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. |