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Rh Jesus and put all the words in the public documents of his judgment hall.

these things Pilate went into the temple of the Jews and assembled all the chief priests, and grammarians, and scribes, and teachers of the law; and he went with them into the sanctuary of the temple, and commanded that all the doors should be shut, and said to them, We have heard that ye have in this temple a certain great volume; therefore I pray you that it may brought before us. And when the same volume was brought by four ministers, adorned with gold and precious jewels, Pilate said to them all, I adjure you by the God of your fathers, who commanded you to build this temple in the place of his sanctuary, not to withold the truth from me. Ye know all that is written in this volume; but now say whether ye have found in the Scriptures that Jesus, whom ye crucified, that he was the Son of God, who should come for the salvation of the human race, and in how many years of time he ought to have come. Manifest unto me whether ye crucified him ignorantly or knowingly.

When they were thus adjured, Annas and Caiaphas commanded that all the others who were with them should go out of the sanctuary, and they closed