Jun. 21, 22
John 19
Joh 19:1 So Pilate then
took Jesus, and flogged him.
Joh 19:2 The soldiers
twisted thorns into a crown, and put it on his head, and dressed him
in a purple garment.
Joh 19:3 They kept
saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and they kept slapping
him.
Joh 19:4 Then Pilate
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."
Joh 19:5 Jesus
therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple
garment. Pilate said to them, "Behold, the man!"
Joh 19:6 When 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 basis for a charge against
him."
Joh 19:7 The Jews
answered him, "We have a law, and by our law he ought to die,
because he made himself the Son of God."
Joh 19:8 When therefore
Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid.
Joh 19:9 He entered
into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, "Where are you
from?" But Jesus gave him no answer.
Joh 19:10 Pilate
therefore said to him, "Aren't you speaking to me? Don't you
know that I have power to release you, and have power to crucify
you?"
Joh 19:11 Jesus
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."
Joh 19:12 At this,
Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying,
"If you release this man, you aren't Caesar's friend! Everyone
who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!"
Joh 19:13 When Pilate
therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on
the judgment seat at a place called "The Pavement," but in
Hebrew, "Gabbatha."
Joh 19:14 Now it was
the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour. He said
to the Jews, "Behold, your King!"
Joh 19:15 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!"
Joh 19:16 So then he
delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him
away.
Joh 19:17 He went out,
bearing his cross, to the place called "The Place of a Skull,"
which is called in Hebrew, "Golgotha,"
Joh 19:18 where they
crucified him, and with him two others, on either side one, and Jesus
in the middle.
Joh 19:19 Pilate wrote
a title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, "JESUS
OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS."
Joh 19:20 Therefore
many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was
crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin,
and in Greek.
Joh 19:21 The chief
priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, "Don't write, 'The
King of the Jews,' but, 'he said, I am King of the Jews.' "
Joh 19:22 Pilate
answered, "What I have written, I have written."
Joh 19:23 Then the
soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, 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.
Joh 19:24 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 parted my garments among them. For my cloak
they cast lots." Therefore the soldiers did these things.
Joh 19:25 But there
were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's
sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
Joh 19:26 Therefore
when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing
there, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold your son!"
Joh 19:27 Then he said
to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" From that hour, the
disciple took her to his own home.
Joh 19:28 After this,
Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture
might be fulfilled, said, "I am thirsty."
Joh 19:29 Now a vessel
full of vinegar was set there; so they put a sponge full of the
vinegar on hyssop, and held it at his mouth.
Joh 19:30 When Jesus
therefore had received the vinegar, he said, "It is finished."
He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.
Joh 19:31 Therefore the
Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn't
remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special
one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they
might be taken away.
Joh 19:32 Therefore the
soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who
was crucified with him;
Joh 19:33 but when they
came to Jesus, and saw that he was already dead, they didn't break
his legs.
Joh 19:34 However one
of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood
and water came out.
Joh 19:35 He who has
seen has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells
the truth, that you may believe.
Joh 19:36 For these
things happened, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, "A bone
of him will not be broken."
Joh 19:37 Again another
Scripture says, "They will look on him whom they pierced."
Joh 19:38 After these
things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly
for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away Jesus'
body. Pilate gave him permission. He came therefore and took away his
body.
Joh 19:39 Nicodemus,
who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of
myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds.
Joh 19:40 So they took
Jesus' body, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the
custom of the Jews is to bury.
Joh 19:41 Now in the
place where he was crucified there was a garden. In the garden was a
new tomb in which no man had ever yet been laid.
Joh 19:42 Then because
of the Jews' Preparation Day (for the tomb was near at hand) they
laid Jesus there.