nicodemus of judea

NICODEMUS




 Christ accused to Pilate by the Jews
of healing on the Sabbath.
Summoned before Pilate by a messenger
who does him honour.
 Worshipped by the standards bowing down to him


ANNAS and Caiphas, and
Summas, and Datam, Gamaliel,
Judas, Levi, Nepthalim, Alexander,
Cyrus, and other Jews, went
to Pilate about Jesus, accusing
him with many bad crimes  

       


     And said, We are assured that
Jesus is the son of Joseph, the
carpenter, and born of Mary, and
that he declares himself the Son of
God, and a king; and not only so,
but attempts the dissolution of the
Sabbath, and the laws of ourfathers.  

    Pilate replied, What is it
which he declares? and what is itwhich he attempts dissolving? 

      The Jews told him, We have
a law which forbids doing cures
on the Sabbath day; but he cures
both the lame and the deaf, those
afflicted with the palsy, the blind,
the lepers, and demoniacs, on thatday, by wicked methods. 

           

  Pilate replied, How can he
do this by wicked methods? They
answered He is a conjurer, and
casts out devils by the prince of
the devils; and so all things,become subject to him     

   Then said Pilate, Casting out
devils seems not to be the work of
an unclean spirit, but to proceed
from the power of God   

     The Jews replied to Pilate,
We entreat your highness to summon
him to appear before your tribunal,and hear him yourself.  

       Then Pilate called a messenger,
and said to him, By what meanswill Christ be brought hither?   

      Then went the messenger
forth, and knowing Christ,
worshipped him; and having spread
the cloak which he had in his hand
upon the ground, he said, Lord,
walk upon this, and go in, for thegovernor calls thee  

      When the Jews perceived
what the messenger had done,
they exclaimed (against him) to
Pilate, and said, Why did you not
give him his summons by a beadle,
and not by a messenger?—For the
messenger, when he saw him,
worshipped him, and spread the
cloak which he had in his hand
upon the ground before him, and
said to him, Lord, the governorcalls thee.  

    Then Pilate called the
messenger, and said, Why hast thoudone thus?    

     The messenger replied, When
thou sentest me from Jerusalem to
Alexander, I saw Jesus sitting in
a mean figure upon a she-ass, and
the children of the Hebrews cried
out, Hosannah, holding boughs oftrees in their hands.  

    Others spread their garments
in the way, and said, Save us, thou
who art in heaven; blessed is he
who cometh in the name of theLord. 

     Then the Jews cried out,
against the messenger, and said,
The children of the Hebrews made
their acclamations in the Hebrew
language; and how couldst thou,
who art a Greek, understand theHebrew?   

   The messenger answered
them and said, I asked one of the
Jews and said, What is this which
the children do cry out in theHebrew language? 

    And he explained it to me,
saying, they cry out, Hosannah,
which being interpreted, is, OLord, save me; or, O Lord, save  



       Pilate then said to them,
Why do you yourselves testify to
the words spoken by the children,
namely, by your silence? In what
has the messenger done amiss?And they were silent.  

       Then the governor said unto
the messenger, Go forth and
endeavour by any means to bringhim in. 


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