John 19

Thomson^{(i) 1} Then Pilate took Jesus and scourged him, ² and the soldiers having platted a crown of thorns, put it on his head and threw around him a purple robe, ³ and said, Hail! king of the Jews! When they gave him slaps on the cheek. ⁴ Then Pilate went out again and saith to them, Behold I bring him out to you that you may know that I find no fault in him. ⁵ So Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And Pilate saith to them, Behold the man. ⁶ Upon which when the chief priests, and the officers saw him, they cried, saying, Crucify him; crucify him. Pilate saith to them, Take him yourselves and crucify him; for I find no fault in him. ⁷ The Jews answered, We have a law; and by that law of ours he ought to die, because he hath pretended to be the son of God. ⁸ Now when Pilate heard this expression he was more alarmed ⁹ and went again into the judgment hall, and saith to Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus made him no answer. ¹⁰ Then Pilate saith to him, Dost thou not speak to me? Knowest thou not, that I have power to crucify thee; and that I have power to release thee? ¹¹ Jesus answered, Thou couldst have no power at all against me, if it were not given thee from above; therefore he who delivered me up to thee hath the greater sin. ¹² From this [time] Pilate sought to release him; but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar's friend. Whoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar. ¹³ When Pilate therefore heard this speech, he brought out Jesus and sat down on the tribunal in a place called the pavement [in Hebrew Gabbatha.] ¹⁴ [It was now the paschal preparation day, and the sixth hour was drawing on,] and he saith to the Jews, Behold your king! ¹⁵ Whereupon they cried out, Away, away with him; crucify him. Pilate saith to them, Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar. ¹⁶ Then he delivered him up to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away, ¹⁷ and he went out, carrying his cross, to the place called Sculls, [in Hebrew, Golgotha,] ¹⁸ where they crucified him, and two others with him; one on one side and the other on the other side, and Jesus in the middle. ¹⁹ Now Pilate had written a label and put it on the cross, and the writing was this, Jesus The Nazarine, The King Of The Jews. ²⁰ This label therefore many of the Jews read; for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and the inscription was in Hebrew and Greek and Latin. ²¹ Wherefore the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, Write not The king of the Jews, but, that he said, I am the king of the Jews. ²² Pilate answered, What I have written, I have written. ²³ Now when the soldiers had nailed Jesus to the cross, they took his garments and divided them into four parts, to every soldier a part. But as for the vest, as it was without seam, being woven from the top throughout, ²⁴ they said to one another, Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be, so that the scripture was fulfilled which saith, "They parted my garments among them; and for my vesture they cast lots." These things the soldiers actually did. ²⁵ Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. ²⁶ Jesus therefore seeing his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing near, saith to his, "mother, Woman, behold thy son! ²⁷ Then he saith 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 accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, "I thirst". ²⁹ Upon which, as there was a vessel set full of vinegar, some having filled a sponge with vinegar put it on a stalk of hyssop and put it to his mouth. ³⁰ When Jesus had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished, and bowing his head, he expired. ³¹ Now that the bodies might not remain on the cross during the sabbath, therefore when it was preparation time [for that sabbath was a great day] the Jews besought Pilate that their legs might be broken and the bodies removed. ³² The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first and also of the other who had been crucified with him. ³³ But when they came to Jesus, as they saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. ³⁴ But one of the soldiers with his spear pierced his side, and blood and water issued forth immediately. ³⁵ Now he who was an eye witness hath testified this. And his testimony is true, and [Jesus] himself knoweth that he speaketh the truth that you may believe. ³⁶ For these things were done that the scripture might be fulfilled, "A bone of him shall not be broken." ³⁷ And again another scripture saith, "They will look on him whom they have pierced." ³⁸ After this, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but for fear of the Jews, a concealed one, asked leave of Pilate to take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate granted it. He therefore came and took away the body of Jesus. ³⁹ And Nicodemus, he who formerly came to Jesus by night, came also with a mixture of myrrh and aloes, weighing about a hundred pounds. ⁴⁰ So they took the body of Jesus and wrapped it up in linen swathings with the spices, according to the Jewish custom of embalming. ⁴¹ Now at the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid. ⁴² Therefore on account of the preparation of the Jews, they laid Jesus there, because the tomb was nigh at hand.