John 19–20

19So then ^aPilate took Jesus and scourged Him. ²And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and they put on Him a purple robe. ³¹Then they said, “Hail, King of the Jews!” And they ^bstruck Him with their hands.

⁴Pilate then went out again, and said to them, “Behold, I am bringing Him out to you, ^cthat you may know that I find no fault in Him.”

⁵Then Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And Pilate said to them, “Behold the Man!”

^6dTherefore, when the chief priests and officers saw Him, they cried out, saying, “Crucify Him, crucify Him!”

Pilate said to them, “You take Him and crucify Him, for I find no fault in Him.”

⁷The Jews answered him, ^e“We have a law, and according to ²our law He ought to die, because ^fHe made Himself the Son of God.”

⁸Therefore, when Pilate heard that saying, he was the more afraid, ⁹and went again into the Praetorium, and said to Jesus, “Where are You from?” ^gBut Jesus gave him no answer.

¹⁰Then Pilate said to Him, “Are You not speaking to me? Do You not know that I have ³power to crucify You, and power to release You?”

¹¹Jesus answered, ^h“You could have no power at all against Me unless it had been given you from above. Therefore ⁱthe one who delivered Me to you has the greater sin.”

¹²From then on Pilate sought to release Him, but the Jews cried out, saying, “If you let this Man go, you are not Caesar’s friend. ^jWhoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar.”

^13kWhen Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus out and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha. ¹⁴Now ^lit was the Preparation Day of the Passover, and about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, “Behold your King!”

¹⁵But they cried out, “Away with Him, away with Him! Crucify Him!”

Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?”

The chief priests answered, ^m“We have no king but Caesar!”

¹⁶ⁿThen he delivered Him to them to be crucified. Then they took Jesus ⁴and led Him away.

The Crucifixion of Christ

Matt. 27:32–38, 48, 50; Mark 15:21–26, 36, 37; Luke 23:26–33, 38, 46

^17oAnd He, bearing His cross, ^pwent out to a place called the Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha, ¹⁸where they crucified Him, and ^qtwo others with Him, one on either side, and Jesus in the center. ^19rNow Pilate wrote a title and put it on the cross. And the writing was:

JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS

²⁰Then many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.

²¹Therefore the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but, ‘He said, “I am the King of the Jews.” ’ ”

²²Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”

^23sThen the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took His garments and made four parts, to each soldier a part, and also the tunic. Now the tunic was without seam, woven from the top in one piece. ²⁴They said therefore among themselves, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be,” that the Scripture might be fulfilled which says:

^t“They divided My garments among them,

And for My clothing they cast lots.”

Therefore the soldiers did these things.

^25uNow there stood by the cross of Jesus His mother, and His mother’s sister, Mary the wife of ^vClopas, and Mary Magdalene. ²⁶When Jesus therefore saw His mother, and ^wthe disciple whom He loved standing by, He said to His mother, ^x“Woman, behold your son!” ²⁷Then He said to the disciple, “Behold your mother!” And from that hour that disciple took her ^yto his own home.

²⁸After this, Jesus, ⁵knowing that all things were now accomplished, ^zthat the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I thirst!” ²⁹Now a vessel full of sour wine was sitting there; and ^athey filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on hyssop, and put it to His mouth. ³⁰So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, ^b“It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.

^31cTherefore, because it was the Preparation Day, ^dthat the bodies should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a ^ehigh day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. ³²Then the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other who was crucified with Him. ³³But when they came to Jesus and 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 ^fblood and water came out. ³⁵And he who has seen has testified, and his testimony is ^gtrue; and he knows that he is telling the truth, so that you may ^hbelieve. ³⁶For these things were done that the Scripture should be fulfilled, ⁱ“Not one of His bones shall be broken.” ³⁷And again another Scripture says, ^j“They shall look on Him whom they pierced.”

The Burial of Christ

Matt. 27:57–60; Mark 15:42–46; Luke 23:50–54

^38kAfter this, Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly, ^lfor fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took the body of Jesus. ³⁹And ^mNicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came, bringing a mixture of ⁿmyrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds. ⁴⁰Then they took the body of Jesus, and ^obound it in strips of linen with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury. ⁴¹Now 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. ⁴²So ^pthere they laid Jesus, ^qbecause of the Jews’ Preparation Day, for the tomb was nearby.

The Resurrection of Christ

Matt. 28:1–8; Mark 16:1–8; Luke 24:1–12

20Now on the ^afirst day of the week Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the ^bstone had been taken away from the tomb. ²Then she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the ^cother disciple, ^dwhom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him.”

^3ePeter therefore went out, and the other disciple, and were going to the tomb. ⁴So they both ran together, and the other disciple outran Peter and came to the tomb first. ⁵And he, stooping down and looking in, saw ^fthe linen cloths lying there; yet he did not go in. ⁶Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb; and he saw the linen cloths lying there, ⁷and ^gthe ¹handkerchief that had been around His head, not lying with the linen cloths, but folded together in a place by itself. ⁸Then the ^hother disciple, who came to the tomb first, went in also; and he saw and believed. ⁹For as yet they did not ²know the ⁱScripture, that He must rise again from the dead. ¹⁰Then the disciples went away again to their own homes.

Christ Appears to Mary Magdalene

^11jBut Mary stood outside by the tomb weeping, and as she wept she stooped down and looked into the tomb. ¹²And she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. ¹³Then they said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?”

She said to them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid Him.”

^14kNow when she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, and ^ldid not know that it was Jesus. ¹⁵Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?”

She, supposing Him to be the gardener, 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, ^m“Mary!”

She turned and said to ³Him, “Rabboni!” (which is to say, Teacher).

¹⁷Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ⁿascended to My Father; but go to ^oMy brethren and say to them, ^p‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to ^qMy God and your God.’ ”

^18rMary Magdalene came and told the ⁴disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that He had spoken these things to her.

Christ Appears to the Disciples (Thomas Absent)

Mark 16:14; Luke 24:36–43

^19sThen, the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were ⁵assembled, for ^tfear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, ^u“Peace be with you.” ²⁰When He had said this, He ^vshowed them His hands and His side. ^wThen the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.

²¹So Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you! ^xAs the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” ²²And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. ^23yIf you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.”

²⁴Now Thomas, ^zcalled the Twin, one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. ²⁵The other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord.”

So he said to them, “Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe.”

Christ Appears to the Disciples (Thomas Present)

1 Cor. 15:5

²⁶And after eight days His disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, “Peace to you!” ²⁷Then He said to Thomas, “Reach your finger here, and look at My hands; and ^areach your hand here, and put it into My side. Do not be ^bunbelieving, but believing.”

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

²⁹Jesus said to him, ⁶“Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. ^cBlessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

The Purpose of John’s Gospel

³⁰And ^dtruly Jesus did many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book; ^31ebut these are written that ^fyou may believe that Jesus ^gis the Christ, the Son of God, ^hand that believing you may have life in His name.