The Diatessaron (Section 51)

[1] [Arabic, p. 192] John 19:13 And when Pilate heard this saying, he took Jesus out, and sat on the tribune in the place which was called the pavement of stones, but in the Hebrew [2] called Gabbatha. John 19:14 And that day was the Friday of the passover: and it had reached [3] about the sixth hour. John 19:15 And he said to the Jews, Behold, your King! And they cried out, Take him, take him, crucify him, crucify him. Pilate said unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests said unto him, We have no king except [4] Cæsar. Matthew 27:24 And Pilate, when he saw it, and he was gaining nothing, but the tumult was increasing, took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, and said, I [5] am innocent of the blood of this innocent man: you shall know. Matthew 27:25 And all the people [6] answered and said, His blood be on us, and on our children. John 19:16a Then Pilate commanded to grant them their request; and delivered up Jesus to be crucified, according to their wish.

[7] Matthew 27:3 Then Judas the betrayer, when he saw Jesus wronged, went and returned the [8] thirty pieces of money to the chief priests and the elders, Matthew 27:4 and said, I have sinned in my betraying innocent blood. And they said unto him, And we, what must we do? [9] know thou. Matthew 27:5 And he threw down the money in the temple, and departed; and he [10] went away and hanged himself. Matthew 27:6 And the chief priests took the money, and said, We have not authority to cast it into the place of the offering, for it is the price [11] of blood. Matthew 27:7 And they took counsel, and bought with it the plain of the potter, for [12] the burial of strangers. Matthew 27:8 Therefore that plain was called, The field of blood, unto [13] [Arabic, p. 193] this day. Matthew 27:9 Therein was fulfilled the saying in the prophet which said, I took thirty pieces of money, the price of the precious one, which was fixed [14] by the children of Israel; Matthew 27:10 and I paid them for the plain of the potter, as the Lord commanded me.

[15] And the Jews took Jesus, and went away to crucify him. And when he bare his [16] cross and went out, they stripped him of those purple and scarlet garments which he [17] had on, and put on him his own garments. And while they were going with him, they found a man, a Cyrenian, coming from the country, named Simon, the father of Alexander and Rufus: Matthew 27:32b and they compelled this man to bear the cross of Jesus. [18] Luke 23:26b And they took the cross and laid it upon him, that he might bear it, and come after Jesus; and Jesus went, and his cross behind him.

[19] Luke 23:27 And there followed him much people, and women which were lamenting and [20] raving. Luke 23:28 But Jesus turned unto them and said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not [21] for me: weep for yourselves, and for your children. Luke 23:29 Days are coming, when they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that bare not, and the breasts [22] that gave not suck. Luke 23:30 Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and [23] to the hills, Cover us. Luke 23:31 For if they do so in the green tree, what shall be in the dry?

[24] Luke 23:32 And they brought with Jesus two others of the malefactors, to be put to death.

[25] And when they came unto a certain place called The skull, and called in the Hebrew Golgotha, they crucified him there: Luke 23:33b they crucified with him these two [26] malefactors, one on his right, and the other on his left. Mark 15:28 And the scripture was [27] [Arabic, p. 194] fulfilled, which says, He was numbered with the transgressors. Mark 15:23a And they gave him to drink wine and myrrh, and vinegar which had been mixed with the myrrh; and he tasted, and would not drink; and he received it not.

[28] John 19:23 And the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and cast lots for them in four parts, to every party of the soldiers a part; and his tunic was [29] without sewing, from the top woven throughout. John 19:24 And they said one to another, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: and the scripture was fulfilled, which says,

They divided my garments among them,
And cast the lot for my vesture.

[30, 31] Matthew 27:36 This the soldiers did. And they sat and guarded him there. John 19:19 And Pilate wrote on a tablet the cause of his death, and put it on the wood of the cross above his head. Matthew 27:37 And there was written upon it thus: This is Jesus the Nazarene, the King of the [32] Jews. John 19:20 And this tablet read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city: and it was written in Hebrew and Greek and Latin. [33] John 19:21 And the chief priests said unto Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but, He it is [34] that said, I am the King of the Jews. John 19:22 Pilate said unto them, What has been [35] written has been written. And the people were standing beholding; and they [36] that passed by were reviling him, and shaking their heads, and saying, You who destroys the temple, and builds it in three days, Matthew 27:40c save yourself if you are the Son [37] of God, and come down from the cross. Matthew 27:41 And in like manner the chief priests and the [Arabic, p. 195] scribes and the elders and the Pharisees derided him, and laughed one with [38, 39] another, and said, Matthew 27:42a The saviour of others cannot save himself. If he is the Messiah, the chosen of God, and the King of Israel, let him come down now from the [40] cross, that we may see, and believe in him. Matthew 27:43 He that relies on God— let him deliver him [41] now, if he is pleased with him: for he said, I am the Son of God. Luke 23:36 And the soldiers [42] also scoffed at him in that they came near unto him, Luke 23:37 and brought him vinegar, and [43] said unto him, If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself. Matthew 27:44 And likewise the two robbers also that were crucified with him reproached him.

[44] Luke 23:39 And one of those two malefactors who were crucified with him reviled him, and [45] said, If you are the Messiah, save yourself, and save us also. Luke 23:40 But his comrade rebuked him, and said, Do you not even fear God, being yourself also in this [46] condemnation? Luke 23:41 And we with justice, and as we deserved, and according to our deed, have we been rewarded: but this man has not done anything unlawful. [47] Luke 23:42 And he said unto Jesus, Remember me, my Lord, when you come in your kingdom. [48] Luke 23:43 Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto you, Today shall you be with me in Paradise.

[49] John 19:25 And there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, [50] Mary that was related to Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. John 19:26 And Jesus saw his mother, and that disciple whom he loved standing by; and he said to his mother, [51] Woman, behold, your son! John 19:27 And he said to that disciple, Behold, your mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto himself.

[52] [Arabic, p. 196] And from the sixth hour darkness was on all the land unto the ninth [53] hour, and the sun became dark. And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and said, Yail, Yaili, why have you forsaken me? which is, My [54] God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Matthew 27:47 And some of those that stood there, when they heard, said, This man called Elijah.