The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ Part 26

(24)Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest. (25)And Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him: Art thou also one of his disciples? He denied, and said: I am not.

(26)One of the servants of the high priest, being a kinsman of him whose ear Peter cut off, says: Did not I see thee in the garden with him? (27)Again therefore Peter denied; and immediately a c.o.c.k crowed.

(28)Then they lead Jesus from Caiaphas into the Governor's palace; and it was early; and they themselves went not into the palace, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the pa.s.sover. (29)Pilate therefore went out to them, and said: What accusation do ye bring against this man? (30)They answered and said to him: If this man were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up to thee. (31)Pilate therefore said to them: Do ye take him, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said to him: It is not lawful for us to put any one to death; (32)that the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what manner of death he should die.

(33)Pilate therefore entered into the palace again, and called Jesus, and said to him: Art thou the King of the Jews? (34)Jesus answered: Dost thou say this of thyself, or did others tell thee concerning me?

(35)Pilate answered: Am I a Jew? Thine own nation, and the chief priests, delivered thee up to me. What didst thou? (36)Jesus answered: My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would fight, that I might not be delivered up to the Jews; but now is my kingdom not from hence. (37)Pilate therefore said to him: Art thou a king then? Jesus answered: Thou sayest it; because I am a king. To this end have I been born, and to this end have I come into the world, that I may bear witness to the truth. Every one that is of the truth hears my voice.

(38)Pilate says to him: What is truth? And having said this, he went out again to the Jews, and says to them: I find no fault in him.

(39)But ye have a custom, that I should release to you one at the pa.s.sover. Do ye desire therefore that I release to you the King of the Jews? (40)They all therefore cried out again, saying: Not this one, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.

XIX.

THEN therefore Pilate took Jesus, and scourged him. (2)And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and put on him a purple robe; and they came to him, (3)and said: Hail, King of the Jews! And they gave him blows on the face.

(4)Pilate went forth again, and says to them: Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him. (5)Jesus therefore came forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And he says to them: Behold the man!

(6)When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, saying: Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate says to them: Do ye take him, and crucify him; for I find no fault in him. (7)The Jews answered him: We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of G.o.d.

(8)When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was the more afraid.

(9)And he went again into the palace, and says to Jesus: Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer. (10)Then says Pilate to him: Dost thou not speak to me? Knowest thou not that I have power to release thee, and have power to crucify thee? (11)Jesus answered: Thou wouldst have no power against me, except it were given thee from above.

Therefore he that delivers me to thee has the greater sin.

(12)Thenceforth Pilate sought to release him. But the Jews cried out, saying: If thou let this man go, thou art not a friend of Caesar.

Whoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar.

(13)When therefore Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down on the judgment-seat in a place called the Pavement, and in Hebrew, Gabbatha. (14)And it was the preparation of the pa.s.sover, and about the sixth hour. And he says to the Jews: Behold your king!

(15)But they cried out: Away with him, away with him, crucify him.

Pilate says to them: Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered: We have no king but Caesar. (16)Then therefore he delivered him to them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away.

(17)And bearing his cross he went forth into the place called Place of a skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha; (18)where they crucified him, and two others with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst. (19)And Pilate wrote also a t.i.tle, and put it on the cross. And the writing was: JESUS THE NAZARENE THE KING OF THE JEWS.

(20)This t.i.tle therefore many of the Jews read; because the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city, and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin. (21)Therefore said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate: Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews. (22)Pilate answered: What I have written, I have written.

(23)Then the soldiers, when they crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part, and also his coat. And the coat was without a seam, woven from the top throughout. (24)They said therefore to one another: Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be; that the scripture might be fulfilled which says:

They parted my garments among them.

And for my vesture they cast lots.

These things the soldiers did. (25)And there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary the Magdalene. (26)Jesus therefore seeing his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing by, says to his mother: Woman, behold thy son! (27)Then he says to the disciple: Behold thy mother!

And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.

(28)After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now finished, that the scripture might be accomplished, says: I thirst. (29)Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar; and they, having filled a sponge with vinegar, and put it on a hyssop-stalk, bore it to his mouth. (30)When Jesus therefore received the vinegar, he said: It is finished; and he bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.

(31)The Jews therefore, since it was the preparation, that the bodies might not remain upon the cross on the sabbath (for that sabbath day was a great day), besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and they be taken away. (32)The soldiers came, therefore, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with him.

(33)But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was already dead, they broke not his legs. (34)But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith there came out blood and water.

(35)And he that has seen has borne witness, and his witness is true, and he knows that he says what is true, that ye also might believe.

(36)For these things came to pa.s.s, that the scripture might be fulfilled: A bone of him shall not be broken. (37)And again another scripture says: They shall look on him whom they pierced.

(38)And after this, Joseph from Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took away the body of Jesus. (39)And there came also Nicodemus, who at the first came to Jesus by night, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds weight. (40)They took therefore the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the custom of the Jews to prepare for burial.

(41)And in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein no one was yet laid. (42)There they laid Jesus therefore, on account of the preparation of the Jews, because the sepulchre was nigh at hand.

XX.

AND on the first day of the week Mary the Magdalene comes early, while it is yet dark, to the sepulchre, and sees the stone taken away out of the sepulchre. (2)She runs therefore and comes to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and says to them: They took away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they laid him.

(3)Peter therefore went forth, and the other disciple, and they went to the sepulchre. (4)And the two ran together; and the other disciple outran Peter, and came first to the sepulchre. (5)And stooping down he sees the linen cloths lying; yet he went not in. (6)Then comes Simon Peter following him; and he went into the sepulchre, and sees the linen cloths lying, (7)and the napkin that was about his head not lying with the linen cloths, but wrapped together in a place by itself. (8)Then therefore the other disciple, who came first to the sepulchre, went in also; and he saw, and believed. (9)For not even yet did they know the scripture, that he must rise from the dead.

(10)The disciples therefore went away again to their own home. (11)And Mary was standing by the sepulchre without, weeping. So, as she wept, she stooped clown into the sepulchre, (12)and beholds two angels in white, sitting the one at the head and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus lay. (13)And they say to her: Woman, why weepest thou? She says to them: Because they took away my Lord, and I know not where they laid him.

(14)Having said this, she turned back and beholds Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus. (15)Jesus says to her: Woman, why weepest thou? Whom dost thou seek? She, supposing that it was the gardener, says to him: Sir, if thou didst bear him hence, tell me where thou laidest him, and I will take him away. (16)Jesus says to her: Mary!

Turning, she says to him in Hebrew: Rabboni! (which is to say, Teacher!) (17)Jesus says to her: Touch me not; for I have not yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brethren, and say to them: I ascend to my Father and your Father, and my G.o.d and your G.o.d.

(18)Mary the Magdalene comes bringing word to the disciples, that she has seen the Lord, and that he spoke these things to her.

(19)When therefore it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, the doors having been shut, where the disciples were a.s.sembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst; and he says to them: Peace be to you. (20)And having said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples rejoiced therefore, when they saw the Lord.

(21)Jesus therefore said to them again: Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, I also send you. (22)And having said this, he breathed on them, and says to them: Receive the Holy Spirit. (23)Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted to them; and whosesoever ye retain, they are retained.

(24)But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. (25)The other disciples therefore said to him: We have seen the Lord. But he said to them: Except I see in his hands the print of the nails, and thrust my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.

(26)And after eight days, again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them. Jesus comes, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said: Peace be to you. (27)After that, he says to Thomas: Reach hither thy finger, and see my hands; and reach thy hand, and thrust it into my side; and be not faithless, but believing. (28)Thomas answered and said to him: My Lord, and my G.o.d. (29)Jesus says to him: Because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed. Happy they who saw not, and have believed!

(30)Many other signs also did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book. (31)But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of G.o.d, and that believing ye may have life in his name.

XXI.

AFTER these things Jesus manifested himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias; and he manifested himself in this manner.

(2)There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael from Cana of Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples. (3)Simon Peter says to them: I go a fis.h.i.+ng.

They say to him: We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into the s.h.i.+p; and in that night they caught nothing.

(4)But when morning was now come, Jesus stood on the beach; yet the disciples knew not that it was Jesus. (5)Jesus therefore says to them: Children, have ye anything to eat? They answered him: No. (6)And he said to them: Cast the net on the right side of the s.h.i.+p, and ye shall find. They cast it therefore; and now they were not able to draw it, for the mult.i.tude of the fishes.

(7)Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved says to Peter: It is the Lord. Simon Peter therefore, hearing that it is the Lord, girded on his outer garment (for he was naked), and cast himself into the sea.

(8)And the other disciples came in the boat (for they were not far from land, but about two hundred cubits off), dragging the net with the fishes.

(9)When therefore they went out upon the land, they see a fire of coals there, and a fish lying thereon, and bread. (10)Jesus says to them: Bring of the fishes which ye just now caught. (11)Simon Peter went on board, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, a hundred and fifty and three; and though there were so many, the net was not broken.

(12)Jesus says to them: Come hither, and break your fast. And none of the disciples durst ask him, Who art thou? knowing that it is the Lord. (13)Jesus comes, and takes the bread and gives to them, and the fish likewise. (14)This the third time already, Jesus manifested himself to his disciples, after he was risen from the dead.

(15)When therefore they had broken their fast, Jesus says to Simon Peter: Simon, son of Jonah, lovest thou me more than these? He says to him: Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He says to him: Feed my lambs.