John 19

Chapter 19

The Crown of Thorns

¹Pilate then took Jesus and ^1ascourged Him.

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

³and they began to come up to Him and say, “^aHail, King of the Jews!” and to ^bgive Him slaps in the face.

⁴Pilate ^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 robe. 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 was even 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 ¹made efforts to release Him, but the Jews cried out saying, “^aIf you release this Man, you are no friend of Caesar; everyone who makes himself out to be a king ²opposes Caesar.”

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

¹⁴Now it was ^athe day of preparation for the Passover; it was about the ^1bsixth 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 ^ahanded 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.

¹⁹Pilate 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 King of the Jews.’ ”

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

²³Then ^athe soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took His outer garments and made ^bfour parts, a part to every soldier and also the ¹tunic; now the tunic was seamless, woven ²in one piece.

²⁴So they said to one another, “^aLet us not tear it, but cast lots for it, to decide whose it shall be”; ^bthis was to fulfill the Scripture: “They ^cdivided My outer 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 own household.

²⁸After this, Jesus, ^aknowing that all things had already been accomplished, ^bto fulfill 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 He bowed His head and ^bgave up His spirit.

Care of the Body of Jesus

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 ^atestified, and his testimony is true; and he knows that he is telling the truth, so that you also may believe.

³⁶For these things came to pass ^ato fulfill the Scripture, “^bNot a bone of Him shall be ¹broken.”

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

^38aAfter these things Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but a ^bsecret one for ^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.

^39aNicodemus, who had first come to Him by night, also came, ^bbringing a ¹mixture of ^cmyrrh and aloes, about a ^dhundred ²pounds weight.

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.