New Testament · Gospels and Acts
John chapter 19
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So took Jesus and had him .The soldiers twisted together a and shoved it on his head, and they threw a around him.They kept coming up to him and saying, “!” — and .Pilate went back outside and said to them, “Look — I’m bringing him out to you so you understand that I find absolutely nothing against him.”So Jesus came out wearing the thorn crown and the purple robe. And Pilate said to them, “.”When the and their officers saw him, they started shouting, “! Execute him!” Pilate told them, “Take him and execute him yourselves — I find nothing against him.”The Jewish leaders answered him, “We have a law, and according to that law he has to die — because he made himself out to be the .”When Pilate heard this, he got even more afraid.He went back inside the and asked Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.Pilate said to him, “You’re not going to talk to me? Don’t you realize I have the to release you and the authority to have you executed?”Jesus answered him, “You wouldn’t have any authority over me at all if it hadn’t been given to you . That’s why the one who to you carries the greater .”After this, Pilate kept trying to release him. But the Jewish leaders shouted, “If you let this man go, you’re no ’s! Anyone who makes himself a king is opposing Caesar!”When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus outside and sat down on the at a place called the — in Aramaic, .It was the , around . Pilate said to the Jewish leaders, “Here is your king.”They shouted back, “Get rid of him! Get rid of him! Execute him!” Pilate asked them, “You want me to execute your king?” The chief priests answered, “.”So Pilate finally to them to be executed. They took custody of Jesus.Carrying his own , he went out to what’s called the — in Aramaic, .There they — and two others with him, one on each side, with Jesus in the middle.Pilate also had a made and fastened to the execution stake. It read: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.Many of the Jewish people read this sign because the place where Jesus was executed was near the city, and it was written in .So the Jewish chief priests said to Pilate, “Don’t write ‘The King of the Jews.’ Write that he said, ‘I am the King of the Jews.’”Pilate answered, “What I’ve written, I’ve written.”When the soldiers had nailed Jesus to the execution stake, they took his clothes and divided them into four shares — one for each soldier. They also took the , but it was from top to bottom.So they said to each other, “Let’s not tear it up. Let’s throw dice for it to see who gets it.” This happened so that the : “They divided my clothes among themselves, and for my clothing they threw dice.” And that’s exactly what the soldiers did.Standing near the execution stake were Jesus’ mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and .When Jesus saw his mother and standing nearby, he said to his mother, “, here is your son.”Then he said to the student, “Here is your mother.” And from that moment on, the student took her into his own home.After this, knowing that everything had now been , Jesus said, “” — so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.A jar of was sitting there. So they soaked a sponge in the sour wine, put it on a , and held it up to his mouth.When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “.” Then he bowed his head and .Since it was the , the Jewish leaders didn’t want the bodies left on the execution stakes during the Sabbath — especially because that Sabbath was a major festival day. So they asked Pilate to have their and the bodies taken down.So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man and then of the other man who had been executed with Jesus.But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they didn’t break his legs.Instead, one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately came out.The one who saw it has to it, and his testimony is true. He knows he’s telling the truth, so that you too can believe.These things happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: “.”And another Scripture says, “They will look at .”After this, — who was a follower of Jesus but secretly, because he was afraid of the Jewish leaders — asked Pilate for permission to take Jesus’ body. Pilate gave permission, so Joseph came and took the body away. — the one who had first come to Jesus at night — also came, bringing a mixture of , about ’ worth.So they took Jesus’ body and wrapped it in with the spices, following the .There was a at the place where he was executed, and in the garden there was a where no one had ever been laid.So because it was the Jewish Preparation Day and the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.