Deuteronomy 31-34
English Standard Version
Joshua to Succeed Moses
31 So Moses continued to speak these words to all Israel. 2 And he said to them, “I am (A)120 years old today. I am no longer able to (B)go out and come in. The Lord has said to me, (C)‘You shall not go over this Jordan.’ 3 The Lord your God (D)himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations before you, so that you shall dispossess them, and Joshua will go over at your head, (E)as the Lord has spoken. 4 And the Lord will do to them (F)as he did to Sihon (G)and Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, when he destroyed them. 5 And the Lord will give them over to you, and you shall do to them (H)according to the whole commandment that I have commanded you. 6 (I)Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, (J)for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. (K)He will not leave you or forsake you.”
7 Then (L)Moses summoned Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, (M)“Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land that the Lord has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you shall put them in possession of it. 8 It is the Lord (N)who goes before you. He will be with you; (O)he will not leave you or forsake you. (P)Do not fear or be dismayed.”
The Reading of the Law
9 Then Moses (Q)wrote this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, (R)who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to all the elders of Israel. 10 And Moses commanded them, (S)“At the end of every seven years, at the set time in the year of release, at (T)the Feast of Booths, 11 when all Israel comes (U)to appear before the Lord your God at the place that he will choose, (V)you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing. 12 (W)Assemble the people, men, women, and little ones, and the sojourner within your towns, that they may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, and be careful to do all the words of this law, 13 and that their children, (X)who have not known it, (Y)may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, (Z)as long as you live in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.”
Joshua Commissioned to Lead Israel
14 And the Lord said to Moses, (AA)“Behold, the days approach when you must die. Call Joshua and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, that (AB)I may commission him.” And Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the tent of meeting. 15 And (AC)the Lord appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud. And the pillar of cloud stood over the entrance of the tent.
16 And the Lord said to Moses, (AD)“Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise and (AE)whore after the foreign gods among them in the land that they are entering, and they will (AF)forsake me and (AG)break my covenant that I have made with them. 17 Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and (AH)I will forsake them and (AI)hide my face from them, and they will be devoured. And many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, (AJ)‘Have not these evils come upon us because (AK)our God is not among us?’ 18 And I will surely hide my face in that day because of all the evil that they have done, because (AL)they have turned to other gods.
19 “Now therefore write (AM)this song and (AN)teach it to the people of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be (AO)a witness for me against the people of Israel. 20 For when I have brought them into the land (AP)flowing with milk and honey, which I swore to give to their fathers, and they have eaten and are full and (AQ)grown fat, (AR)they will turn to other gods and serve them, and (AS)despise me and (AT)break my covenant. 21 And when many evils and troubles have come upon them, this song shall confront them as (AU)a witness (for it will live unforgotten in the mouths of their offspring). For (AV)I know what they are inclined to do even today, before I have brought them into the land that I swore to give.” 22 So Moses wrote this song the same day and taught it to the people of Israel.
23 (AW)And the Lord[a] commissioned Joshua the son of Nun and said, (AX)“Be strong and courageous, for you shall bring the people of Israel into the land that I swore to give them. (AY)I will be with you.”
24 When Moses had finished (AZ)writing the words of this law in a book to the very end, 25 Moses commanded (BA)the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, 26 “Take this Book of the Law (BB)and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there for (BC)a witness against you. 27 For I know how rebellious and (BD)stubborn you are. Behold, even today while I am yet alive with you, (BE)you have been rebellious against the Lord. How much more after my death! 28 Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak (BF)these words in their ears and (BG)call heaven and earth to witness against them. 29 For I know that after my death (BH)you will surely act corruptly and turn aside from the way that I have commanded you. And (BI)in the days to come (BJ)evil will befall you, because you will do what is evil in the sight of the Lord, (BK)provoking him to anger through the work of your hands.”
The Song of Moses
30 Then Moses spoke the words of this song until they were finished, in the ears of all the assembly of Israel:
32 “Give ear, (BL)O heavens, and I will speak,
and let (BM)the earth hear the words of my mouth.
2 May (BN)my teaching drop as the rain,
my speech distill as the dew,
like gentle rain upon the tender grass,
and (BO)like showers upon the herb.
3 For I will proclaim the name of the Lord;
ascribe (BP)greatness to our God!
4 (BQ)“The Rock, (BR)his work is perfect,
for (BS)all his ways are justice.
A God of faithfulness and (BT)without iniquity,
just and upright is he.
5 They have dealt corruptly with him;
they are no longer his children (BU)because they are blemished;
they are (BV)a crooked and twisted generation.
6 Do you thus repay the Lord,
you foolish and senseless people?
Is not he (BW)your father, who (BX)created you,
who (BY)made you and established you?
7 (BZ)Remember the days of old;
consider the years of many generations;
(CA)ask your father, and he will show you,
your elders, and they will tell you.
8 When the Most High (CB)gave to the nations their inheritance,
when he (CC)divided mankind,
he fixed the borders[b] of the peoples
according to the number of the sons of God.[c]
9 But the Lord's portion is his people,
Jacob his allotted heritage.
10 “He found him (CD)in a desert land,
and in the howling waste of the wilderness;
he (CE)encircled him, he cared for him,
he (CF)kept him as the apple of his eye.
11 (CG)Like an eagle that stirs up its nest,
that flutters over its young,
spreading out its wings, catching them,
bearing them on its pinions,
12 (CH)the Lord alone guided him,
(CI)no foreign god was with him.
13 (CJ)He made him ride on the high places of the land,
and he ate the produce of the field,
and he suckled him with (CK)honey out of the rock,
and (CL)oil out of (CM)the flinty rock.
14 Curds from the herd, and milk from the flock,
with fat[d] of lambs,
rams of Bashan and goats,
with the very finest[e] of the wheat—
and you drank foaming wine made from (CN)the blood of the grape.
15 “But (CO)Jeshurun grew fat, and (CP)kicked;
(CQ)you grew fat, stout, and sleek;
(CR)then he forsook God (CS)who made him
and scoffed at (CT)the Rock of his salvation.
16 (CU)They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods;
with abominations they provoked him to anger.
17 (CV)They sacrificed to demons that were no gods,
to gods they had never known,
to (CW)new gods that had come recently,
whom your fathers had never dreaded.
18 You were unmindful of (CX)the Rock that bore[f] you,
and you (CY)forgot the God who gave you birth.
19 (CZ)“The Lord saw it and spurned them,
because of the provocation of (DA)his sons and his daughters.
20 And he said, (DB)‘I will hide my face from them;
I will see what their end will be,
for they are a perverse generation,
children in whom is no faithfulness.
21 (DC)They have made me jealous with what is no god;
they have provoked me to anger (DD)with their idols.
So (DE)I will make them jealous with those who are no people;
I will provoke them to anger with (DF)a foolish nation.
22 For (DG)a fire is kindled by my anger,
and it burns to (DH)the depths of Sheol,
devours the earth and its increase,
and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
23 “‘And I will heap disasters upon them;
(DI)I will spend my arrows on them;
24 they shall be wasted with hunger,
and devoured by plague
and poisonous pestilence;
I will send (DJ)the teeth of beasts against them,
with the venom of (DK)things that crawl in the dust.
25 (DL)Outdoors the sword shall bereave,
and indoors terror,
for young man and woman alike,
the nursing child with the man of gray hairs.
26 (DM)I would have said, “I will cut them to pieces;
(DN)I will wipe them from human memory,”
27 had I not feared provocation by the enemy,
lest their adversaries should misunderstand,
lest they should say, (DO)“Our hand is triumphant,
it was not the Lord who did all this.”’
28 “For they are a nation void of counsel,
and there is (DP)no understanding in them.
29 (DQ)If they were wise, they would understand this;
they would (DR)discern their latter end!
30 How could (DS)one have chased a thousand,
and two have put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock (DT)had sold them,
and the Lord had given them up?
31 For (DU)their rock is not as our Rock;
(DV)our enemies are by themselves.
32 For their vine (DW)comes from the vine of Sodom
and from the fields of Gomorrah;
their grapes are grapes of (DX)poison;
their clusters are bitter;
33 their wine is the poison of (DY)serpents
and the cruel venom of asps.
34 “‘Is not this laid up in store with me,
(DZ)sealed up in my treasuries?
35 (EA)Vengeance is mine, and recompense,[g]
(EB)for the time when their foot shall slip;
for (EC)the day of their calamity is at hand,
and their doom comes swiftly.’
36 For (ED)the Lord will vindicate[h] his people
(EE)and have compassion on his servants,
when he sees that their power is gone
and there is none remaining, (EF)bond or free.
37 Then he will say, (EG)‘Where are their gods,
(EH)the rock in which they took refuge,
38 who ate the fat of their sacrifices
and drank the wine of their drink offering?
Let them rise up and help you;
let them be your protection!
39 “‘See now that (EI)I, even I, am he,
and there is no god beside me;
(EJ)I kill and I make alive;
(EK)I wound and I heal;
and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
40 For (EL)I lift up my hand to heaven
and swear, As I live forever,
41 if I (EM)sharpen my flashing sword[i]
and my hand takes hold on judgment,
I will take vengeance on my adversaries
and will repay those who hate me.
42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood,
and (EN)my sword shall devour flesh—
with the blood of the slain and the captives,
from the (EO)long-haired heads of the enemy.’
43 (EP)“Rejoice with him, O heavens;[j]
bow down to him, all gods,[k]
for he (EQ)avenges the blood of his children[l]
and takes vengeance on his adversaries.
He repays those who hate him[m]
and cleanses[n] his people's land.”[o]
44 Moses came and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he and (ER)Joshua[p] the son of Nun. 45 And when Moses had finished speaking all these words to all Israel, 46 he said to them, (ES)“Take to heart all the words by which I am warning you today, (ET)that you may command them to your children, that they may be careful to do all the words of this law. 47 For it is no empty word for you, (EU)but your very life, and by this word you shall live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.”
Moses' Death Foretold
48 That very day the Lord spoke to Moses, 49 “Go up (EV)this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, opposite Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel for a possession. 50 And die on the mountain which you go up, and be gathered to your people, as (EW)Aaron your brother died in Mount Hor and was gathered to his people, 51 (EX)because you broke faith with me in the midst of the people of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin, and because you did not treat me as holy in the midst of the people of Israel. 52 For (EY)you shall see the land before you, but you shall not go there, into the land that I am giving to the people of Israel.”
Moses' Final Blessing on Israel
33 This is the blessing with which Moses (EZ)the man of God blessed the people of Israel before his death. 2 He said,
(FA)“The Lord came from Sinai
and dawned from Seir upon us;[q]
he shone forth from Mount Paran;
he came (FB)from the ten thousands of holy ones,
with flaming fire[r] at his right hand.
3 Yes, (FC)he loved his people,[s]
(FD)all his holy ones were in his[t] hand;
(FE)so they followed[u] in your steps,
receiving direction from you,
4 when (FF)Moses commanded us a law,
as a possession for the assembly of Jacob.
5 Thus the Lord[v] (FG)became king in (FH)Jeshurun,
when the heads of the people were gathered,
all the tribes of Israel together.
6 (FI)“Let Reuben live, and not die,
but let his men be few.”
7 And this he said of Judah:
“Hear, O Lord, the voice of Judah,
and bring him in to his people.
With your hands contend[w] for him,
and be a help against his adversaries.”
8 And (FJ)of Levi he said,
“Give to Levi[x] (FK)your Thummim,
and your Urim to your godly one,
(FL)whom you tested at Massah,
with whom you quarreled at the waters of Meribah;
9 who said of his father and mother,
‘I regard them not’;
(FM)he disowned his brothers
and ignored his children.
For (FN)they observed your word
and kept your covenant.
10 (FO)They shall teach Jacob your rules
and Israel your law;
(FP)they shall put incense before you
and (FQ)whole burnt offerings on your altar.
11 Bless, O Lord, his substance,
and (FR)accept the work of his hands;
crush the loins of his adversaries,
of those who hate him, that they rise not again.”
12 (FS)Of Benjamin he said,
“The beloved of the Lord dwells in safety.
The High God[y] surrounds him all day long,
and dwells between his shoulders.”
13 And (FT)of Joseph he said,
(FU)“Blessed by the Lord be his land,
with the choicest gifts of heaven (FV)above,[z]
and of the deep that crouches beneath,
14 with the choicest fruits of the sun
and the rich yield of the months,
15 with the finest produce of the ancient mountains
and the abundance of (FW)the everlasting hills,
16 with the best gifts of the earth and (FX)its fullness
and the favor of (FY)him who dwells in the bush.
May these rest on the head of Joseph,
on the pate of him who is prince among his brothers.
17 (FZ)A firstborn bull[aa]—he has majesty,
and his horns are the horns of a (GA)wild ox;
with them (GB)he shall gore the peoples,
all of them, to the ends of the earth;
(GC)they are the ten thousands of Ephraim,
and they are the thousands of Manasseh.”
18 And of Zebulun he said,
(GD)“Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out,
and Issachar, in your tents.
19 They shall call peoples (GE)to their mountain;
there they offer (GF)right sacrifices;
for they draw from the abundance of the seas
and the hidden treasures of the sand.”
20 And (GG)of Gad he said,
“Blessed be he who enlarges Gad!
Gad crouches (GH)like a lion;
he tears off arm and scalp.
21 (GI)He chose the best of the land for himself,
for there a commander's portion was reserved;
and (GJ)he came with the heads of the people,
with Israel he executed the justice of the Lord,
and his judgments for Israel.”
22 And (GK)of Dan he said,
23 And (GN)of Naphtali he said,
“O Naphtali, sated with favor,
and full of the blessing of the Lord,
(GO)possess the lake[ab] and the south.”
24 And (GP)of Asher he said,
“Most blessed of sons be Asher;
let him be the favorite of his brothers,
and let him (GQ)dip his foot in oil.
25 Your bars shall be iron and bronze,
and as your days, so shall your strength be.
26 (GR)“There is none like God, O (GS)Jeshurun,
(GT)who rides through the heavens to your help,
through the skies in his majesty.
27 The eternal God is your (GU)dwelling place,[ac]
and underneath are the everlasting arms.[ad]
And he thrust out the enemy before you
and said, ‘Destroy.’
28 So Israel lived in safety,
(GV)Jacob lived (GW)alone,[ae]
in a land of grain and wine,
whose heavens drop down dew.
29 Happy are you, O Israel! (GX)Who is like you,
a people (GY)saved by the Lord,
(GZ)the shield of your help,
and the sword of your triumph!
Your enemies shall come fawning to you,
and you shall tread upon their backs.”
The Death of Moses
34 Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab (HA)to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho. And the Lord showed him all the land, Gilead as far as Dan, 2 all Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah (HB)as far as the western sea, 3 (HC)the Negeb, and (HD)the Plain, that is, the Valley of Jericho (HE)the city of palm trees, as far as (HF)Zoar. 4 And the Lord said to him, (HG)“This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, ‘I will give it to your offspring.’ (HH)I have let you see it with your eyes, but (HI)you shall not go over there.” 5 So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord, 6 and he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth-peor; but (HJ)no one knows the place of his burial to this day. 7 (HK)Moses was 120 years old when he died. (HL)His eye was undimmed, and his vigor unabated. 8 And the people of Israel (HM)wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days. Then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
9 And Joshua the son of Nun was full of (HN)the spirit of wisdom, for (HO)Moses had laid his hands on him. So (HP)the people of Israel obeyed him and did as the Lord had commanded Moses. 10 And there has not (HQ)arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, (HR)whom the Lord knew face to face, 11 none like him for all (HS)the signs and the wonders that the Lord sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land, 12 and for all the mighty power and all the great deeds of terror that Moses did in the sight of all Israel.
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 31:23 Hebrew he
- Deuteronomy 32:8 Or territories
- Deuteronomy 32:8 Compare Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint; Masoretic Text sons of Israel
- Deuteronomy 32:14 That is, with the best
- Deuteronomy 32:14 Hebrew with the kidney fat
- Deuteronomy 32:18 Or fathered
- Deuteronomy 32:35 Septuagint and I will repay
- Deuteronomy 32:36 Septuagint judge
- Deuteronomy 32:41 Hebrew the lightning of my sword
- Deuteronomy 32:43 Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint; Masoretic Text Rejoice his people, O nations
- Deuteronomy 32:43 Masoretic Text lacks bow down to him, all gods
- Deuteronomy 32:43 Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint; Masoretic Text servants
- Deuteronomy 32:43 Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint; Masoretic Text lacks He repays those who hate him
- Deuteronomy 32:43 Or atones for
- Deuteronomy 32:43 Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew his land his people
- Deuteronomy 32:44 Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew Hoshea
- Deuteronomy 33:2 Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew them
- Deuteronomy 33:2 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
- Deuteronomy 33:3 Septuagint; Hebrew peoples
- Deuteronomy 33:3 Hebrew your
- Deuteronomy 33:3 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
- Deuteronomy 33:5 Hebrew Thus he
- Deuteronomy 33:7 Probable reading; Hebrew With his hands he contended
- Deuteronomy 33:8 Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint; Masoretic Text lacks Give to Levi
- Deuteronomy 33:12 Septuagint; Hebrew dwells in safety by him. He
- Deuteronomy 33:13 Two Hebrew manuscripts and Targum; Hebrew with the dew
- Deuteronomy 33:17 Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint, Samaritan; Masoretic Text His firstborn bull
- Deuteronomy 33:23 Or west
- Deuteronomy 33:27 Or a dwelling place
- Deuteronomy 33:27 Revocalization of verse 27 yields He subdues the ancient gods, and shatters the forces of old
- Deuteronomy 33:28 Hebrew the abode of Jacob was alone
Proverbs 17
English Standard Version
17 (A)Better is a dry morsel with quiet
than a house full of feasting[a] with strife.
2 A servant who deals wisely will rule over (B)a son who acts shamefully
and (C)will share the inheritance as one of the brothers.
3 (D)The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold,
(E)and the Lord tests hearts.
4 An evildoer listens to wicked lips,
and a liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.
5 Whoever mocks the poor (F)insults his Maker;
he who is (G)glad at calamity will not go (H)unpunished.
6 (I)Grandchildren are (J)the crown of the aged,
and the glory of children is their fathers.
7 Fine speech is not (K)becoming to a fool;
still less is (L)false speech to a prince.
8 (M)A bribe is like a magic[b] stone in the eyes of the one who gives it;
wherever he turns he prospers.
9 Whoever (N)covers an offense seeks love,
but he who repeats a matter (O)separates close friends.
10 A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding
than a hundred blows into a fool.
11 An evil man seeks only rebellion,
and (P)a cruel messenger will be sent against him.
12 Let a man meet (Q)a she-bear robbed of her cubs
(R)rather than a fool in his folly.
13 If anyone (S)returns evil for good,
(T)evil will not depart from his house.
14 The beginning of strife is like letting out water,
so (U)quit before the quarrel breaks out.
15 He who (V)justifies the wicked and he who (W)condemns the righteous
are both alike an abomination to the Lord.
16 Why should a fool have money in his hand (X)to buy wisdom
when he has no sense?
17 (Y)A friend loves at all times,
and a brother is born for adversity.
18 One who lacks sense gives a pledge
and puts up security in the presence of his neighbor.
19 Whoever loves transgression loves strife;
he who (Z)makes his door high seeks destruction.
20 (AA)A man of crooked heart does not discover good,
and one with a dishonest tongue falls into calamity.
21 He who (AB)sires a fool gets himself sorrow,
and the father of a fool has no joy.
22 (AC)A joyful heart is good medicine,
but a crushed spirit (AD)dries up the bones.
23 The wicked accepts (AE)a bribe in secret[c]
to (AF)pervert the ways of justice.
24 (AG)The discerning sets his face toward wisdom,
but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.
25 (AH)A foolish son is a grief to his father
(AI)and bitterness to (AJ)her who bore him.
26 (AK)To impose a fine on a righteous man is not good,
nor to strike the noble for their uprightness.
27 Whoever (AL)restrains his words has knowledge,
and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.
28 Even a fool (AM)who keeps silent is considered wise;
when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 17:1 Hebrew sacrifices
- Proverbs 17:8 Or precious
- Proverbs 17:23 Hebrew a bribe from the bosom
John 19
English Standard Version
Jesus Delivered to Be Crucified
19 Then Pilate took Jesus and (A)flogged him. 2 (B)And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe. 3 They came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and struck him with their hands. 4 Pilate went out again and said to them, “See, I am bringing him out to you that you may know that (C)I find no guilt in him.” 5 So Jesus came out, wearing (D)the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, (E)“Behold the man!” 6 When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, (F)“Take him yourselves and crucify him, for (G)I find no guilt in him.” 7 The Jews[a] answered him, “We have a law, and (H)according to that law he ought to die because (I)he has made himself the Son of God.” 8 When Pilate heard this statement, (J)he was even more afraid. 9 (K)He entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus, (L)“Where are you from?” But (M)Jesus gave him no answer. 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?” 11 Jesus answered him, (N)“You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore (O)he who delivered me over to you (P)has the greater sin.”
12 From then on (Q)Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend. (R)Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.” 13 So when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on (S)the judgment seat at a place called The Stone Pavement, and in Aramaic[b] Gabbatha. 14 Now it was (T)the day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour.[c] He said to the Jews, (U)“Behold your King!” 15 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.” 16 (W)So he (X)delivered him over to them to be crucified.
The Crucifixion
So they took Jesus, 17 and (Y)he went out, (Z)bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha. 18 (AA)There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them. 19 Pilate (AB)also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.” 20 Many of the Jews read this inscription, for (AC)the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Aramaic, in Latin, and in Greek. 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.’” 22 Pilate answered, (AD)“What I have written I have written.”
23 (AE)When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts, one part for each soldier; also his tunic.[d] But the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom, 24 so they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it shall be.” (AF)This was to fulfill the Scripture which says,
(AG)“They divided my garments among them,
and for my clothing they cast lots.”
So the soldiers did these things, 25 (AH)but standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 When Jesus saw his mother and (AI)the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, (AJ)“Woman, behold, your son!” 27 Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to (AK)his own home.
The Death of Jesus
28 After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now (AL)finished, said ((AM)to fulfill the Scripture), (AN)“I thirst.” 29 A jar full of sour wine stood there, (AO)so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth. 30 When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, (AP)“It is finished,” and he bowed his head and (AQ)gave up his spirit.
Jesus' Side Is Pierced
31 Since it was (AR)the day of Preparation, and (AS)so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was (AT)a high day), the Jews 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, and of the other (AU)who had been crucified with him. 33 But when they came to Jesus and 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 at once there came out (AV)blood and water. 35 (AW)He who saw it has borne witness—(AX)his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth—(AY)that you also may believe. 36 (AZ)For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled: (BA)“Not one of his bones (BB)will be broken.” 37 And again another Scripture says, (BC)“They will look on him whom they have pierced.”
Jesus Is Buried
38 (BD)After these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly (BE)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. 39 (BF)Nicodemus also, who earlier had come to Jesus[e] by night, came (BG)bringing a mixture of (BH)myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds[f] in weight. 40 So they took the body of Jesus and (BI)bound it in (BJ)linen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews. 41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a (BK)garden, and (BL)in the garden a new tomb (BM)in which no one had yet been laid. 42 So because of the Jewish (BN)day of Preparation, (BO)since the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there.
Footnotes
- John 19:7 Greek Ioudaioi probably refers here to Jewish religious leaders, and others under their influence, in that time; also verses 12, 14, 31, 38
- John 19:13 Or Hebrew; also verses 17, 20
- John 19:14 That is, about noon
- John 19:23 Greek chiton, a long garment worn under the cloak next to the skin
- John 19:39 Greek him
- John 19:39 Greek one hundred litras; a litra (or Roman pound) was equal to about 11 1/2 ounces or 327 grams
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