Jews. And they
gave him blows.

19:4. Pilate therefore went forth again and saith to them: Behold, I
bring him forth unto you, that you may know that I find no cause in him.

19:5. (Jesus therefore came forth, bearing the crown of thorns and the
purple garment.) And he saith to them: Behold the Man.

19:6. When the chief priests, therefore, and the servants had seen him,
they cried out, saying: Crucify him, Crucify him. Pilate saith to them:
Take him you, and crucify him: for I find no cause in him.

19:7. The Jews answered him: We have a law; and according to the law he
ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.

19:8. When Pilate therefore had heard this saying, he feared the more.

19:9. And he entered into the hall again; and he said to Jesus: Whence
art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer.

19:10. Pilate therefore saith to him: Speakest thou not to me? Knowest
thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and I have power to release
thee?

19:11. Jesus answered: Thou shouldst not have any power against me,
unless it were given thee from above. Therefore, he that hath delivered
me to thee hath the greater sin.

19:12. And from henceforth Pilate sought to release him. But the Jews
cried out, saying: If thou release this man, thou art not Caesar's
friend. For whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar.

19:13. Now when Pilate had heard these words, he brought Jesus forth and
sat down in the judgment seat, in the place that is called Lithostrotos,
and in Hebrew Gabbatha.

19:14. And it was the parasceve of the pasch, about the sixth hour: and
he saith to the Jews: Behold your king.

The parasceve of the pasch... That is, the day before the paschal
sabbath. The eve of every sabbath was called the parasceve, or day of
preparation. But this was the eve of a high sabbath, viz., that which
fell in the paschal week.

19:15. But they cried out: Away with him: Away with him: Crucify him.
Pilate saith to them: shall I crucify your king? The chief priests
answered: We have no king but Caesar.

19:16. Then therefore he delivered him to them to be crucified. And
they took Jesus and led him forth.

19:17. And bearing his own cross, he went forth to the place which is
called Calvary, but in Hebrew Golgotha.

19:18. Where they crucified him, and with him two others, one on each
side, and Jesus in the midst.

19:19. And Pilate wrote a title also: and he put it upon the cross. And
the writi