ESV 1 Then Pilate took Jesus and flogged him. MSG 1 So Pilate took Jesus and had him whipped. ESV 2 And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe. MSG 2 The soldiers, having braided a crown from thorns, set it on his head, threw a purple robe over him, ESV 3 They came up to him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and struck him with their hands. MSG 3 and approached him with, "Hail, King of the Jews!" Then they greeted him with slaps in the face. ESV 4 Pilate went out again and said to them, "See, I am bringing him out to you that you may know that I find no guilt in him." MSG 4 Pilate went back out again and said to them, "I present him to you, but I want you to know that I do not find him guilty of any crime." ESV 5 So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, "Behold the man!" MSG 5 Just then Jesus came out wearing the thorn crown and purple robe. Pilate announced, "Here he is: the Man." ESV 6 When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, "Crucify him, crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no guilt in him." MSG 6 When the high priests and police saw him, they shouted in a frenzy, "Crucify! Crucify!" Pilate told them, "You take him. You crucify him. I find nothing wrong with him." ESV 7 The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die because he has made himself the Son of God." MSG 7 The Jews answered, "We have a law, and by that law he must die because he claimed to be the Son of God." ESV 8 When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid. MSG 8 When Pilate heard this, he became even more scared. ESV 9 He entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus, "Where are you from?" But Jesus gave him no answer. MSG 9 He went back into the palace and said to Jesus, "Where did you come from?" Jesus gave no answer. ESV 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?" MSG 10 Pilate said, "You won't talk? Don't you know that I have the authority to pardon you, and the authority to - crucify you?" ESV 11 Jesus answered him, "You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin." MSG 11 Jesus said, "You haven't a shred of authority over me except what has been given you from heaven. That's why the one who betrayed me to you has committed a far greater fault." ESV 12 From then on Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, "If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend. Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar." MSG 12 At this, Pilate tried his best to pardon him, but the Jews shouted him down: "If you pardon this man, you're no friend of Caesar's. Anyone setting himself up as 'king' defies Caesar." ESV 13 So when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Stone Pavement, and in Aramaic Gabbatha. MSG 13 When Pilate heard those words, he led Jesus outside. He sat down at the judgment seat in the area designated Stone Court (in Hebrew, Gabbatha). ESV 14 Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, "Behold your King!" MSG 14 It was the preparation day for Passover. The hour was noon. Pilate said to the Jews, "Here is your king." ESV 15 They cried out, "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." MSG 15 They shouted back, "Kill him! Kill him! Crucify him!" Pilate said, "I am to crucify your king?" The high priests answered, "We have no king except Caesar." ESV 16 So he delivered him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus, MSG 16 Pilate caved in to their demand. He turned him over to be crucified. ESV 17 and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha. MSG 17 Carrying his cross, Jesus went out to the place called Skull Hill (the name in Hebrew is Golgotha), ESV 18 There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them. MSG 18 where they crucified him, and with him two others, one on each side, Jesus in the middle. ESV 19 Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, "Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews." MSG 19 Pilate wrote a sign and had it placed on the cross. It read: jesus the nazarene the king of the jews. ESV 20 Many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Aramaic, in Latin, and in Greek. MSG 20 Many of the Jews read the sign because the place where Jesus was crucified was right next to the city. It was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek. ESV 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.'" MSG 21 The Jewish high priests objected. "Don't write," they said to Pilate, "'The King of the Jews.' Make it, 'This man said, "I am the King of the Jews."'" ESV 22 Pilate answered, "What I have written I have written." MSG 22 Pilate said, "What I've written, I've written." ESV 23 When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts, one part for each soldier; also his tunic. But the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom, MSG 23 When they crucified him, the Roman soldiers took his clothes and divided them up four ways, to each soldier a fourth. But his robe was seamless, a single piece of weaving, ESV 24 so they said to one another, "Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it shall be."This was to fulfill the Scripture which says, "They divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots."So the soldiers did these things, MSG 24 so they said to each other, "Let's not tear it up. Let's throw dice to see who gets it." This confirmed the Scripture that said, "They divided up my clothes among them and threw dice for my coat." (The soldiers validated the Scriptures!) ESV 25 but standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. MSG 25 Jesus' mother, his aunt, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene stood at the foot of the cross. ESV 26 When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold, your son!" MSG 26 Jesus saw his mother and the disciple he loved standing near her. He said to his mother, "Woman, here is your son." ESV 27 Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home. MSG 27 Then to the disciple, "Here is your mother." From that moment the disciple accepted her as his own mother. ESV 28 After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), "I thirst." MSG 28 Jesus, seeing that everything had been completed so that the Scripture record might also be complete, then said, "I'm thirsty." ESV 29 A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth. MSG 29 A jug of sour wine was standing by. Someone put a sponge soaked with the wine on a javelin and lifted it to his mouth. ESV 30 When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, "It is finished," and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. MSG 30 After he took the wine, Jesus said, "It's done . . . complete." Bowing his head, he offered up his spirit. ESV 31 Since it was the day of Preparation, and so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away. MSG 31 Then the Jews, since it was the day of Sabbath preparation, and so the bodies wouldn't stay on the crosses over the Sabbath (it was a high holy day that year), petitioned Pilate that their legs be broken to speed death, and the bodies taken down. ESV 32 So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who had been crucified with him. MSG 32 So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man crucified with Jesus, and then the other. ESV 33 But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. MSG 33 When they got to Jesus, they saw that he was already dead, so they didn't break his legs. ESV 34 But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water. MSG 34 One of the soldiers stabbed him in the side with his spear. Blood and water gushed out. ESV 35 He who saw it has borne witness--his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth--that you also may believe. MSG 35 The eyewitness to these things has presented an accurate report. He saw it himself and is telling the truth so that you, also, will believe. ESV 36 For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled: "Not one of his bones will be broken." MSG 36 These things that happened confirmed the Scripture, "Not a bone in his body was broken," ESV 37 And again another Scripture says, "They will look on him whom they have pierced." MSG 37 and the other Scripture that reads, "They will stare at the one they pierced." ESV 38 After these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took away his body. MSG 38 After all this, Joseph of Arimathea (he was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly, because he was intimidated by the Jews) petitioned Pilate to take the body of Jesus. Pilate gave permission. So Joseph came and took the body. ESV 39 Nicodemus also, who earlier had come to Jesus by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds in weight. MSG 39 Nicodemus, who had first come to Jesus at night, came now in broad daylight carrying a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds. ESV 40 So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews. MSG 40 They took Jesus' body and, following the Jewish burial custom, wrapped it in linen with the spices. ESV 41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid. MSG 41 There was a garden near the place he was crucified, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been placed. ESV 42 So because of the Jewish day of Preparation, since the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there. MSG 42 So, because it was Sabbath preparation for the Jews and the tomb was convenient, they placed Jesus in it.
MSG 1 So Pilate took Jesus and had him whipped. MSG 2 The soldiers, having braided a crown from thorns, set it on his head, threw a purple robe over him, MSG 3 and approached him with, "Hail, King of the Jews!" Then they greeted him with slaps in the face. MSG 4 Pilate went back out again and said to them, "I present him to you, but I want you to know that I do not find him guilty of any crime." MSG 5 Just then Jesus came out wearing the thorn crown and purple robe. Pilate announced, "Here he is: the Man." MSG 6 When the high priests and police saw him, they shouted in a frenzy, "Crucify! Crucify!" Pilate told them, "You take him. You crucify him. I find nothing wrong with him." MSG 7 The Jews answered, "We have a law, and by that law he must die because he claimed to be the Son of God." MSG 8 When Pilate heard this, he became even more scared. MSG 9 He went back into the palace and said to Jesus, "Where did you come from?" Jesus gave no answer. MSG 10 Pilate said, "You won't talk? Don't you know that I have the authority to pardon you, and the authority to - crucify you?" MSG 11 Jesus said, "You haven't a shred of authority over me except what has been given you from heaven. That's why the one who betrayed me to you has committed a far greater fault." MSG 12 At this, Pilate tried his best to pardon him, but the Jews shouted him down: "If you pardon this man, you're no friend of Caesar's. Anyone setting himself up as 'king' defies Caesar." MSG 13 When Pilate heard those words, he led Jesus outside. He sat down at the judgment seat in the area designated Stone Court (in Hebrew, Gabbatha). MSG 14 It was the preparation day for Passover. The hour was noon. Pilate said to the Jews, "Here is your king." MSG 15 They shouted back, "Kill him! Kill him! Crucify him!" Pilate said, "I am to crucify your king?" The high priests answered, "We have no king except Caesar." MSG 16 Pilate caved in to their demand. He turned him over to be crucified. MSG 17 Carrying his cross, Jesus went out to the place called Skull Hill (the name in Hebrew is Golgotha), MSG 18 where they crucified him, and with him two others, one on each side, Jesus in the middle. MSG 19 Pilate wrote a sign and had it placed on the cross. It read: jesus the nazarene the king of the jews. MSG 20 Many of the Jews read the sign because the place where Jesus was crucified was right next to the city. It was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek. MSG 21 The Jewish high priests objected. "Don't write," they said to Pilate, "'The King of the Jews.' Make it, 'This man said, "I am the King of the Jews."'" MSG 22 Pilate said, "What I've written, I've written." MSG 23 When they crucified him, the Roman soldiers took his clothes and divided them up four ways, to each soldier a fourth. But his robe was seamless, a single piece of weaving, MSG 24 so they said to each other, "Let's not tear it up. Let's throw dice to see who gets it." This confirmed the Scripture that said, "They divided up my clothes among them and threw dice for my coat." (The soldiers validated the Scriptures!) MSG 25 Jesus' mother, his aunt, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene stood at the foot of the cross. MSG 26 Jesus saw his mother and the disciple he loved standing near her. He said to his mother, "Woman, here is your son." MSG 27 Then to the disciple, "Here is your mother." From that moment the disciple accepted her as his own mother. MSG 28 Jesus, seeing that everything had been completed so that the Scripture record might also be complete, then said, "I'm thirsty." MSG 29 A jug of sour wine was standing by. Someone put a sponge soaked with the wine on a javelin and lifted it to his mouth. MSG 30 After he took the wine, Jesus said, "It's done . . . complete." Bowing his head, he offered up his spirit. MSG 31 Then the Jews, since it was the day of Sabbath preparation, and so the bodies wouldn't stay on the crosses over the Sabbath (it was a high holy day that year), petitioned Pilate that their legs be broken to speed death, and the bodies taken down. MSG 32 So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man crucified with Jesus, and then the other. MSG 33 When they got to Jesus, they saw that he was already dead, so they didn't break his legs. MSG 34 One of the soldiers stabbed him in the side with his spear. Blood and water gushed out. MSG 35 The eyewitness to these things has presented an accurate report. He saw it himself and is telling the truth so that you, also, will believe. MSG 36 These things that happened confirmed the Scripture, "Not a bone in his body was broken," MSG 37 and the other Scripture that reads, "They will stare at the one they pierced." MSG 38 After all this, Joseph of Arimathea (he was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly, because he was intimidated by the Jews) petitioned Pilate to take the body of Jesus. Pilate gave permission. So Joseph came and took the body. MSG 39 Nicodemus, who had first come to Jesus at night, came now in broad daylight carrying a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds. MSG 40 They took Jesus' body and, following the Jewish burial custom, wrapped it in linen with the spices. MSG 41 There was a garden near the place he was crucified, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been placed. MSG 42 So, because it was Sabbath preparation for the Jews and the tomb was convenient, they placed Jesus in it.