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1404 The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. John

Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests an- 27 After that, he saith to the disciple: Behold
swered: We have no king but Caesar. thy mother. And from that hour, the disciple
16 Then therefore he delivered him to them to took her to his own.
be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him 28 Afterwards, Jesus knowing that all things
forth. were now accomplished, that the scripture might
17 And bearing his own cross, he went forth to be fulfilled, said: I thirst.
that place which is called Calvary, but in Hebrew 29 Now there was a vessel set there full of vine-
Golgotha. gar. And they, putting a sponge full of vinegar
18 Where they crucified him, and with him and hyssop, put it to his mouth.
two others, one on each side, and Jesus in the 30 Jesus therefore, when he had taken the
midst. vinegar, said: It is consummated. And bowing
19 And Pilate wrote a title also, and he put his head, he gave up the ghost.
it upon the cross. And the writing was: JESUS 31 Then the Jews, (because it was the
OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS. parasceve,) that the bodies might not remain on
20 This title therefore many of the Jews did the cross on the sabbath day, (for that was a
read: because the place where Jesus was cruci- great sabbath day,) besought Pilate that their
fied was nigh to the city: and it was written in legs might be broken, and that they might be
Hebrew, in Greek, and in Latin. taken away.
21 Then the chief priests of the Jews said to 32 The soldiers therefore came; and they
Pilate: Write not, The King of the Jews; but broke the legs of the first, and of the other that
that he said, I am the King of the Jews. was crucified with him.
22 Pilate answered: What I have written, I 33 But after they were come to Jesus, when
have written. they saw that he was already dead, they did not
23 The soldiers therefore, when they had cru- break his legs.
cified him, took his garments, (and they made 34 But one of the soldiers with a spear opened
four parts, to every soldier a part,) and also his his side, and immediately there came out blood
coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven and water.
from the top throughout. 35 And he that saw it, hath given testimony,
24 They said then one to another: Let us not and his testimony is true. And he knoweth that
cut it, but let us cast lots for it, whose it shall he saith true; that you also may believe.
be; that the scripture might be fulfilled, saying: 36 For these things were done, that the scrip-
They have parted my garments among them, and ture might be fulfilled: You shall not break a
upon my vesture they have cast lot. And the bone of him.
soldiers indeed did these things. 37 And again another scripture saith: They
25 Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, shall look on him whom they pierced.
his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary of 38 And after these things, Joseph of Ari-
Cleophas, and Mary Magdalen. mathea (because he was a disciple of Jesus, but
26 When Jesus therefore had seen his mother secretly for fear of the Jews) besought Pilate that
and the disciple standing whom he loved, he he might take away the body of Jesus. And Pi-
saith to his mother: Woman, behold thy son. late gave leave. He came therefore, and took the