The Lambertville press., 1859-09-08
Volume 1, Number All
gabbath geaaiug.
The Sentence on the Saviour.

The Sentence on the Saviour.
A correspondent of the Notes Queries
writes Can any of your correspondents inform
me whether the enclosed extract from the Kol-
nische Zeatung is based on sound authority, and
what that authority is /? Also, when and where
vas this Kolnasche Zeitupg published?
Correct Transcript Of the Sentence of
Death pronounced against Jesus Christ.
The following is copy of the most memora-
BILE judicial sentence which has ever been pro-
nodneed in the annals of the world-that of
death against the Saviour, with remarks which
the journal lie Drolt has collected, and the
knowledge of which must be interesting in the
highest degree to every Christian. Until now
/ am not aware that it has ever beer made pub
lie in the German papers. The sentence is
word for word as follows:
Sentence pronounced by Pontius Plate, In
tendant of the Province of Lower Galilee, that
Jesus of Nazareth shall suffer death by the
cross.
In the seventeenth year of his reign of the
Emperor Tiberius, and on the 25th day OF. the
month of March, in the most holy city of Jern-
salem, during the pontifcate of Annas and
Caiaphas
Pontius PLATE, Intendant of the Province of
Lower Gailee, sitting injudgment in the presi-
Dental seat of the Preator, sentences Jesus of
Nazareth to death on a cross between two rob-
bers, as the numerous and notorious testimonies
Of the people prove
Iesns is misleader
q He has excited the people to sedition.
g. He is an enemy to the laws.
4. He calls himself the Son of God.
5. He calls himself falsely the King of Israel
6. He went Into tie Temple, followed by g
multitude of people, carrying palms in their
hands
Orders the first centurion BuiriIius Cornelius
to bring him to the place of execution.
Forbids all persons rich or poor, to prevent
the execution of Jesus.
The witnesses who have signed the execution
against Jesus are
l. Daniel Robant, Pharisee,
O. John SorobabeL
g. Raphel Robani.
e. Capet.
Jesus to be taken out of Jerusalem through
the gates of Tournes.
The sentence is engraved on a plate Of brass
in the Hebrew language, and on its side are the
following words: A similar plate has been
sent to each tribe It was discovered in the
year 1889, in the city of Aqaila, in the King
dom of Naples, by search for the discovery OF
Roman antiquities, and remained there unillt
was found by the commissaries of art in the
French army of Italy. Up to the time OF the
campaign in Southern Italy, it was preserved
in the sacriety of the Carthusans, near Naples
where it was kept in a box OF ebony Since
then tie relic has been kept in the chapelo
Gaserta. The Carthvsians obtained by their
netitions that the plate might be kept by them,
which was an acknowledgement of the sacrif-
ces which they made for the French army
The French translation was made literally by
,,embers of the commission of arts Demon had
> fqc sanaile of the plate engraved, which was
bought by Lord Howard, on the sale ofhis
cabinet, $3.50 francs. There seems to be no
historical doubt as to the authenticity of this
The reasons of the sentence correspond exactly
with those of the Gospel.