And while Peter was below in the courtyard there came one of the serving girls of the high priest, and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him and said: You also were with the Nazarene, with Jesus. But he denied it, saying: I neither know nor understand what you mean. And he went out into the forecourt. But the girl saw him and began saying once more to those who were standing by: This is one of them. Once more he denied it. And after a little while those who were standing by said to Peter: Truly you are one of them, since you are a Galilaean. Then he began to swear and to say on oath: I do not know the man of whom you speak. And thereupon the cock crowed for the second time. And Peter remembered what Jesus had told him: Before the cock crows twice you will disown me three times. And he threw himself down and wept.
•1 Early the next day the high priests with the elders and the scribes and the entire council held a meeting: and they bound Jesus and took him away and gave him over to Pilate. And Pilate asked him: Are you the King of the Jews? He answered him and said: It is you who say it. And the high priests brought many charges against him. And Pilate again asked him: Have you no answer? See how much they charge you with. But Jesus gave no further answer, so that Pilate was amazed.
For the festival, he used to release to them one prisoner, whichever one they asked for. The man called Barabbas was imprisoned among the insurgents who had done murder during the uprising. And the crowd came up and began to demand that he do by them according to his custom. Pilate answered them, saying: Do you wish me to release your King of the Jews? For he perceived that they had handed him over for spite. But the high priests stirred up the crowd, so that he might rather give them Barabbas. Pilate once again spoke to them and said: What then shall I do with the man you call the King of the Jews? And they cried out once more: Crucify him. Pilate said to them: Why? What harm has he done? But they screamed all the more, saying: Crucify him. So Pilate wishing to satisfy the crowd released Barabbas to them, and had Jesus scourged and gave him over to be crucified.
The soldiers led him inside the court, that is, the residence, and they called up their whole battalion. They clothed him in purple and wove a wreath of thorns and put it on him. And they began to acclaim him with: Hail, King of the Jews. And they beat him about the head with a reed, and spat upon him, and going down on their knees they did obeisance to him. And after they had mocked him, they took off the purple and put his own clothes on him. And they led him out, to crucify him. And a certain Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, was passing by on his way in from the country, and they impressed him for carrying the cross. And they took him to the place Golgotha, which translated is the Place of the Skull. And they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, which he would not take. And they crucified him, and divided up his clothes, casting lots for them, for who would take which. It was the third hour and they crucified him. And the charge against him was inscribed:
The King of the Jews.Andwithhim they crucified two robbers, one on his right and one on his left. And those who passed by blasphemed against him, wagging their heads and saying: Ha, you would tear down the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself by coming down from the cross. So likewise the high priests, mocking him together, along with the scribes, said: He saved others, he cannot save himself. Let the anointed, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross, so that we may see and believe. And those who were crucified with him also spoke abusively to him.
And when it was the sixth hour, there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. In the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a great voice: Eloi eloi lama sabachthanei? Which translated is: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Then some of those who were standing there said: See, he calls to Elijah. And someone ran up with a sponge soaked in vinegar and put on the end of a reed and offered it to him to drink, saying: Come, let us see if Elijah will come to bring him down. But Jesus uttered a great cry and breathed his last. And the veil of the temple was split in two from top to bottom. And when he saw that he thus breathed his last, the centurion who was posted across from him said: In truth this man was the Son of God. And there were women watching from a distance, among them Mary the Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the lesser and Joses, and Salome, who when he was in Galilee had followed him and served him, and many others who had come up with him to Jerusalem.
By nightfall, when it was the Day of Preparation, which is the day before the sabbath, there arrived Joseph of Arimathaea, a reputable member of the council who himself was also looking for the Kingdom of God; and he took courage and went into the presence of Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. But Pilate thought it very strange if he were already dead, and summoning the centurion he asked if he had died yet; and when he learned from the centurion that he had, he presented the corpse to Joseph. And Joseph bought linen, and took him down and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a tomb which had been cut in the rock, and rolled a stone against the door of the tomb. And Mary the Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses were watching where he was laid.
41 And when the sabbath was over, Mary the Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Salome bought spices so that they might go and anoint him. And very early on the first day of the week they went to the tomb, where the sun had risen. And they were saying to each other: Who will roll away the stone for us, out of the door of the tomb? Then looking again they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled away. And going into the tomb they saw a young man sitting in the right-hand part, wearing a white robe. And they were startled into amazement. But he said to them: Do not be thus amazed. You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen, he is not here. See the place where they laid him. But go and tell his disciples, and Peter: He goes before you into Galilee. There you will see him, as he told you. And they went out and fled from the tomb, for trembling and panic had hold of them. And they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.
[Then after he had arisen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary the Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons. She went and told the news to those who had been with him, who were mourning and weeping; and they, when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, did not believe her. After that he appeared to two of them as they were walking. It was in another form and they were on their way into the country. And they too went back and told the news to the others; but neither did they believe them. Later he appeared to the eleven themselves as they were at dinner, and he had blame for their lack of faith and the insensitivity of their hearts, because they had not believed those who had seen him risen from the dead. And he said to them: Go out into the whole world and preach the gospel to all creation. He who believes and is baptized shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be condemned. And here are the signs that will go with the believers: In my name they will cast out demons, speak with tongues, hold snakes, and if they drink something lethal it cannot harm them, and they will lay their hands on the sick and these will be well.