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                                The Second Sorrowful Mystery - The Scourging at the Pillar

                                CHAPTER 14

                            Jesus Is Led Before Pilate.

And it was morning, and they went not into the hall,
                                            that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the Pasch. Pilate therefore went out
to them, and said, "What
                                        accusation bring you against this man? "They answered, and said to him: "If He were not a
        malefactor, we would not have delivered Him up to thee."

                                            Pilate therefore said to them: "Take Him you, and judge Him according to your law." The Jews
                                                therefore said to him: "It is not lawful for us to put any man to death;" that the word of Jesus
                    might be fulfilled, which He said, signifying what death He should die.

                                          And they began to accuse Him, saying: "We have found this man perverting our nation, and
                                                  forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that He is Christ the king." Pilate therefore went
                                                      into the hall again, and called Jesus. And Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked
                                                  Him, saying: "Art Thou the king of the Jews?" But Jesus answering, saith to him: "Sayest thou
          this thing of thyself, or have others told it thee of Me?"

                                                        Pilate answered: I am a Jew? Thy own nation, and the chief priests, have delivered Thee up to me.
What hast Thou done?"

                                                    Jesus answered: "My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants
would certainly strive that I should not be delivered to the Jews. But now My kingdom is not from
hence." Pilate therefore said to Him, art Thou a king then?" Jesus answered: "Thou sayest that I
am a king. For this was I born, and for this came I into the world, that I should give testimony
to the truth. Every one that is of the truth, heareth My voice." Pilate saith to Him: "What is
truth?"

And when he said this, he went out again to the chief priests and to the multitudes, and saith to
them: "I find no cause in this