![]() And they marked it with seven wax seals and having pitched a tent there, they safeguarded it. And having rolled a large stone, all who were there, together with the centurion and the soldiers, placed it against the door of the burial place. And with these the elders and scribes came to the burial place. But the scribes and Pharisees and elders, having gathered together with one another, having heard that all the people were murmuring and beating their breasts, saying that 'If at his death these very great signs happened, behold how just he was,' feared (especially the elders) and came before Pilate, begging him and saying, 'Give over soldiers to us in order that we may safeguard his burial place for three days, lest, having come, his disciples steal him, and the people accept that he is risen from the death, and they do us wrong.' But Pilate gave over to them Petronius the centurion with soldiers to safeguard the sepulcher. In addition to all these things we were fasting and we were sitting mourning and weeping night and day until the Sabbath. The judgment has approached and the end of Jerusalem.' But I with the companions was sorrowful and having been wounded in spirit, we were in hiding, for we were sought after by them as wrongdoers and as wishing to set fire to the sanctuary. Then the Jews and the elders and the priests, having come to know how much wrong they had done themselves, began to beat themselves and say: 'Woe to our sins. And having taken the Lord, he washed and tied him with a linen cloth and brought him into his own sepulcher, called the Garden of Joseph. And the Jews rejoiced and gave his body to Joseph that he might bury it, since he was one who had seen the many good things he did. Then the sun shone, and it was found to be the ninth hour. And they drew out the nails from the hands of the Lord and placed him on the earth and all the earth was shaken, and a great fear came about. And at the same hour the veil of the Jerusalem sanctuary was torn into two. And the Lord screamed out, saying: 'My power, O power, you have forsaken me.' And having said this, he was taken up. But many went around with lamps, thinking that it was night, and they fell. And they fulfilled all things and completed the sins on their own head. And someone of them said: 'Give him to drink gall with vinegary wine.' And having made a mixture, they gave to drink. it is written for them: Let not the sun set on one put to death. But is was midday, and darkness held fast all Judea and they were distressed and anxious lest the sun had set, since he was still living. But a certain one of those wrongdoers reviled them, saying: 'We have been made suffer thus because of the wrong that we have done but this one, having become Savior of men, what injustice had he done to you?' And having become irritated at him, they ordered that there be no leg-breaking, so that he might die tormented. And having put his garments before him, they divided them up and threw as a gamble for them. And when they had set the cross upright, they inscribed that THIS IS THE KING OF ISRAEL. And they brought two wrongdoers and crucified the Lord in the middle of them. ![]() Others were jabbing him with a reed and some scourged him, saying, 'With such honor let us honor the Son of God.' And others who were standing there were spitting in his face, and others slapped his cheeks. But having taken the Lord, running, they were pushing him and saying, 'Let us drag along the Son of God now that we have power over him.' And they clothed him with purple and sat him on a chair of judgment, saying: 'Judge justly, King of Israel.' And a certain one of them, having brought a thorny crown, put it on the head of the Lord. For in the Law it has been written: The sun is not to set on one put to death.'Īnd he gave him over to the people before the first day of their feast of the Unleavened Bread. And Herod said: 'Brother Pilate, even if no one had requested him, we would have buried him, since indeed Sabbath is dawning. And Pilate, having sent to Herod, requested his body. ![]() But Joseph, the friend of Pilate and of the Lord, had been standing there and knowing they were about to crucify him, he came before Pilate and requested the body of the Lord for burial. And then Herod the king orders the Lord to be taken away, having said to them, 'What I ordered you to do, do.' And since they did not desire to wash, Pilate stood up. But of the Jews none washed his hands, neither Herod nor one of his judges.
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