John 19
1 Then, therefore, Pilate took Jesus and scourged [Him],
After that, Pilate had Jesus scourged.
2 and the soldiers having plaited a garland of thorns, placed [it] on His head, and they cast a purple garment around Him,
The soldiers made a crown with some thorns and put it on his head and threw a purple robe round him.
3 and said, “Hail! The King of the Jews”; and they were giving 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 Pilate, therefore, again went forth outside and says to them, “Behold, I bring Him to you outside, that you may know that I find no fault 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 forth outside, bearing the thorny garland and the purple garment; and he says to them, “Behold, 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 officers saw Him, they cried out, saying, “Crucify! Crucify!” Pilate says to them, “Take Him yourselves and crucify, for I find no fault 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, for He made Himself 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, therefore, Pilate heard this word, he was more afraid,
When Pilate heard what they said, he became still more alarmed;
9 and entered again into the Praetorium and says to Jesus, “Where are You from?” And 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, “Do You not speak to me? Have You not known that I have authority to crucify You, and I have authority to release You?”
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, “You would have no authority against Me if it were not having been given you from above; because of this, he who is delivering Me up to you 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 [time] Pilate was seeking to release Him, and the Jews were crying out, saying, “If you may release this One, you are not a friend of Caesar; everyone making 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 Pilate, therefore, having heard this word, brought Jesus outside—and he sat down on the judgment seat—to a place called, “Pavement,” and 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 and it was the Preparation of the Passover, and as it were the sixth hour, and he says to the Jews, “Behold, your King!”
It was the Passover Preparation day, and about noon. Then he said to the crowd, ‘Here is your king!’
15 And they cried out, “Take away! Take away! Crucify Him!” Pilate says to them, “Will 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 Then, therefore, he delivered Him up to them, that He may be crucified, and they took Jesus and led [Him] away,
so Pilate gave Jesus up to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus;
17 and carrying His cross, He went forth to the [place] called “Place of [the] Skull,” which 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 with Him two others, on this side and on that side, but 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 was near to the city where Jesus was crucified, and it was having been 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 The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, “Do not write, The King of the Jews, but that this One 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, also the coat, and the coat was seamless, from the top woven 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, to one another, “We may not tear it, but cast a lot for it, whose it will be”; that the Writing might be fulfilled, that is saying, “They divided My garments to themselves, and they cast a lot for My clothing”; the soldiers, therefore, 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 fulfilment 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 there stood by the cross of Jesus His mother, and His mother’s sister, Mary of Cleopas, and Mary the Magdalene;
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 Jesus, therefore, having seen [His] mother, and the disciple standing by, whom He was loving, He says to His mother, “Woman, behold, your son”;
When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved, standing near, he said to his mother, ‘There is your son.’
27 afterward He says to the disciple, “Behold, your mother”; and from that hour the disciple took her to his own [home].
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 knowing that all things have now been accomplished, that the Writing may be fulfilled, says, “I thirst”;
Afterwards, knowing that everything was now finished, Jesus said, in fulfilment of the words of scripture, ‘I am thirsty.’
29 a vessel, therefore, was placed full of vinegar, and having filled a sponge with vinegar, and having put [it] around a hyssop stalk, they put [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 has been accomplished.” And having bowed the head, 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, that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the Sabbath, since it was the Preparation (for that Sabbath day was a great one), asked of Pilate that their legs may be broken, and they [are] taken away.
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 they indeed broke the legs of the first and of the other 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 and having come to Jesus, when they saw Him already having been dead, 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 immediately there came forth blood and water;
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 one has known that he speaks true things, that you also 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 came to pass, that the Writing may be fulfilled, “A bone of Him will not be broken”;
For all this happened in fulfilment of the words of scripture – “Not one of its bones will be broken.”
37 and again another Writing says, “They will look to Him 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 Arimathea—being a disciple of Jesus, but concealed, through the fear of the Jews—asked of Pilate, that he may take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave leave; he came, therefore, and took away 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—who came to Jesus by night at the first—carrying a mixture of myrrh and aloes, as it were, one 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 Therefore they took the body of Jesus, and bound it with linen clothes with the spices, according as it was the custom of the Jews to prepare for burial;
They took the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen with the spices, according to the Jewish mode of burial.
41 and there was a garden in the place where He was crucified, and a new tomb in the garden, in which no one 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 the tomb was near, there they laid Jesus because of the Preparation of the Jews.
And so, because of its being the Preparation day, and as the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there.
