[1] Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, 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 said, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and they struck
him with their hands. [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." [5] Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of
thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, "Behold, the man!" [6]
When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out,
saying, "Crucify! Crucify!" Pilate 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, and by our law he ought to die, because
he made himself the Son of God." [8] When therefore Pilate heard this
saying, he was more afraid. [9] He entered into the Praetorium again, and
said to Jesus, "Where are you from?" But Jesus gave him no answer. [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?" [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." [12] At this, Pilate sought 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!" [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." [14] Now it
was the Preparation of the Passover, at about the sixth hour. He said to
the Jews, "Behold, your King!" [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!" [16]
Then therefore he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus
and led him away. [17] He went out, bearing his cross, to the place called
"The place of a skull," which is called in Hebrew, "Golgotha," [18] where
they crucified him, and with him two others, on either side one, and Jesus
in the middle. [19] Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross.
There was written, "JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS." [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. [21] The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, "Don`t
write, `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 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, 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. [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. [26]
Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved
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, Jesus, 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 there; so they put a
sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop, and brought it to his mouth. [30]
When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, "It is finished."
He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit. [31] Therefore the Jews, because
it was the Preparation, 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. [32]
Therefore the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first, and of the
other who was crucified with him; [33] but when they came to Jesus, 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 true. He
knows that he tells the truth, that you also may believe. [36] For these
things happened, that the scripture might be fulfilled, "A bone of him will
not be broken." [37] Again another scripture says, "They will look on him
whom they pierced." [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. [39] Nicodemus also came, he who at
first came to Jesus by night, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about
a hundred Roman pounds. [40] So they took Jesus` body, and bound it in
linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury. [41]
Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden. In the garden a
new tomb in which no man had ever yet been laid. [42] Then because of the
Jews` Preparation (for the tomb was near at hand) they laid Jesus there.
