tribune dredde, efter þat he harde þat he was a Romayne, ande for he hade so bownden hym.
[verse 30] Ande [in marg. y e xxiii c o in a XVIth cent. hand, S. C m xxiii P.] þo day efter þo Tribune wolde knowe certaynly [more c. S.P.] for what cause he was accused of þo Iewes. He lowsed hym, ande called togider [S folio 62b] þo prestes ande alle þo cownseile, ande broghte forþe Poule, ande sette hym amonge hem.
[verse 1] Ande Poule, lokande vnto [to S.P.D.] þo cownseile, saide, Ȝhe men, breþer, I in alle gode conscience hafe lifed bifore God vnto þis daye. [verse 2] Ande Ananye, þo prince of prestes, bad to þoo þat stode nere [nyȝ S.P.D.] hym forto smyte hise mowþe. [verse 3] Þanne [C m 23 in marg. in a later hand, C.] sayde Poule vnto [to S.P.D.] hym, Þow [if þow C, om. S.P. ȝif (crossed through) þou D.] wall whited [whithyt wall (on erasure, 1st corr.) wyte (crossed through) S. wyte wel P.] , Godde schal strike þe. Ande þou syttande demes me efter þo lawe, ande agaynes þe lawe þow biddes þat I be smyten. [verse 4] Ande þoo þat stoden by saiden [seyden (on erasure, 1st corr. S.), follows Poule, S.P. om. D.] vnto [to S.P.D.] Poule, Waries [corsest P.D., in marg. 1st corr. S.] þow þo souereyne preste [prest of god P. of god in marg. S.] ? [verse 5] Ande Poule saide, I [erased; inserted after not, S.] wiste noghte, breþer, þat he was prince of prestes. For [S folio 125] hit es writen, Þow schalte noghte warye [blank space of ¾ in. P. cursest on erasure in a later hand, S.] þo prince of þi flokke [folke S.P.D.] . [verse 6] Ande whanne Poule knewe [in marg. C.] þat one partye of þoo þat wore gadired þer was of þo Pharisens, ande an-oþer of þo [om. S.P.D.] Saducens, he cried in þo cownseyle, Ȝhe men, breþer [& br. S.P.D.] , I am a Pharisene, þo sone of a Pharisene, of þo hope ande of þo resurrecyone I am demed. [verse 7] Ande whanne he hade saide þise, onone [on- above the line, in different ink, C.] was made a [om. S.P.] discencyone [bitwixe] [S.P. bytwixte D. byfore C.] þo Pharisens ande þo [om. S.P.D.] Saducens, ande so þo multitude was diuersed ande twynned. [verse 8] Þo Saducens saide, þat þere schulde no resurreccyone be, ande þat þer was nouþer awngel nor [ne S.P.] spiritte: ande þo Pharisens saide þo reuerce þat boþe þise was. [verse 9] Ande grete criynge was made: ande sum of þo Pharises faughte, sayande, We fynde none [C folio 63] yuel in þis man: what þofe [ȝif S.P.D.] a spirytte hafe spoken vnto [to S.P.D.] hym, or an [eny S.P.D.] awngel?
