John 19:1-18

Jesus Delivered to Be Crucified

1 Then Pilate took Jesus and ¹flogged him.

2 ²And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe.

3 They came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews! ” and struck him with their hands.

4 Pilate went out again and said to them, “See, I am bringing him out to you that you may know that ³I find no guilt in him. ”

5 So Jesus came out, wearing ⁴the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, ⁵“Behold the man! ”

6 When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him! ” Pilate said to them, ⁶“Take him yourselves and crucify him, for ⁷I find no guilt in him. ”

7 The Jews^[a] answered him, “We have a law, and ⁸according to that law he ought to die because ⁹he has made himself the Son of God. ”

8 When Pilate heard this statement, ¹⁰he was even more afraid.

9 ¹¹He entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus, ¹²“Where are you from? ” But ¹³Jesus gave him no answer.

10 So 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? ”

11 Jesus answered him, ¹⁴“You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore ¹⁵he who delivered me over to you ¹⁶has the greater sin. ”

12 From then on ¹⁷Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. ¹⁸Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar. ”

13 So when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on ¹⁹the judgment seat at a place called The Stone Pavement, and in Aramaic^[b] Gabbatha.

14 Now it was ²⁰the day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour. ^[c] He said to the Jews, ²¹“Behold your King! ”

15 They cried out, ²²“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 ²³So he ²⁴delivered him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus,

The Crucifixion

17 and ²⁵he went out, ²⁶bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha.

18 ²⁷There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them.