John Chapter 19
19:1 Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. 2 The soldiers twisted thorns together to make a crown and put it on his head. They put a purple robe on him 3 and started coming up to him and saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and slapping him.
4 Pilate brought him out again, “I’m bringing him out to let you know I don’t find him guilty of anything.” 5 So he brought Jesus out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. “Look at the man!”
6 When the chief priests and officers saw him, they shouted, “Crucify him! Crucify him!”
Pilate saidp, “You take him and crucify him. I don’t find him guilty of anything.”
7 The Jews answered, “According to our Law he should die because he’s claimed to be God’s Son.”
8 When Pilate heard that, he got more concerned. 9 He went into the Praetorium and saidp to Jesus, “Where are you from?”
Jesus didn’t answer him.
Jn 19:1-9
10 “You’re not going to talkp to me? You know, don’t you, that I can release you or crucify you?”
11 “You wouldn’t have any authority over me if God hadn’t let you have it. So the one that betrayed me to you has committed a worse sin.”
12 Pilate tried to release him over that comment.
But the Jews shouted, “If you release him, you’re no friend of Caesar! Anybody that makes himself king is rebelling against Caesar!”
13 When Pilate heard that, he brought Jesus out and sat on the judgement seat at a place called The Pavement (Gabbatha in Hebrew). 14 It was Preparation Day during Passover week, about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Look, your ‘king’!”
15 They yelled, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!”
“You want me to crucify your ‘king’!?”
The chief priests answered, “We don’t have any king but Caesar.”
16 Then he delivered him over to be crucified.
Jn 19:10-16
The Way to Golgotha
17 They took Jesus, and he went out carrying his own cross to The Place of the Skull (“Golgotha” in Hebrew). 18 They crucified him along with two others, one on each side of him.
Jn 19:17-18
The Death of Messiah
19-20 Pilate wrote an inscription in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek, and put it on the cross: “Jesus the Nazarene, King of the Jews.” A lot of Jews read it because the place where they crucified him was close to the city.
21 The chief priests said to Pilate, “Don’t write ‘King of the Jews,’ but that he said, ‘I am King of the Jews.’”
22 Pilate answered, “What I’ve written I’ve written.”
23 After the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they divided his clothes four ways, one for each soldier—except for the tunic. It was seamless, woven from the top throughout. 24 They said, “Let’s not tear it apart; cast lots for it.” So they did—fulfilling the scripture,
“They divided up my garments among them,
and cast lots for my clothes” [Ps 22:18].
Jn 19:19-24
25 Beside Jesus’ cross stood his mother, the sister of his mother; Mary, wife of Clopas; and Mary the Magdalene. 26 When he saw his mother and the disciple he loved standing there, he saidp to his mother, “Your son.” 27 and to the disciple, “Your mother.” From that time the disciple took her to his home.
28 Since he knew they’d done everything that fulfilled the scripture, Jesus saidp, “I’m thirsty.” 29 A jar was sitting there full of sour wine. They put a sponge full of it on a hyssop branch and held it up to his mouth. 30 When he’d taken it, he said, “It’s done!” He dropped his head and quit breathing.
Jn 19:25-30
The Burial of Jesus
31 Since it was Preparation Day, the Jews asked Pilate to break the legs of the crucified men and take their bodies away so they wouldn’t be on the cross on a Sabbath. (That Sabbath was a high day.) 32 So the soldiers broke the legs of the first and of the other man crucified with him. 33 When they saw that Jesus was already dead, they didn’t break his legs. 34 One soldier thrust his spear into Jesus’ side, and blood and water drained out immediately. 35 (The one that watched it himself has submitted this report. He knows what he’s telling you is true so you can believe it too.) 36 That reminds us of the scripture, “Don’t break any of its bones” [Ex 12:46; Num 9:12; (Ps 34:20)]. 37 Another scripture says, “They’ll look at the one they speared” [Zech 12:10].
38 After that, Joseph of Arimathea—a disciple of Jesus secretly for fear of the Jews—asked Pilate to let him take Jesus’ body, and Pilate granted it. He went and took his body away. 39 Nicodemus—who at the first came to Jesus at night—also brought some 70 pounds of myrrh mixed with aloes. 40 They wrapped his body in linen wrappings along with the aromatic spices, which is the Jews’ burial custom. 41 A garden close to where they crucified Jesus had a new, unused tomb in it. 42 That’s where they put Jesus because it was the Jews’ Preparation Day.
Jn 19:31-42