16. Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified.
And they took Jesus, and led him away.
17. And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the
place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha:
18. Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either
side one, and Jesus in the midst.
19. And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the
writing was JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.
20. This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where
Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written
in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin.
21. Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write
not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of
the Jews.
22. Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.
23. Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his
garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and
also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the
top throughout.
24. They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it,
but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture
might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment
among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These
things therefore the soldiers did.
25. Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his
mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary
Magdalene.
26. When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple
standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman,
behold thy son!
27. Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from
that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.
28. After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now
accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith,
I thirst.
29. Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled
a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to
his mouth.
30. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It
is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
31. The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the
bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day,
(for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that
their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken
away.
32. Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and
of the other which was crucified with him.
33. But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead
already, they brake not his legs:
34. But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and
forthwith came there out blood and water.
35. And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and
he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
36. For these things were done, that the scripture should be
fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.
37. And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him
whom they pierced.
38. And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of
Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate
that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave
him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.
39. And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to
Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes,
about an hundred pound weight.
40. Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen
clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to
bury.
41. Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden;
and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet
laid.
42. There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews'
preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.
