Brand 15

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1 Immediately early in the morning the high priests with the elders and scribes and the whole Sanhedrin made a meeting and, having bound Jesus, led and delivered to Pilate.
2 Pilate asked Him: Are you the King of the Jews? And he answered and said unto him, Thou sayest.
3 And the chief priests accused Him in many ways.
4 Pilate also asked Him again: You do not answer? You see how much against you is the accusation.
5 But Jesus did not answer, so Pilate marveled.
6th For every holiday he released them one prisoner, about which they asked.
7th Then there was in the bonds [someone], named Barabbas, with his accomplices, who during the mutiny did the murder.
8 And the people began to shout and ask [Pilate] about what he always did for them.
9 He answered and said to them, If you wish, will I release you to the King of the Jews?
10 For he knew that the chief priests had betrayed him out of envy.
eleven But the chief priests aroused the people [to ask], that he would release Barabbas better.
12 Pilate, answering, again said to them: "What do you want me to do with the One whom you call the King of the Jews?"
13 They cried out again: crucify Him.
14 Pilate said to them, "What evil has He done?" But they cried out even more: crucify Him.

15 Then Pilate, willing to do what was pleasing to the people, let them go to Barabbas, and Jesus, beating, betrayed him to be crucified.
16 And the soldiers took Him inside the courtyard, that is, into the Praetorium, and collected the entire regiment,
17th And they clothed him in scarlet, and plaited the crown of thorns, they put on him;
18 And they began to greet Him: Hail, King of the Jews!
19 And they beat him on the head with a cane, and spat on him, and kneeling, bowed to him.
20 When they laughed at Him, they took off the scarlet from Him, clothed Him in His own clothes and led Him to crucify Him.
21 And they caused a certain Cyrenian Simon, the father of Alexandrov and Rufus, who was coming from the field to pass, to bear his cross.

22 And they brought him into the place of Golgotha, which means: the place of the skull.
23 And they gave him to drink wine with myrrh; But He did not receive.
24 Those who crucified Him divided His garments, casting lots, to whom to take.
25 It was the third hour, and they crucified Him.
26th And there was an inscription of His guilt: The King of the Jews.
27th With Him crucified two robbers, one on the right, and the other on the left [side] of Him.
28 And the word of the Scripture was fulfilled: and he was numbered with the wicked.
29 Those who passed by blasphemed him, nodding their heads and saying: "Ah! Destroying the temple, and in three days creating!
thirty Save yourself and come down from the cross.
31 Similarly, the high priests and the scribes mocked and said to each other: he saved others, but He can not save Himself.
32 Christ, the King of Israel, let him now descend from the cross, that we may see, and we will believe. And they that were crucified with him reviled him.

33 At the sixth hour, darkness all over the earth came and continued until the ninth hour.
34 At the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice: Eloi! Eloi! The lamp of sabachthani? - that means: My God! Oh my God! Why have You forsaken Me?
35 Some of those who stood by heard this and said: "Look, Elijah is calling."
36 And one ran, filled the sponge with vinegar and, putting it on a cane, gave Him a drink, saying: "Wait, let's see if Elijah comes to take Him off."
37 But Jesus, having cried aloud, gave up the spirit.
38 And the veil in the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom.
39 The centurion who stood in front of Him, seeing that He, having cried out so, emitted a spirit, said: "Truly this man was the Son of God."
40 There were also women who looked from afar: between them was Mary Magdalene, and Mary, the mother of James the lesser and Josiah, and Salome,
41 Who, even then, as He was in Galilee, followed Him and served Him, and many others, who came with Him to Jerusalem.

42 And as evening has already come, - because it was Friday, that is [the day] before the Sabbath, -
43 Joseph came from Arimathaea, a famous member of the council, who himself was waiting for the Kingdom of God, dared to enter Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus.
44 Pilate was surprised that He was already dead, and calling the centurion, he asked him whether he had died long ago.
45 And, having learned from the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph.
46 He bought a shroud and took it off, wrapped it in a shroud, and placed it in a tomb that was hewn in a rock, and he rolled the stone to the door of the coffin.
47 Mary Magdalene and Mary Iosiev watched where He was believed.

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