ot thou also one of his disciples? He denied it
and said: I am not.

18:26. One of the servants of the high priest (a kinsman to him whose
ear Peter cut off) saith to him: Did not I see thee in the garden with
him?

18:27. Again therefore Peter denied: and immediately the cock crew.

18:28. Then they led Jesus from Caiphas to the governor's hall. And it
was morning: and they went not into the hall, that they might not be
defiled, but that they might eat the pasch.

18:29. Pilate therefore went out to them, and said: What accusation
bring you against this man?

18:30. They answered and said to him: If he were not a malefactor, we
would not have delivered him up to thee.

18:31. Pilate therefore said to them: Take him you, and judge him
according to your law. The Jews therefore said to him: It is not lawful
for us to put any man to death.

18:32. That the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he said,
signifying what death he should die.

18:33. Pilate therefore went into the hall again and called Jesus and
said to him: Art thou the king of the Jews?

18:34. Jesus answered: Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or have others
told it thee of me?

18:35. Pilate answered: Am I a Jew? Thy own nation and the chief priests
have delivered thee up to me. What hast thou done?

18:36. Jesus answered: My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom
were of this world, my servants would certainly strive that I should not
be delivered to the Jews: but now my kingdom is not from hence.

18:37. Pilate therefore said to him: Art thou a king then? Jesus
answered: Thou sayest that I am a king. For this was I born, and for
this came I into the world; that I should give testimony to the truth.
Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.

18:38. Pilate saith to him: What is truth? And when he said this, he
went out again to the Jews and saith to them: I find no cause in him.

18:39. But you have a custom that I should release one unto you at the
Pasch. Will you, therefore, that I release unto you the king of the
Jews?

18:40. Then cried they all again, saying: Not this man, but Barabbas.
Now Barabbas was a robber.

John Chapter 19

The continuation of the history of the Passion of Christ.

19:1. Then therefore Pilate took Jesus and scourged him.

19:2. And the soldiers platting a crown of thorns, put it upon his head:
and they put on him a purple garment.

19:3. And they came to him and said: Hail, king of the