John 19
1Therefore Pilate then took Jesus and flogged him.
2And the soldiers, having twisted together a crown of thorns, put it on his head and threw a purple robe around him.
3And they were coming up to him and saying, “Hail, king of the Jews!” and they were slapping him in the face.
4And Pilate went out again, and he said to them, “Look! I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no reason for death in him.”
5So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And Pilate said to them, “Look! Here is the man!”
6So when the chief priests and the temple police saw him, they cried out, saying, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no reason for a charge against him.”
7The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by that law he must die, because he made himself the Son of God.”
8So when Pilate heard this saying, he was even more afraid,
9and he went into the headquarters again and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.
10So Pilate said to him, “Are you refusing to speak to me? Do you not know that I have the authority to release you, and have the authority to crucify you?”
11Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority against me if it had not been given to you from above, therefore the one who handed me over to you has the greater sin.”
12As a result of this Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, “If you release this man you are not Caesar’s friend. Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar.”
13Therefore when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called the Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha.
14Now it was the Preparation of the Passover (it was about the sixth hour). And he said to the Jews, “Look at your king!”
15Then they cried out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Should I crucify your king?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.”
16So then he handed him over to them to be crucified, so they took Jesus away.
17And he went out, carrying his own cross, 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 midst.
19And Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. And it was written, JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.
20Now many of the Jews read this inscription because where Jesus was crucified was near the Place of the city, and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.
21Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The king of the Jews,’ but rather that, ‘He said, I am king of the Jews.’”
22Pilate answered, “What I have written I have written.”
23Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his clothes and divided them into four parts—a part for each soldier—and also took his tunic. Now the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from the top down.
24Therefore they said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it, to see whose it will be.” This happened with the result that the Scripture was fulfilled, which says, They divided my clothes among them, and they cast lots for my clothing. Now this is what the soldiers did.
25Now standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary (the wife of Clopas), and Mary Magdalene.
26Therefore when Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing by, he said to his mother, “Dear woman, look, here is your son!”
27Then he said to the disciple, “Look, here is your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.
28After this, Jesus, knowing that all things had already been accomplished, said (in order to fulfill the Scripture), “I am thirsty.”
29A vessel full of wine vinegar was sitting there, so they put a sponge full of the wine vinegar on a hyssop branch, and put it to his mouth.
30Then, when Jesus had received the wine vinegar he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
31Now because it was the Day of Preparation, in order that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special day), the Jews asked Pilate to have their legs broken and their bodies taken away.
32So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was 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 immediately blood and water came out.
35And he who saw this has testified, and his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth in order that you also believe.
36For these things came to pass with the result that the Scripture was fulfilled, Not a bone of his will be broken.
37And again, another scripture says, They will look at him whom they pierced.
38Now after these things, Joseph of Arimathea (who was a disciple of Jesus) asked Pilate’s permission to take away the body of Jesus, but he did so secretly because of his fear of the Jews, and Pilate allowed it. Therefore he came and took away his body.
39But Nicodemus also came (the one who previously came to him at night), bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about 75 pounds.
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 was a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid.
42So, because of the Preparation Day of the Jews they laid Jesus there because the tomb was nearby.