Gospel According To John

Gospel According to John (MLV)

John 19)

^19:1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus and scourged him.^19:2 And the soldiers having woven a crown of thorns, placed it on his head and dressed him in a purple garment;^19:3 and they came to him and said, Hail, King of the Jews! And they gave him blows with their hands.^19:4 And Pilate went outside again and says to them, Behold, I bring him outside to you*, that you* may know that I find no crime in him.^19:5 Jesus therefore came outside, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. And Pilate says to them, Behold, the man!

^19:6 When therefore the high-priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him!

Pilate says to them, Take him yourselves and crucify him: for* I find no crime in him.

^19:7 The Jews answered him, We have a law and by that law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.

^19:8 When Pilate therefore heard this saying, he was the more afraid;^19:9 and he entered into the Praetorium again and says to Jesus, Where are you? But Jesus gave him no answer.^19:10 Pilate therefore says to him, Do you not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and have authority to crucify you?

^19:11 Jesus answered him, You would have no authority against me, except that it was given to you from above: therefore he who delivered me to you has the greater sin.

^19:12 Upon this Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend: everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar.^19:13 When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus outside and sat down on the judgment-seat at a place called The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha.^19:14 Now it was the Preparation of the Passover: it was about the sixth hour.

And he says to the Jews, Behold, your* King!

^19:15 They therefore cried out, Take him away, take him away, crucify him!

Pilate says to them, Shall I crucify your* King?

The high-priests answered, We have no king except Caesar.^19:16 Then therefore he delivered him to them to be crucified.

^19:17 They took Jesus therefore and he went out, bearing the cross for himself, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha:^19:18 where they crucified him and with him two others, on either side one and Jesus in the middle.^19:19 And Pilate wrote a title also and placed it on the cross. And there was written, JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.^19:20 Therefore many of the Jews read this title, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near to the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin and in Greek.^19:21 The high-priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, Do not write, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.^19:22 Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.

^19:23 Therefore the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the tunic: now the tunic was seamless from the top, entirely woven through the bottom.^19:24 They said therefore to one another, Let us not tear it apart, but cast lots concerning it, whose it will be. This happened that the scripture might be fulfilled, which says, 'They divided my garments among them and for my apparel they cast a lot.' {Ps. 22.18}^19:25 Therefore the soldiers did these things. But, his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas and Mary Magdalene stood by the cross of Jesus.^19:26 When Jesus therefore saw his mother and the disciple standing by whom he loved*, he says to his mother, Woman, behold your son!^19:27 Then he says to the disciple, Behold, your mother! And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.

^19:28 After this Jesus, knowing that all things are already finished, that the scripture might be accomplished, which says, 'I am thirsty.' {Ps. 69.21}^19:29 There was set there a vessel full of vinegar and they, having filled a sponge with vinegar and having placed it on a hyssop, brought it to his mouth.^19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished. And he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

^19:31 The Jews therefore, since 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.^19:32 The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first and of the other one who was crucified with him:^19:33 but when they came to Jesus and saw that he was dead already, they did not brake his legs:^19:34 but one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his ribs and immediately there came out blood and water.^19:35 And he who has seen has testified and his witness is true and he knows that he says true, that you* may also believe.^19:36 For* these things happened, that the scripture might be fulfilled, 'A bone of him will not be broken.' {Exod. 12.46 & Num. 9.12 & Ps. 34.20}^19:37 And again another scripture says, 'They will look on him whom they pierced.' {Zech. 12.10}

^19:38 And after these things Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus and having been hidden because of fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus and Pilate permitted him. He came therefore and took away his body.^19:39 And Nicodemus came also , he who came to him at the first by night, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds.^19:40 So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury.^19:41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new tomb in which a man had not yet laid.^19:42 Therefore they laid Jesus there and because of the Jews' Preparation and because the tomb was near.