027:007 So after consulting together they spent the money in the purchase
of the Potter's Field as a burial place for people not belonging
to the city;
027:008 for which reason that piece of ground received the name,
which it still bears, of `the Field of Blood.'
027:009 Then were fulfilled the words spoken by the Prophet Jeremiah, "And I
took the thirty shekels, the price of the prized one on whom
Israelites had set a price,
027:010 and gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord directed me."
027:011 Meanwhile Jesus was brought before the Governor, and the latter
put the question, "Are you the King of the Jews?" "I am
their King," He answered.
027:012 When however the High Priests and the Elders kept bringing
their charges against Him, He said not a word in reply.
027:013 "Do you not hear," asked Pilate, "what a mass of evidence they
are bringing against you?"
027:014 But He made no reply to a single accusation, so that the Governor
was greatly astonished.
027:015 "Now it was the Governor's custom at the Festival to release
some one prisoner, whomsoever the populace desired;
027:016 and at this time they had a notorious prisoner called Barabbas.
027:017 So when they were now assembled Pilate appealed to them.
"Whom shall I release to you," he said, "Barabbas, or Jesus
the so-called Christ?"
027:018 For he knew that it was from envious hatred that Jesus had been
brought before him.
027:019 While he was sitting on the tribunal a message came to him
from his wife. "Have nothing to do with that innocent man,"
she said, "for during the night I have suffered terribly
in a dream through him."