19:1 Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged.
19:2 The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe
19:3 and went up to him again and again, saying, “Hail, king of the Jews!” And they struck him in the face.
19:4 Once more Pilate came out and said to the Jews, “Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him.”
19:5 When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”
19:6 As soon as the chief priests and their officials saw him, they shouted, “Crucify! Crucify!” But Pilate answered, “You take him and crucify him. As for me, I find no basis for a charge against him.”
19:7 The Jews insisted, “We have a law, and according to that law he must die, because he claimed to be the Son of God.”
19:8 When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid,
19:9 and he went back inside the palace. “Where do you come from?” he asked Jesus, but Jesus gave him no answer.
19:10 “Do you refuse to speak to me?” Pilate said. “Don’t you realize I have power either to free you or to crucify you?”
19:11 Jesus answered, “You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.”
19:12 From then on, Pilate tried to set Jesus free, but the Jews kept shouting, “If you let this man go, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar.”
19:13 When Pilate heard this, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judge’s seat at a place known as the Stone Pavement (which in Aramaic is Gabbatha).
19:14 It was the day of Preparation of Passover Week, about the sixth hour. “Here is your king,” Pilate said to the Jews.
19:15 But they shouted, “Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!” “Shall I crucify your king?” Pilate asked. “We have no king but Caesar,” the chief priests answered.
19:16 Finally Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified. So the soldiers took charge of Jesus.
19:17 Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha).
19:18 Here they crucified him, and with him two others–one on each side and Jesus in the middle.
19:19 Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.
19:20 Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and Greek.
19:21 The chief priests of the Jews protested to Pilate, “Do not write ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that this man claimed to be king of the Jews.”
19:22 Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”
19:23 When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes, dividing them into four shares, one for each of them, with the undergarment remaining. This garment was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.
19:24 “Let’s not tear it,” they said to one another. “Let’s decide by lot who will get it.” This happened that the scripture might be fulfilled which said, “They divided my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing.” So this is what the soldiers did.
19:25 Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
19:26 When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Dear woman, here is your son,”
19:27 and to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.
19:28 Later, knowing that all was now completed, and so that the Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.”
19:29 A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus’ lips.
19:30 When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
19:31 Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the Jews did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down.
19:32 The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and then those of the other.
19:33 But when they came to Jesus and found that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.
19:34 Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus’ side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water.
19:35 The man who saw it has given testimony, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe.
19:36 These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken,”
19:37 and, as another scripture says, “They will look on the one they have pierced.”
19:38 Later, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jews. With Pilate’s permission, he came and took the body away.
19:39 He was accompanied by Nicodemus, the man who earlier had visited Jesus at night. Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds.
19:40 Taking Jesus’ body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen. This was in accordance with Jewish burial customs.
19:41 At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid.
19:42 Because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.
19:1 Therefore at that time Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him.
19:2 And the soldiers wove a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and they threw a purple garment around Him.
19:3 And they came to Him and said, Rejoice, King of the Jews! and slapped Him.
19:4 And Pilate went outside again and said to them, Behold, I am bringing Him out to you that you may know that I find no fault in Him.
19:5 Then Jesus came out, wearing the thorny crown and the purple garment. And he said to them, Behold, the man!
19:6 When therefore the chief priests and the attendants saw Him, they cried out, saying, Crucify! Crucify! Pilate said to them, You take Him and crucify Him, for I do not find fault in Him.
19:7 The Jews answered him, We have a law, and according to that law He ought to die because He made Himself the Son of God.
19:8 When Pilate therefore heard this word, he became frightened the more,
19:9 And he entered into the praetorium again and said to Jesus, Where are You from? But Jesus gave him no answer.
19:10 Therefore Pilate said to Him, You do not speak to me? Do You not know that I have authority to release You and I have authority to crucify You?
19:11 Jesus answered him, You would have no authority against Me if it were not given to you from above; for this reason, he who has delivered Me to you has the greater sin.
19:12 From then on, Pilate sought to release Him, but the Jews cried out, saying, If you release this man, you are not a friend of Caesar; everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.
19:13 Pilate therefore, when he heard these words, brought Jesus outside and sat down on the judgment seat in a place called the Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha.
19:14 Now it was the day of preparation for the Passover; it was about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, Behold, your King!
19:15 They cried out then, Take Him away! Take Him away! Crucify Him! Pilate said to them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king except Caesar.
19:16 Therefore at that time he delivered Him to them that He might be crucified. Therefore they took Jesus.
19:17 And bearing the cross for Himself, He went out to the place called the Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha,
19:18 Where they crucified Him, and with Him two others, on this side and that, and Jesus in the middle.
19:19 And Pilate wrote a notice also and put it on the cross; and it was written, JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS.
19:20 This notice 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.
19:21 The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, Do not write, The King of the Jews, but that He said, I am the King of the Jews.
19:22 Pilate answered, What I have written, I have written.
19:23 The soldiers then, when they had crucified Jesus, took His garments and made four parts, a part for each soldier, and they took the tunic as well. But the tunic was seamless, woven from the top throughout.
19:24 They said therefore 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 lots. So then the soldiers did these things.
19:25 And there were standing by the cross of Jesus His mother and His mother s sister and Mary the wife of Clopas and Mary the Magdalene.
19:26 Then Jesus, seeing His mother and the disciple whom He loved standing by, said to His mother, Woman, behold, your son.
19:27 Then He said to the disciple, Behold, your mother. And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home.
19:28 After this, Jesus, knowing that all things had now been finished and so that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, I thirst.
19:29 There was lying there a vessel full of vinegar; therefore, they put a sponge full of vinegar on hyssop and brought it to His mouth.
19:30 Then when Jesus had taken the vinegar, He said, It is finished! And He bowed His head and delivered up His spirit.
19:31 Then the Jews, since it was the day of preparation and so that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath day was a great Sabbath), requested of Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away.
19:32 The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first man and of the other man who had been crucified with Him.
19:33 But coming to Jesus, when they saw that He had already died, they did not break His legs;
19:34 But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately there came out blood and water.
19:35 And he who has seen this has testified, and his testimony is true; and he knows that he says what is true, that you also may believe.
19:36 For these things happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled: No bone of His shall be broken.
19:37 And again another Scripture says, They shall look on Him whom they pierced.
19:38 And after these things Joseph from Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but a hidden one for fear of the Jews, requested of Pilate that he might take the body of Jesus away; and Pilate allowed it. He came therefore and took His body away.
19:39 And Nicodemus, he who had come to Him the first time by night, came also, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes of about a hundred pounds.
19:40 Therefore they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the custom of the Jews for burying.
19:41 Now in the place where He was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever yet been laid.
19:42 Therefore because of the day of preparation for the Jews and because the tomb was near, they laid Jesus there.