15 But they cried out, “Away with Him, away with Him! Crucify Him!”

Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?”

The chief priests answered, (A)“We have no king but Caesar!”

16 (B)Then he delivered Him to them to be crucified. Then they took Jesus [a]and led Him away.

The King on a Cross(C)

17 (D)And He, bearing His cross, (E)went out to a place called the Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha,

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Footnotes

  1. John 19:16 NU omits and led Him away

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.

16 Finally Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified.(A)

The Crucifixion of Jesus(B)

So the soldiers took charge of Jesus. 17 Carrying his own cross,(C) he went out to the place of the Skull(D) (which in Aramaic(E) is called Golgotha).

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