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they brought the matter to an accusation, saying: "This man says that he himself is a king, and forbids giving tribute to Caesar." And they themselves become accusers and witnesses and judges and masters of the decision, saying: "Crucify, crucify him," that what was written about him in the Prophets might be fulfilled: "Unjust witnesses rose up against me, and iniquity lied to itself." And again: "Many dogs have surrounded me, a company of evildoers has enclosed me." And in other places: "My inheritance has become to me like a lion in the forest, it has uttered its voice against me." Pilate, therefore, shaming his office by cowardice, convicted himself of wickedness, gratifying the crowds rather than the just man, and though testifying to him as being innocent, he handed him over to punishment by the cross as if he were guilty, although Roman laws established that no one should die unexamined. But the executioners, taking the Lord of glory, nailed him to the wood, crucifying him at the sixth hour, having received the sentence concerning him at the third hour. Then they gave him vinegar to drink mixed with gall, then they divided his garments by lot, then they crucified two criminals with him on either side, that what was written might be fulfilled: "They gave me gall for my food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink." And again: "They divided my garments among themselves, and for my clothing they cast lots." And in other places: "And I was numbered with the transgressors." Then there was darkness for three hours, from the sixth to the ninth, and again light toward evening, as it is written: "And it shall not be day and not night, and towards evening there shall be light." and about the ninth hour he cried out and said to the Father: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" And a little later, crying with a loud voice: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do," and adding: "Into your hands I commit my spirit," he breathed his last, and he is buried before sunset in a new tomb. And at the dawn of the first day of the week, rising from the dead he fulfilled those things which even before his passion he had foretold to us, saying, that the Son of Man must be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights. And having risen from the dead, he first appears to Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James, then also to Cleopas on the road, and after this to us his disciples, fleeing indeed because of the fear of the Jews, but secretly

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εἰς καθοσίωσιν ἀνήγαγον τὸ πρᾶγμα λέγοντες· «Oὗτος ἑαυτὸν λέγει βασιλέα εἶναι, καὶ φόρους καίσαρι κωλύει διδόναι.» Καὶ γίνονται αὐτοὶ κατήγοροι καὶ μάρτυρες καὶ κριταὶ καὶ τῆς ἀποφάσεως ἐξουσιασταὶ λέγοντες· «Σταύ ρωσον, σταύρωσον αὐτόν», ἵνα πληρωθῇ ὅ τι γέγραπται περὶ αὐτοῦ ἐν τοῖς Προφήταις· «Συνήχθησαν ἐπ' ἐμὲ μάρτυρες ἄδικοι, καὶ ἐψεύσατο ἡ ἀδικία ἑαυτήν.» Καὶ πάλιν· «Περιεκύκλωσάν με κύνες πολλοί, συναγωγὴ πονη ρευομένων περίεσχόν με.» Καὶ ἐν ἑτέροις· «Ἐγένετο ἡ κληρονομία μου ἐμοὶ ὡς λέων ἐν δρυμῷ, ἔδωκεν ἐπ' ἐμὲ τὴν φωνὴν αὐτῆς.» Ὁ οὖν Πιλᾶτος ἀνανδρίᾳ καταισχύ νας τὴν ἀρχὴν αὐτὸς ἑαυτὸν ἐξελέγχει κακίας, πρὸ τοῦ δικαίου τὰ πλήθη θεραπεύσας, καὶ μαρτυρῶν μὲν αὐτῷ ὡς ἀναιτίῳ, ὡς αἴτιον δὲ κολάσει τοῦτον παραδιδοὺς σταυρῷ, καίτοι Ῥωμαίων νόμους τιθεμένων μηδένα ἀνεξέλεγκτον θνήσκειν. ∆ήμιοι δὲ παραλαβόντες τὸν τῆς δόξης Κύριον ξύλῳ προσήλωσαν, ἕκτῃ μὲν ὥρᾳ σταυρώσαντες αὐτόν, τρίτῃ δὲ ὥρᾳ τὴν ἀπόφασιν δεξάμενοι τὴν περὶ αὐτοῦ. Ἔπειτα ἔδωκαν αὐτῷ ὄξος πιεῖν μετὰ χολῆς, εἶτα τὰ ἱμάτια αὐτοῦ κλήρῳ διεμερίσαντο, εἶτα δύο κακούργους ἐσταύρωσαν σὺν αὐτῷ ἐξ ἑκατέρου μέρους, ἵνα πληρωθῇ τὸ γεγραμμένον· «Ἔδωκαν εἰς τὸ βρῶμά μου χολὴν καὶ εἰς τὴν δίψαν μου ἐπότισάν με ὄξος.» Καὶ πάλιν· «∆ιεμερίσαντο τὰ ἱμάτιά μου ἑαυτοῖς, καὶ ἐπὶ τὸν ἱματισμόν μου ἔβαλον κλῆρον.» Καὶ ἐν ἄλλοις· «Καὶ μετὰ ἀνόμων ἐλογίσθην.» Ἔπειτα ἐγένετο τρεῖς ὥρας σκότος, ἀπὸ ἕκτης ἕως ἐνάτης, καὶ πάλιν φῶς πρὸς δείλην, καθὼς γέγραπται· «Καὶ οὐχ ἡμέρα καὶ οὐ νύξ, καὶ πρὸς ἑσπέραν ἔσται φῶς.» καὶ περὶ τὴν ἐνάτην ὥραν ἀναβοήσας εἶπεν τῷ Πατρί· «Θεέ μου, Θεέ μου, ἱνατί με ἐγκατέλιπες;» Καὶ μετ' ὀλίγον κράξας φωνῇ μεγάλῃ· «Πάτερ, ἄφες αὐτοῖς, οὐ γὰρ οἴδασιν ὃ ποιοῦσιν», καὶ ἐπαγαγών· «Eἰς χεῖράς σου παρατίθημι τὸ πνεῦμά μου», ἀπέπνευσεν, καὶ θάπτεται πρὸ ἡλίου δύσεως ἐν μνημείῳ καινῷ. Ἐπιφωσκούσης δὲ τῆς μιᾶς σαββάτων, ἀναστὰς ἐκ νεκρῶν ἐπλήρωσεν ἐκεῖνα, ἃ καὶ πρὸ τοῦ πάθους ἡμῖν προέλεγεν φάσκων, ὅτι δεῖ τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ποιῆσαι ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ τῆς γῆς τρεῖς ἡμέρας καὶ τρεῖς νύκτας. Καὶ ἀναστὰς ἐκ νεκρῶν πρώτῃ μὲν φανεροῦται Μαρίᾳ τῇ Μαγδαληνῇ καὶ Μαρίᾳ τῇ Ἰακώβου, εἶτα καὶ Κλεόπᾳ ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ, καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο ἡμῖν τοῖς μαθηταῖς αὐτοῦ, φεύγουσιν μὲν διὰ τὸν φόβον τῶν Ἰουδαίων, λαθραίως δὲ