John 19

ABU^{(i) 1} THEN therefore Pilate took Jesus, and scourged him. ² And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and put on him a purple robe; and they came to him, ³ and said: Hail, King of the Jews! And they gave him blows on the face. ⁴ Pilate went forth again, and says to them: Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him. ⁵ Jesus therefore came forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And he says to them: Behold the man! ⁶ When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, saying: Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate says to them: Do ye take him, and crucify him; for I find no fault in 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 the more afraid. ⁹ And he went again into the palace, and says to Jesus: Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer. ¹⁰ Then says Pilate to him: Dost thou not speak to me? Knowest thou not that I have power to release thee, and have power to crucify thee? ¹¹ Jesus answered: Thou wouldst have no power against me, except it were given thee from above. Therefore he that delivers me to thee has the greater sin. ¹² Thenceforth Pilate sought to release him. But the Jews cried out, saying: If thou let this man go, thou art not a friend of Caesar. Whoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar. ¹³ When therefore Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down on the judgment-seat in a place called the Pavement, and in Hebrew, Gabbatha. ¹⁴ And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour. And he says to the Jews: Behold your king! ¹⁵ But they cried out: Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate says 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. And they took Jesus, and led him away. ¹⁷ And bearing his cross he went forth into the place called Place of a skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha; ¹⁸ where they crucified him, and two others with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst. ¹⁹ And Pilate wrote also a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was: JESUS THE NAZARENE THE KING OF THE JEWS. ²⁰ This title therefore many of the Jews read; because the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city, and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin. ²¹ Therefore said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate: Write not, 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 crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part, and also his coat. And the coat was without a seam, woven from the top throughout. ²⁴ They said therefore to one another: Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be; that the scripture might be fulfilled which says: They parted my garments among them. And for my vesture they cast lots. These things the soldiers did. ²⁵ And there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary the Magdalene. ²⁶ Jesus therefore seeing his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing by, says to his mother: Woman, behold thy son! ²⁷ Then he says to the disciple: Behold thy mother! And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home. ²⁸ After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now finished, that the scripture might be accomplished, says: I thirst. ²⁹ Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar; and they, having filled a sponge with vinegar, and put it on a hyssop-stalk, bore it to his mouth. ³⁰ When Jesus therefore received the vinegar, he said: It is finished; and he bowed his head, and gave up his spirit. ³¹ The Jews therefore, since it was the preparation, that the bodies might not remain upon the cross on the sabbath (for that sabbath day was a great day), besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and they be taken away. ³² The soldiers came, therefore, 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 broke not his legs. ³⁴ But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith there came out blood and water. ³⁵ And he that has seen has borne witness, and his witness is true, and he knows that he says what is true, that ye also might believe. ³⁶ For these things came to pass, that the scripture might be fulfilled: A bone of him shall not be broken. ³⁷ And again another scripture says: They shall look on him whom they pierced. ³⁸ And after this, Joseph from Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took away the body of Jesus. ³⁹ And there came also Nicodemus, who at the first came to Jesus by night, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds weight. ⁴⁰ They took therefore the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the custom of the Jews to prepare for burial. ⁴¹ And in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein no one was yet laid. ⁴² There they laid Jesus therefore, on account of the preparation of the Jews, because the sepulchre was nigh at hand.