John 19
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1Then Pilate therefore took Jesus and flogged him. 2And the soldiers plaited a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and threw a purple garment around him, 3and they were coming to him and saying, "Hail, the king of the Jews!" and they were giving him slaps. 4And Pilate therefore went outside again, and said to them, "Look, I bring him outside to you, that you may know that I find no fault in him." 5Jesus therefore came outside, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. And he said to them, "Look, the man!" 6When 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 fault in him." 7The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die, because he made himself Son of God." 8When therefore Pilate heard this word, he was more afraid, 9and he entered into the Praetorium again and said to Jesus, "Where are you from?" But Jesus gave him no answer. 10Pilate therefore said to him, "Are you not speaking to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and I have authority to crucify you?" 11Jesus answered him, "You would have no authority at all against me, unless it had been given to you from above; because of this, the one handing me over to you has greater sin." 12From this time Pilate was seeking to release him. But the Jews shouted, saying, "If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. Everyone making himself a king speaks against Caesar." 13Pilate therefore, having heard these words, brought Jesus outside and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha. 14Now it was the Preparation of the Passover; it was about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, "Look, your king!" 15They therefore shouted, "Away, away, crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your king?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king except Caesar." 16Then therefore he handed him over to them that he might be crucified. They therefore took Jesus along and led him away. 17And bearing the cross for himself, he went out to the place called Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha, 18where they crucified him, and with him two others, on this side and on that side, and Jesus in the middle. 19And Pilate also wrote a title and put it on the cross. And it was written, "Jesus the Nazarene, the king of the Jews." 20Therefore many of the Jews read this title, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, in Greek. 21Therefore the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, "Do not write, 'The king of the Jews,' but that he said, 'I am king of the Jews.'" 22Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written." 23The soldiers therefore, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to each soldier a part, and also the tunic. Now the tunic was seamless, woven from the top throughout. 24They said therefore to one another, "Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, whose it will be;" that the Scripture might be fulfilled which says, "They divided my garments among themselves, and for my clothing they cast lots." The soldiers therefore indeed did these things. 25But standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother, and the sister of his mother, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26Jesus therefore, seeing his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing by, 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 to his own home. 28After this, Jesus, knowing that all things had already been finished, that the Scripture might be completed, said, "I am thirsty." 29A vessel full of sour wine was set there; so, putting a sponge full of the sour wine on hyssop, they brought it to his mouth. 30When Jesus therefore had received the sour wine, he said, "It is finished." And bowing his head, he gave up his spirit. 31The Jews therefore, since it was the Preparation, so that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for the day of that Sabbath was a great one), asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and they might be taken away. 32The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who had been crucified with him; 33but having come to Jesus, when they saw him already dead, they did not break his legs; 34but one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out. 35And the one who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true; and he knows that he tells the truth, that you also may believe. 36For these things happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled: "A bone of him will not be broken." 37And again another Scripture says: "They will look on him whom they pierced." 38After these things, Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave permission. He came therefore and took away the body of Jesus. 39And Nicodemus, the one who came to him by night at the first, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds. 40They took therefore the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the custom of the Jews to prepare for burial. 41Now there was a garden in the place where he was crucified, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid. 42Therefore, because of the Preparation of the Jews, since the tomb was near, they laid Jesus there.
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