The Diatessaron of Tatian — Section 51

St. Cyril of Alexandria

1. 0. Greeting

1 [Arabic, p. 192] [[John 19.13]] 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. [[John 19.14]] And that day was the Friday of the passover: and it had reached 3 about the sixth hour. [[John 19.15]] And he said to the Jews, Behold, your King! And they cried out, Take him, take him, crucify him, crucify him. Pilate said to them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests said to him, We have no king except 4 Cæsar. [[Matthew 27.24]] And Pilate, when he saw it, and 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: you shall know. [[Matthew 27.25]] And all the people 6 answered and said, His blood be on us, and on our children. [[John 19.16]] a Then Pilate commanded to grant them their request; and delivered up Jesus to be crucified, according to their wish.

7 [[Matthew 27.3]] 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, [[Matthew 27.4]] and said, I have sinned in my betraying innocent blood. And they said to him, And we, what must we do? 9 know thou. [[Matthew 27.5]] And he threw down the money in the temple, and departed; and he 10 went away and hanged himself. [[Matthew 27.6]] And the chief priests took the money, and said, We have not authority to cast it into the place of the offering, for it is the price 11 of blood. [[Matthew 27.7]] And they took counsel, and bought with it the plain of the potter, for 12 the burial of strangers. [[Matthew 27.8]] Therefore that plain was called, The field of blood, unto 13 [Arabic, p. 193] this day. [[Matthew 27.9]] Therein 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; [[Matthew 27.10]] and I paid them for the plain of the potter, as the Lord commanded me.

15 And the Jews took Jesus, and went away to crucify him. 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. 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: [[Matthew 27.32]] b and they compelled this man to bear the cross of Jesus. 18 [[Luke 23.26]] b 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 [[Luke 23.27]] And there followed him much people, and women which were lamenting and 20 raving. [[Luke 23.28]] But Jesus turned unto them and said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not 21 for me: weep for yourselves, and for your children. [[Luke 23.29]] Days are coming, when they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that bare not, and