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The Diatessaron of Tatian
[1] [Arabic, p. 192] [3533]And when Pilate heard this saying, he took Jesus out, and sat on the tribune in the place which was called the pavement of stones, but in the Hebrew [2] called Gabbatha. [3534]And that day was the Friday of the passover: and it had reached [3] about the sixth hour.[3535] [3536]And he said to the Jews, Behold, your King! And they cried out, Take him, take him, crucify him, crucify him. Pilate said unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests said unto him, We have no king except [4] Cæsar. [3537]And Pilate, when he saw it, and[3538] he was gaining nothing, but the tumult was increasing, took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, and said, I [5] am innocent of the blood of this innocent man: ye shall know.[3539] [3540]And all the people [6] answered and said, His blood be on us, and on our children. [3541]Then Pilate commanded to grant them their request; and delivered up Jesus to be crucified, according to their wish.
[7] [3542]Then Judas the betrayer, when he saw Jesus wronged, went and returned the [8] thirty pieces of money to the chief priests and the elders, [3543]and said, I have sinned in my betraying innocent blood. And they said unto him, And we, what must we do? [9] know thou. [3544]And he threw down the money in the temple, and departed; and he [10] went away[3545] and hanged[3546] himself. [3547]And the chief priests took the money, and said, We have not authority to cast it into the place of the offering,[3548] for it is the price [11] of blood. [3549]And they took counsel, and bought with it the plain of the potter, for [12] the burial of strangers. [3550]Therefore that plain was called, The field of blood, unto [13] [Arabic, p. 193] this day. [3551]Therein[3552] was fulfilled the saying in the prophet which said, I took thirty pieces of money, the price of the precious one, which was fixed [14] by the children of Israel; [3553]and I paid them for the plain of the potter, as the Lord commanded me.
[15] [3554]And the Jews took Jesus, and went away to crucify him. [3555]And when he bare his [16] cross and went out, they stripped him of those purple and scarlet garments which he [17] had on, and put on him his own garments. [3556]And while they were going with him, they found a man, a Cyrenian, coming from the country, named Simon, the father of Alexander and Rufus: [3557]and they compelled this man to bear the cross of Jesus. [18] [3558]And they took the cross and laid it upon him, that he might bear it, and come after Jesus; and Jesus went, and his cross behind him.
[19] [3559]And there followed him much people, and women which were lamenting and [20] raving.[3560] [3561]But Jesus turned unto them and said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not [21] for me: weep for yourselves, and for your children. [3562]Days are coming, when they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that bare not, and the breasts [22] that gave not suck. [3563]Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and [23] to the hills, Cover us. [3564]For if they do so in the green tree,[3565] what shall be in the dry?
[24] [3566]And they brought with Jesus two others of the malefactors,[3567] to be put to death.
[25] [3568]And when they came unto a certain place called The skull, and called in the Hebrew Golgotha, they crucified him there: [3569]they crucified with him these two [26] malefactors, one on his right, and the other on his left. [3570]And the scripture was [27] [Arabic, p. 194] fulfilled, which saith, He was numbered with the transgressors. [3571]And they gave him to drink wine and myrrh, and vinegar which had been mixed with the myrrh; [3572]and he tasted, and would not drink; and he received it not.
[28] [3573]And the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and cast lots for them in four parts, to every party of the soldiers a part; and his tunic was [29] without sewing, from the top woven throughout. [3574]And they said one to another, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: and the scripture was fulfilled, which saith,
They divided my garments among them,
And cast the lot for my vesture.
[30, 31] [3575]This the soldiers did. And they sat and guarded him there. [3576]And Pilate wrote on a tablet the cause of his death, and put it on the wood of the cross above his head.[3577] And there was written upon it thus: This is Jesus the Nazarene, the King of the [32] Jews. [3578]And this tablet[3579] read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city: and it was written in Hebrew and Greek and Latin. [33] [3580]And the chief priests said unto Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but, He it is [34] that[3581] said, I am the King of the Jews. [3582]Pilate said unto them, What hath been [35] written hath been written.[3583] [3584]And the people were standing beholding; and they [36] that passed by were reviling[3585] him, and shaking[3586] their heads, and saying, [3587]Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, [3588]save thyself if thou art the Son [37] of God, and come down from the cross. [3589]And in like manner the chief priests and the [Arabic, p. 195] scribes and the elders and the Pharisees derided him, and laughed one with [38, 39] another, and said, [3590]The saviour of others cannot save himself. [3591]If he is the Messiah, the chosen of God, and the King of Israel,[3592] let him come down now from the [40] cross, that we may see, and believe in him. [3593]He that relieth on God—let him deliver him [41] now, if he is pleased with him: for he said, I am the Son of God. [3594]And the soldiers [42] also scoffed at him in that they came near unto him, [3595]and brought him vinegar, and [43] said unto him, If thou art the King of the Jews, save thyself. [3596]And likewise the two robbers[3597] also that were crucified with him reproached him.
[44] [3598]And one of those two malefactors who were crucified with him reviled him, and [45] said, If thou art the Messiah, save thyself, and save us also. [3599]But his comrade rebuked him, and said, Dost thou not even fear God, being thyself also in this [46] condemnation? [3600]And we with justice, and as we deserved, and according to our deed,[3601] have we been rewarded: but this man hath not done anything unlawful. [47] [3602]And he said unto Jesus, Remember me, my Lord, when thou comest in thy kingdom. [48] [3603]Jesus said unto him, Verily[3604] I say unto thee, To-day shalt thou be with me in Paradise.
[49] [3605]And there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister,[3606] [50] Mary[3607] that was related to Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. [3608]And Jesus saw his mother, and that disciple whom he loved standing by; and he said to his mother, [51] Woman, behold, thy son! [3609]And he said to that disciple, Behold, thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto himself.
[52] [Arabic, p. 196] [3610]And from the sixth hour[3611] darkness was on all the land unto the ninth [53] hour,[3612] and the sun became dark. [3613]And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and said, Yail, Yaili,[3614] why hast thou forsaken me? which[3615] is, My [54] God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [3616]And some of those that stood there, when they heard, said,[3617] This man called Elijah.
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