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The Gospel of John 19

19 So at that time Pilate ordered his soldiers to take Jesus and beat him with whips. 2 The soldiers also took some branches with thorns on them and wound them together to make something like a crown. Then they put it on Jesus’ head and put a purple robe on him in order to mock him. 3 They kept approaching him and jeering at him, saying, “We salute you, King of the Jews!” and kept slapping his face.

4 Pilate came outside again and said to the Jewish leaders, “Look, I am about to bring him out to you in order that you can know that I have found no evidence that this man has broken a law.” 5 So Jesus came out. He was wearing the crown made of branches with thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to the Jewish leaders, “Look, here is the man!” 6 When the ruling priests and temple guards saw Jesus, they shouted, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” Pilate told them, “You yourselves take him and crucify him! As for me, I have found no evidence that this man has broken a law.” 7 The Jewish leaders replied to Pilate, “We have a certain law that says he ought to die, because he claimed to be the Son of God.” 8 When Pilate heard that, he was more afraid than before of what would happen to himself if he condemned Jesus to die. 9 He entered his headquarters once more and commanded the soldiers to bring Jesus back inside. Then he asked Jesus, “Where did you come from?” However, Jesus did not answer his question. 10 So Pilate said to him, “You should answer me! You surely know that I have the power to release you, and I also have the power to crucify you!” 11 Jesus replied to him, “The only power you have over me is the power that God has given you. So the man who brought me to you has committed a worse sin than you are committing.”

12 From that moment on, Pilate kept trying to release Jesus. However, the Jewish leaders cried out, “If you release this man, you are not loyal to Caesar! Anyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar.” 13 So when Pilate heard that, he ordered his soldiers to bring Jesus out. Then Pilate sat down to pronounce a verdict on the seat where he usually pronounced verdicts. This was at a place people called “The Stone Pavement,” which was “Gabbatha” in the language spoken by the Jews. 14 (It was the day before the Passover celebration, which was the day when the Jewish people prepared for the celebration. It was almost noon.) Pilate said to the Jewish leaders, “Look, here is your king!” 15 They shouted, “Kill him! Kill him! Crucify him!” Pilate mocked them by saying, “Should I order my soldiers to crucify your king?” The ruling priests replied, “Caesar is our only king!” 16 Then, because of what they said, Pilate ordered his soldiers to crucify Jesus. Then the soldiers took Jesus away in order to crucify him.

17 Jesus went out, carrying his cross by himself to the place that people called “The Place of a Skull,” which was “Golgotha” in the language spoken by the Jews. 18 The soldiers crucified him at that place. They also crucified two other men with him. One man was on either side of Jesus, so that Jesus was between them.

19 Pilate also ordered someone to write a notice on a board and fasten it to Jesus’ cross. That person wrote on it, ‘Jesus from Nazareth, the King of the Jews.’ 20 Many Jewish people read this notice because the place where the soldiers crucified Jesus was close to the city of Jerusalem and because someone wrote the notice in three languages, which were the languages spoken by Jews, Romans, and Greeks. 21 The ruling Jewish priests returned to Pilate and said, “You should not have written on that notice, ‘The King of the Jews.’ Rather, you should have written, ‘This man said that he is the King of the Jews’.” 22 Pilate replied, “What I ordered my soldiers to write on the notice is what they have written. I will not change it.” 23 After the soldiers had put Jesus on the cross, they took his clothes and divided them into four equal parts, one part was for each soldier. However, they kept his tunic separate. The weaver had woven this tunic from top to bottom from one piece of cloth that did not have any seams. 24 So the soldiers said to each other, “Let us not tear this tunic. Instead, let us decide who will keep it by gambling and giving it to the winner.” That occurred in order to make this scripture come true:

“They divided my clothes among them.

They gambled for my clothing.”

That is why the soldiers did those things.

25 Jesus’ mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene were all standing near the cross that he was hanging on. 26 When Jesus saw his mother standing there and the disciple John whom Jesus loved standing near her, he told his mother, “Madam, here is the one who will take care of you like a son would.” 27 Next, he said to John, “Here is the one whom you will take care of like you would your own mother!” From that moment, John took her to live in his own home.

28 A little while later, because Jesus knew that he had already done everything that God had sent him to do, and in order to make another prophecy in scripture come true, he said, “I am thirsty!” 29 Someone had put a jar containing cheap wine there and Jesus was thirsty. So the soldiers took a reed from a hyssop plant and put a sponge on it. Then they dipped the sponge in the cheap wine and held it up to Jesus’ mouth. 30 So Jesus drank the cheap wine and then said, “I have completed everything that I came here to do!” And he bowed his head and voluntarily died.

31 The Jewish leaders then asked Pilate to order his soldiers to break the legs of the three men on crosses so that the men would die more quickly and take away their bodies in order that the bodies would not remain on the crosses during the Jewish day for rest. They asked this because it was the day when the Jewish people prepared for the Passover celebration and the day for rest, and leaving dead bodies on crosses during those days violated Jewish law. (Since the next day was also the day for rest, it was a very important day.) 32 So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man, who had been crucified at the same time as Jesus. Then they broke the legs of the other man. 33 However, when they came to Jesus, they saw that he was dead already. So they did not break his legs. 34 Instead, one of the soldiers stabbed Jesus’ side with a spear, and right away blood and water poured out of the wound. 35 (I, John, am the one who saw this happen and have testified about it and what I have testified is true. I am certain that I am saying what is true; I say it in order that you may trust in Jesus as well.) 36 These things happened to Jesus’ body in order to make this prophecy in scripture come true: “No one will break any of his bones.”

37 They also made another prophecy in scripture come true. It states: “They will look at the man whom they have stabbed.”

38 After these things happened, Joseph, who was a man originally from the city of Arimathea, asked Pilate to allow him to take away Jesus’ body. He did this because he was one of Jesus’ disciples. However, he did not tell anyone that, because he was afraid of the other Jewish leaders. Pilate allowed Joseph to take away Jesus’ body, so Joseph went and did so. 39 Nicodemus also came. He was the man who had once come and spoken with Jesus at night. He brought a mixture of myrrh and aloe spices to prepare Jesus’ body for burial. Those spices weighed about 33 kilograms. 40 They took Jesus’ body and wrapped strips of linen cloth around it and put the myrrh and aloe spices under the strips of cloth. They did this according to the Jewish customs about burying bodies. 41 (There was a garden near the place where the soldiers had crucified Jesus. In the garden was a newly made burial cave. No one had yet buried anyone in that cave.) 42 So they put Jesus’ body in that tomb because it was nearby and because it was the day when the Jewish people prepared for the Passover celebration so they had to bury the body before sundown.

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