Four quaternions; four companies of four soldiers each; making, in all, sixteen. One company guarded him three hours, and was then relieved by another.

Easter; the passover. Easter is supposed to have been originally the name of a heathen feast, which occurred in the month of April. It was afterwards applied to the Jewish feast of the passover, which occurred about the same time. Tyndal, in his translation of the Bible into English in 1526, used this word instead of passover, and our English translators in 1611 retained it in their version. But there was no Christian feast called Easter in the days of Peter. And the word Pascha which is here translated Easter, means passover, and should have been so translated.

Bring him forth; for trial and condemnation.

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