For he knew that it was out of jealousy that they had given Jesus up to him.

While he was still on the Bench, his wife sent this message to him--"Do not have anything to do with that good man, for I have been very unhappy to-day in a dream on account of him."

"What then," Pilate asked, "shall I do with Jesus who is called 'Christ'?" "Let him be crucified," they all replied.

"Why, what harm has he done?" he asked. But they kept shouting furiously: "Let him be crucified!"

The Pilate released Barabbas to them; but Jesus he scourged, and gave him up to be crucified.

After that, the Governor's soldiers took Jesus with them into the Government House, and gathered the whole garrison round him.

They stripped him, and put on him a red military cloak,

And having twisted some thorns into a crown, put it on his head, and a rod in his right hand, and then, going down on their knees before him, they mocked him. "Long life to you, King of the Jews!" they said.

They spat at him and, taking the rod, kept striking him on the head;

And, when they had left off mocking him, they took off the military cloak, and put his own clothes on him, and led him away to be crucified.

As they were on their way out, they came upon a man from Cyrene of the name of Simon; and they compelled him to go with them to carry the cross.

they gave him some wine to drink which had been mixed with gall; but after tasting it, Jesus refused to drink it.

When they had crucified him, they divided his clothes among them by casting lots.

Then they sat down, and kept watch over him there.

Above his head they fixed the accusation against him written out--'THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.'

At the same time two robbers were crucified with him, one on the right, the other on the left.

The passers-by railed at him, shaking their heads as they said:

"He saved others, but he cannot save himself! He is the 'King of Israel'! Let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him.

He has trusted in God; if God wants him, let him deliver him now; for he said 'I am God's Son.'"

Even the robbers, who were crucified with him, reviled him in the same way.

One of them immediately ran and took a sponge, and, filling it with common wine, put it on the end of a rod, and offered it to him to drink.

But the rest said: "Wait and let us see if Elijah is coming to save him." [However another man took a spear, and pierced his side; and water and blood flowed from it.]

The Roman Captain, and the men with him who were watching Jesus, on seeing the earthquake and all that was happening, became greatly frightened and exclaimed: "This must indeed have been God's Son!"

There were many women there, watching from a distance, who had accompanied Jesus from Galilee and had been attending on him.

He went to see Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus; upon which Pilate ordered it to be given him.

So order the tomb to be made secure till the third day. Otherwise his disciples may come and steal him, and then say to the people 'He has risen from the dead,' when the latest imposture will be worse than the first."

And, in their terror of him, the men on guard trembled violently and became like dead men.

And then go quickly and say to him disciples 'He has risen from the dead, and is going before you into Galilee; there you will see him.' Remember, I have told you."

Suddenly Jesus met them. "Welcome!" he said. The women went up to him, and clasped his feet, bowing to the ground before him. Then Jesus said to them:

And told them to say that his disciples came in the night, and stole him while they were asleep;

"And should this matter come before the Governor," they added, "we will satisfy him, and see that you have nothing to fear."

The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus told them to meet him;

And, when they saw him, they bowed to the ground before him; although some felt doubtful.

The whole of Judea, as well as all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, went out to him; and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

And just as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens rent apart, and the Spirit, like a dove, descending upon him,

And he was there in the Wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan, and among the wild beasts, while the angels ministered to him.

They left their nets at once, and followed him.

Jesus at once called them, and they left their father Zebediah in the boat with the crew, and went after him.

But Jesus rebuked the spirit: "Be silent! Come out from him."

The foul spirit threw the man into a fit, and with a loud cry came out from him.

And they were all so amazed that they kept asking: "What is this? Strange teaching indeed! He gives his commands with authority even to the foul spirits, and they obey him!"

Jesus cured many who were ill with various diseases, and drove out many demons, and would not permit them to speak, because they knew him to be the Christ.

But Simon and his companions hastened after him;

and, when they found him, they exclaimed: "Every one is looking for you!"

One day a leper came to Jesus and, falling on his knees, begged him for help. "If only you are willing," he said, "you are able to make me clean."

Moved with compassion, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying as he did so: "I am willing; become clean."

And then Jesus, after sternly warning him, immediately sent him away, and said to him:

The man, however, went away, and began to speak about it publicly, and to spread the story so widely, that Jesus could no longer go openly into a town, but stayed outside in lonely places; and people came to him from every direction.

And some people came bringing to him a paralyzed man, who was being carried by four bearers.

Being, however, unable to get him near to Jesus, owing to the crowd, they removed the roofing below which Jesus was; and, when they had made an opening, they let down the mat on which the paralyzed man was lying.

Jesus went out again to the Sea; and all the people came to him, and he taught them.

As he went along, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting in the tax-office, and said to him: "Follow me." Levi got up and followed him.

And later on he was in his house at table, and a number of tax-gatherers and outcasts took their places at table with Jesus and his disciples; for many of them were following him.

"Look!" the Pharisees said to him, "why are they doing what is not allowed on the Sabbath?"

And they watched Jesus closely, to see if he would cure the man on the Sabbath, so that they might have a charge to bring against him.

Immediately on leaving the Synagogue, the Pharisees and the Herodians united in laying a plot against Jesus, to put him to death.

And a great number, hearing of all that he was doing, came to him from Judea, from Jerusalem, from Edom, from beyond the Jordan, and from the country round Tyre and Sidon.

So Jesus told his disciples to keep a small boat close by, for fear the crowd should crush him.

For he had cured many of them, and so people kept crowding upon him, that all who were afflicted might touch him.

The foul spirits, too, whenever they caught sight of him, flung themselves down before him, and screamed out: "You are the Son of God"!

But he repeatedly warned them not to make him known.

And Jesus made his way up the hill, and called those whom he wished; and they went to him.

And he appointed twelve--whom he also named 'Apostles'--that they might be with him, and that he might send them out as his Messengers, to preach,

And Judas Iscariot, the man that betrayed him.

When his relations heard of it, they went to take charge of him, for they said that he was out of his mind.

And the Teachers of the Law, who had come down from Jerusalem, said: "He has Baal-zebub in him, and he drives the demons out by the help of Baal-zebub, their chief."

So Jesus called them to him, and answered them in parables: "How can Satan drive out Satan?

No man who has got into a strong man's house can carry off his goods, without first securing him; and not till then will he plunder his house.

This was said in reply to the charge that he had a foul spirit in him.

And his mother and his brothers came, and stood outside, and sent to ask him to come to them.

There was a crowd sitting round Jesus, and some of them said to him: "Look, your mother and your brothers are outside, asking for you."

Then he looked around on the people sitting in a circle round him, and said: "Here are my mother and my brothers!

Jesus again began to teach by the Sea; and, as an immense crowd was gathering round him, he got into a boat, and sat in it on the Sea, while all the people were on the shore at the water's edge.

Afterwards, when he was alone, his followers and the Twelve asked him about his parables;

So, leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them, just as he was, in the boat; and there were other boats with him.

Jesus was in the stern asleep upon the cushion; and the disciples roused him and cried: "Teacher! is it nothing to you that we are lost?"

But they were struck with great awe, and said to one another: "Who can this be that even the wind and the sea obey him?"

And who made his home in the tombs. No one had ever been able to secure him, even with a chain;

For, though he had many times been left secured with fetters and chains, he had snapped the chains and broken the fetters to pieces, and no one could master him.

Catching sight of Jesus from a distance, he ran and bowed to the ground before him,

And he asked him: "What is your name?" "My name," he said, "is Legion, for there are many of us;"

When they came to Jesus, they found the possessed man sitting there, clothed and in his right mind--the very man who had had the 'Legion' in him--and they were awe-struck.

As Jesus was getting into the boat, the possessed man begged him to let him stay with him.

So the man went, and began to proclaim in the district of the Ten Towns all that Jesus had done for him; and every one was amazed.

By the time Jesus had re-crossed in the boat to the opposite shore, a great number of people had gathered to meet him, and were standing by the Sea.

So Jesus went with him. A great number of People followed Jesus, and kept pressing round him.

Jesus at once became aware of the power that had gone out from him, and, turning round in the crowd, he said: "Who touched my clothes?"

Then the woman, in fear and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and threw herself down before him, and told him the whole truth.

And he allowed no one to accompany him, except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James.

They began to laugh at him; but he sent them all out, and then, with the child's father and mother and his companions, went into the room where she was lying.

When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the Synagogue; and the people, as they listened, were deeply impressed. "Where did he get this?" they said, "and what is this wisdom that has been given him? and these miracles which he is doing?

Is not he the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James, and Joses, and Judas, and Simon? And are not his sisters, too, living here among us?" This proved a hindrance to their believing in him;

He called the Twelve to him, and began to send them out as his Messengers, two and two, and gave them authority over foul spirits.

Now King Herod heard of Jesus; for his name had become well known. People were saying--"John the Baptizer must have risen from the dead, and that is why these miraculous powers are active in him."

But when Herod heard of him, he said--"The man whom I beheaded--John--he must be risen!"

For Herod himself had sent and arrested John, and put him in prison, in chains, to please Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, because Herod had married her.

So Herodias was incensed against John, and wanted to put him to death, but was unable to do so,

Because Herod stood in fear of John, knowing him to be an upright and holy man, and protected him. He had listened to John, but still remained much perplexed, and yet he found pleasure in listening to him.

And when his daughter--that is, the daughter of Herodias--came in and danced, she delighted Herod and those who were dining with him. 'Ask me for whatever you like,' the King said to the girl, 'and I will give it to you';

And he swore to her that he would give her whatever she asked him--up to half his kingdom.