John 19:16

Finally, Pilate handed Jesus over to them to be nailed to a cross.

Jesus Is Nailed to a Cross

16 So the soldiers took charge of Jesus.

John 19:16 Meaning and Commentary

John 19:16

Then delivered he him therefore
Perceiving he could not by any means work upon them, and that nothing would satisfy them but his death; he therefore passed sentence on him, and gave him up to their will,

unto them to be crucified;
as they requested, and which was done in a judicial way, and all by divine appointment, according to the counsel and foreknowledge of God:

and they took Jesus and led him away;
directly from the judgment hall, out of the city to the place of execution, whither he was led as a lamb to the slaughter, without opening his mouth against God or man; but behaved with the utmost patience, meekness, and resignation.

John 19:16 In-Context

14 It was about noon on Preparation Day in Passover Week. "Here is your king," Pilate said to the Jews.

15 But they shouted, "Kill him! Kill him! Crucify him!" "Should I crucify your king?" Pilate asked. "We have no king but Caesar," the chief priests answered.

16 Finally, Pilate handed Jesus over to them to be nailed to a cross. So the soldiers took charge of Jesus.

17 He had to carry his own cross. He went out to a place called The Skull. In the Aramaic language it was called Golgotha.

18 There they nailed Jesus to the cross. Two other men were crucified with him. One was on each side of him. Jesus was in the middle.