19:1 So Pilate
then took Jesus, and flogged him. 19:2 The
soldiers twisted thorns into a crown, and put it on his head, and
dressed him in a purple garment. 19:3 They kept saying, "Hail, King
of the Jews!" and they kept slapping him.
19:4 Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, "Behold, I
bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a
charge against him."
19:5 Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the
purple garment. Pilate said to them, "Behold, the man!"
19:6 When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him,
they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify!"
Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I
find no basis for a charge against him."
19:7 The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by our law he
ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God."
19:8 When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid.
19:9 He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, "Where
are you from?" But Jesus gave him no answer. 19:10 Pilate therefore
said to him, "Aren't you speaking to me? Don't you know that I have
power to release you, and have power to crucify you?"
19:11 Jesus answered, "You would have no power at
all against me,
unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me
to you has greater sin."
19:12 At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews
cried out, saying, "If you release this man, you aren't Caesar's
friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!"
19:13 When Pilate therefore 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
Preparation Day of the Passover, at about 56the sixth hour.56 He
said to the Jews, "Behold, your King!"
19:15 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 then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they
took Jesus and led him away. 19:17 He went out, bearing his cross, 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 either side one, and Jesus in the middle. 19:19 Pilate wrote a
title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, "JESUS OF
NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS." 19:20 Therefore many of the Jews
read this title, 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, "Don't write, 'The
King of the Jews,' but, '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
garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the
coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.
19:24 Then they said to one another, "Let's not tear it, but cast
lots for it to decide whose it will be," that the Scripture might be
fulfilled, which says,
"They parted my garments among them.
For my cloak they cast lots."
Therefore the soldiers did these things. 19:25 But there were
standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister,
Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 19:26 Therefore when
Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, 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 to his own home.
19:28 After this, Jesus, 58seeing58 that all things were now
finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, "I
am thirsty."
19:29 Now a vessel full of vinegar was set there; so they put a
sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop, and held it at his mouth. 19:30
When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, "It
is
finished." He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.
19:31 Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so
that the bodies wouldn't remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that
Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be
broken, and that they might be taken away. 19:32 Therefore the
soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who
was crucified with him; 19:33 but when they came to Jesus, and saw
that he was already dead, they didn't break his legs. 19:34 However
one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately
blood and water came out. 19:35 He who has seen has testified, and
his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, that you may
believe. 19:36 For these things happened, that the Scripture might be
fulfilled, "A bone of him will not be broken."59 19:37 Again
another Scripture says, "They will look on him whom they pierced."60
19:38 After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple
of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he
might take away Jesus' body. Pilate gave him permission. He came
therefore and took away his body. 19:39 Nicodemus, who at first came
to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes,
about a hundred Roman pounds. 19:40 So they took Jesus'
body, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of
the Jews is to bury. 19:41 Now in the place where he was crucified
there was a garden. In the garden was a new tomb in which no man had
ever yet been laid. 19:42 Then because of the Jews' Preparation Day
(for the tomb was near at hand) they laid Jesus there.
