him and said: It is you who say it. And Pilate said to the high priests and the mob: I find no guilt in this man. But they insisted, saying: He is disturbing the people with his teaching throughout Judaea, all the way from Galilee to here. When Pilate heard this he asked if the man were a Galilaean, and understanding that he was from Herod's sphere of authority, he sent him off to Herod, who was himself in Jerusalem during these days. Herod was greatly pleased at seeing Jesus, for he had wished to see him for some time, because he had heard about him, and he hoped to see some miracle performed by him. And he questioned him at considerable length, but Jesus gave him no answer. And the high priests and the scribes stood there strenuously accusing him. And Herod despised him and put shining clothing on him in mockery and sent him back with his guards to Pilate. And Herod and Pilate be- c^e friends with each other on that same day, after having been at enmity before.
Now Pilate called together the high priests and the chief men and the people and said to them: You brought me this man as one who was corrupting the people, and look, I have judged him in your presence and found him not guilty of any of the things you charge him with. Nor did Herod either, for he sent him back to us. And see, nothing has been done by him to deserve death. So I will teach him a lesson and let him go. But they screamed in full cry, saying: Take him away and let our Barabbas go. He was a man who had been thrown into prison on account of an uprising with bloodshed that had taken place in the city. And again Pilate spoke to them, wishing to let Jesus go. But they cried out saying: Crucify, crucify him. A third time he said to them: But what harm has this man done? I have found nothing about him to deserve death. I will teach him a lesson and let him go. But they kept at him, demanding in loud voices that he be crucified, and their voices prevailed. And Pilate decided that they should have what they demanded; and he set free the man they asked for, who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, and he gave Jesus up to their will.
And as they led him away, they seized on a certain Simon of Cyrene who was on his way in from the country, and loaded him with the cross to carry behind Jesus. And a great multitude of the people followed him and women who mourned and lamented for him. And Jesus turned to them and said: Daughters of Jerusalem, do not cry for me, but for yourselves and your children, because, behold, the days are corning when they will say: Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that did not breed and the breasts that did not nurse. Then they will begin to say to the mountains: Fall upon us; and to the hills: Cover us. For if they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?
Two others also, who were malefactors, were led along with him to be put to death. And when they came to the place which is called The Skull, there they crucified him and the malefactors, one on the right and one on the left. And Jesus said: Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing. They divided up his clothing and cast lots for it. And the people stood there watching. But the chief men sneered at him, saying: He saved others, let him save himself, if this is the anointed of God, the chosen one. And also the soldiers came up to him and mocked him, offering him vinegar and saying: If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself. There was also an inscription above him, saying: This is the King of the Jews. And one of the malefactors hanging there reviled him and said: Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us. But the other answered, reproving him, and said: Do you not fear God because you share his sentence? And we are justly punished, for we are getting what we deserve for what we have done; but he has done nothing out of the way. And he said: Jesus, remember me when you enter upon your kingdom. He said to him: Truly I tell you, this day you will be with me in paradise. And now it was about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole earth until the ninth hour, with the sun eclipsed, and the veil of the temple was split down the middle. And Jesus cried out in a great voice and said: Father, into your hands I give my spirit; and when he had said this he breathed his last. And when the company commander saw what happened, he glorified God, saying: Truly this was a righteous man. And all those crowds who had gathered together for this spectacle, when they had watched what happened, beat their breasts and went away. But those who were known to him stood at a distance, and also the women who had followed him from Galilee, watching all this.
And behold, there was a man named Joseph who was one of the council, a good and righteous man, who had not agreed with the council and their action. He was from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews; and he was expecting the Kingdom of God. He came to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus, and he took it down and wrapped it in fine linen, and laid him in a tomb cut in the rock, where no one had ever been buried. It had been the Day of Preparation and the sabbath was beginning to dawn. And the women who had come with him from Galilee followed and saw the tomb and how the body was placed there. Then they returned and prepared spices and ointments.
t And for the sabbath they rested, according to the commandment; but on the first day after the sabbath just before daylight they came bringing the spices which they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, and they went in but did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. And it happened that as they were at a loss about this, behold, two men stood before them in radiant clothing. And as the women were full of fear and bowed their faces toward the ground, the men said: Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, he has wakened. Remember how he talked to you when he was still in Galilee, saying that the son of man must be betrayed into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and rise again on the third day. And they remembered his words, and returned from the tomb and reported all these matters to the eleven and all the others. The women were Mary the Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of James; and the other women who were with them told the apostles the same story. And to them these words seemed to be madness, and they did not believe the women. But Peter started up and ran to the tomb, and stooped and saw only the linen bindings, and came back to them marveling over what had happened.
And behold, on the same day, two of them were making their way toward a village named Emmaus sixty furlongs away, and they were talking with each other about all these things that had occurred. And it happened that during their talk and discussion Jesus himself came up and went along with them, but their eyes were prevented from recognizing him. And he said to them: What is this you are talking about, tossing it back and forth as you go? And they stopped, frowning. And one, whose name was Cleopas, answered and said to him: Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know what happened in it during these days? He said: What things? They said: The story of Jesus of Nazareth, who was a powerful prophet in act and word before God and all the people, and how our high priests and those who rule over us gave him over to the judgment of death and crucified him. We had been hoping that he was the one who was going to liberate Israel. But with all that, this is now the third day since these things happened to him. But also some women of our group astonished us. They went at dawn to the tomb and did not find his body, and came back saying that they had even seen a vision of angels, who say that he is alive. And some of those who were with us went back to the tomb, and found it as the women had said, but did not see him. And he said to them: О mindless and slow in the heart to believe all that the prophets have told you. Did not the Christ have to suffer this and enter into his glory? And beginning from Moses, and through the prophets, he expounded to them all that was in the scriptures concerning himself. And they approached the village they were making for, and he pretended to be going on farther. And they pressed him, saying: Stay with us, because it is nearly night and the sun is already set. And he went in to stay with them. And it happened that as he took his place to eat with them he took a loaf and blessed it and broke it and gave some to them. And their eyes were opened and they recognized him. But he himself vanished from their sight. And they said to each other: Were our hearts not burning when he talked with us on the road, when he unfolded the scriptures to us? And they rose up in that same hour and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven and their companions assembled and saying that truly the Lord had awakened and been seen by Simon. And they described what had happened on the road and how he had been recognized by them in the breaking of the bread. While they were saying these things he himself stood in their midst and said to them: Peace be with you. They were startled and full of fear and thought they were looking at a ghost. And he said to them: Why are you shaken, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? Look at my hands and my feet and see that I am myself. Touch me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have. And as he said this he showed them his hands and his feet. And when they still could not believe for joy, and were full of wonder, he said to them: