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THE

SENTENCE OF DEATH

PASSED ON

JESUS CHRIST,

BY

Pontius Pilot.

———

I Pontius Pilate, Judge in Jerusalem under the most potent Tiberius, happy and prosperous be his reign, having heard and known the accusation of Jesus of Nazareth, whom the Jews brought bound, do pronounce his sentence; seeing he, by presumptuous expressions, called himself the Son of God, and the King of the Jews, and said he would destroy the Temple of Solomon. Let him be condemned to the cross with the two Thieves.