1
And anone in ye dawnynge the hye prestes helde counsell wt ye elders and ye scribes and ye whoole cogregacion and bounde Iesus and ledde him awaye and delivered him to Pilate.
2
And Pilate axed him: arte thou the kynge of the Iewes? And he answered and sayde vnto him: thou sayest it.
3
And the hye prestes accused him of many thinges.
4
Wherfore Pilate axed him agayne sayinge: Answerest thou nothinge? Beholde how many thinges they lay vnto thy charge.
5
Iesus yet answered never aworde so that Pilate merveled.
6
At that feast Pilate was wont to delivre at their pleasure a presoner: whomsoever they wolde desyre.
7
And ther was one named Barrabas which laye bounde with the that made insurreccion and in the insurreccion comitted murther.
8
And ye people called vnto him and began to desyre accordinge as he had ever done vnto them.