Jesus Flogged and Rejected as King

19 Pilate then took Jesus and ^[a](A)flogged Him. ^2 (B)And when the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns, they put it on His head, and put a purple ^[b]robe on Him; ³ and they were coming to Him and saying, “^(C)Hail, King of the Jews!” and were ^(D)giving Him slaps in the face. ⁴ And Pilate ^(E)came out again and *said to them, “Behold, I am bringing Him out to you so that you may know that ^(F)I find no guilt in Him.” ⁵ Jesus then came out, ^(G)wearing the crown of thorns and the purple ^[c]robe. Pilate *said to them, “Behold, the man!” ⁶ So when the chief priests and the ^(H)officers saw Him, they cried out saying, “Crucify, crucify!” Pilate *said to them, “Take Him yourselves and crucify Him, for ^(I)I find no guilt in Him.” ⁷ The Jews answered him, “^(J)We have a law, and by that law He ought to die because He ^(K)made Himself out to be the Son of God.”

⁸ Therefore when Pilate heard this statement, he became more afraid; ⁹ and he ^(L)entered into the ^[d]Praetorium again and *said to Jesus, “Where are You from?” But ^(M)Jesus gave him no answer. ¹⁰ So 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 Jesus answered, “^(N)You would have no authority ^[e]over Me, unless it had been given you from above; for this reason ^(O)he who delivered Me to you has the greater sin.” ¹² As a result of this Pilate kept seeking to release Him, but the Jews cried out saying, “^(P)If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar; everyone who makes himself to be a king ^[f]opposes Caesar.”

¹³ Therefore when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and ^(Q)sat down on the judgment seat at a place called ^[g]The Stone Pavement, but ^(R)in ^[h]Hebrew, Gabbatha. ¹⁴ Now it was ^(S)the day of ^[i]Preparation for the Passover; it was about the ^[j](T)sixth hour. And he *said to the Jews, “Behold, ^(U)your King!” ¹⁵ So they cried out, “^(V)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 So he then ^(W)delivered Him over to them to be crucified.

^17 (X)They took Jesus, therefore, and He went out, ^[k](Y)bearing His own cross, to the place called ^(Z)the Place of a Skull, which is called ^(AA)in ^[l]Hebrew, Golgotha. ¹⁸ There they crucified Him, and with Him ^(AB)two other men, one on either side, and Jesus in between. ¹⁹ And Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It was written, “^(AC)JESUS THE NAZARENE, ^(AD)THE KING OF THE JEWS.” ²⁰ Therefore many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written ^(AE)in ^[m]Hebrew, Latin, and in Greek. ²¹ So the chief priests of the Jews were saying to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘^(AF)The King of the Jews;’ but that He said, ‘I am ^(AG)King of the Jews.’” ²² Pilate answered, “^(AH)What I have written I have written.”

²³ Then ^(AI)the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took His garments and made ^(AJ)four parts, a part to each soldier and also His ^[n]tunic; now that tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from the top. ²⁴ So they said to one another, “^(AK)Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, to decide whose it shall be;” ^(AL)this was in order that the Scripture would be fulfilled: “They ^(AM)divided My garments among them, and for My clothing they cast ^[o]lots.” ²⁵ Therefore the soldiers did these things.

^(AN)But standing by the cross of Jesus were ^(AO)His mother, and His mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and ^(AP)Mary Magdalene. ²⁶ When Jesus then saw His mother, and ^(AQ)the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He *said to His mother, “^(AR)Woman, behold, your son!” ²⁷ Then He *said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” From that hour the disciple took her into ^(AS)his home.

Scripture Fulfilled—It Is Finished

²⁸ After this, Jesus, ^(AT)knowing that all things had already been finished, ^(AU)in order ^[p]to finish the Scripture, *said, “^(AV)I am thirsty.” ²⁹ A jar full of sour wine was standing there; so ^(AW)they put a sponge full of the sour wine upon a branch of hyssop and brought it up to His mouth. ³⁰ Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “^(AX)It is finished!” And bowing His head, He ^(AY)gave up His spirit.

³¹ Then the Jews, because it was ^(AZ)the day of Preparation, so that ^(BA)the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (^[q]for that Sabbath was a ^(BB)high day), asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. ³² So the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first man and of the other who was ^(BC)crucified with Him; ³³ but coming to Jesus, when they saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs. ³⁴ But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately ^(BD)blood and water came out. ³⁵ And he who has seen has ^(BE)borne witness, and his witness is true; and he knows that he is telling the truth, so that you also may believe. ³⁶ For these things came to pass ^(BF)in order that the Scripture would be fulfilled, “^(BG)Not a bone of Him shall be ^[r]broken.” ³⁷ And again another Scripture says, “^(BH)They shall look on Him whom they pierced.”

Jesus Is Buried

^38 (BI)Now after these things Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but ^(BJ)secretly because of his ^(BK)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 (BL)And Nicodemus, who had first come to Him by night, also came, ^(BM)bringing a ^[s]mixture of ^(BN)myrrh and aloes, weighing about ^[t]one ^(BO)hundred litras. ⁴⁰ So they took the body of Jesus and ^(BP)bound it in ^(BQ)linen wrappings with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews. ⁴¹ Now in the place where He was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a ^(BR)new tomb ^(BS)in which no one had yet been laid. ⁴² Therefore because of the Jewish day of ^(BT)Preparation, since the tomb was ^(BU)nearby, they laid Jesus there.