⁴² And the soldiers' counsel was that they should kill the prisoners, lest any one having swam out should escape,

²⁰ Look attentively to the covenant, For the dark places of earth, Have been full of habitations of violence.

¹⁰ The righteous knoweth the life of his beast, And the mercies of the wicked `are' cruel.

³ This `is' an evil among all that hath been done under the sun, that one event `is' to all, and also the heart of the sons of man is full of evil, and madness `is' in their heart during their life, and after it -- unto the dead.

¹⁵ and Pilate, wishing to content the multitude, released to them Barabbas, and delivered up Jesus -- having scourged `him' -- that he might be crucified.

¹⁶ And the soldiers led him away into the hall, which is Praetorium, and call together the whole band,

¹⁷ and clothe him with purple, and having plaited a crown of thorns, they put `it' on him,

¹⁸ and began to salute him, `Hail, King of the Jews.'

¹⁹ And they were smiting him on the head with a reed, and were spitting on him, and having bent the knee, were bowing to him,

²⁰ and when they `had' mocked him, they took the purple from off him, and clothed him in his own garments, and they led him forth, that they may crucify him.

⁴⁰ And the other answering, was rebuking him, saying, `Dost thou not even fear God, that thou art in the same judgment?

⁴¹ and we indeed righteously, for things worthy of what we did we receive back, but this one did nothing out of place;'

¹⁹ and Herod having sought for him, and not having found, having examined the guards, did command `them' to be led away to punishment, and having gone down from Judea to Cesarea, he was abiding `there'.