1 So Pilate then took Jesus, and flogged him. 2 The soldiers
twisted thorns into a crown, and put it on his head, and dressed him in a
purple garment. 3 They kept saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and they
kept slapping him.
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.”
5 Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple
garment. Pilate said to them, “Behold, the man!”
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.”
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 therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid. 9 He
entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?”
But Jesus gave him no answer. 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?”
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.”
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!”
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.” 14 Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about
the sixth hour.*1 He said to the Jews, “Behold, your King!”
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!”
16 So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus
and led him away. 17 He went out, bearing his cross, to the place called
“The Place of a Skull,” which is called in Hebrew, “Golgotha,” 18 where
they crucified him, and with him two others, on either side one, and Jesus in
the middle. 19 Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There
was written, “JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.” 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. 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.’”
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 the coat. Now the coat was
without seam, woven from the top throughout. 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. 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. 26 Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the
disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman,
behold your son!” 27 Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your
mother!” From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.
28 After this, Jesus, seeing*2 that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be
fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty.” 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. 30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he
said, “It is finished.” He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.
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. 32 Therefore the soldiers came, and broke the legs of
the first, and of the other who was crucified with him; 33 but when they
came to Jesus, and saw that he was already dead, they didn’t break his legs.
34 However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and
immediately blood and water came out. 35 He who has seen has testified,
and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, that you
may believe. 36 For these things happened, that the Scripture might be
fulfilled, “A bone of him will not be broken.” 37 Again another Scripture
says, “They will look on him whom they pierced.”
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. 39 Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came
bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds.*3
40 So they took Jesus’ body, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices,
as the custom of the Jews is to bury. 41 Now in the place where he was
crucified there was a garden. In the garden a new tomb in which no man had
ever yet been laid. 42 Then because of the Jews’ Preparation Day (for the
tomb was near at hand) they laid Jesus there.
1 noon
2 NU, TR read “knowing” instead of
“seeing”
3 100
Roman pounds of 12 ounces each, or about 72 pounds, or 33 Kilograms.
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