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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.
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 tunic. Now
the tunic 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.
They cast lots
for my
clothing.”
Therefore the
soldiers did these
things.
25 But
standing by Jesus’
cross were his
mother, 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
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!”
Then 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 Roman pounds.
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
was 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.