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1 Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged.
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Then Pilate took Jesus and had him whipped.
2 The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe
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The soldiers made a crown out of thorny branches and put it on his head; then they put a purple robe on him
3 and went up to him again and again, saying, “Hail, king of the Jews!” And they slapped him in the face.
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and came to him and said, "Long live the King of the Jews!" And they went up and slapped him.
4 Once more Pilate came out and said to the Jews gathered there, “Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him.”
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Pilate went back out once more and said to the crowd, "Look, I will bring him out here to you to let you see that I cannot find any reason to condemn him."
5 When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”
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So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, "Look! Here is the man!"
6 As soon as the chief priests and their officials saw him, they shouted, “Crucify! Crucify!” But Pilate answered, “You take him and crucify him. As for me, I find no basis for a charge against him.”
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When the chief priests and the Temple guards saw him, they shouted, "Crucify him! Crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "You take him, then, and crucify him. I find no reason to condemn him."
7 The Jewish leaders insisted, “We have a law, and according to that law he must die, because he claimed to be the Son of God.”
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The crowd answered back, "We have a law that says he ought to die, because he claimed to be the Son of God."
8 When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid,
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When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid.
9 and he went back inside the palace. “Where do you come from?” he asked Jesus, but Jesus gave him no answer.
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He went back into the palace and asked Jesus, "Where do you come from?" But Jesus did not answer.
10 “Do you refuse to speak to me?” Pilate said. “Don’t you realize I have power either to free you or to crucify you?”
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Pilate said to him, "You will not speak to me? Remember, I have the authority to set you free and also to have you crucified."
11 Jesus answered, “You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.”
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Jesus answered, "You have authority over me only because it was given to you by God. So the man who handed me over to you is guilty of a worse sin."
12 From then on, Pilate tried to set Jesus free, but the Jewish leaders kept shouting, “If you let this man go, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar.”
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When Pilate heard this, he tried to find a way to set Jesus free. But the crowd shouted back, "If you set him free, that means that you are not the Emperor's friend! Anyone who claims to be a king is a rebel against the Emperor!"
13 When Pilate heard this, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judge’s seat at a place known as the Stone Pavement (which in Aramaic is Gabbatha).
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When Pilate heard these words, he took Jesus outside and sat down on the judge's seat in the place called "The Stone Pavement." (In Hebrew the name is "Gabbatha.")
14 It was the day of Preparation of the Passover; it was about noon. “Here is your king,” Pilate said to the Jews.
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It was then almost noon of the day before the Passover. Pilate said to the people, "Here is your king!"
15 But they shouted, “Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!” “Shall I crucify your king?” Pilate asked. “We have no king but Caesar,” the chief priests answered.
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They shouted back, "Kill him! Kill him! Crucify him!" Pilate asked them, "Do you want me to crucify your king?" The chief priests answered, "The only king we have is the Emperor!"
16 Finally Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified. So the soldiers took charge of Jesus.
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Then Pilate handed Jesus over to them to be crucified. So they took charge of Jesus.
17 Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha).
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He went out, carrying his cross, and came to "The Place of the Skull," as it is called. (In Hebrew it is called "Golgotha.")
18 There they crucified him, and with him two others—one on each side and Jesus in the middle.
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There they crucified him; and they also crucified two other men, one on each side, with Jesus between them.
19 Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.
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Pilate wrote a notice and had it put on the cross. "Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews," is what he wrote.
20 Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and Greek.
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Many people read it, because the place where Jesus was crucified was not far from the city. The notice was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.
21 The chief priests of the Jews protested to Pilate, “Do not write ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that this man claimed to be king of the Jews.”
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The chief priests said to Pilate, "Do not write "The King of the Jews,' but rather, "This man said, I am the King of the Jews.' "
22 Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”
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Pilate answered, "What I have written stays written."
23 When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes, dividing them into four shares, one for each of them, with the undergarment remaining. This garment was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.
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After the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, one part for each soldier. They also took the robe, which was made of one piece of woven cloth without any seams in it.
24 “Let’s not tear it,” they said to one another. “Let’s decide by lot who will get it.” This happened that the scripture might be fulfilled that said, “They divided my clothes among them and cast lots for my garment.”So this is what the soldiers did.
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The soldiers said to one another, "Let's not tear it; let's throw dice to see who will get it." This happened in order to make the scripture come true: "They divided my clothes among themselves and gambled for my robe." And this is what the soldiers did.
25 Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
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Standing close to Jesus' cross were his mother, his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
26 When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “Woman,here is your son,”
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Jesus saw his mother and the disciple he loved standing there; so he said to his mother, "He is your son."
27 and to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.
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Then he said to the disciple, "She is your mother." From that time the disciple took her to live in his home.
28 Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.”
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Jesus knew that by now everything had been completed; and in order to make the scripture come true, he said, "I am thirsty."
29 A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus’ lips.
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A bowl was there, full of cheap wine; so a sponge was soaked in the wine, put on a stalk of hyssop, and lifted up to his lips.
30 When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
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Jesus drank the wine and said, "It is finished!" Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
31 Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the Jewish leaders did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down.
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Then the Jewish authorities asked Pilate to allow them to break the legs of the men who had been crucified, and to take the bodies down from the crosses. They requested this because it was Friday, and they did not want the bodies to stay on the crosses on the Sabbath, since the coming Sabbath was especially holy.
32 The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and then those of the other.
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So the soldiers went and broke the legs of the first man and then of the other man who had been crucified with Jesus.
33 But when they came to Jesus and found that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.
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But when they came to Jesus, they saw that he was already dead, so they did not break his legs.
34 Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus’ side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water.
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One of the soldiers, however, plunged his spear into Jesus' side, and at once blood and water poured out
35 The man who saw it has given testimony, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe.
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(The one who saw this happen has spoken of it, so that you also may believe. What he said is true, and he knows that he speaks the truth.)
36 These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken,”
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This was done to make the scripture come true: "Not one of his bones will be broken."
37 and, as another scripture says, “They will look on the one they have pierced.”
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And there is another scripture that says, "People will look at him whom they pierced."
38 Later, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jewish leaders. With Pilate’s permission, he came and took the body away.
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After this, Joseph, who was from the town of Arimathea, asked Pilate if he could take Jesus' body. (Joseph was a follower of Jesus, but in secret, because he was afraid of the Jewish authorities.) Pilate told him he could have the body, so Joseph went and took it away.
39 He was accompanied by Nicodemus, the man who earlier had visited Jesus at night. Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds.
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Nicodemus, who at first had gone to see Jesus at night, went with Joseph, taking with him about one hundred pounds of spices, a mixture of myrrh and aloes.
40 Taking Jesus’ body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen. This was in accordance with Jewish burial customs.
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The two men took Jesus' body and wrapped it in linen cloths with the spices according to the Jewish custom of preparing a body for burial.
41 At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid.
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There was a garden in the place where Jesus had been put to death, and in it there was a new tomb where no one had ever been buried.
42 Because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.
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Since it was the day before the Sabbath and because the tomb was close by, they placed Jesus' body there.