﻿John.
Chapter 19.
Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. 
The soldiers wove a crown of thorns, put it on his head, and clothed him in a purple robe. 
They kept coming up to him and saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” And they slapped him. 
Pilate went outside again and said to them, “Look, I am bringing him out to you so that you may know that I find no ground for a charge against him.” 
Then Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Behold the man!” 
When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no ground for a charge against him.” 
The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to that law he must die, because he made himself the Son of God.” 
When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid. 
He went back into the headquarters and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer. 
Then Pilate said to him, “Will you not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you?” 
Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over me unless it had been given you from above. For this reason the one who handed me over to you has the greater sin.” 
From then on Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.” 
When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus outside and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called the Stone Pavement, and in Hebrew, Gabbatha. 
It was the day of Preparation for the Passover, about noon. He said to the Jews, “Behold your King!” 
Then they cried out, “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.” 
Then he handed him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus. 
Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place called the Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha. 
There they crucified him, and two others with him, one on each side, with Jesus in the middle. 
Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, “Jesus the Nazarene, the King of the Jews.” 
Many 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. 
So 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.’” 
Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.” 
When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts, one for each soldier, and took the tunic as well. The tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from the top. 
So they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide 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.” So the soldiers did these things. 
Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 
When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold your son.” 
Then he said to the disciple, “Behold your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home. 
After this, Jesus, knowing that all things had now been completed, said, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled, “I thirst.” 
A vessel full of sour wine was there. So they put a sponge filled with sour wine on hyssop and held it to his mouth. 
When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished.” Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. 
Since it was the day of Preparation, the Jews asked Pilate to have the crucified men’s legs broken and their bodies taken away, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath, for that Sabbath was a high day. 
So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man and of the other who had been crucified with him. 
But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. 
Instead, one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out. 
The one who saw this has borne witness, and his testimony is true. He knows that he speaks the truth, so that you too may believe. 
For these things happened so that the Scripture might be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken.” 
And again another Scripture says, “They will look on the one they pierced.” 
After this, 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 gave permission, so he came and took away his body. 
Nicodemus, who had first come to him at night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about seventy-five pounds. 
So they took Jesus’ body and wrapped it in linen cloths with the spices, according to the Jewish burial custom. 
There was a garden at the place where he was crucified, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid. 
So they laid Jesus there because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and the tomb was nearby. 
