John 19

1 Then Pilate took Jesus and had Him flogged.

2 The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns, set it on His head, and dressed Him in a purple robe.

3 And they kept saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and slapping Him in the face.

4 Once again Pilate came out and said to the Jews, “Look, I am bringing Him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against Him.”

5 When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”

6 As soon as the chief priests and officers saw Him, they shouted, “Crucify Him! Crucify Him!” “You take Him and crucify Him,” Pilate replied, “for I find no basis for a charge against Him.”

7 “We have a law,” answered the Jews, “and according to our law He must die, because He declared Himself to be the Son of God.”

8 When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid,

9 and he went back into the Praetorium. “Where are You from?” he asked. But Jesus gave no answer.

10 So Pilate said to Him, “Do You refuse to speak to me? Do You not know that I have authority to crucify You and authority to release You?”

11 Jesus answered, “You would have no authority over Me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed Me over to you is guilty of greater sin.”

12 From then on, Pilate tried to release Him, but the Jews kept crying out, “If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who declares himself a king is defying Caesar.”

13 When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat on the judgment seat at a place called the Stone Pavement, which in Hebrew is Gabbatha.

14 It was the day of Preparation for the Passover, about the sixth hour. And Pilate said to the Jews, “Here is your King!”

15 At this, they shouted, “Away with Him! Away with Him! Crucify Him!” “Shall I crucify your King?” Pilate asked. “We have no king but Caesar,” replied the chief priests.

16 Then Pilate handed Jesus over to be crucified, and the soldiers took Him and led Him away.

17 Carrying His own cross, He went out to a place called The Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha.

18 There they crucified Him, and with Him two others, one on each side, with Jesus in the middle.

19 Pilate also had a notice posted on the cross. It read: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.

20 Many of the Jews read this sign, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.

21 So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but only that He said, ‘I am the King of the Jews.’”

22 Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”

23 When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they divided His garments into four parts, one for each soldier, with the tunic remaining. It was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.

24 So they said to one another, “Let us not tear it. Instead, let us cast lots to see who will get it.” This was to fulfill the Scripture: “They divided My garments among them, and cast lots for My clothing.” So that is what the soldiers did.

25 Near the cross of Jesus stood His mother and her sister, as well as Mary the wife of Clopas and Mary Magdalene.

26 When Jesus saw His mother and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, “Woman, here is your son.”

27 Then He said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” So from that hour, this disciple took her into his home.

28 After this, seeing that everything had now been accomplished, and to fulfill the Scripture, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.”

29 A jar of sour wine was sitting there. So they soaked a sponge in the wine, put it on a stalk of hyssop, and lifted it to His mouth.

30 When Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished.” And bowing His head, He yielded up His spirit.

31 It was the day of Preparation, and the next day was a High Sabbath. In order that the bodies would not remain on the cross during the Sabbath, the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies removed.

32 So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and those of the other.

33 But when they came to Jesus and saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs.

34 Instead, one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water flowed out.

35 The one who saw it has testified to this, and his testimony is true. He knows that he is telling the truth, so that you may believe.

36 Now these things happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: “Not one of His bones will be broken.”

37 And, as another Scripture says: “They will look on the One they have pierced.”

38 Afterward, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus (but secretly for fear of the Jews), asked Pilate to let him remove the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission, so he came and removed the body of Jesus.

39 Nicodemus, who had previously come to Jesus at night, also brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds.

40 So they took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in linen cloths with the spices, according to the Jewish burial custom.

41 Now there was a garden in the place where Jesus was crucified, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid.

42 And because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and the tomb was nearby, they placed Jesus there.

1 ¶ Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged [him].

2 And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put [it] on his head, and they put on him a purple robe,

3 And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands.

4 Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him.

5 Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And [Pilate] saith unto them, Behold the man!

6 When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify [him], crucify [him]. Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify [him]: for I find no fault in him.

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.

8 When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid;

9 And went again into the judgment hall, and saith unto Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer.

10 Then saith Pilate unto him, Speakest thou not unto me? knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee?

11 Jesus answered, ‹Thou couldest have no power› [at all] ‹against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.›

12 And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar's friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar.

13 When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha.

14 And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!

15 But they cried out, Away with [him], away with [him], crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.

16 ¶ Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led [him] away.

17 And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called [the place] of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha:

18 Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst.

19 ¶ And Pilate wrote a title, and put [it] on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.

20 This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, [and] Greek, [and] Latin.

21 Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.

22 Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.

23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also [his] coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.

24 They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.

25 Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the [wife] of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.

26 When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, ‹Woman, behold thy son!›

27 Then saith he to the disciple, ‹Behold thy mother!› And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own [home].

28 After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, ‹I thirst.›

29 Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put [it] upon hyssop, and put [it] to his mouth.

30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, ‹It is finished:› and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.

31 ¶ The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and [that] they might be taken away.

32 Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him.

33 But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:

34 But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.

35 And he that saw [it] bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.

36 For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.

37 And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.

38 ¶ And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave [him] leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.

39 And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound [weight].

40 Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.

41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.

42 There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation [day]; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.

1 Then Pilate took JEsum, and scourged him.

2 And the soldiers wove a crown of thorns, and put it upon his head, and put a purple robe upon him.

3 And they said, Hail, king of the Jews! and they smote him with their cheeks.

4 Then Pilate went out again, and said unto them, Behold, I bring him forth unto you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him.

5 So JEsus went forth, wearing a crown of thorns and a purple robe. And he saith unto them, Behold, what manner of man!

6 And when the chief priests and the servants saw him, they cried out, saying: Crucify, crucify! Pilate saith unto them: Take ye him, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him.

7 The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by the law he shall die: for he hath made himself the Son of GOD.

8 And when Pilate heard the word, he feared the more.

9 And went again into the judgment house, and saith unto JEsu, Whence art thou? But JEsus gave him no answer.

10 And Pilate said unto him, Speakest thou not unto me? Knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee?

11 Jesus answered, Thou wouldest have no power over me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.

12 From that time Pilate sought how he might release him. And the Jews cried out, saying: If thou release this man, thou art not Caesar's friend: for he that maketh himself king is against Caesar.

13 And when Pilate heard the word, he brought forth JEsum, and sat in the judgment seat in the place which is called the high place, and in the language of the Jews Gabbatha.

14 And it was the preparation for Easter about the sixth hour. And he saith unto the Jews, Behold, this is your king!

15 And they cried, Away, away with him, crucify him. Said Pilate unto them, Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered: We have no king but Caesar.

16 Then delivered he him unto them to be crucified. And they took JEsum, and led him away.

17 And he bare his cross, and went out unto the place which is called the place of the skull, which is called Golgotha in the language of the Jews.

18 And there they crucified him, and with him two others on either side, and Jesus in the midst.

19 And Pilate wrote a superscription, and set it upon the cross; and it was written: JEsus of Nazareth, King of the Jews.

20 This superscription was read by many of the Jews: for the place was nigh unto the city where Jesus was crucified. And it was written in the Ebrew, and in the Greek, and in the Latin languages.

21 Then said the chief priests of the Jews unto Pilate, Write not, I am king of the Jews; but that he hath said: I am the king of the Jews.

22 Pilate answered, What I have written, that have I written.

23 And the soldiers, when they had crucified JESUS, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part, and the skirt also. And the skirt was unstitched, and was sewn from the top through and through.

24 And they said one to another, Let us not divide him, but let us cast lots for him whose he shall be, that the scripture may be fulfilled which saith, They have divided my garments among them. And have cast lots upon my skirt). This is what the soldiers did.

25 And by the cross of JESUS stood his mother, and his mother's sister Mary, the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.

26 And when JE saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son.

27 After this he saith unto the disciple, Behold, this is thy mother. And from that hour the disciple took her unto him.

28 After this, when JEsus knew that all things were finished, that the scripture should be fulfilled, he saith, I thirst.

29 And there was a vessel full of vinegar. And they filled a sponge with vinegar, and put it about hyssop, and put it to his mouth.

30 And when JEsus had taken the vinegar, he said, It is finished. And bowing his head, he passed away.

31 And the Jews, because it was the preparation day, that the dead bodies should not remain upon the cross through the sabbath, (for the sabbath day was great,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken down.

32 And the soldiers came, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other that was crossed with him.

33 And when they came to JEsu, seeing that he was already dead, they broke not his legs,

34 But one of the soldiers opened his side with a spear, and immediately there came out blood and water.

35 And he that hath seen it hath borne witness, and his witness is true; and he knoweth that he speaketh the truth, that ye also may believe.

36 For these things were done, that the scripture might be fulfilled: Ye shall not break his bones.

37 And again another scripture saith, They shall see which they have pricked.

38 After these things Pilate was asked of Joseph of Arimathea, which was a disciple of JESUS, yet secretly, for fear of the Jews, to take away the body of JEsu. And Pilate permitted it. And he came and took down the body of JEsu.

39 And there came also Nicodemus, which came before by night unto JEsu, bringing myrrh and aloes among them for an hundred pounds.

40 Then took they the body of JESUS, and bound it in linen cloths with spices, as the Jews are wont to bury.

41 And there was in the place where he was crucified a garden, and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein no man was ever laid.

42 And there they laid JEsus for the Jews' preparation, because the sepulchre was near.