John 19:1-27

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.

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. ^[d] 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.

Cross References

• 1. 19:1 Matt. 20:19; 27:26; Mark 15:15; Luke 23:16
• 2. 19:2 Matt. 27:27-30; Mark 15:16-19
• 3. 19:4 ver. 6; ch. 18:38
• 4. 19:5 ver. 2
• 5. 19:5 [ver. 14]
• 6. 19:6 [ch. 18:31]
• 7. 19:6 ver. 4
• 8. 19:7 Lev. 24:16; [ch. 10:33]
• 9. 19:7 ch. 5:17, 18; 10:36; Matt. 26:63; Luke 22:70
• 10. 19:8 [Matt. 27:19]
• 11. 19:9 ch. 18:33
• 12. 19:9 ch. 7:27
• 13. 19:9 [ch. 18:37]; See Matt. 26:63
• 14. 19:11 [Rom. 13:1]
• 15. 19:11 [ch. 18:14, 28-32; Matt. 27:2]
• 16. 19:11 See ch. 9:41
• 17. 19:12 Acts 3:13
• 18. 19:12 See Luke 23:2
• 19. 19:13 Matt. 27:19
• 20. 19:14 [ch. 18:28]; See Matt. 27:62
• 21. 19:14 [ver. 5]
• 22. 19:15 Luke 23:18; [Acts 21:36]
• 23. 19:16 Matt. 27:26; Mark 15:15; Luke 23:25
• 24. 19:16 ch. 18:36-40
• 25. 19:17 Matt. 27:33; Mark 15:22; Luke 23:33
• 26. 19:17 Luke 14:27; [Matt. 27:32; Mark 15:21; Luke 23:26]
• 27. 19:18 Matt. 27:38; Mark 15:24, 27; Luke 23:32, 33
• 28. 19:19 [Matt. 27:37; Mark 15:26; Luke 23:38]
• 29. 19:20 ver. 17; [Num. 15:35, 36; Heb. 13:12]
• 30. 19:22 [Gen. 43:14; Esth. 4:16]
• 31. 19:23 Matt. 27:35; Mark 15:24; Luke 23:34
• 32. 19:24 See ch. 13:18
• 33. 19:24 Cited from Ps. 22:18
• 34. 19:25 Matt. 27:55, 56; Mark 15:40, 41; Luke 23:49
• 35. 19:26 See ch. 13:23
• 36. 19:26 ch. 2:4
• 37. 19:27 [ch. 16:32]

Footnotes

• [a] 19:7 Greek 'Ioudaioi' probably refers here to Jewish religious leaders, and others under their influence, in that time; also verses 12, 14, 31, 38
• [b] 19:13 Or 'Hebrew'; also verses 17, 20
• [c] 19:14 That is, about noon
• [d] 19:23 Greek 'chiton', a long garment worn under the cloak next to the skin