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John Chapter 19 019:001 So Pilate then took Jesus, and flogged him. 019:002 The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown, and put it on his head, and dressed him in a purple garment. 019:003 They kept saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and they kept slapping him. 019:004 Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, "Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him." 019:005 Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment.
Pilate said to them, "Behold, the man!" 019:006 When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify!" Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him." 019:007 The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God." 019:008 When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid.
019:009 He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, "Where are you from?" But Jesus gave him no answer. 019:010 Pilate therefore said to him, "Aren't you speaking to me? Don't you know that I have power to release you, and have power to crucify you?" 019:011 Jesus answered, "You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above.
Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin." 019:012 At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, "If you release this man, you aren't Caesar's friend!
Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!" 019:013 When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called "The Pavement," but in Hebrew, "Gabbatha." 019:014 Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour.{noon} He said to the Jews, "Behold, your King!" 019:015 They cried out, "Away 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!" 019:016 So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away. 019:017 He went out, bearing his cross, to the place called "The Place of a Skull," which is called in Hebrew, "Golgotha," 019:018 where they crucified him, and with him two others, on either side one, and Jesus in the middle. 019:019 Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross.
There was written, "JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS." 019:020 Therefore many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.
019:021 The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, "Don't write, 'The King of the Jews,' but, 'he said, I am King of the Jews.'" 019:022 Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written." 019:023 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.
019:024 Then they said to one another, "Let's not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide whose it will be," that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says, "They parted my garments among them. For my cloak they cast lots."{Psalm 22:18} Therefore the soldiers did these things. 019:025 But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
019:026 Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold your son!" 019:027 Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.
019:028 After this, Jesus, seeing{NU, TR read "knowing" instead of "seeing"} that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, "I am thirsty." 019:029 Now a vessel full of vinegar was set there; so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop, and held it at his mouth. 019:030 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, "It is finished." He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.
019:031 Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn't remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. 019:032 Therefore the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with him; 019:033 but when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was already dead, they didn't break his legs.
019:034 However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out. 019:035 He who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe.
019:036 For these things happened, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, "A bone of him will not be broken."{Exodus 12:46; Numbers 9:12; Psalm 34:20} 019:037 Again another Scripture says, "They will look on him whom they pierced."{Zechariah 12:10} 019:038 After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away Jesus' body. Pilate gave him permission. He came therefore and took away his body.
019:039 Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds.{100 Roman pounds of 12 ounces each, or about 72 pounds, or 33 Kilograms.} 019:040 So they took Jesus' body, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury. 019:041 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden. In the garden was a new tomb in which no man had ever yet been laid.
019:042 Then because of the Jews' Preparation Day (for the tomb was near at hand) they laid Jesus there.