An Historical Account of Jesus 41The high priest caused Judas to be brought before him
bound, and asked him of his disciplesand his doctrine.
Whereupon Judas, as though beside himself, an
swered nothing to the point. The high priest then ad
jured him by the living God of Israel that he would tell
him the truth.
Judas answered: '1 have told you that l am Judas
Iscariot, who promised to give into your hands Jesus
the Nazarene; and you, by what art 1 know not, are be
side yourselves, for you will have it by every means that
1 am Jesus.
The high priest answered: '0 perverse seducer, you
have deceived all Israel, beginning from Calilee even
untoJerusalem here, with your doctrine and false mira
cles; and now do you think to flee the merited punish
ment thatbefitsyou by feigning to be mad? As God lives,
you will not escape itl' And having said this he com
manded his servants to smite him with buffetings and
kicks, so that his understanding might come back into
his head. The derision which he then suffered at the
hands of the high priest's servants is pastbelief. For they
zealously devised new inventions to give pleasure to the
counciI. So they attired him as a juggler, and so treated
him with hands and feet that it would have moved the
very Canaanites to compassion if they had beheld that
sight.
But the chief priests and Pharisees and eIders of the
people had theirhearts 50 exasperated againstJesus that,
believing Judas to be really Jesus, they took delight in
seeing him so treated.
Afterwards they led him bound to the governor, who
secreUy loved Jesus. Whereupon he, thinking that Ju
das was Jesus, made him enter into his chamber, and
spake to him, asking him for what cause the chief priests
and the people had given him into his hands.
Judas answered: 'If 1 tell you the truth, you will not
believe me; for perchance you are deceived as the (chief)
priests and the Pharisees are deceived.'
The governor answered (thinkïng that he wished to
speak concerning the Law): 'Now doyou not know that
1 am not a Jew? but the (chief) priests and the eIders of