John 19:1-37

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 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^[a] Gabbatha.

14 Now it was ²⁰the day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour.^[b] 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,

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.

19 Pilate ²⁸also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, "Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews."

20 Many of the Jews read this inscription, for ²⁹the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Aramaic, in Latin, and in Greek.

21 So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, "Do not write, 'The King of the Jews,' but rather, 'This man said, I am King of the Jews.'"

22 Pilate answered, ³⁰"What I have written I have written."

23 ³¹When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts, one part for each soldier; also his tunic.^[c] But the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom,

24 so they said to one another, "Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it shall be."³²This was to fulfill the Scripture which says, ³³"They divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots."So the soldiers did these things,

25 ³⁴but standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

26 When Jesus saw his mother and ³⁵the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, ³⁶"Woman, behold, your son!"

27 Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" And from that hour the disciple took her to ³⁷his own home.

The Death of Jesus

28 After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now ³⁸finished, said (³⁹to fulfill the Scripture), ⁴⁰"I thirst."

29 A jar full of sour wine stood there, ⁴¹so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth.

30 When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, ⁴²"It is finished," and he bowed his head and ⁴³gave up his spirit.

Jesus' Side Is Pierced

31 Since it was ⁴⁴the day of Preparation, and ⁴⁵so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was ⁴⁶a high day), the Jews 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, and of the other ⁴⁷who had been crucified with him.

33 But when they came to Jesus and 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 at once there came out ⁴⁸blood and water.

35 ⁴⁹He who saw it has borne witness--⁵⁰his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth--⁵¹that you also may believe.

36 ⁵²For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled: ⁵³"Not one of his bones ⁵⁴will be broken."

37 And again another Scripture says, ⁵⁵"They will look on him whom they have pierced."

Cross References

• 1. Matthew 20:19; Matthew 27:26; Mark 15:15; Luke 23:16
• 2. Matthew 27:27-30; Mark 15:16-19
• 3. ver. 6; John 18:38
• 4. ver. 2
• 5. [ver. 14]
• 6. [John 18:31]
• 7. ver. 4
• 8. Leviticus 24:16; [John 10:33]
• 9. John 5:17, 18; John 10:36; Matthew 26:63; Luke 22:70
• 10. [Matthew 27:19]
• 11. John 18:33
• 12. John 7:27
• 13. [John 18:37]; See Matthew 26:63
• 14. [Romans 13:1]
• 15. [John 18:14, 28-32; Matthew 27:2]
• 16. See John 9:41
• 17. Acts 3:13
• 18. See Luke 23:2
• 19. Matthew 27:19
• 20. [John 18:28]; See Matthew 27:62
• 21. [ver. 5]
• 22. Luke 23:18; [Acts 21:36]
• 23. Matthew 27:26; Mark 15:15; Luke 23:25
• 24. John 18:36-40
• 25. Matthew 27:33; Mark 15:22; Luke 23:33
• 26. Luke 14:27; [Matthew 27:32; Mark 15:21; Luke 23:26]
• 27. Matthew 27:38; Mark 15:24, 27; Luke 23:32, 33
• 28. [Matthew 27:37; Mark 15:26; Luke 23:38]
• 29. ver. 17; [Numbers 15:35, 36; Hebrews 13:12]
• 30. [Genesis 43:14; Esther 4:16]
• 31. Matthew 27:35; Mark 15:24; Luke 23:34
• 32. See John 13:18
• 33. Cited from Psalms 22:18
• 34. Matthew 27:55, 56; Mark 15:40, 41; Luke 23:49
• 35. See John 13:23
• 36. John 2:4
• 37. [John 16:32]
• 38. [ver. 30]
• 39. [See ver. 24 above]
• 40. Psalms 69:21; See John 4:6, 7
• 41. Matthew 27:48; Mark 15:36; [Luke 23:36]
• 42. [ver. 28; Acts 13:29]; See John 17:4
• 43. Matthew 27:50; Mark 15:37; Luke 23:46
• 44. ver. 14
• 45. Deuteronomy 21:23; Joshua 8:29; Joshua 10:26, 27
• 46. Exodus 12:16
• 47. ver. 18
• 48. 1 John 5:6, 8
• 49. 1 John 1:1-3; Revelation 1:2; See John 15:27
• 50. [John 21:24]
• 51. [John 20:31]
• 52. See Matthew 1:22
• 53. Cited from Exodus 12:46; Numbers 9:12; [1 Corinthians 5:7]
• 54. Psalms 34:20
• 55. Cited from Zechariah 12:10; [Revelation 1:7]

Footnotes

• [a]. Or Hebrew; also verses 17, 20
• [b]. That is, about noon
• [c]. Greek chiton, a long garment worn under the cloak next to the skin