John 19:1-42 (New American Standard)

The Crown of Thorns

1 Pilate then took Jesus and ^a1scourged Him. 2 ²And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and put a purple robe on Him; 3 and they began to come up to Him and say, "³Hail, King of the Jews !" and to ⁴give Him slaps in the face. 4 Pilate ⁵came out again and said to them, "Behold, I am bringing Him out to you so that you may know that ⁶I find no guilt in Him." 5 Jesus then came out, ⁷wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, "Behold, the Man !" 6 So when the chief priests and the ⁸officers saw Him, they cried out saying, "Crucify, crucify !" Pilate said to them, "Take Him yourselves and crucify Him, for ⁹I find no guilt in Him." 7 The Jews answered him, "¹⁰We have a law, and by that law He ought to die because He ¹¹made Himself out to be the Son of God." 8 Therefore when Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid ; 9 and he ¹²entered into the ^bPraetorium again and said to Jesus, "Where are You from?" But ¹³Jesus gave him no answer. 10 So Pilate said to Him, "You do not speak to me? Do You not know that I have authority to release You, and I have authority to crucify You?" 11 Jesus answered, "¹⁴You would have no authority ^cover Me, unless it had been given you from above ; for this reason ¹⁵he who delivered Me to you has the greater sin." 12 As a result of this Pilate ^dmade efforts to release Him, but the Jews cried out saying, "¹⁶If you release this Man, you are no friend of Caesar ; everyone who makes himself out to be a king ^eopposes Caesar." 13 Therefore when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and ¹⁷sat down on the judgment seat at a place called ^fThe Pavement, but ¹⁸in ^gHebrew, Gabbatha. 14 Now it was ¹⁹the day of preparation for the Passover ; it was about the ^h20sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, "Behold, ²¹your King !" 15 So they cried out, "²²Away 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."

The Crucifixion

16 So he then ²³handed Him over to them to be crucified. 17 ²⁴They took Jesus, therefore, and He went out, ⁱ²⁵bearing His own cross, to the place called ²⁶the Place of a Skull, which is called ²⁷in ^jHebrew, Golgotha. 18 There they crucified Him, and with Him ²⁸two other men, one on either side, and Jesus in between. 19 Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It was written, "²⁹JESUS THE NAZARENE, ³⁰THE KING OF THE JEWS." 20 Therefore many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city ; and it was written ³¹in ^kHebrew, Latin and in Greek. 21 So the chief priests of the Jews were saying to Pilate, "Do not write, '³²The King of the Jews '; but that He said, 'I am ³³King of the Jews.' " 22 Pilate answered, "³⁴What I have written I have written." 23 Then ³⁵the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took His outer garments and made ³⁶four parts, a part to every soldier and also the ^ltunic ; now the tunic was seamless, woven ^min one piece. 24 So they said to one another, "³⁷Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, to decide whose it shall be"; ³⁸this was to fulfill the Scripture : "THEY ³⁹DIVIDED MY OUTER GARMENTS AMONG THEM, AND FOR MY CLOTHING THEY CAST ⁿLOTS." 25 Therefore the soldiers did these things. ⁴⁰But standing by the cross of Jesus were ⁴¹His mother, and His mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and ⁴²Mary Magdalene. 26 When Jesus then saw His mother, and ⁴³the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, "⁴⁴Woman, behold, your son !" 27 Then He said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother !" From that hour the disciple took her into ⁴⁵his own household. 28 After this, Jesus, ⁴⁶knowing that all things had already been accomplished, ⁴⁷to fulfill the Scripture, said, "⁴⁸I am thirsty." 29 A jar full of sour wine was standing there; so ⁴⁹they put a sponge full of the sour wine upon a branch of hyssop and brought it up to His mouth. 30 Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, "⁵⁰It is finished !" And He bowed His head and ⁵¹gave up His spirit.

Care of the Body of Jesus

31 Then the Jews, because it was ⁵²the day of preparation, so that ⁵³the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (^ofor that Sabbath was a ⁵⁴high day ), asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. 32 So the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first man and of the other who was ⁵⁵crucified with Him; 33 but coming to Jesus, when they saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs. 34 But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately ⁵⁶blood and water came out. 35 And he who has seen has ⁵⁷testified, and his testimony is true ; and he knows that he is telling the truth, so that you also may believe. 36 For these things came to pass ⁵⁸to fulfill the Scripture, "⁵⁹NOT A BONE OF HIM SHALL BE ^pBROKEN." 37 And again another Scripture says, "⁶⁰THEY SHALL LOOK ON HIM WHOM THEY PIERCED." 38 ⁶¹After these things Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but a ⁶²secret one for ⁶³fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus ; and Pilate granted permission. So he came and took away His body. 39 ⁶⁴Nicodemus, who had first come to Him by night, also came, ⁶⁵bringing a ^qmixture of ⁶⁶myrrh and aloes, about a ⁶⁷hundred ^rpounds weight. 40 So they took the body of Jesus and ⁶⁸bound it in ⁶⁹linen wrappings with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews. 41 Now in the place where He was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a ⁷⁰new tomb ⁷¹in which no one had yet been laid. 42 Therefore because of the Jewish day of ⁷²preparation, since the tomb was ⁷³nearby, they laid Jesus there.