1 P ilate then took Jesus and scourged Him.

2 A nd the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and put a purple robe on Him;

3 a nd they began to come up to Him and say, “ Hail, King of the Jews!” and to give Him slaps in the face.

4 P ilate came out again and said to them, “Behold, I am bringing Him out to you so that you may know that I find no guilt in Him.”

5 J esus then came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Behold, the Man!”

6 S o when the chief priests and the officers saw Him, they cried out saying, “Crucify, crucify!” Pilate said to them, “Take Him yourselves and crucify Him, for I find no guilt in Him.”

7 T he Jews answered him, “ We have a law, and by that law He ought to die because He made Himself out to be the Son of God.”

8 T herefore when Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid;

9 a nd he entered into the Praetorium again and said to Jesus, “Where are You from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.

10 S o 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 J esus answered, “ You would have no authority over Me, unless it had been given you from above; for this reason he who delivered Me to you has the greater sin.”

12 A s a result of this Pilate made efforts to release Him, but the Jews cried out saying, “ If you release this Man, you are no friend of Caesar; everyone who makes himself out to be a king opposes Caesar.”

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

14 N ow it was the day of preparation for the Passover; it was about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, “Behold, your King!”

15 S o 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.” The Crucifixion

16 S o he then handed Him over to them to be crucified.

17 T hey took Jesus, therefore, and He went out, bearing His own cross, to the place called the Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha.

18 T here they crucified Him, and with Him two other men, one on either side, and Jesus in between.

19 P ilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It was written, “ JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”

20 T herefore many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Latin and in Greek.

21 S o the chief priests of the Jews were saying to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘ The King of the Jews’; but that He said, ‘I am King of the Jews.’”

22 P ilate answered, “ What I have written I have written.”

23 T hen the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took His outer garments and made four parts, a part to every soldier and also the tunic; now the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece.

24 S o they said to one another, “ Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, to decide whose it shall be”; this was to fulfill the Scripture: “ They divided My outer garments among them, and for My clothing they cast lots.”

25 T herefore the soldiers did these things. But standing by the cross of Jesus were His mother, and His mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

26 W hen Jesus then saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, “ Woman, behold, your son!”

27 T hen He said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” From that hour the disciple took her into his own household.

28 A fter this, Jesus, knowing that all things had already been accomplished, to fulfill the Scripture, said, “ I am thirsty.”

29 A jar full of sour wine was standing there; so they put a sponge full of the sour wine upon a branch of hyssop and brought it up to His mouth.

30 T herefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “ It is finished!” And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit. Care of the Body of Jesus

31 T hen the Jews, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath ( for that Sabbath was a high day), asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

32 S o the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first man and of the other who was crucified with Him;

33 b ut coming to Jesus, when they saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs.

34 B ut one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.

35 A nd he who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true; and he knows that he is telling the truth, so that you also may believe.

36 F or these things came to pass to fulfill the Scripture, “ Not a bone of Him shall be broken.”

37 A nd again another Scripture says, “ They shall look on Him whom they pierced.”

38 A fter these things Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but a secret one for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate granted permission. So he came and took away His body.

39 N icodemus, who had first come to Him by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds weight.

40 S o they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen wrappings with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.

41 N ow 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.

42 T herefore because of the Jewish day of preparation, since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.