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 THE REPORT OF PILATE THE GOVERNOR,

Concerning our Lord Jesus Christ; which was sent to Augustus Cæsar, in Rome.

those days, when our Lord Jesus Christ was crucified under Pontius Pilate the governor of Palestine and Phœnicia, the things here recorded came to pass in Jerusalem, and were done by the Jews against the Lord. Pilate therefore sent the same to Cæsar in Rome, along with his private report, writing thus:—

To the most potent, august, divine, and awful Augustus Cæsar, Pilate, the administrator of the Eastern Province.

I have received information, most excellent one, in consequence of which I am seized with fear and trembling. For in this province which I administer, one of whose cities is called Jerusalem, the whole multitude of Jews delivered unto me a certain man called Jesus, and brought many accusations against him, which they were unable to establish by consistent evidence. But they charged him with one heresy in particular, namely, That Jesus said the Sabbath was not a rest, nor to be observed by them. For he