John 19
1 After that, Pilate had Jesus scourged.
Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged.
2 The soldiers made a crown with some thorns and put it on his head and threw a purple robe round him.
The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown and put it on His head, and they put a purple robe on Him.
3 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.
They kept coming up to Him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and slapping Him on the face.
4 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.’
Pilate then went out again, and told the Jews, “Look, I’m bringing Him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against Him.”
5 Then Jesus came outside, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe; and Pilate said to them, ‘Here is the man!’
Then Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, and Pilate said to them, “Look! Here is the man!”
6 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.’
When the chief priests and officers saw Him, they shouted “Crucify Him! Crucify Him!” Pilate told them, “You take Him and crucify Him, because I find no basis for a charge against Him.”
7 ‘But we,’ replied the crowd, ‘have a Law, under which he deserves death for making himself out to be the Son of God.’
The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to our law He ought to die, because He claimed to be God’s Son.”
8 When Pilate heard what they said, he became still more alarmed;
When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid,
9 and, going into the Government house again, he said to Jesus, ‘Where do you come from?’
and went back into the Praetorium, and asked Jesus, “Where are You from?” But Jesus didn’t answer him.
10 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?’
Pilate therefore asked him, “Do you refuse to speak to me? Don’t you know that I have authority to release you, and authority to crucify you?”
11 ‘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.’
Jesus answered, “You would have no authority at all against me unless it had been given you from above. Therefore the one who delivered me to you has the greater sin.”
12 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!’
From then on, Pilate tried to release Him, but the Jews shouted, “If you let this man go, you aren’t Caesar’s friend. Whoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar.”
13 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.”
Therefore when Pilate 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 It was the Passover Preparation day, and about noon. Then he said to the crowd, ‘Here is your king!’
Now it was the day of preparation for the Passover. It was about the sixth hour. Pilate told the Jews, “Look! Here is your King!”
15 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;
They therefore shouted, “Away with Him! Away with Him! Crucify Him!” Pilate asked them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!”
16 so Pilate gave Jesus up to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus;
Then Pilate delivered Jesus to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led Him away.
17 and he went out, carrying his cross himself, to the place which is named from a skull, or, in Hebrew, Golgotha.
And He, bearing His cross, went out to a place called the Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha.
18 There they crucified him, and two others with him – one on each side, and Jesus between them.
There they crucified Him, and two others with Him, one on either side, with Jesus in the center.
19 Pilate also had these words written and put up over the cross – “JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”
Now Pilate wrote a notice, and put it on the cross. The notice said: “JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”
20 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.
Then many of the Jews read this notice, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.
21 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.”’
Therefore the chief priests of the Jews told Pilate, “Don’t write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but, ‘He said, “I am the King of the Jews.”’”
22 But Pilate answered, ‘What I have written, I have written.’
Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”
23 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.
When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they split His garments into four parts, to each soldier a part, including the tunic. Now the tunic was without seam, woven from the top in one piece.
24 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.
Therefore they said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but cast lots to see whose it will be,” that the Scripture might be fulfilled which says: “They divided my garments among them, And for my clothing they cast lots.” So the soldiers did these things.
25 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.
Now Jesus’ mother, His mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene stood by Jesus’ cross.
26 When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved, standing near, he said to his mother, ‘There is your son.’
Therefore when Jesus saw His mother, and the disciple who He sincerely loved standing by, He told His mother, “Woman, here is your son!”
27 Then he said to that disciple, ‘There is your mother.’ And from that very hour the disciple took her to live in his house.
Then He told the disciple, “Here is your mother!” From that hour, that disciple took her into his own home.
28 Afterwards, knowing that everything was now finished, Jesus said, in fulfilment of the words of scripture, ‘I am thirsty.’
After this, Jesus, knowing that everything was now accomplished, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I’m thirsty!”
29 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.
A jar full of vinegar was standing there, so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on a hyssop stalk, and lifted it up to His mouth.
30 When Jesus had received the wine, he exclaimed, ‘All is finished!’ Then, bowing his head, he resigned his spirit to God.
When Jesus had received the vinegar, He said, “It is finished!” Then, He bowed His head, and gave up His spirit.
31 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.
Because it was the Preparation Day, the Jews asked Pilate for the prisoners’ legs to be broken, and that they might be taken away, so that the bodies wouldn’t stay on the cross on the Sabbath (because that Sabbath was a special one).
32 Accordingly the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man, and then those of the other who had been crucified with Jesus;
Then the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man and of the other man who was crucified with Jesus,
33 but, on coming to him, when they saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.
but when they came to Jesus and saw that He was already dead, they didn’t break His legs.
34 One of the soldiers, however, pierced his side with a spear, and blood and water immediately flowed from it.
Instead, one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.
35 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.
He who saw it has testified, and his testimony is true; and he knows that he is telling the truth, so that you may believe.
36 For all this happened in fulfilment of the words of scripture – “Not one of its bones will be broken.”
These things were done so that the Scripture should be fulfilled, “Not one of His bones shall be broken.”
37 And there is another passage which says – “They will look on him whom they pierced.”
Another Scripture says, “They will look on Him who they pierced.”
38 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.
After this, Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly, for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate if he could take the body of Jesus away; and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took the body of Jesus.
39 Nicodemus, too – the man who had formerly visited Jesus by night – came with a roll of myrrh and aloes, weighing nearly a hundred pounds.
Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came, bringing about a hundred Roman pounds of a mixture of myrrh and aloes.
40 They took the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen with the spices, according to the Jewish mode of burial.
So they took the body of Jesus, and wrapped it in strips of linen with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.
41 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.
In the place where He was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had yet been laid.
42 And so, because of its being the Preparation day, and as the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there.
Because of the Jewish Preparation Day, and because the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.
