John 19–20

CHAPTER 19

Jesus Flogged and Rejected as King

¹Pilate then took Jesus and ^1aflogged Him.

^2aAnd when the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns, they put it on His head, and put a purple ¹robe on Him;

³and they were coming to Him and saying, “^aHail, King of the Jews!” and were ^bgiving Him slaps in the face.

⁴And Pilate ^acame out again and ^*said to them, “Behold, I am bringing Him out to you so that you may know that ^bI find no guilt in Him.”

⁵Jesus then came out, ^awearing the crown of thorns and the purple ¹robe. Pilate ^*said to them, “Behold, the man!”

⁶So when the chief priests and the ^aofficers saw Him, they cried out saying, “Crucify, crucify!” Pilate ^*said to them, “Take Him yourselves and crucify Him, for ^bI find no guilt in Him.”

⁷The Jews answered him, “^aWe have a law, and by that law He ought to die because He ^bmade Himself out to be the Son of God.”

⁸Therefore when Pilate heard this statement, he became more afraid;

⁹and he ^aentered into the ¹Praetorium again and ^*said to Jesus, “Where are You from?” But ^bJesus gave him no answer.

¹⁰So Pilate ^*said to Him, “You do not speak to me? Do You not know that I have authority to release You, and I have authority to crucify You?”

¹¹Jesus answered, “^aYou would have no authority ¹over Me, unless it had been given you from above; for this reason ^bhe who delivered Me to you has the greater sin.”

¹²As a result of this Pilate kept seeking to release Him, but the Jews cried out saying, “^aIf you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar; everyone who makes himself to be a king ¹opposes Caesar.”

¹³Therefore when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and ^asat down on the judgment seat at a place called ¹The Stone Pavement, but ^bin ²Hebrew, Gabbatha.

¹⁴Now it was ^athe day of ¹Preparation for the Passover; it was about the ^2bsixth hour. And he ^*said to the Jews, “Behold, ^cyour King!”

¹⁵So they cried out, “^aAway 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.”

The Crucifixion

¹⁶So he then ^adelivered Him over to them to be crucified.

^17aThey took Jesus, therefore, and He went out, ^1bbearing His own cross, to the place called ^cthe Place of a Skull, which is called ^din ²Hebrew, Golgotha.

¹⁸There they crucified Him, and with Him ^atwo other men, one on either side, and Jesus in between.

¹⁹And Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It was written, “^aJESUS THE NAZARENE, ^bTHE KING OF THE JEWS.”

²⁰Therefore many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written ^ain ¹Hebrew, Latin, and in Greek.

²¹So the chief priests of the Jews were saying to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘^aThe King of the Jews;’ but that He said, ‘I am ^bKing of the Jews.’”

²²Pilate answered, “^aWhat I have written I have written.”

²³Then ^athe soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took His garments and made ^bfour parts, a part to each soldier and also His ¹tunic; now that tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from the top.

²⁴So they said to one another, “^aLet us not tear it, but cast lots for it, to decide whose it shall be;” ^bthis was in order that the Scripture would be fulfilled: “They ^cdivided My garments among them, and for My clothing they cast ¹lots.”

²⁵Therefore the soldiers did these things.

^aBut standing by the cross of Jesus were ^bHis mother, and His mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and ^cMary Magdalene.

²⁶When Jesus then saw His mother, and ^athe disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He ^*said to His mother, “^bWoman, behold, your son!”

²⁷Then He ^*said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” From that hour the disciple took her into ^ahis home.

Scripture Fulfilled—It Is Finished

²⁸After this, Jesus, ^aknowing that all things had already been finished, ^bin order ¹to finish the Scripture, ^*said, “^cI am thirsty.”

²⁹A jar full of sour wine was standing there; so ^athey put a sponge full of the sour wine upon a branch of hyssop and brought it up to His mouth.

³⁰Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “^aIt is finished!” And bowing His head, He ^bgave up His spirit.

³¹Then the Jews, because it was ^athe day of Preparation, so that ^bthe bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (¹for that Sabbath was a ^chigh day), asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

³²So the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first man and of the other who was ^acrucified with Him;

³³but coming to Jesus, when they saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs.

³⁴But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately ^ablood and water came out.

³⁵And he who has seen has ^aborne witness, and his witness is true; and he knows that he is telling the truth, so that you also may believe.

³⁶For these things came to pass ^ain order that the Scripture would be fulfilled, “^bNot a bone of Him shall be ¹broken.”

³⁷And again another Scripture says, “^aThey shall look on Him whom they pierced.”

Jesus Is Buried

^38aNow after these things Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but ^bsecretly because of his ^cfear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate granted permission. So he came and took away His body.

^39aAnd Nicodemus, who had first come to Him by night, also came, ^bbringing a ¹mixture of ^cmyrrh and aloes, weighing about ²one ^dhundred litras.

⁴⁰So they took the body of Jesus and ^abound it in ^blinen wrappings with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.

⁴¹Now in the place where He was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a ^anew tomb ^bin which no one had yet been laid.

⁴²Therefore because of the Jewish day of ^aPreparation, since the tomb was ^bnearby, they laid Jesus there.

CHAPTER 20

The Empty Tomb

^1aNow on the first day of the week, ^bMary Magdalene ^*came early to the tomb, while it ^*was still dark, and ^*saw ^cthe stone already taken away from the tomb.

²So she ^*ran and ^*came to Simon Peter and to the other ^adisciple whom Jesus loved, and ^*said to them, “^bThey have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him.”

^3aSo Peter and the other disciple went forth, and they were going to the tomb.

⁴And the two were running together; and the other disciple ran ahead faster than Peter and came to the tomb first;

⁵and ^astooping and looking in, he ^*saw the ^blinen wrappings lying there; but he did not go in.

⁶And so Simon Peter also ^*came, following him, and entered the tomb; and he ^*saw the linen wrappings lying there,

⁷and ^athe face-cloth which had been on His head, not lying with the ^blinen wrappings, but folded up in a place by itself.

⁸So the other disciple who ^ahad first come to the tomb then also entered, and he saw and believed.

⁹For as yet ^athey did not understand the Scripture, ^bthat He must rise again from the dead.

¹⁰So the disciples went away again ^ato where they were staying.

Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene

^11aBut Mary was standing outside the tomb crying; and so, as she was crying, she ^bstooped to look into the tomb;

¹²and she ^*saw ^atwo angels in white sitting, one at the head and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had been lying.

¹³And they ^*said to her, “^aWoman, why are you crying?” She ^*said to them, “Because ^bthey have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid Him.”

¹⁴When she had said this, she turned around and ^*asaw Jesus standing there, and ^bdid not know that it was Jesus.

¹⁵Jesus ^*said to her, “^aWoman, why are you crying? Whom are you seeking?” Thinking Him to be the gardener, she ^*said to Him, “Sir, if you have carried Him away, tell me where you have laid Him, and I will take Him away.”

¹⁶Jesus ^*said to her, “Mary!” She turned and ^*said to Him ^ain ¹Hebrew, “^bRabboni!” (which means, Teacher).

¹⁷Jesus ^*said to her, “Stop clinging to Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to ^aMy brothers and say to them, ‘I ^bascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.’”

^18aMary Magdalene ^*came, ^bannouncing to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord,” and that He had said these things to her.

Jesus Appears to His Disciples

¹⁹So while it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and while the doors were shut where the disciples were, for ^afear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and ^*said to them, “^1bPeace be with you.”

²⁰And when He had said this, ^aHe showed them both His hands and His side. The disciples then ^brejoiced when they saw the Lord.

²¹So Jesus said to them again, “^aPeace be with you; ^bas the Father has sent Me, I also send you.”

²²And when He had said this, He ^abreathed on them and ^*said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

²³“^aIf you forgive the sins of any, their sins ¹have been forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they have been retained.”

²⁴But ^aThomas, one of ^bthe twelve, called ^1cDidymus, was not with them when Jesus came.

²⁵So the other disciples were saying to him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see in ^aHis hands the imprint of the nails, and put my finger into the place of the nails, and put my hand into His side, ^bI will not believe.”

²⁶And ¹after eight days His disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus ^*came, the doors having been ²shut, and stood in their midst and said, “^aPeace be with you.”

²⁷Then He ^*said to Thomas, “^aBring your finger here, and see My hands; and bring your hand here and put it into My side; and do not be unbelieving, but believing.”

²⁸Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!”

²⁹Jesus ^*said to him, “Because you have seen Me, have you believed? ^aBlessed are those who did not see, and yet believed.”

Why This Gospel Was Written

^30aTherefore many other ^1bsigns Jesus also did in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book;

³¹but these have been written ^aso that you may believe that Jesus is the ¹Christ, ^bthe Son of God; and that ^cbelieving you may have life in His name.