tros. Advocans autem Pilatus Seniores et Scribas, Sa cerdotes et Levitas, dicit eis fecrete, Nolite fic facere; nihil in veftra accufatione dignum morte inveni, de curatione infirmorum et violatione Sabbati. Dicunt Sacerdotes et Levitæ Pilato, Per falutem Cæfaris, fi quis blafphemaverit, dignus eft morte; hic autem adverfus Dominum blasphemavit. Juffit vero præfes exire Judæos iterum prætorium; et advocans Jefum, dixit ei, Quid faciam tibi? Refpondit ei Jefus, Sicut dictum eft. Dixit ei Pilatus, Quomodo eft dictum? Dixit ei Jefus, Mofes et Prophetæ præconizati funt de paffione mea et refurrectione. Audientes hæc Judæi, exacerbati funt, et dicunt Pilato, Quid amplius vis blafphemiam iftius audire? Dicit Pilatus eis, Si ifta verba blafphemia vobis videtur, tollite eum vos, et producite ad veftram fynagogam, et fecundum legem veftram judicate eum. Dicunt Judæi Pilato, Lex noftra continet, ut fi homo homini peccaverit, dignus fit Pilate calling together the Elders and Scribes, Priests and Levites, faith to them privately, Do not act thus; I have found nothing in your charge (against him) concerning his curing fick persons, and breaking the Sabbath, worthy of death. The Priests and Levites replied to Pilate, By the life of Cefar, if any one be a blafphemer, he is worthy of death; but this man bath blafphemed against the Lord. Then Then the governor again commanded the Jews to depart out of the hall; and calling Jefus, faid to him, What fhall I do with thee? Jefus answered him, (Do) according as it is written. Pilate faid to him, How is it written? Jefus faith to him, Mofes and the Prophets have prophefied concerning my suffering and refurrection. The Jews hearing this, were provoked, and faid to Pilate, Why wilt thou any longer hear the blafphemy of that man? Pilate faith to them, If these words feem to you blafphemy, do ye take him, bring him to your court, and try him according to your law. The Jews re ply to Pilate, Our law faith, that if one man injure another, a Lev. xxiv. 16. be accipere unam minus quadra- he shall be obliged to receive ginta; fi vero in Dominum blafphemaverit hujufmodi, lapidari. Dicit eis Pilatus, Si iste sermo blasphemia eft, vos judicate eum fecundum veftram legem. Dicunt Judæi Pilato, Lex noftra mandat nobis, non occidere quenquam: nos volumus ut crucifigatur, quia dignus eft morte crucis. Dicit eis Pilatus, Non eft bonum ut crucifigatur; fed tantum corripite eum, et dimittite. Intuitus vero præfes in populo et circumftante populo Judæorum, vidit plurimos Judeos lachrymantes, et dixit ad principes facerdotum Judæorum, Non omnis multitudo defiderat eum mori. Dicunt feniores Judæorum ad Pilatum, Ideo venimus nos et tota multitudo huc, ut moriatur. Dicit Pilatus ad eos, Quare morietur? Dicunt illi, Quia dicit feipfum filium Dei effe, et Regem. nine and thirty ftripes; but if after this manner he shall blafpheme against the Lord, he shall be stoned. Pilate faith unto them, If that speech of his was blafphemy, do ye try him according to your law. The Jews fay to Pilate, Our Law commands us not to put any one to death we defire that he may be crucified, because he deferves the death of the cross. Pilate faith to them, It is not fit he should be crucified; let him be only whipped and fent away. But when the governor looked upon the people that were prefent and the Jews, he faw many of the Jews in tears, and faid to the chief priests of the Jews, All the people do not defire his death. The elders of the Jews answered to Pilate, We and all the people came hither for this very purpofe, that he should die. Pilate faith to them, Why should he die? They faid to them, Because he declares himself to be the Son of God, and a King. paucos meos audire fermones. Dixit Pilatus ei, Dic. Nicodemus dixit, Ego dixi Senioribus Judæorum, et Scribis, et Sacerdotibus, et Levitis, et omni multitudini Judæorum in fynagoga; Quid quæritis cum homine ifto? Homo ifte multa figna facit bona et gloriofa, qualia nullus fecit in terra homo, nec faciet: dimittite illum, et nolite ei malum facere: fi ex Deo eft, ftabunt figna ejus; fi vero ex hominibus, diffolventur. Quia et Mofes a Deo in Ægyptum miffus fecit figna, quæ dixit illi facere Deus ante Pharaonem regem Ægypti. Erant ibi magi Jannes et Jambres, feceruntque et ipfi per incantationes fuas figna quæ fecerat Mofes, fed non per omnia. Et figna, quæ fecerunt magi, non erant ex Deo, ficut noftis vos Scribæ et Pharifæi; perierunt ipfi, qui fecerunt, et omnes qui crediderunt eis. Et nunc dimittite hominem hunc; quia figna, de quibus wrought, were not of God, as thou wouldeft favour me with the liberty of Speaking a few words. Pilate faid to him, Speak on. Nicodemus faid, I pake to the elders of the Jews, and the Scribes, and Priefts, and Levites, and all the multitude of the Jews, in their af fembly; What is it ye would do with this man? He is a man who hath wrought many ufeful and glorious miracles, fuch as no man on earth ever wrought before, nor will ever work. Let him go, and do him no harm: if he cometh from God, his miracles (his miraculous cures) will continue; but if from men, they will come to nought. Thus Mofes, when he was fent by God into Egypt, wrought the miracles which God commanded him, before Pharaoh king of Egypt; and though the magicians of that country, Jannes and Jambres, wrought by their magick the fame miracles which Mofes did, yet they could not work all which he did: and the miracles, which the magicians ye know, O Scribes and Pha rifees; but they who wrought them perished, and all who beAnd now let this man go; because the very mi lieved them. Di eum accufatis, ex Deo funt, et non eft dignus morte. cunt Judæi Nicodemo, Tu difcipulus ejus factus es, et verbum pro ipfo facis? Dixit ad eos Nicodemus, Nunquid et præfes difcipulus ejus factus eft, et verbum pro ipfo facit ? Nunquid non conftituit eum Cæfar fuper dignitatem iftam? Erant autem Judæi trementes, quum hæc audirent; et ftridebant fuper Nicodemum, et dicebant ei, Veritatem ipfius accipias, et poffeffionem cum Chrifto habeas! Dixit Nicodemus, Amen; accipiam ficut dixiftis. VI. Ex Judæis quidam alius autem exiliens, rogabat præfidem, ut vellet audire verbum. Dicit præfes, Quicquid vis dicere, dic. Ego per triginta octo annos jacui Ierofolymis juxta probaticam piscinam, patiens magnam infirmitatein, expectans fanitatem quæ fiebat in adventu Angeli, qui turbabat aquam fecundum tempus; et qui prior defcendiffet in aquam poft commotionem aquæ, fanus fiebat ab omni infirmitate. Et inve racles for which ye accufe him, are from God; and he is not worthy of death. The Jews then faid to Nicodemus, Art thou become his disciple, and making fpeeches in his favour? Nicodemus faid to them, Is the governor become his difciple also, and does he make speeches for him? Did not Cæfar place him in that high post? When the Jews heard this, they trembled, and gnashed their teeth at Nicodemus, and said to him, Mayeft thou receive his doctrine for truth, and have thy lot with Chrift! Nicodemus replied, Amen; I will receive (his doctrine, and my lot with him) as ye have faid. VI. Then another certain Jew rose up, and defired leave of the governor to hear him a few words. And the governor faid, Speak what thou haft a mind. (He faid) I lay for thirty-eight years by the Sheep-pool at Jerufalem, labouring under a great infirmity, and waiting for a cure which should be wrought by the coming of an angel, who at a certain time troubled the water; and whosoever first after the troubling of the water ftepped in, was made whole of whatsoever difeafe he had. T 2 And niens ibi me Jesus languidum, dixit ad me, Vis fanus fieri? Et refpondi ego, Domine, non habeo hominem, ut, quum turbata fuerit aqua, mittat me in piscinam. Et dixit mihi, Surge, et tolle grabatum tuum, et ambula. Et fofpes factus, ftatim tuli grabatum meum, et ambulavi. Dicunt Judæi Pilato, Domine Præfes, interroga eum, qualis fuerit dies in And when Jesus saw me languishing there, he faid to me, Wilt thou be made whole? And I answered, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool. And he faid unto me, Rife, take up thy bed, and walk. And I was immediately made whole, and took up my bed, and walkeda. The Jews then faid to Pilate, Our Lord Governor, pray ask him what day it was on which he was cured of his infirmity. The infirm person replied, It was on the Sabbath. The Jews said to Pilate, Did we not fay that he wrought his cures on the Sabbath, and caft out devils by the prince of devils? Then another certain Jew came forth, and faid, I was blind, could hear founds, but could not fee any one; and as Jesus was going along, I heard the multitude passing by, and I afked what was there? They told me that Jefus was passing by: then I cried out, faying, Jefus, Son of David, have mercy upon me. And he stood still, and commanded that I fhould be brought to him, and faid to me, What wilt thou? I faid, Lord, that I may receive my fight. He faid to me, Receive thy fight; and presently I qua languidus fanatus eft. Dixit languidus fanatus, Sabbatum. Dicunt Judæi Pilato, Nonne fic docuimus, quia in Sabbato curat, et in principe dæmoniorum ejicit dæmonia? Et alius quidam Judæus exiens, dixit, Cæcus eram, voces audiebam, et neminem videre poteram; et quum tranfiffet Jefus, audivi turbam prætereuntem, et interrogavi quid effet: et dixerunt mihi, quia Jefus tranfiret. Et clamavi, dicens, Jefu, fili David, miferere mei. Et ftans juffit me adduci ad fe, et dixit mihi, Quid vis? Et dixi, Domine, ut videam. Et dixit mihi, Refpice; et confeftim vidi, et fecutus fum b a John v. 1, 2, &c. b Mark x. 46. law, |