John 19:1-30

The Crown of Thorns

1 Pilate then took Jesus and ¹scourged 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 Praetorium 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 over 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 made 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 opposes Caesar."

13 Therefore when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and ¹⁷sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Pavement, but ¹⁸in Hebrew, Gabbatha.

14 Now it was ¹⁹the day of preparation for the Passover; it was about the ²⁰sixth 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, ²⁵bearing His own cross, to the place called ²⁶the Place of a Skull, which is called ²⁷in Hebrew, 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 Hebrew, 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 tunic; now the tunic was seamless, woven in 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 LOTS."

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.

Cross References

• 1. Matthew 27:26
• 2. Matthew 27:27-30: {Mark 15:16-19}
• 3. Matthew 27:29; Mark 15:18
• 4. John 18:22
• 5. John 18:33, 38
• 6. Luke 23:4; John 18:38; John 19:6
• 7. John 19:2
• 8. Matthew 26:58; John 18:3
• 9. Luke 23:4; John 18:38; John 19:4
• 10. Leviticus 24:16; Matthew 26:63-66
• 11. John 5:18; John 10:33
• 12. John 18:33
• 13. Matthew 26:63; Matthew 27:12, 14; John 18:34-37
• 14. Romans 13:1
• 15. John 18:13f, 28f; Acts 3:13
• 16. Luke 23:2; John 18:33f
• 17. Matthew 27:19
• 18. John 5:2; John 19:17, 20
• 19. Matthew 27:62; John 19:31, 42
• 20. Matthew 27:45; Mark 15:25
• 21. John 19:19, 21
• 22. Luke 23:18
• 23. Matthew 27:26; Mark 15:15; Luke 23:25
• 24. John 19:17-24: {Matthew 27:33-44; Mark 15:22-32; Luke 23:33-43}
• 25. Matthew 27:32; Mark 15:21; Luke 14:27; Luke 23:26
• 26. Luke 23:33
• 27. John 19:13
• 28. Luke 23:32
• 29. Matthew 27:37; Mark 15:26; Luke 23:38
• 30. John 19:14, 21
• 31. John 19:13
• 32. John 19:14, 19
• 33. John 19:14, 19
• 34. Genesis 43:14; Esther 4:16
• 35. Matthew 27:35; Mark 15:24; Luke 23:34
• 36. Acts 12:4
• 37. Exodus 28:32; Matthew 27:35; Mark 15:24; Luke 23:34
• 38. John 19:28, 36
• 39. Psalms 22:18
• 40. Matthew 27:55; Mark 15:40; Luke 23:49
• 41. Matthew 12:46
• 42. Luke 8:2; John 20:1, 18
• 43. John 13:23
• 44. John 2:4
• 45. Luke 18:28; John 1:11; John 16:32; Acts 21:6
• 46. John 13:1; John 17:4
• 47. John 19:24, 36
• 48. Psalms 69:21
• 49. John 19:29, 30: {Matthew 27:48, 50; Mark 15:36; Luke 23:36}
• 50. John 17:4
• 51. Matthew 27:50; Mark 15:37; Luke 23:46

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "had Him scourged"
• [b]. I.e. governor's official residence
• [c]. Lit "against"
• [d]. Lit "was seeking to"
• [e]. Or "speaks against"
• [f]. Gr "The Lithostrotos"
• [g]. I.e. Jewish Aramaic
• [h]. Perhaps 6 a.m.
• [i]. Lit "bearing the cross for Himself"
• [j]. I.e. Jewish Aramaic
• [k]. I.e. Jewish Aramaic
• [l]. Gr "khiton," the garment worn next to the skin
• [m]. Lit "from the upper part through the whole"
• [n]. Lit "a lot"