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John 19

Jesus Delivered to Be Crucified

1 Then Pilate took Jesus and ^aflogged him. 2 ^bAnd the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe. 3 They came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and struck him with their hands. 4 Pilate went out again and said to them, “See, I am bringing him out to you that you may know that ^cI find no guilt in him.” 5 So Jesus came out, wearing ^dthe crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them ^e“Behold the man!” 6 When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them ^f“Take him yourselves and crucify him, for ^gI find no guilt in him.” 7 The Jews ^{▼

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Greek Ioudaioi probably refers here to Jewish religious leaders, and others under their influence, in that time; also verses 12, 14, 31, 38} answered him, “We have a law, and ⁱaccording to that law he ought to die because ^jhe has made himself the Son of God.” 8 When Pilate heard this statement ^khe was even more afraid. 9 ^lHe entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus ^m“Where are you from?” But ⁿJesus gave him no answer. 10 So Pilate said to him, “You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you?” 11 Jesus answered him, ^o“You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore ^phe who delivered me over to you ^qhas the greater sin.”

12 From then on ^rPilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. ^sEveryone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.” 13 So when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on ^tthe judgment seat at a place called The Stone Pavement, and in Aramaic ^{▼

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Or Hebrew; also verses 17, 20} Gabbatha. 14 Now it was ^vthe day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour. ^{▼

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That is, about noon} He said to the Jews ^x“Behold your King!” 15 They cried out ^y“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 ^zSo he ^aadelivered him over to them to be crucified.

The Crucifixion

So they took Jesus, 17 and ^abhe went out ^acbearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha. 18 ^adThere they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them. 19 Pilate ^aealso wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.” 20 Many of the Jews read this inscription, for ^afthe place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Aramaic, in Latin, and in Greek. 21 So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but rather, ‘This man said, I am King of the Jews.’” 22 Pilate answered ^ag“What I have written I have written.”

23 ^ahWhen the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts, one part for each soldier; also his tunic. ^{▼

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Greek chiton, a long garment worn under the cloak next to the skin} But the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom, 24 so they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it shall be.” ^ajThis was to fulfill the Scripture which says,

^ak“They divided my garments among them,
and for my clothing they cast lots.”

So the soldiers did these things, 25 ^albut standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 When Jesus saw his mother and ^amthe disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, ^an“Woman, behold, your son!” 27 Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to ^aohis own home.

The Death of Jesus

28 After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now ^apfinished, said ( ^aqto fulfill the Scripture), ^ar“I thirst.” 29 A jar full of sour wine stood there, ^asso they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth. 30 When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, ^at“It is finished,” and he bowed his head and ^augave up his spirit.

Jesus’ Side Is Pierced

31 Since it was ^avthe day of Preparation, and ^awso that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was ^axa high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away. 32 So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other ^aywho had been crucified with him. 33 But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. 34 But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out ^azblood and water. 35 ^baHe who saw it has borne witness— ^bbhis testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth— ^bcthat you also may believe. 36 ^bdFor these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled: ^be“Not one of his bones ^bfwill be broken.” 37 And again another Scripture says ^bg“They will look on him whom they have pierced.”

Jesus Is Buried

38 ^bhAfter these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly ^bifor fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took away his body. 39 ^bjNicodemus also, who earlier had come to Jesus ^{▼

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Greek him} by night, came ^blbringing a mixture of ^bmmyrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds ^{▼

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Greek one hundred litras; a litra (or Roman pound) was equal to about 11 1/2 ounces or 327 grams} in weight. 40 So they took the body of Jesus and ^bobound it in ^bplinen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews. 41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a ^bqgarden, and ^brin the garden a new tomb ^bsin which no one had yet been laid. 42 So because of the Jewish ^btday of Preparation ^busince the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there.