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1 Vpon the morow, all the hye prestes and elders of the people helde a councell agaynst Iesus, that they might put him to death, 2 and bounde him, and led him forth, and delyuered him vnto Pontius Pilate the debyte. 3 When Iudas which betrayed him, sawe this that he was condemned vnto death, it repented him, and brought agayne the thirtie syluer pens to the hye prestes and the elders, 4 and sayde: I haue done euell, in that I haue betrayed innocet bloude. They sayde: What haue we to do with yt? Se thou therto. 5 And he cast the syluer pens in the teple, and gat him awaye, and wente and hanged him self. 6 So the hye prestes toke the syluer pens, and sayde: It is not laufull to put them in to the Gods chest, for it is bloudmoney. 7 Neuertheles they helde a councell, and bought with the a potters felde, for to burye straugers in. 8 Wherfore the same felde is called the bloudfelde vnto this daye. 9 Then was that fulfylled, which was spoken by Ieremy the prophet sayenge: And they toke thirtie syluer pens, the pryce of him that was solde, whom they bought of the children of Israell: 10 and these they gaue for a potters felde, as the LORDE commaunded me. 11 As for Iesus, he stode before the debyte, and the debyte axed him, and sayde: Art thou the kynge of the Iewes? And Iesus sayde vnto him: Thou sayest it. 12 And wha he was accused of the hye prestes and elders, he answered nothinge. 13 Then sayde Pylate vnto him: Hearest thou not, how sore they accuse the? 14 And he answered him not one worde: in so moch that the debyte marueled exceadingly. 15 At that feast, the debyte was wote to delyuer a presoner fre vnto the people, whom they wolde. 16 And at the same tyme he had a notable presoner called Barrabas. 17 And whan they were gathered together, Pylate sayde vnto them: Whether wil ye, that I geue lowse vnto you? Barrabas, or Iesus which is called Christ? 18 For he knewe well that they had delyuered him of enuye. 19 And wha he sat vpo the iudgmet seate, his wife sent vnto him, sayenge: Haue thou nothinge to do with that righteous man, for I haue suffred many thinges this daye in a dreame because of him. 20 But the hye prestes and the elders persuaded the people, that they shulde axe Barrabas, and destroye Iesus. 21 Then answered the debyte, & sayde vnto the: Whether of these two wyl ye yt I geue lowse vnto you? They sayde: Barrabas: Matthew 27:1-21, Coverdale Bible of 1535. Public domain.
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