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 slap Him on the face. |
19:4 Pilate came out again and said to them, "Behold, I bring 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 proclaimed Himself as the Son of God." |
19:8 Therefore when Pilate heard this statement, he grew even more afraid; |
19:9 and he entered into the Praetorium again and said to Jesus, "Where do You come 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 God had given it to 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 cannot claim friendship with Caesar; everyone who proclaims himself as 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 the day of preparation for the Passover had arrived; it had reached 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 suffer crucifixion. |
19:17 They took Jesus, therefore, and He went out, bearing His own cross, to the place called the Place of a Skull, which has the name 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. He wrote, "JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS." |
19:20 Therefore many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus suffered crucifixion located near the city; and Pilate wrote it in Hebrew, Latin and in Greek. |
19:21 So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, "Do not write, 'The King of the Jews'; but that He said, 'I proclaim myself as the 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 had no seams, 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 have it"; this fulfilled 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 Jesus mother, and His mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene stood by the cross. |
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 taken place, to fulfill the Scripture, said, "I thirst." |
19:29 A jar full of sour wine stood 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 has come to a conclusion!" And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit. |
19:31 Then the Jews, because the day of preparation had arrived, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath people also acknowledged as a high day), asked Pilate that they may break legs , and that they might take them away. |
19:32 So the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first man and of the other who had suffered crucifixion 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 blood and water came out. |
19:35 And he who has seen has testified, and his testimony proves true; and he knows that he tells 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 BREAK." |
19:37 And again another Scripture says, "THEY SHALL LOOK ON HIM WHOM THEY PIERCED." |
19:38 After these things Joseph of Arimathea, serving as 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, just as the burial custom of the Jews. |
19:41 Now in the place where He had suffered crucifixion there existed a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet occupied. |
19:42 Therefore because of the Jewish day of preparation, since the tomb located nearby, they laid Jesus there. |