John 19
19
Jesus Is Sentenced to Be Crucified
1Then Pilate took Jesus and had him whipped. 2The soldiers twisted thorns together to make a crown, and they forced it onto Jesus’ head. They also put a purple robe on him. 3Then they kept going up to him and saying, “Hail, king of the Jews!” while they slapped him in the face.
4Pilate came back out and said to the Jews who were gathered there, “Look, I’m bringing him out to you to let you know that I haven’t found any basis for a charge against him.” 5They brought Jesus out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”
6As soon as the chief priests and officials saw him, they shouted, “Crucify him! Crucify him!”
But Pilate answered, “You take him and crucify him. I haven’t found any basis for a charge against him myself.”
7The Jewish leaders replied, “We have a law, and according to that law he must die, because he claimed to be the Son of God.”
8When Pilate heard that, he was even more afraid. 9He went back inside the palace and asked Jesus, “Where do you come from?” But Jesus didn’t answer him. 10“Are you refusing to speak to me?” Pilate said. “Don’t you understand? I have the power to set you free or to nail you to a cross.”
11Jesus answered, “You wouldn’t have any power over me if it hadn’t been given to you from heaven. So the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.”
12From then on, Pilate tried to set Jesus free. But the Jewish leaders kept shouting, “If you let this man go, you’re not Caesar’s friend! Anyone who claims to be a king is against Caesar!”
13When Pilate heard that, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judge’s seat at a place called the Stone Walkway. (In the Hebrew language it was called Gabbatha.) 14It was about noon on Preparation Day of Passover Week.
“Here is your king,” Pilate said to the Jews.
15But they shouted, “Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!”
“Should I crucify your king?” Pilate asked.
“The only king we have is Caesar!” the chief priests answered.
16So in the end, Pilate handed Jesus over to them to be nailed to a cross.
Jesus Is Nailed to a Cross
The soldiers took charge of Jesus. 17Carrying his own cross, he went out to a place called the Skull. (In the Hebrew language it was called Golgotha.) 18There they nailed Jesus to the cross. Two other men were crucified with him, one on each side of him, with Jesus in the middle.
19Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read,
Jesus of nazareth, the king of the jews.
20Many of the Jews read the sign, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek. 21The Jewish chief priests argued with Pilate and said, “You shouldn’t have written, ‘The King of the Jews.’ Write that this man claimed he was king of the Jews.”
22Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”
23When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, one share for each of them. All that was left was Jesus’ long, inner robe. It didn’t have any seams; it was made out of one piece of cloth from top to bottom.
24“Let’s not tear it in pieces,” they said to one another. “Let’s cast lots to see who will take it.”
This happened so that the Scripture would come true that says,
“They divided up my clothes among them,
and they cast lots for what I was wearing.”
So that’s what the soldiers did.
25Jesus’ mother was standing near his cross, as was his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Dear woman, this is your son.” 27And he said to the disciple, “This is your mother.” From that time on, the disciple took her into his home.
Jesus Dies
28Later, when Jesus knew that everything had now been finished, so that Scripture would come true, he said, “I’m thirsty.” 29A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on the stem of a hyssop plant, and lifted it up to Jesus’ lips. 30After Jesus drank it, he said, “It is finished.” Then he bowed his head and died.
31It was Preparation Day. The next day would be a special Sabbath day. The Jewish leaders didn’t want the bodies to be left on the crosses during the Sabbath day, so they asked Pilate to have the men’s legs broken and their bodies taken down. 32The soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man who’d been crucified with Jesus. Then they broke the legs of the other man. 33But when they came to Jesus, they saw that he was already dead. So they didn’t break his legs. 34Instead, one of the soldiers stuck his spear into Jesus’ side, and right away blood and water flowed out. 35The man who saw this has now given his testimony about it, and what he has to say is true. He knows that he’s telling the truth, and he’s giving his testimony so that you too may believe. 36These things happened to make the Scripture come true that says, “Not one of his bones will be broken.” 37They also made the Scripture come true that says, “They will look at the one they have pierced.”
Jesus Is Buried
38Afterwards, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for Jesus’ body. Joseph was a follower of Jesus, but secretly, because he was afraid of the Jewish leaders. With Pilate’s permission, Joseph came and took the body away. 39Nicodemus, the man who earlier had visited Jesus at night, came with him. Nicodemus brought a mixture of spices that weighed about 75 pounds. 40The two men took Jesus’ body and wrapped it in strips of linen cloth along with the spices. That was the way the Jews buried people. 41At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden, there was a new tomb. No one had ever been put in it before. 42Because it was the Jewish Preparation Day and the tomb was nearby, they put Jesus there.
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