John 19
1 Therefore Pilate then took Jesus and scourged him.
After that, Pilate had Jesus scourged.
2 And the soldiers having woven a crown of thorns, they put it on his head, and put around him a purple garment.
The soldiers made a crown with some thorns and put it on his head and threw a purple robe around him.
3 And they said, Hail, king of the Jews! And they gave him slaps.
They kept coming up to him and saying, “Long live the king of the Jews!” and they gave him blow after blow with their hands.
4 Therefore Pilate again went forth outside, and says to them, Behold, I bring him out to you, so that ye may know that I find not one cause in him.
Pilate again came outside, and said to the people, “Look! I am bringing him out to you, so that you may know that I find nothing with which he can be charged.”
5 Jesus therefore came outside, wearing the thorny crown and the purple robe. And he says to them, Look at the man!
Then Jesus came outside, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe; and Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”
6 When therefore the chief priests and the subordinates saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify, crucify him! Pilate says to them, Ye take him and crucify, for I find no cause in him.
When the chief priests and the guards saw him, they shouted, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” “Take him yourselves and crucify him,” said Pilate. “For my part, I find nothing with which he can be charged.”
7 The Jews answered him, We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die because he made himself the Son of God.
“But we,” replied the crowd, “have a Law, under which he deserves death for making himself out to be the Son of God.”
8 When Pilate therefore heard this word, he was more afraid.
When Pilate heard what they said, he became still more alarmed;
9 And he went into the Praetorium again, and says to Jesus, Where are thou from? But Jesus gave him no answer.
and, going into the Government house again, he said to Jesus, “Where do you come from?”
10 Pilate therefore says to him, Thou do not speak to me? Know thou not that I have authority to crucify thee, and I have authority to release thee?
But Jesus made no reply. So Pilate said to him, “Do you refuse to speak to me? Don’t you know that I have power to release you, and have power to crucify you?”
11 Jesus answered him, Thou would have no authority against me, unless it were given thee from above. Because of this he who delivered me to thee has greater sin.
“You would have no power over me at all,” answered Jesus, “if it had not been given you from above; and, therefore, the man who betrayed me to you is guilty of the greater sin.”
12 From this Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou release this man, thou are not Caesar's friend. Every man who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar.
This made Pilate anxious to release him; but the crowd shouted, “If you release that man, you are no friend of the Emperor! Anyone who makes himself out to be a king is setting himself against the Emperor!”
13 When Pilate therefore heard this word, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha.
On hearing what they said, Pilate brought Jesus out, and took his seat on the Bench at a place called ‘The Stone Pavement’ – in Hebrew ‘Gabbatha.’
14 Now it was the Preparation of the Passover, and about the sixth hour. And he says to the Jews, Look at your king!
It was the Passover Preparation day, and about noon. Then he said to the crowd, “Here is your king!”
15 But they cried out, Away, away, crucify him! Pilate says to them, Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered, We have no king except Caesar.
At that the people shouted, “Kill him! Kill him! Crucify him!” “What! Should I crucify your king?” exclaimed Pilate. “We have no king but the Emperor,” replied the chief priests;
16 Therefore he then delivered him to them, so that he might be crucified, and they took and led Jesus away.
so Pilate gave Jesus up to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus;
17 And he went out bearing his cross to a place called, of a Skull, a place that is called in Hebrew, Golgotha,
and he went out, carrying his cross himself, to the place which is named from a skull, or, in Hebrew, Golgotha.
18 where they crucified him, and two others with him, on this side and that, and Jesus in the middle.
There they crucified him, and two others with him – one on each side, and Jesus between them.
19 And Pilate also wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And it was written, JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS.
Pilate also had these words written and put up over the cross – ‘JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.’
20 Therefore many of the Jews read this title, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, in Greek, in Latin.
These words were read by many people, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and they were written in Hebrew, Latin and Greek.
21 Therefore the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, Do not write, The king of the Jews, but, That man said I am king of the Jews.
The chief priests said to Pilate, “Do not write ‘The king of the Jews’, but write what the man said – ‘I am the king of the Jews.’”
22 Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.
But Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”
23 The soldiers therefore when they crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to each soldier a part, and also the tunic. But the tunic was a seamless weave, from the top throughout.
When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four shares – a share for each soldier – and they took the coat also. The coat had no seam, being woven in one piece from top to bottom.
24 They said therefore among themselves, Let us not divide it, but cast a lot for it, whose it will be, so that the scripture might be fulfilled, which says, They parted my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast a lot. Therefore the soldiers indeed did these things.
So they said to one another, “Do not let us tear it, but let us cast lots for it, to see who will have it.” This was in fulfillment of the words of scripture – ‘They shared my clothes among them, and over my clothing they cast lots.’ That was what the soldiers did.
25 And his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleopas, and Mary Magdalene had stood near the cross of Jesus.
Meanwhile near the cross of Jesus were standing his mother and his mother’s sister, as well as Mary the wife of Clopas and Mary of Magdala.
26 When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing by, he says to his mother, Woman, behold thy son.
When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved, standing near, he said to his mother, “There is your son.”
27 Then he says to the disciple, Behold, thy mother. And from that hour the disciple took her to his own place.
Then he said to that disciple, “There is your mother.” And from that very hour the disciple took her to live in his house.
28 After this, Jesus, having seen that all things are now completed, so that the scripture might be fully complete, says, I thirst.
Afterward, knowing that everything was now finished, Jesus said, in fulfillment of the words of scripture, “I am thirsty.”
29 Therefore a vessel full of vinegar was set there. And having filled a sponge with the vinegar, and having put it around a hyssop, they brought it to his mouth.
There was a bowl standing there full of common wine; so they put a sponge soaked in the wine on the end of a hyssop-stalk, and held it up to his mouth.
30 When therefore Jesus received the vinegar, he said, It is finished, and after bowing his head, he gave up the spirit.
When Jesus had received the wine, he exclaimed, “All is finished!” Then, bowing his head, he resigned his spirit to God.
31 The Jews therefore, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the sabbath, since it was Preparation (for it was the high day of that sabbath), they besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and they might be removed.
It was the Preparation day, and so, to prevent the bodies from remaining on the crosses during the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a great day), the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies removed.
32 The soldiers therefore came, and indeed broke the legs of the first, and of the other man who was crucified with him.
Accordingly the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man, and then those of the other who had been crucified with Jesus;
33 But having come to Jesus, when they saw him now having died, they did not break his legs.
but, on coming to him, when they 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 straightaway blood and water came out.
One of the soldiers, however, pierced his side with a spear, and blood and water immediately flowed from it.
35 And he who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true. And that man knows that he speaks true, so that ye may believe.
This is the statement of one who actually saw it – and his statement may be relied on, and he knows that he is speaking the truth – and it is given in order that you also may be convinced.
36 For these things happened so that the scripture might be fulfilled, Not a bone of him will be broken.
For all this happened in fulfillment of the words of scripture – ‘Not one of its bones will be broken.’
37 And again another scripture says, They will look toward whom they pierced.
And there is another passage which says – ‘They will look on him whom they pierced.’
38 And after these things Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly because of fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might remove the body of Jesus, and Pilate allowed him. Therefore he came and removed the body of Jesus.
After this, Joseph of Arimathea, a disciple of Jesus – but a secret one, owing to his fear of the religious authorities – begged Pilate’s permission to remove the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him leave; so Joseph went and removed the body.
39 And Nicodemus also came (he who at the first came to Jesus by night) bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds.
Nicodemus, too – the man who had formerly visited Jesus by night – came with a roll of myrrh and aloes, weighing nearly a hundred pounds.
40 So they took the body of Jesus, and wrapped it in linen cloths with the spices, just as is the custom of the Jews to bury.
They took the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen with the spices, according to the Jewish mode of burial.
41 Now a garden was in the place where he was crucified, and in the garden a new sepulcher in which no man was yet laid.
At the place where Jesus had been crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a newly made tomb in which no one had ever been laid.
42 Therefore because of the Jews' Preparation (because the sepulcher was near) they laid Jesus there.
And so, because of its being the Preparation day, and as the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there.
