John 19–20

Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and ^ascourged him. ²And ^bthe soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him ^ca purple robe, ³and said, Hail, King of the Jews: and they ^dsmote him with their hands. ⁴Pilate therefore ^ewent forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that ^efI find no fault in him. ⁵Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man. ⁶When the chief priests therefore and ^gofficers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify him: for ^fI find no fault in him. ⁷The Jews answered him, ^hWe have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because ⁱhe made himself the Son of God.

⁸When Pilate therefore heard that saying, ^khe was the more afraid; ⁹and went ^lagain into the judgment hall, and saith unto Jesus, ^mWhence art thou? But ⁿJesus gave him no answer. ¹⁰Then saith Pilate unto him, Speakest thou not unto me? knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee? ¹¹Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no ^opower at all against me, except it were ^pgiven thee ^qfrom above: therefore ^rhe that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin. ¹²And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Cesar’s friend: ^swhosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Cesar. ¹³When Pilate therefore heard that saying, ^the brought Jesus forth, and sat down in ^uthe judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but ^win the Hebrew, Gabbatha. ¹⁴And it was ^xthe preparation of the passover, and about ^ythe sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, ^zBehold your King. ¹⁵But they cried out, ^zzAway with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, ^aWe have no king but Cesar. ¹⁶Then ^bdelivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified.

And ^cthey took Jesus, and led him away. ¹⁷And he ^dbearing his cross ^ewent forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha: ¹⁸where they crucified him, and ^ftwo other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst. ¹⁹And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, ^gJESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS. ²⁰This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was ^enigh to the city: and it was written ^hin Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin. ²¹Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews. ²²Pilate answered, ⁱWhat I have written I have written. ^23kThen the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, ^lto every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was ^mwithout seam, woven from the top throughout. ²⁴They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rent it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, ⁿThey parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.

^25oNow there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, ^pMary the wife of ^qCleophas, and Mary Magdalene. ²⁶When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, ^rwhom he loved, he saith unto his mother, ^sWoman, behold thy son. ²⁷Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother. And from that hour that disciple took her unto ^this own home.

²⁸After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that ^uthe scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. ²⁹Now there was set ^xa vessel full of vinegar: and ^ythey filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon ^zhyssop, and put it to his mouth. ³⁰When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, ^aIt is finished: and he bowed his head, and ^bgave up the ghost.

³¹The Jews therefore, ^cbecause it was the preparation, ^dthat the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was ^ea high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. ³²Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him. ³³But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs: ³⁴but one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out ^fblood and water. ³⁵And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and ^ghe knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe. ³⁶For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, ^hA bone of him shall not be broken. ³⁷And again another scripture saith, ⁱThey shall look on him whom they pierced.

^38jAnd after this Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly ^kfor fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus. ³⁹And there came also ^lNicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and ^mbrought a mixture of ⁿmyrrh and ^oaloes, about an hundred ^ppound weight. ⁴⁰Then took they the body of Jesus, and ^qwound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to ^rbury. ⁴¹Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid. ⁴²There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews’ ^spreparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.

XX.The ^afirst day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth ^bthe stone taken away from the sepulchre. ²Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, ^cwhom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him. ^3dPeter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulchre. ⁴So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre. ⁵And he ^estooping down, and looking in, saw ^fthe linen clothes lying; yet went he not in. ⁶Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth ^fthe linen clothes lie, ⁷and ^gthe napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place ^hby itself. ⁸Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed. ⁹For as yet they ⁱknew not the ^kscripture, that he must rise again from the dead. ¹⁰Then the disciples went away again ^lunto their own home.

¹¹But ^mMary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept, she ^estooped down, and looked into the sepulchre, ¹²and seeth ⁿtwo angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. ¹³And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him. ¹⁴And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and ^osaw Jesus standing, and ^pknew not that it was Jesus. ¹⁵Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? ^qwhom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have ^rborne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away. ¹⁶Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto him, ^sRabboni; which is to say, Master. ¹⁷Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ^tascended to my Father: but go to ^umy brethren, and say unto them, I ascend ^xunto my Father, and your Father; and to ^ymy God, and your God. ^18zMary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her.

^19aThen the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, ^bwhen the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled ^cfor fear of the Jews, came Jesus and ^dstood in the midst, and saith unto them, ^ePeace be unto you. ²⁰And when he had so said, ^fhe shewed unto them his hands and his side. ^gThen were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord. ²¹Then said Jesus to them again, ^ePeace be unto you: ^has ⁱmy Father hath sent me, even so send I you. ²²And when he had said this, ^khe breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: ^23lwhose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.

²⁴But Thomas, one of the twelve, ^mcalled Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. ²⁵The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see ⁿin his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe. ²⁶And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then ^ocame Jesus, ^pthe doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, ^ePeace be unto you. ²⁷Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and ^qthrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. ²⁸And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. ²⁹Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: ^rsblessed are they that have not seen, and yet have ^sbelieved.

^30tAnd many other ^usigns truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book: ^31wbut these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, ^xthe Son of God; and that believing ^yye might have life ^zthrough his name.

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