Lactantius

“ Then Pontius [4] was overpowered both by their outcries, and by the instigation of Herod the tetrarch, [5] who feared lest he should be deposed from his sovereignty. He did not, however, himself pass sentence, but delivered Him up to the Jews, that they themselves might judge Him according to their law. [6] Therefore they led Him away when He had been scourged with rods, and before they crucified Him they mocked Him; for they put upon Him a scarlet [7] robe, and a crown of thorns, and saluted Him as King, and gave Him gall for food, and mingled for Him vinegar to drink. ”

“ For this is the number of years from the reign of David to the crucifixion of Christ. But Solomon also, his son, who built Jerusalem, prophesied that this very city would perish in revenge for the sacred cross: [40] “But if ye turn away from me, saith the Lord, and will not keep my truth, I will drive Israel from the land which I have given them; and this house which I have built for them in my name, I will cast it out from all: [41] and Israel shall be for perdition [42] and a reproach to the people ”

“ The Sibyl also showed that the same things would happen:—
“He shall afterwards come into the hands of the unjust and the faithless; and they shall inflict on God blows with impure hands, and with polluted mouths they shall send forth poisonous spittle ”

“ When, therefore, Christ fulfilled these things which God would have done, and which He foretold many ages before by His prophets, incited by these things, and ignorant of the sacred Scriptures, they conspired together to condemn their God. ”

“ But that these things were thus about to happen, was announced both by the utterances of the prophets and by the predictions of the Sibyls. In Isaiah it is found thus written: [13] “I am not rebellious, nor do I oppose: I gave my back to the scourge, and my cheeks to the hand: [14] I turned not away my face from the foulness of spitting.” In like manner David, in the thirty-fourth Psalm: [15] “The abjects [16] were gathered together against me, [17] and they knew me not: [18] they were dispersed, nor did they feel remorse ”