Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. They said therefore among themselves, "Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be:" that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith,

"They parted my raiment among them,

And for my vesture they did cast lots." These things therefore the soldiers did. down they watched him there.

And sitting

And the people stood beholding and all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things. Now 3 there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, "Woman, behold thy son!" Then saith he to the disciple, "Behold thy mother!" And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.

And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads, and saying, "Thou that destroyest the temple,. and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.'

Likewise also the chief priests mocking him with the scribes and elders, said, "He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.

1 Matt. xxvii. 36.

? Luke xxiii. 35, 49.

He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him for he said, 'I am the Son of God.' :

And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, "If thou be Christ, save thyself and us." But the other answering rebuked him, saying, "Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss." And he said unto Jesus, "Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.” And Jesus said unto him, "Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise."

And the soldiers also mocked him, saying, "If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself."

Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani ?" that is to say, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, "This man calleth for Elias."

After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, "I thirst." Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and straightway one of the soldiers ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink. The rest said, "Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him."

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When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he

1 Luke xxiii. 39-43.

3 Matt. xxviii. 45-47.

5 Matt. xxvii. 48, 49.

2 Luke xxiii. 36, 37.

4 John xix. 28, 29.

6 John xix. 30.

said, "It is finished:" and' when he had cried again with a loud voice, saying, “Father2, into thy hands I commend my spirit :" he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.

And behold the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom. And when the centurion which stood over against him, saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, "Truly this man was the Son of God." And all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things which were done, smote their breasts, and returned.

The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him. But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs: but one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water. And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe. For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled,

"A bone of him shall not be broken."

And again another scripture saith,

“They shall look on him whom they pierced.”

1 Matt. xxvii. 50.

4 Matt. xxvii. 51.

2 Luke xxiii. 46.
5 Mark xv. 39.

3 John xix. 30.

6 Luke xxiii. 48.

And after this Joseph of Arimathæa, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus. And1 Pilate marvelled if he were already dead and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead. And when he knew it of the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph. And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight. Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.

Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid. There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand; and3 rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed. And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre: and they returned, and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.

Seventh Day.

Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate, saying, "Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, 'After three days I will rise again.' Command therefore that the sepul1 Mark xv. 44, 45. 2 John xix. 39-42. 3 Matt. xxvii. 60, 61. 4 Luke xxiii. 56. 5 Matt. xxvii. 62-66.

chre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, 'He is risen from the dead:' so the last error shall be worse than the first." Pilate said unto them, "Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can." So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.