John 18–19

¹These things having said, Jesus went forth with his disciples beyond the brook of Kedron, where was a garden, into which he entered, himself and his disciples, ²and Judas also, who delivered him up, had known the place, because many times did Jesus assemble there with his disciples. ³Judas, therefore, having taken the band and officers out of the chief priests and Pharisees, doth come thither with torches and lamps, and weapons; ⁴Jesus, therefore, knowing all things that are coming upon him, having gone forth, said to them, ‘Whom do ye seek?’ ⁵they answered him, ‘Jesus the Nazarene;’ Jesus saith to them, ‘I am he;’—and Judas who delivered him up was standing with them;— ⁶when, therefore, he said to them—‘I am he,’ they went away backward, and fell to the ground. ⁷Again, therefore, he questioned them, ‘Whom do ye seek?’ and they said, ‘Jesus the Nazarene;’ ⁸Jesus answered, ‘I said to you that I am he; if, then, me ye seek, suffer these to go away;’ ⁹that the word might be fulfilled that he said—‘Those whom Thou hast given to me, I did not lose of them even one.’ ¹⁰Simon Peter, therefore, having a sword, drew it, and struck the chief priest’s servant, and cut off his right ear—and the name of the servant was Malchus— ¹¹Jesus, therefore, said to Peter, ‘Put the sword into the sheath; the cup that the Father hath given to me, may I not drink it?’ ¹²The band, therefore, and the captain, and the officers of the Jews, took hold on Jesus, and bound him.

¹³And they led him away to Annas first, for he was father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was chief priest of that year, ¹⁴and Caiaphas was he who gave counsel to the Jews, that it is good for one man to perish for the people. ¹⁵And following Jesus was Simon Peter, and the other disciple, and that disciple was known to the chief priest, and he entered with Jesus to the hall of the chief priest, ¹⁶and Peter was standing at the door without, therefore went forth the other disciple who was known to the chief priest, and he spake to the female keeping the door, and he brought in Peter. ¹⁷Then said the maid keeping the door to Peter, ‘Art thou also of the disciples of this man?’ he saith, ‘I am not;’ ¹⁸and the servants and the officers were standing, having made a fire of coals, because it was cold, and they were warming themselves, and Peter was standing with them, and warming himself. ¹⁹The chief priests, therefore, questioned Jesus concerning his disciples, and concerning his teaching; ²⁰Jesus answered him, ‘I spake freely to the world, I did always teach in a synagogue, and in the temple, where the Jews do always come together; and in secret I spake nothing; ²¹why me dost thou question? question those having heard what I spake to them; lo, these have known what I said.’ ²²And he having said these things, one of the officers standing by did give Jesus a slap, saying, ‘Thus dost thou answer the chief priest?’ ²³Jesus answered him, ‘If I spake ill, testify concerning the ill; and if well, why me dost thou smite?’ ²⁴Annas then sent him bound to Caiaphas the chief priest. ²⁵And Simon Peter was standing and warming himself, they said then to him, ‘Art thou also of his disciples?’ he denied, and said, ‘I am not.’ ²⁶One of the servants of the chief priest, being kinsman of him whose ear Peter cut off, saith, ‘Did not I see thee in the garden with him?’ ²⁷again, therefore, Peter denied, and immediately a cock crew.

²⁸They led, therefore, Jesus from Caiaphas to the praetorium, and it was early, and they themselves did not enter into the praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the passover; ²⁹Pilate, therefore, went forth unto them, and said, ‘What accusation do ye bring against this man?’ ³⁰they answered and said to him, ‘If he were not an evil doer, we had not delivered him to thee.’ ³¹Pilate, therefore, said to them, ‘Take ye him—ye—and according to your law judge him;’ the Jews, therefore, said to him, ‘It is not lawful to us to put any one to death;’ ³²that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled which he said, signifying by what death he was about to die. ³³Pilate, therefore, entered into the praetorium again, and called Jesus, and said to him, ‘Thou art the King of the Jews?’ ³⁴Jesus answered him, ‘From thyself dost thou say this? or did others say it to thee about me?’ ³⁵Pilate answered, ‘Am I a Jew? thy nation, and the chief priests did deliver thee up to me; what didst thou?’ ³⁶Jesus answered, ‘My kingdom is not of this world; if my kingdom were of this world, my officers had struggled that I might not be delivered up to Jews; but now my kingdom is not from hence.’ ³⁷Pilate, therefore, said to him, ‘Art thou then a king?’ Jesus answered, ‘Thou dost say it; because a king I am, I for this have been born, and for this I have come to the world, that I may testify to the truth; every one who is of the truth, doth hear my voice.’ ³⁸Pilate saith to him, ‘What is truth?’ and this having said, again he went forth unto the Jews, and saith to them, ‘I do find no fault in him; ³⁹and ye have a custom that I shall release to you one in the passover; will ye, therefore, that I shall release to you the king of the Jews?’ ⁴⁰therefore they all cried out again, saying, ‘Not this one—but Barabbas;’ and Barabbas was a robber.

Chapter 19

¹Then, therefore, did Pilate take Jesus and scourge him, ²and the soldiers having plaited a crown of thorns, did place it on his head, and a purple garment they put around him, ³and said, ‘Hail! the king of the Jews;’ and they were giving him slaps. ⁴Pilate, therefore, again went forth without, and saith to them, ‘Lo, I do bring him to you without, that ye may know that in him I find no fault;’ ⁵Jesus, therefore, came forth without, bearing the thorny crown and the purple garment; and he saith to them, ‘Lo, the man!’ ⁶When, therefore, the chief priests and the officers did see him, they cried out, saying, ‘Crucify, crucify;’ Pilate saith to them, ‘Take ye him—ye, and crucify; for I find no fault in him;’ ⁷the Jews answered him, ‘We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die, for he made himself Son of God.’ ⁸When, therefore, Pilate heard this word, he was the more afraid, ⁹and entered again to the praetorium, and saith to Jesus, ‘Whence art thou?’ and Jesus gave him no answer. ¹⁰Pilate, therefore, saith to him, ‘To me dost thou not speak? hast thou not known that I have authority to crucify thee, and I have authority to release thee?’ ¹¹Jesus answered, ‘Thou wouldest have no authority against me, if it were not having been given thee from above; because of this, he who is delivering me up to thee hath greater sin.’ ¹²From this time was Pilate seeking to release him, and the Jews were crying out, saying, ‘If this one thou mayest release, thou art not a friend of Caesar; every one making himself a king, doth speak against Caesar.’ ¹³Pilate, therefore, having heard this word, brought Jesus without—and he sat down upon the tribunal—to a place called, ‘Pavement,’ and in Hebrew, Gabbatha; ¹⁴and it was the preparation of the passover, and as it were the sixth hour, and he saith to the Jews, ‘Lo, your king!’ ¹⁵and they cried out, ‘Take away, take away, crucify him;’ Pilate saith to them, ‘Your king shall I crucify?’ the chief priests answered, ‘We have no king except Caesar.’

¹⁶Then, therefore, he delivered him up to them, that he may be crucified, and they took Jesus and led him away, ¹⁷and bearing his cross, he went forth to the place called Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew Golgotha; ¹⁸where they crucified him, and with him two others, on this side, and on that side, and Jesus in the midst.

¹⁹And Pilate also wrote a title, and put it on the cross, and it was written, ‘Jesus the Nazarene, the king of the Jews;’ ²⁰this title, therefore, read many of the Jews, because the place was nigh to the city where Jesus was crucified, and it was having been written in Hebrew, in Greek, in Roman. ²¹The chief priests of the Jews said, therefore, to Pilate, ‘Write not—The king of the Jews, but that one said, I am king of the Jews;’ ²²Pilate answered, ‘What I have written, I have written.’ ²³The soldiers, therefore, when they did crucify Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to each soldier a part, also the coat, and the coat was seamless, from the top woven throughout, ²⁴they said, therefore, to one another, ‘We may not rend it, but cast a lot for it, whose it shall be;’ that the Writing might be fulfilled, that is saying, ‘They divided my garments to themselves, and upon my raiment they did cast a lot;’ the soldiers, therefore, indeed, did these things. ²⁵And there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary of Cleopas, and Mary the Magdalene; ²⁶Jesus, therefore, having seen his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he was loving, he saith to his mother, ‘Woman, lo, thy son;’ ²⁷afterward he saith to the disciple, ‘Lo, thy mother;’ and from that hour the disciple took her to his own home. ²⁸After this, Jesus knowing that all things now have been finished, that the Writing may be fulfilled, saith, ‘I thirst;’ ²⁹a vessel, therefore, was placed full of vinegar, and they having filled a sponge with vinegar, and having put it around a hyssop stalk, did put it to his mouth; ³⁰when, therefore, Jesus received the vinegar, he said, ‘It hath been finished;’ and having bowed the head, gave up the spirit.

³¹The Jews, therefore, that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath, since it was the preparation, (for that sabbath day was a great one,) asked of Pilate that their legs may be broken, and they taken away. ³²The soldiers, therefore, came, and of the first indeed they did break the legs, and of the other who was crucified with him, ³³and having come to Jesus, when they saw him already having been dead, they did not break his legs; ³⁴but one of the soldiers with a spear did pierce his side, and immediately there came forth blood and water; ³⁵and he who hath seen hath testified, and his testimony is true,…