19:1  Pilate then took Jesus and scourged Him.

19:2  And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and put a purple robe on Him;

19:3  and they {began} to come up to Him and say, "Hail, King of the Jews! and to give Him slaps {in the face.}"

19:4  Pilate came out again and *said to them, "Behold, I am bringing Him out to you so that you may know that I find no guilt in Him."

19:5  Jesus then came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. {Pilate} *said to them, "Behold, the Man!"

19:6  So when the chief priests and the officers saw Him, they cried out saying, "Crucify, crucify! Pilate *said to them, "Take Him yourselves and crucify Him, for I find no guilt in Him.""

19:7  The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by that law He ought to die because He made Himself out {to be} the Son of God."

19:8  Therefore when Pilate heard this statement, he was {even} more afraid;

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  So 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, "You would have no authority over Me, unless it had been given you from above; for this reason he who delivered Me to you has {the} greater sin."

19:12  As a result of this Pilate made efforts to release Him, but the Jews cried out saying, "If you release this Man, you are no friend of Caesar; everyone who makes himself out {to be} a king opposes Caesar."

19:13  Therefore 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.

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  So they 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.""

19:16  So he then handed Him over to them to be crucified.

19:17  They took Jesus, therefore, and He went out, bearing His own cross, to the place called the Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha.

19:18  There they crucified Him, and with Him two other men, one on either side, and Jesus in between.

19:19  Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It was written, "JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS."

19:20  Therefore many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Latin {and} in Greek.

19:21  So 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.'"

19:22  Pilate answered, "What I have written I have written."

19:23  Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took His outer garments and made four parts, a part to every soldier and {also} the tunic; now the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece.

19:24  So they said to one another, "Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, {to decide} whose it shall be; {this was} to fulfill the Scripture: "THEY DIVIDED MY OUTER GARMENTS AMONG THEM, AND FOR MY CLOTHING THEY CAST LOTS.""

19:25  Therefore the soldiers did these things. But standing by the cross of Jesus were His mother, and His mother's sister, Mary the {wife} of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

19:26  When Jesus then saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He *said to His mother, "Woman, behold, your son!"

19:27  Then He *said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother! From that hour the disciple took her into his own {household.}"

19:28  After this, Jesus, knowing that all things had already been accomplished, to fulfill the Scripture, *said, "I am thirsty."

19:29  A jar full of sour wine was standing there; so they put a sponge full of the sour wine upon {a branch of} hyssop and brought it up to His mouth.

19:30  Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, "It is finished! And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit."

19:31  Then the Jews, because it was the day of 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.

19:32  So the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first man and of the other who was crucified with Him;

19:33  but coming to Jesus, when they saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs.

19:34  But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.

19:35  And he who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true; and he knows that he is telling the truth, so that you also may believe.

19:36  For these things came to pass to fulfill the Scripture, "NOT A BONE OF HIM SHALL BE BROKEN."

19:37  And again another Scripture says, "THEY SHALL LOOK ON HIM WHOM THEY PIERCED."

19:38  After these things Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but a secret {one} for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate granted permission. So he came and took away His body.

19:39  Nicodemus, who had first come to Him by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds {weight.}

19:40  So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen wrappings with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.

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 yet been laid.

19:42  Therefore because of the Jewish day of preparation, since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.