Gospel According to John
19: 1Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. 19:2And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and arrayed him in a purple garment; 19:3and they came unto him, and said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they struck him with their hands. 19:4And Pilate went out again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him out to you, that ye may know that I find no crime in him. 19:5Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold, the man! 19:6When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him! Pilate saith unto them, Take him yourselves, and crucify him: for I find no crime in him. 19:7The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by that law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God. 19:8When Pilate therefore heard this saying, he was the more afraid; 19:9and he entered into the Praetorium again, and saith unto Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer. 19:10Pilate therefore saith unto him, Speakest thou not unto me? Knowest thou not that I have power to release thee, and have power to crucify thee? 19:11Jesus answered him, Thou wouldest have no power against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath greater sin. 19:12Upon this Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou release this man, thou art not Caesar's friend: every one that maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar. 19:13When 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. 19:14Now it was the Preparation of the passover: it was about the sixth hour. And he saith unto the Jews, Behold, your King! 19:15They therefore 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. 19:16Then therefore he delivered him unto them to be crucified. 19:17They took Jesus therefore: and he went out, bearing the cross for himself, unto the place called The place of a skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha: 19:18where they crucified him, and with him two others, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst. 19:19And Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. And there was written, JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS. 19:20This title therefore read many of the Jews, for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city; and it was written in Hebrew, and in Latin, and in Greek. 19:21The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews. 19:22Pilate answered, What I have written I have written. 19:23The soldiers therefore, 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. 19:24They said therefore one to another, 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 garments among them,
And upon my vesture did they cast lots.
19:25These things therefore the soldiers did. But there were standing by the cross of
Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary
Magdalene. 19:26When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by
whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son! 19:27Then saith
he to the disciple, Behold, thy mother! And from that hour the disciple took her
unto his own home. 19:28After this Jesus, knowing that all things are now finished,
that the scripture might be accomplished, saith, I thirst. 19:29There was set there a
vessel full of vinegar: so they put a sponge full of the vinegar upon hyssop, and
brought it to his mouth. 19:30When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said,
It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up his spirit. 19:31The Jews
therefore, because it was the Preparation, that the bodies should not remain on the
cross upon the sabbath (for the day of that sabbath was a high day), asked of
Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. 19:32The
soldiers therefore came, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other that was
crucified with him: 19:33but when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead
already, they brake not his legs: 19:34howbeit one of the soldiers with a spear
pierced his side, and straightway there came out blood and water. 19:35And he that
hath seen hath borne witness, and his witness is true: and he knoweth that he saith
true, that ye also may believe. 19:36For these things came to pass, that the scripture
might be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken. 19:37And again another
scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced. 19:38And 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 the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave
him leave. He came therefore, and took away his body. 19:39And there came also
Nicodemus, he who at the first came to him by night, bringing a mixture of myrrh
and aloes, about a hundred pounds. 19:40So they took the body of Jesus, and bound
it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury. 19:41Now in
the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new
tomb wherein was never man yet laid. 19:42There then because of the Jews'
Preparation (for the tomb was nigh at hand) they laid Jesus.