18 For he kent that for mere ill‐will they had deliverʼt him up.
Sae when they had forgatherʼt, Pilate speirʼt at them, “Wham wad ye that I lowse? Barabbas, or Jesus that is caʼd Christ?”
And as he was on the Judgment‐seat, his wife sent till him, sayin, “Hae ye nocht to do wiʼ yon just man! for I hae dreeʼt mony things this day in a dream, on his accoont.”
For he saw that for jealousie the Heid‐priests had deliverʼt him up.
But the Jews, seein the thrangs, war fuʼ oʼ jealousie, and spak again thae things that Paul said, miscaʼinʼ them.
Than raise up the Heigh‐priest, and aʼ they that war wiʼ him (they oʼ the sect of the Sadducees), and war fuʼ oʼ anger,
“And the patriarchs, fuʼ oʼ envie, sellʼt Joseph awa to Egypt; but God was wiʼ him.
Or reck ye that in vain the Scriptur says, “The spirit that dwalls in us leads to envy.”