John 19

¹So at that time Pilate took Jesus and flogged Him.

²And the soldiers, having twisted together a crown of thorns, put it on His head and cast around Him a purple garment.

³And they were coming up to Him and saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” And they kept giving Him slaps.

⁴And Pilate went forth outside again, and he says to them, “Behold, I bring Him out to you so that you may know that I find no guilt in Him.”

⁵Therefore Jesus went forth outside, wearing the thorny crown and the purple garment. And he says to them, “Behold the man!”

⁶Therefore when the chief priests and the officers saw Him, they cried out, saying, “Crucify! Crucify!” Pilate says 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 the law He ought to die, because He made Himself the Son of God.”

⁸Therefore when Pilate heard this word, he was even more afraid.

⁹And he went into the Praetorium again, and he says to Jesus, “Where are You from?” But Jesus did not give him an answer.

¹⁰Therefore Pilate says to Him, “Do You not speak to me? Do You not know that I have authority to release You, and I have authority to crucify You?”

¹¹Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over Me if it were not given to you from above. Because of this, the one having delivered Me up to you has greater sin.”

¹²From this time Pilate was seeking to release Him; but the Jews cried out, saying, “If you release this man, you are not a friend of Caesar. Everyone making himself a king speaks against Caesar.”

¹³Therefore Pilate, having heard these words, brought Jesus out and sat down upon the judgment seat at a place called The Stone Pavement, and in Hebrew, Gabbatha.

¹⁴Now it was the Preparation of the Passover; it was about the sixth hour. And he says to the Jews, “Behold your King!”

¹⁵So they cried out, “Away with Him, away! Crucify Him!” Pilate says to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king except Caesar.”

¹⁶So then he delivered Him to them so that He might be crucified. Therefore they took Jesus.

¹⁷And bearing His own cross, He went out to the place called Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha,

¹⁸where they crucified Him, and with Him two others, on this side and on that side, and Jesus in between.

¹⁹And Pilate also wrote a title and put it on the cross. And it was written: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.

²⁰Therefore many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.

²¹Therefore the chief priests of the Jews were saying to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that He said, ‘I am King of the Jews.’”

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

²³Then the soldiers, when they crucified Jesus, took His garments and made four parts, to each soldier a part, and also the tunic. Now the tunic was seamless, woven from the top all throughout.

²⁴Therefore they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but let us cast a lot for it, whose it will be,” so that the Scripture would be fulfilled, the one saying: “They divided My garments among them, and for My clothing they cast a lot.” Therefore indeed the soldiers did these things.

²⁵Now His mother, and the sister of His mother, and Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene had been standing by the cross of Jesus.

²⁶Therefore Jesus, having seen His mother and the disciple whom He loved standing by, says to His mother, “Woman, behold your son.”

²⁷Then He says to the disciple, “Behold your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own.

²⁸After this, Jesus, knowing that now all things had been accomplished, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled, says, “I thirst.”

²⁹A vessel had been set there, full of sour wine; therefore, having put on a stalk of hyssop a sponge filled with sour wine, they brought it to the mouth.

³⁰Therefore when Jesus took the sour wine, He said, “It has been finished.” And having bowed the head, He yielded up the spirit.

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

³²So the soldiers came, and indeed they broke the legs of the first, and of the other one having been crucified with Him.

³³But having come to Jesus, when they saw Him already having been dead, they did not break His legs.

³⁴But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and blood and water came out immediately.

³⁵And the one having seen has testified, and his testimony is true. And he knows that he is speaking the truth, so that you also might believe.

³⁶For these things took place so that the Scripture might be fulfilled: “Not one bone of Him will be broken.”

³⁷And again, another Scripture says: “They will look on the One they pierced.”

³⁸And after these things, Joseph from Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus (but concealed because of the fear of the Jews) asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave permission. Therefore he came and took away His body.

³⁹And Nicodemus, the one having come to Him by night at the first, also came bearing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred litras.

⁴⁰Therefore they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the custom among the Jews to prepare for burial.

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

⁴²Therefore because of the Preparation of the Jews and since the tomb was near, they laid Jesus there.