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APOCRYPHAL GOSPELS.

issue of blood, and I only took hold of the edge of his garment, and was immediately healed.[1] The Jews said, The law doth not admit the testimony of a woman.

CHAPTER VIII.

Other men cried, This man is a prophet, and the demons fear him. Pilate saith. And how is it that the demons did not thus fear your parents also? They say. We know not. Others again said. By a word only he raised up Lazarus, who had been four days in his sepulchre. Pilate, therefore, hearing of the resurrection of Lazarus was afraid, and saith to the people, Wherefore will ye shed the blood of a just man?

CHAPTER IX.

Then he called Nicodemus and the twelve pious Jews, and said to them, What say ye that I should do, for the people are in a commotion? They say, We know not: do what thou wilt. But whatever the people do, they do unrighteously, in order to destroy him. Pilate went out again, and saith to the

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  1. Matt. ix. 20-22.
  2. multiplied.' According to another legend, the woman mentioned in our text made an image or representation of Jesus at Paneas. See the Story of Veronica, pp, 218, 223. Also, the Death of Pilate; and the Saviour's Revenge, near the end of this volume.