No one ever mends an old cloak with a patch of newly woven cloth. Otherwise, the patch put on would tear away some of the old, and a worse hole would be made.

But a woman who for twelve years had been afflicted with haemorrhage came behind Him and touched the tassel of His cloak;

for she said to herself, "If I but touch His cloak, I shall be cured."

About nine o'clock he went out and saw others loitering in the market-place.

"So they went. Again about twelve, and about three o'clock, he went out and did the same.

And going out about five o'clock he found others loitering, and he asked them, "'Why have you been standing here all day long, doing nothing?'

"When those came who had begun at five o'clock, they received a shilling apiece;

Stripping off His garments, they put on Him a general's short crimson cloak.

At last, having finished their sport, they took off the cloak, clothed Him again in His own garments, and led Him away for crucifixion.

Now from noon until three o'clock in the afternoon there was darkness over the whole land;

but about three o'clock Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" that is to say, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?"