One Unity Resource Bible John [Yah is gracious] 19

1 * So Pilate [Armed with javelin] then took Yeshua [Salvation], and flogged him. 2 The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown, and put it on his head, and dressed him in a purple garment. 3 They kept saying, “Hail, King of the Jews [Praisers]!” and they kept slapping him.

4 Then Pilate [Armed with javelin] went out again, and said to them, “Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him.”

5 Yeshua [Salvation] therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate [Armed with javelin] said to them, “Behold, the man!”

6 When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify!”

Pilate [Armed with javelin] said to them, “Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him.”

7 † The Jews answered him, “We have a law (of God), ‡ and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Ben-Elohim ·Son of Elohim God·.”

8 When therefore Pilate [Armed with javelin] heard this saying, he was more afraid. 9 He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Yeshua [Salvation], “Where are you from?” But Yeshua [Salvation] gave him no answer. 10 Pilate [Armed with javelin] therefore said to him, “Are not you speaking to me? Don’t you know that I have power to release you, and have power to crucify you?”

11 Yeshua [Salvation] answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”

12 At this, Pilate [Armed with javelin] was seeking to release him, but the Jews [Praisers] cried out, saying, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s [Ruler]’s friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar [Ruler]!”

13 When Pilate [Armed with javelin] therefore heard these words, he brought Yeshua [Salvation] out, and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called “The Pavement,” but in Hebrew [Immigrant], “Gabbatha.” 14 Now it was the Preparation Day for Pesac ·Passover· (Nissan 14), at about three o'clock in the afternoon. He said to the Jews [Praisers], “Behold, your King!”

15 They cried out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!”

Pilate [Armed with javelin] said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?”

The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar [Ruler]!”

16 So then he delivered him to them to be nailed to the execution-stake. So they took Yeshua [Salvation] and led him away. 17 He went out, bearing his execution-stake, to the place called “Skull,” which is called in Hebrew [Immigrant], “Golgotha [Place of skull],” 18 where they nailed him to the stake, and with him two others, on either side one, and Yeshua [Salvation] in the middle. 19 Pilate [Armed with javelin] wrote a title also, and put it on the execution-stake. There was written, “Yeshua of nazareth [Salvation of Branch, Separated one], The King of The Jews [Praisers] .” 20 § Therefore many of the Jews [Praisers] read this title, for the place where Yeshua [Salvation] was executed on the stake was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew [Immigrant], in Latin, and in Greek. 21 The chief priests of the Jews [Praisers] therefore said to Pilate [Armed with javelin], “Don’t write, ‘The King of the Jews [Praisers],’ but, ‘he said, I am King of the Jews [Praisers].’ ”

22 Pilate [Armed with javelin] answered, “What I have written, I have written.”

23 * Then the soldiers, when they had nailed Yeshua [Salvation] to the stake, 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. 24 Then they said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide whose it will be,” that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says,

“They divided my garments among them.

For my cloak they cast lots.” †

Therefore the soldiers did these things. 25 But there were standing by the execution-stake of Yeshua [Salvation] his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary [Rebellion] the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala [Rebellion of City tower]. 26 Therefore when Yeshua [Salvation] saw his mother, and the disciple whom he felt agapao ·totally devoted love· for standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” 27 Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.

28 ‡ After this, Yeshua [Salvation], seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty.” 29 § Now a vessel full of vinegar was set; so they put a sponge full of the vinegar * on hyssop, and held it at his mouth. 30 When Yeshua [Salvation] therefore had received the vinegar, he said, “It is finished.” † He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.

31 ‡ Therefore the Jews [Praisers], because it was the Preparation Day (Nissan 14), so that the bodies would not remain on the execution-stake on the festival Sabbath ·To cease· (for that Sabbath ·To cease· § was a special one), asked of Pilate [Armed with javelin] that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. 32 * Therefore the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was placed on execution-stakes with him; 33 † but when they came to Yeshua [Salvation], and saw that he was already dead, they didn’t break his legs. 34 ‡ § * However one of the soldiers † pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out. 35 He who has seen has testified, and his testimony is trutheree. He knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe. 36 For these things happened, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, “Not one of his bones will be broken.” ‡ 37 Again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they pierced.” §

38 After these things, Joseph [May he add] of Arimathaea [May he add of Lofty place], being a disciple of Yeshua [Salvation], but secretly for fear of the Jews [Praisers], asked of Pilate [Armed with javelin] that he might take away Yeshua [Salvation]'s body. Pilate [Armed with javelin] gave him permission. He came therefore and took away his body. 39 Nicodemus [Victory people], who at first came to Yeshua [Salvation] by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman [Person from Town of flowing waters] pounds. 40 So they took Yeshua [Salvation]'s body, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews [Praisers] is to bury. 41 Now in the place where he was executed on the stake there was a garden. In the garden was a new tomb in which no man had ever yet been laid. 42 Then because of the Judean [Person from Praise] Preparation Day (Nissan 14) (for the tomb was near at hand) they laid Yeshua [Salvation] there.

*19:1 Messiah’s back is whipped. “I gave my back to the smiters.” (Is 50:6)

†19:7 MP: Messiah perceived to be cursed by God. (See also Ps 22:1, 118:17-18). (Is 53:4)

‡19:7 Note: This law that justifies Yeshua being put to death could be (Lev 24:16) about blasphemy or (Deut 18:20) about a prophet speaking in God’s name falsely. Both shall be put to death, according to God’s command. (Read in full context of Deut ch 13 and Deut 18:9-22).

§19:20 MP: People will stare and witness Messiah during his death including piercing. (Ps 22:17) Note: In the future, the people of Israel will look upon this same person, “whom they have pierced” (Zech 12:10).

*19:23 MP: The Messiah’s garments are divided; lots are divided; lots are cast for his clothes. (Ps 22:18)

†19:24 Quoted from Ps 22:18

‡19:28 MP: Messiah will thirst. (See also Ps 69:21, 69:21). (Ps 22:15)

§19:29 MP: Messiah has gall offered him as food. Gall is a medicinal poison; poisons have a bitter taste and acids, like vinegar, have a sour taste. This mixture has various English simile terms: poisoned water, mixed drink with serpent poison, drinking viper’s poison (Deut 32:32-33; Jer 9:15, 23:15). Gall is a mixture of liver or gallbladder digestive juice, called bile, possibly mixed with poppy seed opium or wormwood. Gall would be offered to a person as an end to pain, cure illness, or overdosing to kill. Ingesting opium, wormwood, or bile is like taking very bitter medicine. Therefore descriptions of eating and drinking the substances are metaphors for very bitter experiences. (See also Ps 22:15). (Ps 69:21)

*19:29 Quoted from Ps 69:21

†19:30 MP: The suffering and reproach of Calvary (describes Ps 22). (Ps 102:1-11)

‡19:31 MP: Messiah is cursed on our behalf, hanged on a stake, (See also Is 53:5). (Deut 21:22-23)

§19:31 Special Sabbath; High Sabbath during a Festival, such as Unleavened Bread week. The first day of Unleavened Bread is a holy convocation, then the weekly Sabbath came next. Special week Nissan 15-16.

*19:32 MP: None of Messiah’s bones would be broken parallel to the Pesac ·Passover· lamb. (See also Ps 22:17, 22:14-c). (See also Ps 22:17, 22:14-c, 34:19-20). (Ex 12:46; Ps 34:20)

†19:33 MP: Messiah’s heart melts like wax. The blood and water running out of the pierced side align with a disorder called “pericardial effusion”. Stress on the heart causing edema (swelling fluids) in the outer sac of the heart muscle. By going upward from the side with a spear, up to 2 liters of water could pour out along with the blood when the heart was pierced. (See also Ps 22:17). (Ps 22:14)

‡19:34 MP: “Poured out like water” Combined context refers to piercing (Ps 22:16) causing internal fluids to pour out (Ps 22:14). Could also reference the “pouring out” of a drink offering. Only during the Great Hossanah feast, on the 7th day of Sukkot, is both water and wine poured out together before God. (See notes on Is 55:1-2). (Ps 22:14)

§19:34 MP: Messiah is “pierced / wounded for our transgressions”. Note: There is no Bible punishment or law for death that specifically involves piercing; stoning or banishment is more common. (Is 53:5)

*19:34 MP: The Messiah’s body will be pierced. (Zech 12:10)

†19:34 MP: The ability to count all bones implies no divided or broken bones, therefore none of his bones are broken (Ps 34:21), just as the Pesac ·Passover· lamb (Ex 12:46). (See also Ps 22:14-c, 34:19-20). (Ps 22:17)

‡19:36 Quoting from Ex 12:46; Num 9:12; Ps 34:20

§19:37 Quoted from Zech 12:10