John 19
1Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. 2The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and clothed him in a purple garment. 3They kept coming up to him and saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and slapping him. 4Pilate went outside again and said to them, “Look, I am bringing him out to you so that you may know I find no basis for a charge against him.” 5So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, “Look, the man!” 6When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, “Crucify! Crucify!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him.” 7The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to the law he ought to die, because he made himself God's Son.”
8When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid. 9He went back into the headquarters and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer. 10Pilate said to him, “You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you?” 11Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over me unless it had been given you from above. That is why the one who handed me over to you has greater sin.” 12From then on Pilate tried to release him, but the Jews shouted, “If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar. Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.”
13When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus outside and sat on the judgment seat at a place called the Stone Pavement, in Hebrew Gabbatha. 14It was the day of Preparation for the Passover, about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Look, your king!” 15They shouted, “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.” 16Then he handed him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus, 17and carrying his own cross, he went out to the place called the Place of a Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha. 18There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, with Jesus between them. 19Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, “Jesus the Nazarene, the King of the Jews.” 20Many of the Jews read this inscription, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city. It was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek. 21So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but, ‘He said, I am the King of the Jews.’” 22Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”
23When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his outer garments and divided them into four shares, one for each soldier. They also took his tunic. The tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from the top. 24So they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it will be.” This was so that the scripture might be fulfilled: “They divided my garments among themselves, and for my clothing they cast lots.” That is what the soldiers did.
25Standing by Jesus' cross were his mother and his mother's sister, Mary of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, look, your son.” 27Then he said to the disciple, “Look, your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home.
28After this, Jesus knew that everything had now been completed. So that the scripture might be brought to completion, he said, “I thirst.” 29A jar full of sour wine stood there. They put a sponge full of the sour wine on hyssop and brought it to his mouth. 30When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is completed.” Then he bowed his head and handed over his spirit.
31Since it was the day of Preparation, the Jews did not want the bodies to remain on the cross on the Sabbath, for that Sabbath was a great day. They asked Pilate to have their legs broken and their bodies taken away. 32So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man and of the other who had been crucified with Jesus. 33But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. 34Instead, one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out. 35The one who saw it has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he speaks the truth, so that you too may believe. 36For these things happened so that the scripture might be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken.” 37And again another scripture says, “They will look at the one they pierced.”
38After these things, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, though secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate to let him take away Jesus' body. Pilate permitted it. So he came and took his body away. 39Nicodemus, who had first come to him at night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds. 40They took Jesus' body and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the Jewish burial custom. 41At the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had yet been laid. 42Because it was the Jewish day of Preparation, and the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.