Article April 13, 1899 Issue

The Sentence of the Saviour

The following is a copy of the most memorable judicial sentence which has ever been pronounced in the annals of the world—that of the death sentence against the Saviour, with remarks which Le Droit has collected, and the knowledge of which must be interesting in the highest degree to every Christian. Until now I am not aware that it has ever been made public in the German papers. The Sentence is word for word as follows:—

Sentence pronounced by Pontius Pilate, intendant of the Province of Lower Galilee, that Jesus of Nazareth shall suffer death by the cross.

In the seventeenth year of the emperor Tiberius, and on the 25th day of the month of March, in the most holy city of Jerusalem, during the pontificate of Annas and Caiaphas. Pontius Pilate, intendant of the province of Lower Galilee, sitting in judgment in the presidential seat of the prætor, sentences Jesus of Nazareth to death on a cross, between two robbers, as numerous and notorious testimonies of the people prove—

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