EARLY WISDOM GOSPELS 97
YESHUA IS CRUCIFIED
They took Yeshua. Carrying the cross himself, he went to what was called the
Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew is Golgotha, where they crucified him and
two others, one on either side with Yeshua in the middle.
Pilatus wrote a placard and put it on the cross. It read,
YESHUA THE NAZARENE THE KING OF THE JEWS.
Many Jews read the placard because the place where Yeshua was crucified
was near the city. And it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek. So the high
priests of the Jews said to Pilatus, "Do not write, 'The King of the Jews,' but
write what he said: 'I am king of the Jews.'"
Pilatus answered, "What I've written, I've written."
When the soldiers crucified Yeshua, they took his clothes and divided them in
four parts, one part for each soldier. And they took his tunic too. Now, his
tunic shirt was seamless, woven in one piece from the top straight down. So
they said to each other, "Let's not tear it, but casts lots for it to see whose it will
be. This was to fulfill the words of the scripture, saying,
"They divided my clothes among them
and for my clothes they cast lots."^62
That is what the soldiers did.But near the cross of Yeshua stood his mother and his mother's sister Miryam
of Klopas and Miryam of Magdala.^63
Then Yeshua, seeing his mother and the student he loved standing near,
said to his mother,
"Woman, here is your son."^64
Then he said to the student,
"Here is your mother."
And from that hour the student took her into his own.^65- Psalm 22:18.
- Mary Magdalene.
- Literally, "Woman, look, your son," which is followed by "Look, your mother." In the synop-
tic gospels, Mary, Jesus' mother, does not appear. Here she appears briefly, but her name goes
unmentioned. The other Marys appear by name. - Although "home" or "care" may be the implied translation, it says no more than "He took
her into his own."