John 19:1-24
Jesus Delivered to Be Crucified
1Then Pilate took Jesus and aflogged him. 2 bAnd the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe. 3They came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and struck him with their hands. 4Pilate went out again and said to them, “See, I am bringing him out to you that you may know that cI find no guilt in him.” 5So Jesus came out, wearing dthe crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, e“Behold the man!” 6When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, f“Take him yourselves and crucify him, for gI find no guilt in him.” 7The Jews ▼▼Greek Ioudaioi probably refers here to Jewish religious leaders, and others under their influence, in that time; also verses 12, 14, 31, 38
answered him, “We have a law, and iaccording to that law he ought to die because jhe has made himself the Son of God.” 8When Pilate heard this statement, khe was even more afraid. 9 lHe entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus, m“Where are you from?” But nJesus gave him no answer. 10So Pilate said to him, “You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you?” 11Jesus answered him, o“You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore phe who delivered me over to you qhas the greater sin.” 12From then on rPilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. sEveryone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.” 13So when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on tthe judgment seat at a place called The Stone Pavement, and in Aramaic ▼
▼Or Hebrew; also verses 17, 20
Gabbatha. 14Now it was vthe day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour. ▼▼That is, about noon
He said to the Jews, x“Behold your King!” 15They cried out, y“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 zSo he aadelivered him over to them to be crucified. The Crucifixion
So they took Jesus, 17and abhe went out, acbearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha. 18 adThere they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them. 19Pilate aealso wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.” 20Many of the Jews read this inscription, for afthe place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Aramaic, in Latin, and in Greek. 21So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but rather, ‘This man said, I am King of the Jews.’” 22Pilate answered, ag“What I have written I have written.”23 ahWhen the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts, one part for each soldier; also his tunic. ▼
▼Greek chiton, a long garment worn under the cloak next to the skin
But the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom, 24so they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it shall be.” ajThis was to fulfill the Scripture which says, ak“They divided my garments among them,
and for my clothing they cast lots.”
So the soldiers did these things,
John 19:34
34But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out alblood and water.
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