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Immediately, very early in the morning, the leading ahbar, the sheikhs of the people, the fuqaha, and all the members of the highest council prepared a plan. They tied Isa and delivered him to the Roman governor Pilate.

Pilate questioned him, "Are you the king of Al-Yahud?" He answered him and said, "You said it."

The leading ahbar accused him of many things.

So Pilate asked him, "Do you not have any answer to make at all? Listen to the many accusations against you!"

But Isa did not answer any more, so that Pilate was amazed.

During the Eid, Pilate used to release a prisoner whom the people requested.

There was one man named Barabbas who was arrested with others who had committed murder during the rebellion.

So when the crowd gathered, the people asked Pilate to release a prisoner for them according to his custom.

But Pilate asked them, "Do you want me to release the king of Al-Yahud for you?"

For he realized that the ahbar had arrested Isa because they were jealous of him.

But the ahbar incited the crowd to ask for the release of Barabbas instead.

But Pilate answered them again and said, "What shall I do with the one you call the king of Al-Yahud?"

They shouted again, "Crucify him!"

Pilate asked, "Why? What crime did he commit?" They shouted even more, "Crucify him!"

Pilate wanted to satisfy the crowd, so he released Barabbas for them. After he had whipped Isa severely, he delivered him to be crucified.

The soldiers led Isa into the courtyard of the official residence of the governor, and they gathered the whole squadron.

Then they dressed him in a royal-purple-colored robe and made thorns into a crown and put it on him.

They began to greet him, "Hail, king of Al-Yahud!"

And they beat him repeatedly on his head with a reed and spat on him. They kneeled and prostrated themselves in front of him.

After they had mocked him, they took off the purple robe and put his own clothes back on him. Then they led him out to be crucified.

Simon from Cyrene, father of Alexander and Rufus, was coming from the countryside. As he was passing by, the soldiers forced him to carry the cross of Isa.

Then they brought him to Golgotha (which means 'the place of the skull').

And they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he refused it.

And as they crucified him, they divided his clothes among them by lot, so each one of them would get his share.

It was the third hour when they crucified him.

The written notice of the charge against him read "King of Al-Yahud."

They crucified two thieves with him, one on his right and the other on his left.

Those who were passing by mocked him. They shook their heads, saying,

"Aha, you who would destroy the house of Allah and build it in three days,

save yourself and come down from the cross!"

Likewise, the leading ahbar and fuqaha mocked him to each other, saying, "He saved others, and now he cannot save himself!

Let Al-Masih, the king of Bani Israil, come down from the cross now, so that we might see and believe!" Even the two thieves who were crucified with him insulted him.

At the sixth hour, darkness covered all the land until the ninth hour.

Then, at the ninth hour, Isa shouted loudly: "Eloi, Eloi, lima sabakhthani?" (This means 'My Ilah, my Ilah, why did you desert me?')

Some people standing there heard him and said, "Look! He is calling Ilyas."

One of them ran off to fill a sponge with vinegar, put in on a reed, and offered it to him to drink, saying, "Let us see if Ilyas will come to take him down."

Isa shouted loudly and breathed his last breath.

Then the curtain of the house of Allah was torn in two, from top to bottom.

The Roman officer who was standing in front of him saw how he breathed his last breath, and he said, "Truly this man was the beloved Amir of Allah!"

Many women were watching from a distance. They included Mariam Magdalene, Mariam Um Yacoub the younger and Yusi, and Salome.

They followed him when he was in Al-Jalil and served him. And many other women went up with him to Al-Quds.

And evening had already come. It was the day of preparation (the day before Al-Sabt).

Yusif of Arimathea, one of the respected members of the highest council, who was waiting for the kingdom of Allah, came before Pilate and asked him for the body of Isa.

Pilate was amazed that he had died so quickly, and summoned the officer to ask if Isa had really already died.

When Pilate learned from the officer what had happened, he gave Yusif the body.

Yusif bought a linen cloth, took the body down, wrapped it in the linen cloth, put it in a grave dug out of rock, and rolled a stone against the entrance of the grave.

And Mariam Magdalene and Mariam Umm Yusi watched where he put him.