Let us banish him, or he will destroy our country. DIARRHIAS. He is worthy of death, because he seduceth the people. RABINTH. Guilty or not, let the seducer die. LESSA. Let us banish him for ever. CHIERIES. If he be innocent he shall die, because he stirreth up the people. PTOLEMEUS. Guilty or not guilty, let us sentence him to death or punishment. TERAS. Either banish him, or send him unto Cæsar. LEMECH. Punish him with death. POTIPHARES. Let him be banished for seducing the people. The mob also cried out to Pontius Pilate, if you let this man go, you are not Cæsar’s friend; therefore, crucify him! crucify him! THE SENTENCE OF DEATH PASSED ON JESUS CHRIST BY PONTIUS PILATE. 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, to 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. Thus was the Lord of Life condemn’d, On Calv’ry’s mount to die, As Moses’ Serpent so was he There lifted up on high. ’Twas not for sins that were his own, He there shed forth his blood, But that such sinners vile as we, Might be brought near to God. Let us obey the gospel call, Now while it is to-day, Lest ere to-morrow Death should cry, To judgment come away. MISERABLE AND AWFUL END OF THE TRAITOR JUDAS. Now Judas, the Traitor, had no sooner seen his master condemned by the Jewish council, than his conscience upbraided him; he brought back the thirty pieces of silver, and confessed he had betrayed his innocent master. But the Jewish rulers replied, that that was none of their business, he might blame himself. And he threw back the thirty pieces of silver and went out and hanged himself; but the rope breaking, or the tree giving way, he fell and his body burst asunder, and his bowels gushed out. Then the Jews, as they thought the price of blood was not fit for the Treasury, they, as agents for Judas, gave it for the Potters-field to bury strangers in. Tho’ Judas ’mongst the Apostles was And with them took his part, His awful end proved him to be A traitor in his heart.