Luke 23:18-53

¹⁸And al the puple criede togidir, and seide, Do `awei hym, and delyuer to vs Barabas;

¹⁹which was sent `in to prisoun for disturblyng maad in the cite, and for mansleynge.

²⁰And eftsoone Pilat spak to hem, and wolde delyuer Jhesu.

²¹And thei vndurcrieden, and seiden, Crucifie, crucifie hym.

²²And the thridde tyme he seide to hem, For what yuel hath this don? Y fynde no cause of deeth in hym; therfor Y schal chastise hym, and Y schal delyuer.

²³And thei contynueden with greet voicis axynge, that he schulde be crucified; and the voicis of hem woxen stronge.

²⁴And Pilat demyde her axyng to be don.

²⁵And he delyueride to hem hym, that for mansleyng and sedicioun was sent in to prisoun, whom thei axiden; but he bitook Jhesu to her wille.

²⁶And whanne thei ledden hym, thei token a man, Symon of Syrenen, comynge fro the toun, and thei leiden on hym the cross to bere aftir Jhesu.

²⁷And there suede hym myche puple, and wymmen that weiliden, and bymorneden hym.

²⁸And Jhesus turnede to hem, and seide, Douytris of Jerusalem, nyle ye wepe on me, but wepe ye on youre silf and on youre sones.

²⁹For lo! daies schulen come, in whiche it schal be seid, Blessid be bareyn wymmen, and wombis that han not borun children, and the tetis that han not youun souke.

³⁰Thanne thei schulen bigynne to seie to mounteyns, Falle ye doun on vs, and to smale hillis, Keuere ye vs.

³¹For if in a greene tre thei don these thingis, what schal be don in a drie?

³²Also othere twei wickid men weren led with hym, to be slayn.

³³And `aftir that thei camen in to a place, that is clepid of Caluerie, there thei crucifieden hym, and the theues, oon on the riyt half, and `the tother on the left half.

³⁴But Jhesus seide, Fadir, foryyue hem, for thei witen not what thei doon.

³⁵And thei departiden his clothis, and kesten lottis. And the puple stood abidynge; and the princis scorneden hym with hem, and seiden, Othere men he maad saaf; make he hym silf saaf, if this be Crist, the chosun of God.

³⁶And the knyytis neiyeden, and scorneden hym, and profreden vynegre to hym,

³⁷and seiden, If thou art king of Jewis, make thee saaf.

³⁸And the superscripcioun was writun ouer hym with Greke lettris, and of Latyn, and of Ebreu, This is the kyng of Jewis.

³⁹And oon of these theues that hangiden, blasfemyde hym, and seide, If thou art Crist, make thi silf saaf and vs.

⁴⁰But `the tothir answerynge, blamyde hym, and seide, Nether thou dredist God, that art in the same dampnacioun?

⁴¹And treuli we iustli, for we han resseiued worthi thingis to werkis; but this dide no thing of yuel.

⁴²And he seide to Jhesu, Lord, haue mynde of me, whanne thou comest `in to thi kyngdom.

⁴³And Jhesus seide to hym, Treuli Y seie to thee, this dai thou schalt be with me in paradise.

⁴⁴And it was almest the sixte our, and derknessis weren maad in al the erthe `in to the nynthe our.

⁴⁵And the sun was maad derk, and the veile of the temple was to-rent atwo.

⁴⁶And Jhesus criynge with a greet vois, seide, Fadir, in to thin hoondis Y bitake my spirit. And he seiynge these thingis, yaf vp the goost.

⁴⁷And the centurien seynge that thing that was don, glorifiede God, and seide, Verili this man was iust.

⁴⁸And al the puple of hem that weren there togidir at this spectacle, and sayn tho thingis that weren don, smyten her brestis, and turneden ayen.

⁴⁹But alle his knowun stoden afer, and wymmen that sueden hym fro Galile, seynge these thingis.

⁵⁰And lo! a man, Joseph bi name, of Aramathie, a cite of Judee, that was a decurien, a good man and a iust,

⁵¹this man concentide not to the counseil and to the dedis of hem; and he abood the kyngdom of God.

⁵²This Joseph cam to Pilat, and axide the bodi of Jhesu,

⁵³and took it doun, and wlappide it in a cleene lynen cloth, and leide hym in a graue hewun, in which not yit ony man hadde be leid.