“1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged [him]. 2 And the
soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put [it] on his head, and they
put on him a purple robe, 3 And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they
smote him with their hands. 4 Pilate therefore went forth again, and
saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that
I find no fault in him. 5 Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of
thorns, and the purple robe. And [Pilate] saith unto them, Behold the
man! 6 When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried
out, saying, Crucify [him], crucify [him]. Pilate saith unto them, Take
ye him, and crucify [him]: for I find no fault in him. 7 The Jews
answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he
made himself the Son of God. 8 When Pilate therefore heard that saying,
he was the more afraid; 9 And went again into the judgment hall, and
saith unto Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer. 10 Then
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? 11 Jesus
answered, Thou couldest have no power [at all] against me, except it
were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee
hath the greater sin. 12 And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release
him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art
not Caesar’s friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against
Caesar. 13 When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus
forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the
Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha. 14 And it was the preparation of
the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews,
Behold your King! 15 But they cried out, Away with [him], away with
[him], crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King?
The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.”
“16 Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And
they took Jesus, and led [him] away. 17 And he bearing his cross went
forth into a place called [the place] of a skull, which is called in the
Hebrew Golgotha: 18 Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on
either side one, and Jesus in the midst.”
“19 And Pilate wrote a title, and put [it] on the cross. And the
writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS. 20 This title then
read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh
to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, [and] Greek, [and] Latin. 21
Then 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. 22 Pilate
answered, What I have written I have written. 23 Then the soldiers, when
they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to
every soldier a part; and also [his] coat: now the coat was without
seam, woven from the top throughout. 24 They said therefore among
themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be:
that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my
raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things
therefore the soldiers did. 25 Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his
mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the [wife] of Cleophas, and Mary
Magdalene. 26 When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple
standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy
son! 27 Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that
hour that disciple took her unto his own [home]. 28 After this, Jesus
knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might
be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. 29 Now there was set a vessel full of
vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put [it] upon
hyssop, and put [it] to his mouth. 30 When Jesus therefore had received
the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up
the ghost.”
“31 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the
bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that
sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be
broken, and [that] they might be taken away. 32 Then came the soldiers,
and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified
with him. 33 But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead
already, they brake not his legs: 34 But one of the soldiers with a
spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water. 35
And he that saw [it] bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth
that he saith true, that ye might believe. 36 For these things were
done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be
broken. 37 And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him
whom they pierced.”
“38 And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus,
but secretly for 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. 39 And there came also Nicodemus, which at
the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and
aloes, about an hundred pound [weight]. 40 Then took they the body of
Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of
the Jews is to bury. 41 Now in the place where he was crucified there
was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man
yet laid. 42 There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews’
preparation [day]; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.” (John 19:1-42
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