JHN 19
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1 So then Pilate took Jesus and flogged Him severely, having Him scourged with a Roman whip in hopes of satisfying the crowd.
2 When the soldiers had twisted together a crown of thorns, they put it on His head mockingly, and threw a purple robe around Him in ridicule of His kingship.
3 Then they kept approaching Him repeatedly, saying with sarcasm, "Hail, King of the Jews!" while continuing to give Him slaps in the face with their hands.
4 Pilate went out again and said to them, "See, I am bringing Him out to you, so that you will know that I find no grounds for an accusation against Him. He has done nothing worthy of death."
5 Then Jesus came out, wearing the thorny crown and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, "Behold the man! Look at Him—He is just a man, suffering."
6 So when the chief priests and the temple officers saw Him, they shouted with hatred, saying, "Crucify Him! Crucify Him!" Pilate said to them, "Take Him yourselves and crucify Him. For I find no grounds for an accusation against Him."
7 The Jewish leaders responded to him, "We have a law from Moses, and according to that law He ought to die, because He made Himself the Son of God, claiming equality with God."
8 Now when Pilate heard this statement, he became increasingly afraid.
9 He entered the Praetorium again and said to Jesus, "Where are You from?” But Jesus gave him no answer, remaining silent.
10 So Pilate said to Him with irritation, "Are You not speaking to me? Do You not realise that I have authority to release You, and I have authority to crucify You?"
11 Jesus answered him, "You would have no authority over Me whatsoever if it were not given to you from above by God's sovereignty. Therefore, the one who handed Me over to you has greater sin and responsibility."
12 From that time forward, Pilate was seeking to release Him and find a way out, but the Jewish leaders shouted, saying, "If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar. Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar and commits treason."
13 So Pilate, when he heard these words of political threat, brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Stone Pavement, and in Hebrew, Gabbatha.
14 Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover, the day before the Sabbath. It was approximately the sixth hour, around noon. He said to the Jewish leaders, "See your King! Here He is."
15 Then they shouted with vehemence, "Away with that One! Away with that One! Crucify Him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king except Caesar."
The Crucifixion of Jesus
Matt. 27:32-44; Mk. 15:21-32; Lk. 23:26-43
16 So then Pilate handed Him over to them to be crucified, yielding to their demands. So they took Jesus into their custody,
17 and He went out, carrying His own cross beam, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha,
18 where they crucified Him between two criminals, and with Him two others, one on either side, and Jesus in between them.
19 Now Pilate also wrote a notice and put it on the cross above His head, and it was written: "Jesus the Nazarene, The King of the Jews."
20 So many of the Jewish people read this notice, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city. And it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek, so all could read.
21 So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, "Do not write 'The King of the Jews,' but instead, 'He said, I am King of the Jews.'"
22 Pilate responded firmly, "What I have written, I have written. It stands."
23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took His outer garments and made four parts, a part for each soldier to claim—and the tunic. Now the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom without seams.
24 So they said to one another, "Let us not tear it and ruin it, but cast lots for it, to determine whose it shall be," so that the Scripture would be fulfilled, which states,
"They divided My garments among themselves,
and for My clothing they cast a lot."*
Therefore the soldiers did these very things, fulfilling prophecy.
25 Now His mother Mary and His mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene, stood near the cross of Jesus, watching His suffering.
26 Therefore, when Jesus saw His mother and the disciple whom He loved, John, standing nearby, He said to His mother, "Woman, behold your son!"
27 Then He said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!” And from that hour, the disciple accepted her into his own home as his responsibility.
The Death of Jesus
Matt. 27:45-56; Mk. 15:33-41; Lk. 23:44-49
28 After this, Jesus, knowing that all things had now been accomplished, in order that the Scripture would be fulfilled completely, said, "I am thirsty."
29 A jar full of sour wine was standing there nearby, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a stalk of hyssop and brought it to His mouth.
30 Then, when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said triumphantly, "It is accomplished!" And after He bowed His head voluntarily, He gave up His spirit.
Jesus' Side Pierced
31 Then the Jewish leaders, since it was the day of Preparation, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high and holy day), asked Pilate that their legs might be broken to hasten death, and that they might be taken away.
32 So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first criminal, and of the other who had been crucified alongside Him, to speed their death.
33 But, upon coming to Jesus, when they saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs as they did the others.
34 But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear to verify death, and immediately blood and water flowed out, demonstrating His death.
35 The one who has seen this has given testimony, and his testimony is true and reliable, and he knows that he is speaking the truth, so that you also may believe in Jesus.
36 For these things took place so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: "Not a bone of His will be broken,"* preserving Him as the perfect Passover Lamb.
37 Furthermore, another Scripture says, "They will look on the One whom they have pierced,"* prophesying this very moment.
The Burial of Jesus
Matt. 27:57-61; Mk. 15:42-47; Lk. 23:50-56
38 After these things, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus (though secretly, for fear of the Jewish authorities), asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate granted his request. So he came and took away His body with care.
39 Nicodemus, the one who had come to Him previously at night seeking truth, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes about a hundred pounds in weight for burial preparation.
40 So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen wrappings with the spices, as is the custom of the Jews to prepare for burial.
41 Now in the place where He was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden, a new tomb, in which no one had ever been buried before.
42 Therefore, because it was the day of Preparation of the Jews, and since the tomb was nearby and convenient, they laid Jesus there in haste before the Sabbath began.
Notes
24 Quoted from Ps. 22:18
36 Quoted from Ps. 34:20
37 Quoted from Zech. 12:10
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