him, knew the place: because JE- [high-priest, and went in with JESUS sus had often resorted thither toge- into the court of the high-priest. ther with his disciples.

3 Judas therefore having received a band of soldiers, and servants from the chief priests and the Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons.

4 JESUS therefore knowing all things that should come upon him, went forth,and said to them: Whom seek ye?

5 They answered him: JESUS of Nazareth. JESUS saith to them: I am he. And Judas also, who betrayed him, stood with them.

6 As soon therefore as he had said to them: I am he: they went backward, and fell to the ground. 7 Again therefore he asked them, Whom seek ye? and they said: JESUS of Nazareth.

8 JESUS answered, I have told you, that I am he. If therefore you seek me, let these go their way.

9 That the word might be fulfilled which he said: Of them whom thou hast given me, I have not lost any one.

10 Then Simon Peter having a sword, drew it; and struck the servant of the high-priest, and cut off his right ear. And the name of the servant was Malchus.

16 But Peter stood at the door without. The other disciple therefore who was known to the highpriest, went out, and spoke to the portress, and brought in Peter.

17 The maid therefore that was portress, saith to Peter: Art not thou also one of this man's disciples? He saith: I am not.

18 Now the servants and ministers stood at a fire of coals, because it was cold, and warmed themselves. And with them was Peter also standing, and warming himself.

19 The high-priest therefore asked JESUS of his disciples, and of his doctrine.

20 JESUS answered him: I have spoken openly to the world: I have always taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither all the Jews resort: and in secret I have spoken nothing.

21 Why askest thou me? ask them who have heard what I have spoken unto them: behold they know what things I have said.

22 And when he had said these things, one of the servants standing by, gave JESUS a blow, saying: Answerest thou the high-priest so? 23 JESUS answered him: If I have

11 JESUS therefore said to Peter: Put up thy sword into the scab-spoken evil, give testimony of the bard. The chalice which my Father evil: but if well, why strikest thou hath given me, shall I not drink it? me?

12 Then the band, and the tribune, and the servants of the Jews took JESUS, and bound him:

24 And Annas sent him bound to Caiphas the high-priest.

ing,

25 And Simon Peter was stand13 And they led him away to and warming himself. They Annas first, for he was father-in-said therefore to him: Art not thou law to Caiphas, who was the high-also one of his disciples? He de"priest of that year. nied it and said: I am not.

14 Now Caiphas was he who had 26 One of the servants of the given the counsel to the Jews; high-priest (a kinsman to him That it was expedient that one man whose ear Peter cut off) saith to should die for the people. him: Did not I see thee in the garden with him?

15 And Simon Peter followed JESUS, and so did another disciple. And that disciple was known to the

27 Again therefore Peter denied: and immediately the cock crew.

28 Then they led JESUS from Cai-I should release one unto you at phas to the governor's hall. And it the pasch: will you therefore that I was morning: and they went not release unto you the king of the into the hall, that they might not Jews?

2 And the soldiers, platting a crown of thorns, put it upon his 31 Pilate therefore said to them: head: and they put on him a purTake him you, and judge him ac-ple garment.

cording to your law. The Jews 3 And they came to him, and therefore said to him: It is not law- said: Hail, king ofthe Jews and ful for us to put any man to death. they gave him blows. 32 That the word of JESUS might be fulfilled which he said, signifying what death he should die.

38 Pilate saith to him: What is 11 JESUS answered: Thou shouldst truth? And when he said this he not have any power against me, unwent out again to the Jews, and less it were given thee from above. saith to them: I find no cause in him. Therefore he that hath delivered 39 But you have a custom that me to thee, hath the greater sin.

12 And from thenceforth Pilate to every soldier a part) and also his sought to release him. But the coat. Now the coat was without Jews cried out, saying: If thou re- seam, woven from the top throughlease this man, thou art not Cesar's out. friend. For whosoever maketh him- 24 They said then one to another self a king, speaketh against Cesar. Let us not cut it, but let us cast 13 Now when Pilate had heard lots for it whose it shall be; that these words, he brought JESUS the scripture might be fulfilled, sayforth and sat down in the judg-ing: They have parted my garments ment seat, in the place that is call- among them: and upon my vesture ed Lithostrotos, and in Hebrew they have cast lot. And the soldiers Gabbatha. indeed did these things.

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

25 Now there stood by the cross of JESUS, his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalen.

15 But they cried out: Away 26 When JESUS therefore had seen with him, away with him, crucify his mother and the disciple standhim. Pilate saith to them: Shall ing, whom he loved, he saith to I crucify your king? The chief his mother: Woman, behold thy priests answered: We have no king Son.

but Cesar.

27 After that, he saith to the dis16 Then therefore he delivered ciple: Behold thy mother. And him to them for to be crucified. And from that hour the disciple took they took JESUs and led him forth. her to his own.

17 And bearing his own cross he' 28 Afterwards JESUS knowing went forth to that place which is that all things were now accomcalled Calvary, but in Hebrew Gol-plished, that the scripture might be gotha, fulfilled, said: 1 thirst.

18 Where they crucified him, and 29 Now there was a vessel set with him two others, one on each there full of vinegar. And they putside, and JESUS in the midst. ting a sponge full of vinegar about hyssop, put it to his mouth.

19 And Pilate wrote a title also: and he put it upon the cross. And the writing was JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.

20 This title therefore many of the Jews did read: because the place where JESUS was crucified, was nigh to the city and it was written in Hebrew, in Greek, and in Latin.

21 Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate: Write not, The king of the Jews; but that he said, I am the king of the Jews.

22 Pilate answered: What I have written, I have written.

23 The soldiers therefore when they had crucified him, took his garments (and they made four parts,

30 JESUS therefore when he bad took the vinegar, said: It is consummated. And bowing his head, he gave up the ghost.

31 Then the Jews (because it was the parasceve) that the bodies might not remain upon the cross on the sabbath-day (for that was a great sabbath-day) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

32 The soldiers therefore came: and they broke the legs of the first, and of the other that was crucified. with him..

33 But after they were come to JESUS, when they saw that he was

Ver. 31. Parasceve. The day of preparation; or eve of the sabbath

already dead, they did not break | Lord out of the sepulchre, and we his legs. know not where they have laid him. 34 But one of his soldiers with a 3 Peter therefore went out, and spear opened his side, and imme- that other disciple, and they came diately there came out blood and to the sepulchre.

water.

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35 And he that saw it hath given testimony and his testimony is true. And he knoweth that he saith true; that you also may believe.

36 For these things were done that the scripture might be fulfilled: You shall not break a bone of him. 37 And again another scripture saith: they shall look on him whom they pierced.

4 And they both ran together, and that other disciple did out-run Peter, and came first to the sepulchre.

5 And when he stooped down,he saw the linen cloths lying: but yet he went not in.

6 Then cometh Simon Peter, following him, and went into the sepulchre and saw the linen cloths lying.

7 And the napkin, that had been about his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but apart, wrapt up into one place.

38 And after these things Joseph of Arimathea, (because he was a disciple of JESUS, but secretly for 8 Then that other disciple also fear of the Jews) besought Pilate went in, who came first to the that he might take away the body sepulchre: and he saw, and beof JESUS, and Pilate gave leave. He came therefore and took away the body of JESUS.

lieved.

9 For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.

39 And Nicodemus also came, he who at the first came to JESUS 10 The disciples therefore deby night, bringing a mixture of parted again to their home. myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.

40 They took therefore the body of JESUS, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.

11 But Mary stood at the sepulchre without, weeping. Now as she was weeping, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre :

12 And she saw two angels in white, sitting, one at the head, and 41 Now there was in the place, one at the feet, where the body of where he was crucified, a garden: JESUS had been laid.

and in the garden a new sepulchre, 13 They say to her: Woman, wherein no man yet had been laid. why weepest thou? She saith to 42 There therefore, because of them: Because they have taken the parasceve of the Jews, they laid away my Lord, and I know not JESUS, because the sepulchre was where they have laid him. nigh at hand.

AN

CHAP. XX. Christ's resurrection, &c. ND on the first day of the week Mary Magdalen cometh early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre and she saw the stone taken away from the sepulchre.

2 She ran therefore and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom JESUS loved, and saith to them: They have taken away the

14 When she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw JESUS standing; and she knew not that it was JESUS.

15 JESUS saith to her: Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She thinking that it was the gardener, saith to him: Sir, if thou hast taken him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him: and I will take him away.

18 JESUS saith to her: Mary,

She turning saith to him: Rabboni, 26 And after eight days, again (which is to say, Master.)

his disciples were within, and Tho17 JESUS saith to her: Do not mas with them. JESUS cometh, the touch me,for I am not yet ascended doors being shut, and stood in the to my Father: but go to my bre-midst, and said: Peace be to you. thren, and say to them, I ascend to my Father and to your Father, to my God and your God.

18 Mary Magdalen cometh and telleth the disciples: I have seen the Lord, and these things he said

to me.

19 Now when it was late that same day, the first of the week, and the doors were shut, where the disciples were gathered together for fear of the Jews, JESUS came and stood in the midst, and said to them: Peace be to you.

20 And when he had said this, he shewed them his hands, and his side. The disciples therefore were glad, when they saw the Lord.

21 He said therefore to them again: Peace be to you. As the Father hath sent me, I also send you.

27 Then he saith to Thomas : Put in thy finger hither, and see my hands, and bring hither thy hand, and put it into my side; and be not faithless, but believing.

28 Thomas answered, and said to him: My Lord, and my God.

29 JESUS saith to him: Because thou hast seen me, Thomas, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and have believed.

30 Many other signs also did JESUS in the sight of his disciples, which are not written in this book.

31 But these are written that you may believe that JESUS is the CHRIST the Son of God: and that believing you may have life in his name.

CHAP XXI.
Christ manifests himself.

22 When he had said this: he AFTER this JESUS shewed him

breathed on them; and he said to them: Receive ye the Holy Ghost: 23 Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them: and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained.

self again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias. And he shewed himself after this manner.

2 There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas who is called Didymus, and Nathanael who was of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples.

24 Now Thomas one of the twelve, who is called Didymus, was not with them when JESUS came. 3 Simon Peter saith to them: I 25 The other disciples therefore go a fishing. They say to him: We said to him: We have seen the also come with thee. And they went Lord. But he said to them: Except forth and entered into the ship: and 1 shall see in his hands the print of that night they caught nothing. the nails, and put my finger into 4 But when the morning was come, the place of the nails, and put JESUS stood on the shore: yet the my hand into his side, I will not disciples knew not that it was JEbelieve.

SUS.

Ver. 19. The doors were shut. The same power which could bring Christ's whole body, entire in all its dimensions, through the doors, can, without the least question, make the same body really present in the sacrament; though both the one and the other be above our comprehension.

Ver. 23. Whose sins, &c. See here the commission, stamped by the broad seal of heaven by virtue of which the pastors of Christ's church absolve repenting sinners upon their confession