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nd the whole multitude of them arose, and led him vnto Pilate. |
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And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow peruerting the nation, and forbidding to giue tribute to Cesar, saying, that he himselfe is Christ a king. |
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And Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou the king of the Iewes? And he answered him, & said, Thou sayest it. |
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Then saide Pilate to the chiefe Priests, and to the people, I finde no fault in this man. |
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And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth vp the people, teaching thorowout all Iurie, beginning from Galilee to this place. |
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When Pilate heard of Galilee, he asked whether the man were a Galilean. |
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And assoone as he knew that hee belonged vnto Herods iurisdiction, hee sent him to Herode, who himselfe also was at Hierusalem at that time. |
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And when Herode saw Iesus, he was exceeding glad, for hee was desirous to see him of a long season, because he had heard many things of him, and hee hoped to haue seene some miracle done by him. |
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Then he questioned with him in many words, but he answered him nothing. |
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And the chiefe Priests and Scribes stood, and vehemently accused him. |
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And Herod with his men of warre set him at naught, and mocked him, and arayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him againe to Pilate. |
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And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together; for before, they were at enmitie betweene themselues. |
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And Pilate, when hee had called together the chiefe Priests, and the rulers, and the people, |
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Said vnto them, Ye haue brought this man vnto me, as one that peruerteth the people, and behold, I hauing examined him before you, haue found no fault in this man, touching those things whereof ye accuse him. |
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No, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him, and loe, nothing worthy of death is done vnto him. |
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I will therefore chastise him, and release him. |
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For of necessitie hee must release one vnto them at the Feast. |
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And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and release vnto vs Barabbas, |
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Who for a certaine sedition made in the citie, and for murder, was cast in prison. |
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Pilate therefore willing to release Iesus, spake againe to them: |
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But they cried, saying, Crucifie him, crucifie him. |
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And hee said vnto them the third time, Why, what euill hath he done? I haue found no cause of death in him, I will therefore chastise him, & let him goe. |
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And they were instant with loud voyces, requiring that he might be crucified: and the voyces of them, and of the chiefe Priests preuailed. |
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And Pilate gaue sentence that it should be as they required. |
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And he released vnto them, him that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired, but he deliuered Iesus to their will. |
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And as they led him away, they laid hold vpon one Simon a Cyrenian, comming out of the countrey, and on him they laid the crosse, that hee might beare it after Iesus. |
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And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed & lamented him. |
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But Iesus turning vnto them, said, Daughters of Hierusalem, weepe not for me, but weepe for your selues, and for your children. |
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For beholde, the dayes are comming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that neuer bare, and the paps which neuer gaue sucke. |
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Then shall they begin to say to the mountaines, Fall on vs, and to the hils, Couer vs. |
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For if they doe these things in a green tree, what shalbe done in the drie? |
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And there were also two other malefactors led with him, to bee put to death. |
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And when they were come to the place which is called Caluarie, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left. |
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Then said Iesus, Father, forgiue them, for they know not what they doe: And they parted his raiment, and cast lots. |
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And the people stood beholding, & the rulers also with them derided him, saying, Hee saued others, let him saue himselfe, if he be Christ, ye chosen of God. |
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And the souldiers also mocked him, comming to him, and offering him vineger, |
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And saying, If thou be the king of the Iewes, saue thy selfe. |
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And a superscription also was written ouer him in letters of Greeke, and Latin, & Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE IEWES. |
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And one of ye malefactors, which were hanged, railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, saue thy selfe and vs. |
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But the other answering, rebuked him, saying, Doest not thou feare God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? |
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And we indeed iustly; for we receiue the due reward of our deeds, but this man hath done nothing amisse. |
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And he said vnto Iesus, Lord, remember me when thou commest into thy kingdome. |
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And Iesus said vnto him, Uerily, I say vnto thee, to day shalt thou be with me in Paradise. |
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And it was about the sixt houre, and there was a darkenesse ouer all the earth, vntill the ninth houre. |
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And the Sunne was darkened, and the vaile of the temple was rent in the mids. |
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And when Iesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: And hauing said thus, he gaue vp the ghost. |
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Now when the Centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man. |
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And all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things which were done, smote their breasts, and returned. |
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And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood a farre off, beholding these things. |
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And behold, there was a man named Ioseph, a counseller, and hee was a good man, and a iust. |
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(The same had not consented to the counsell and deede of them) he was of Arimathea, a city of the Iewes (who also himselfe waited for the kingdome of God.) |
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This man went vnto Pilate, and begged the body of Iesus. |
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And he tooke it downe, and wrapped it in linnen, and layd it in a Sepulchre that was hewen in stone, wherein neuer man before was layd. |
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And that day was the Preparation, and the Sabbath drew on. |
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And the women also which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the Sepulchre, and how his body was layd. |
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And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments, and rested the Sabbath day, according to the commandement. |
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