Then Pilate scourged Y'shua.

And the soldiers braided a crown from thorns and put it on his head, and they clothed him with purple garments.

And they were saying, Peace to you, king of the Yehudaye! And they were striking him on his cheeks.

And Pilate went out again outside and said to them, Look, I am bringing him out to you outside, so that you may know that I find against him not even one cause.

And Y'shua went out outside, having on him the crown of thorns and the purple garments. And Pilate said to them, Look, the man!

But when the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out and said, Crucify him, crucify him! Pilate said to them, You take him and crucify him, for I find no cause in him.

The Jews say to him, We have a law, and according to our law he is guilty of death, because he made himself the Son of Elohim.

And when Pilate heard this word, he feared all the more.

And he went again into the praetorium, and said to Y'shua, Where are you from? But Y'shua gave him no answer.

Pilate said to him, Will you not speak with me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you, and I have authority to crucify you?

Y'shua said to him, You would have no authority at all over me if it were not given to you from above. Because of this, the one who delivered me up to you, his sin is greater than yours.

And because of this Pilate wanted to release him. But the Jews were crying out, If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend, for everyone who makes himself a king is an adversary of Caesar.

Now when Pilate heard this word, he brought Y'shua out and sat on the judgment seat in the place that is called the Stone Pavement, but in Hebrew it is called Gabbatha.

And it was the preparation of the Passover, and it was about the sixth hour. And he said to the Judeans, Here is your king.

But they were crying out, Take him away, take him away, crucify him, crucify him. Pilate said to them, Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests said, We have no king except Caesar.

Then he delivered him to them to crucify him. And they took Y'shua and led him out,

carrying his cross, to the place that is called a Skull, but in Hebrew it is called Golgotha,

where they crucified him, and with him two others, one on this side and one on that, and Y'shua in the middle.

And Pilate also wrote a tablet and put it on his cross. And it was written thus: This is Y'shua the Natsraya, king of the Yehudaye.

And many of the Yehudaye read this tablet, because the place where Y'shua was crucified was near to the city; and it was written in Hebrew and Greek and Latin.

And the chief priests said to Pilate: Do not write that he is king of the Yehudaye, but that he said, I am king of the Yehudaye.

Pilate said: What I have written, I have written.

Now the soldiers, when they had crucified Y'shua, took his garments and made four parts of them, a part for each of the soldiers. But his tunic was without seam, woven from the top throughout.

And they said one to another: We will not tear it, but will cast lots for it, whose it will be. And the scripture was fulfilled which said: They divided my garments among them, and upon my clothing they cast the lot. These things the soldiers did.

Now standing near the cross of Y'shua were his mother and his mother's sister and Maryam the wife of Qliyopa and Maryam Magdalitha.

Y'shua saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing there, and he said to his mother, Woman, look, your son.

And he said to that disciple, Look, your mother. And from that hour the disciple took her to himself.

After these things Y'shua knew that everything was finished, and that the writing might be fulfilled, he said, I thirst.

And a vessel was standing there full of vinegar. They filled a sponge with the vinegar and put it on a hyssop stalk and brought it to his mouth.

When Y'shua had taken the vinegar he said, Look, it is finished. And he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.¹

The Judeans then, because it was the preparation, were saying, These bodies must not remain on their crosses, because the Shabbat was dawning; for that day of the Shabbat was a great day. And they asked from Pilatos that they should break the legs of those crucified and take them down.

And the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other who was crucified with him.

And when they came to Y'shua, they saw that he was already dead, and they did not break his legs.

But one of the soldiers struck him in his side with a spear, and at once blood and water came out.

And he who saw it has testified, and his testimony is true; and he knows that he speaks the truth, that you also may believe.

For these things happened that the writing might be fulfilled that said, A bone will not be broken in him.

And again another writing that says, They will look on him whom they pierced.

After these things Yosip, the one from Ramtha, asked Pilatos—because he was a disciple of Y'shua and was hiding from fear of the Yehudaye—that he might take the body of Y'shua. And Pilatos permitted it. And he came and took the body of Y'shua.

And Niqodemos also came, the one who had come before to Y'shua by night, and he brought with him a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred litras.

And they took the body of Y'shua and wrapped it in linen and in spices, as is the custom of the Yehudaye to bury.

Now there was in that place where Y'shua was crucified a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid.

And there they laid Y'shua, because the Sabbath was coming in, and because the tomb was near.