17 Carrying the pole[fn] himself, Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus) arrived at the Place of the Skull (called Golgotha in Hebrew) just out of the city 18 where they secured him to a tall post along with two others—one post on each side and with Yeshua on the middle one. 19 Pilatos (Pilate) wrote out a title and put it on the post: Yeshua from Nazaret, the king of the Yehudim (Jews). 20 Many Yehudim read that title because the place where Yeshua was executed was near the city, and it had been written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek. 21 But the Jewish chief priests complained to Pilatos, “Don’t write ‘The king of the Yehudim’, but rather ‘The one who said he was king of the Yehudim’.”

22 However Pilatos answered, “What I’ve written, I’ve written.”

23 After the soldiers had fastened Yeshua to the post, they took his clothes and placed them in four piles, one for each of them. That left his robe, which had been woven from top to bottom in one piece. 24 So they said to each other, “Rather than tearing this, let’s throw a dice to see who will get it.” (That fulfilled what was written in the scriptures that said: they divided my garments among themselves and threw a dice for my clothes.)[ref] So they went ahead and did that.

25 Meanwhile a group of women had stayed standing near Yeshua on the post: his mother and his aunt, Miryam (Grk. Maria/Mariam) the wife of Klopas, and Miryam from Magdala. 26 When Yeshua saw his mother and also the apprentice that he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “Look, he’ll be your son.” 27 And to the apprentice he said, “Look, she’ll be your mother.” And that apprentice took her into his own home from then on.