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19:1  Then Pilate took · · Jesus and had him flogged.
19:2  And the soldiers twisted some thorns into a crown and placed it on his · head, and they threw a purple robe around him.
19:3  Then they kept coming up to him, · saying, “Hail, · king of the Jews!” and slapping him in the face.
19:4  · Once more Pilate went out · and said to them, “Look, I am bringing him out to you that you may know that I find no basis for an accusation against him.”
19:5  So Jesus came · out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe; and Pilate said to them, “Look, the man!”
19:6  When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, saying, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, · “Take him yourselves and crucify him; for I find no basis for an accusation against him.”
19:7  The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die, because he claimed himself to be the Son of God.”
19:8  Now when Pilate heard · this · statement, he became even more afraid.
19:9  · He went back into his headquarters and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” · But Jesus gave him no answer.
19:10  So Pilate said to him, · “Are you not going to talk to me? You know, do you not, that I have the authority to release you and I have the authority to crucify you?”
19:11  Jesus said, “You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. That is why the man who handed me over to you has a greater sin.”
19:12  From that point on · Pilate tried to release him, but the Jews kept shouting out, saying, “If you release this man, you are no ‘Friend of Caesar.’ Anyone who claims himself to be a king opposes · Caesar.”
19:13  · On hearing · these words, Pilate brought Jesus out · and sat down on the judge’s bench in the place called “Stone Pavement,” or in Hebrew, “Gabbatha.”
19:14  Now it was the day of Preparation for the Passover, about noon. · Pilate said to the Jews, “Here is · your king!”
19:15  But they shouted, “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!”
19:16  Then Pilate handed him over to the soldiers to be crucified. So they took charge of · Jesus,
19:17  · who, carrying the cross by himself, · went out to what was called “The Place of the Skull,” which is called in Hebrew, “Golgotha.”
19:18  There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side · with Jesus between · · them.
19:19  And Pilate wrote · an inscription · and fastened it to the cross. It read, · “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.”
19:20  Many of the Jews read this · inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, · and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.
19:21  Then 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.’”
19:22  Pilate answered, · “What I have written I have written.”
19:23  When the soldiers crucified · Jesus, they took · his garments and separated them into four shares, one share for each soldier. They also took his tunic, which was · · seamless, woven from · top to bottom as a single piece.
19:24  So they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see who will get it”—that the Scripture might be fulfilled that says, “They divided · my garments among themselves, and for · my clothing they cast lots.” So the soldiers did these things.
19:25  Now standing beside · Jesus’ cross · were · his mother, and · his mother’s sister, · Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary · Magdalene.
19:26  When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, look, · your son!”
19:27  Then he said to his disciple, “Look, · your mother!” And from that · hour the disciple took her into · his own home.
19:28  After this Jesus, knowing · that all was now accomplished, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty.”
19:29  A jar full of sour wine was there, so they attached a sponge soaked in the sour wine to a stalk of hyssop and held it to his mouth.
19:30  When he had taken the sour wine, · Jesus said, “It is accomplished!” And he bowed his head and handed over his spirit.
19:31  Then, since 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), · the Jews asked · Pilate to have the legs of the crucified men broken and their bodies taken down.
19:32  So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man, then those of the other one who had been crucified with him.
19:33  But when they came to · Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his · legs.
19:34  Instead, one of the soldiers pierced his · side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.
19:35  · (The man who saw this has borne witness to it so that you too may believe. · His witness is true, · and he knows that he is telling the truth.)
19:36  These things took place so that the Scripture would be fulfilled, “Not a bone of his body will be broken.”
19:37  And yet another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they pierced.”
19:38  After · this · Joseph · of Arimathea, a disciple of Jesus (though a secret one · due to his fear of the Jews) asked Pilate if he could remove the body of Jesus. · Pilate gave him permission, · so he came and removed the body.
19:39  · Nicodemus, who earlier had come to Jesus at night, · also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds.
19:40  So they took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in strips of linen with the spices, in accordance with the Jewish custom · for burial.
19:41  Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden was a new tomb in which no one had ever yet been laid.
19:42  So because it was the Jewish day of Preparation · and the tomb was nearby, they laid · Jesus there.