John 19

¹So then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged.

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

³And they kept coming to him and saying, ‘Hail, King of the Jews!’ And they kept giving him blows with the palm.

⁴And Pilate went out again and says to them, ‘Behold, I bring him out to you, so that you may know that I find no guilt in him.’

⁵Jesus therefore came outside, wearing the thorny crown and the purple robe. And he says to them: Behold, the man!

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

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

⁸When therefore Pilate heard this word, he was the more afraid,

⁹And he went into the Praetorium again and says to Jesus, ‘Where are you from?’ But Jesus gave him no answer.

¹⁰Pilate therefore says to him: To me you do not speak? 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 at all, unless it had been given to you from above; for this reason the one who handed me over to you has the greater sin.’

¹²Upon this Pilate was seeking to release him; but the Jews cried out, saying: If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar; everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar.

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

¹⁴Now it was the Day of Preparation of the Passover; it was about the sixth hour. And he says to the Jews: Behold your king!

¹⁵So those men cried out, ‘Away with him, away with him, crucify him!’ Pilate says to them, ‘Shall I crucify your King?’ The chief priests answered, ‘We have no king but Caesar.’

¹⁶Then therefore he delivered him over to them, that he might be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away;

¹⁷And carrying the cross for himself, he went out to the place called The 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 the middle.

¹⁹And Pilate also wrote a notice and put it on the cross; and it was written: Jesus the Nazarene, the King of the Jews.

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

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

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

²³The soldiers then, when they had 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 throughout the whole.

²⁴So they said to one another, ‘Let us not tear it, but let us cast lots for it, to see whose it shall be’ — that the Scripture might be fulfilled which says, ‘They divided my garments among themselves, and for my clothing they cast a lot.’ So the soldiers indeed 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.

²⁶So Jesus, seeing 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 home.

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

²⁹A vessel full of sour wine was standing there; so, putting a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop stalk, they brought it to his mouth.

³⁰When, then, Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, ‘It is finished.’ And bowing his head, he gave up his spirit.

³¹Then the Jews, since it was the Day of Preparation, so that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the Sabbath, for that Sabbath was a high day, asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and 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, as they saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs;

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

³⁵And the one who has seen it has borne witness, and his witness is true; and that one knows that he speaks the truth, so that you also may believe.

³⁶For these things happened so that the Scripture might be fulfilled, ‘Not a bone of him shall be broken.’

³⁷And again another Scripture says: They will look on the one whom they have pierced.

³⁸And after these things, Joseph of Arimathea, being 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 permission. So he came and took away his body.

³⁹And Nicodemus also came, the one who had first come to him by night, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds.

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

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.

⁴²There, then, because of the Preparation of the Jews, since the tomb was near, they laid Jesus.