When the Chief Priests and the police-officers saw him, they shouted: "Crucify him! Crucify him!" "Take him yourselves and crucify him," said Pilate. "For my part, I find nothing with which he can be charged."

At that the people shouted: "Kill him! Kill him! Crucify him!" "What! shall I crucify your King?" exclaimed Pilate. "We have no King but the Emperor," replied the Chief Priests;

But Jesus made no reply. So Pilate said to him: "Do you refuse to speak to me? Do not you know that I have power to release you, and have power to crucify you?"

Whereupon Pilate gave Jesus up to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus;

There they crucified him, and two others with him--one on each side, and Jesus between them.

These words were read by many of the Jews, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and they were written in Hebrew, Latin and Greek.

When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four shares--a share for each soldier--and they took the coat also. The coat had no seam, being woven in one piece from top to bottom.

Accordingly the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man, and then those of the other who had been crucified with Jesus;

At the place where Jesus had been crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a newly-made tomb in which no one had ever been laid.