John 19

¹Then Pilate took Jesus and flogged him.

²And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe .

³They came up to him, saying , Hail , King of the Jews ! and struck him with their hands .

⁴Pilate went out again and said to them , See , I am bringing him out to you that you may know that I find no guilt in him .

⁵So Jesus came out , wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe . Pilate said to them , Behold the man !

⁶When the chief priests and the officers saw him , they cried out , Crucify him, crucify him! Pilate said to them , Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no guilt in him .

⁷The Jews answered him , We have a law , and according to that law he ought to die because he has made himself the Son of God .

⁸When Pilate heard this statement , he was even more afraid .

⁹He entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus , Where are you from ? But Jesus gave him no answer .

¹⁰So Pilate said to him , You will not speak to me ? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you ?

¹¹Jesus answered him, You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above . Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin .

¹²From then on Pilate sought to release him , but the Jews cried out , If you release this man , you are not Caesar’s friend . Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar .

¹³So when Pilate heard these words , he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Stone Pavement , and in Aramaic Gabbatha .

¹⁴Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover . It was about the sixth hour . He said to the Jews , Behold your King !

¹⁵They cried out , Away with him, away with him, crucify him ! Pilate said to them , Shall I crucify your King ? The chief priests answered , We have no king but Caesar .

¹⁶So he delivered him over to them to be crucified . So they took Jesus ,

¹⁷and he went out , bearing his own cross , to the place called The Place of a Skull , which in Aramaic is called Golgotha .

¹⁸There they crucified him , and with him two others , one on either side , and Jesus between them .

¹⁹Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross . It read , Jesus of Nazareth , the King of the Jews .

²⁰Many of the Jews read this inscription , for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city , and it was written in Aramaic , in Latin , and in Greek .

²¹So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate , Do not write , The King of the Jews , but rather , This man said , I am King of the Jews .

²²Pilate answered , What I have written I have written .

²³When the soldiers had crucified Jesus , they took his garments and divided them into four parts , one part for each soldier ; also his tunic . But the tunic was seamless , woven in one piece from top to bottom,

²⁴so they said to one another , Let us not tear it , but cast lots for it to see whose it shall be . This was to fulfill the Scripture which says , They divided my garments among them , and for my clothing they cast lots . So the soldiers did these things ,

²⁵but standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister , Mary the wife of Clopas , and Mary Magdalene .

²⁶When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother , Woman , behold , your son !

²⁷Then he said to the disciple , Behold , your mother ! And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.

²⁸After this , Jesus , knowing that all was now finished , said ( to fulfill the Scripture ), I thirst .

²⁹A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth .

³⁰When Jesus had received the sour wine , he said , It is finished , and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit .

³¹Since it was the day of Preparation , and so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath ( for that Sabbath was a high day ), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away .

³²So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first , and of the other who had been crucified with him .

³³But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead , they did not break his legs .

³⁴But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear , and at once there came out blood and water .

³⁵He who saw it has borne witness — his testimony is true , and he knows that he is telling the truth — that you also may believe .

³⁶For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled : Not one of his bones will be broken .

³⁷And again another Scripture says , They will look on him whom they have pierced .

³⁸After these things Joseph of Arimathea , who was a disciple of Jesus , but secretly for fear of the Jews , asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus , and Pilate gave him permission . So he came and took away his body .

³⁹Nicodemus also , who earlier had come to Jesus by night , came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes , about seventy-five pounds in weight.

⁴⁰So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices , as is the burial custom of the Jews .

⁴¹Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden , and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid .

⁴²So because of the Jewish day of Preparation , since the tomb was close at hand , they laid Jesus there .