约翰福音 19
Chinese New Version (Simplified)
19 那时,彼拉多吩咐人把耶稣拉去鞭打。 2 士兵用荆棘编成冠冕,戴在他的头上,又给他披上紫色的外袍, 3 然后来到他面前,说:“犹太人的王万岁!”并且用手掌打他。 4 彼拉多再次出到外面,对犹太人说:“看!我把他带出来给你们,让你们知道我查不出他有甚么罪。” 5 于是耶稣出来,戴着荆棘的冠冕,披着紫色的外袍。彼拉多对他们说:“看,这个人!” 6 祭司长和差役看见耶稣,就喊叫说:“把他钉十字架!把他钉十字架!”彼拉多对他们说:“你们自己把他带去钉十字架吧!我查不出他有甚么罪。” 7 犹太人回答:“我们有律法,根据那律法,他是该死的,因为他自命为 神的儿子。”
8 彼拉多听见这话,就更加害怕, 9 又进了官邸,问耶稣:“你究竟是从哪里来的?”耶稣却不回答他。 10 彼拉多对他说:“你不对我说话吗?你不知道我有权释放你,也有权把你钉十字架吗?” 11 耶稣说:“如果不是从天上给你权柄,你就无权办我;因此,把我交给你的那人,罪更重了。” 12 从那时起,彼拉多想释放耶稣;可是犹太人却喊叫说:“如果你释放这个人,就不是凯撒的忠臣了。凡是自命为王的,就是与凯撒为敌。”
13 彼拉多听了这些话,就把耶稣带到外面,到了一个名叫“铺石地”(希伯来话叫加巴大)的地方,就在那里开庭审问。 14 那天是逾越节的预备日,约在正午的时候。彼拉多对犹太人说:“看,你们的王!” 15 他们就喊叫起来:“除掉他!除掉他!把他钉十字架!”彼拉多问他们:“我可以把你们的王钉十字架吗?”祭司长回答:“除了凯撒,我们没有王!” 16 于是彼拉多把耶稣交给他们去钉十字架。
耶稣被钉十字架(A)
17 他们把耶稣带去了。耶稣自己背着十字架出来,到了一个名叫“髑髅”的地方,希伯来话叫各各他。 18 他们就在那里把耶稣钉在十字架上;和他一同钉十字架的,还有两个人,一边一个,耶稣在中间。 19 彼拉多写了一个牌子,放在十字架上头,写的是:“犹太人的王拿撒勒人耶稣。” 20 有许多犹太人念了这牌子上所写的,因为耶稣钉十字架的地方离城不远,而且那牌子是用希伯来文、拉丁文和希腊文写的。 21 犹太人的祭司长对彼拉多说:“不要写‘犹太人的王’,要写‘这个人自称:我是犹太人的王’。” 22 彼拉多说:“我所写的,我已经写了!”
23 士兵把耶稣钉了十字架之后,就把他的衣服拿来,分成四分,每个兵一分。他们又拿他的内衣;这内衣是没有缝的,是从上到下整件织成的。 24 因此,他们彼此说:“我们不要把它撕开,我们来抽签吧,看看是谁的。”这就应验了经上所说的:
“他们分了我的外衣,
又为我的内衣抽签。”
士兵果然这样作了。 25 站在耶稣十字架旁边的,有他母亲和他母亲的姊妹,还有高罗巴的妻子马利亚,和抹大拉的马利亚。 26 耶稣看见母亲,又看见他所爱的那门徒站在旁边,就对母亲说:“母亲(“母亲”原文作“妇人”),看!你的儿子。” 27 然后他对那门徒说:“看!你的母亲。”从那时起,那门徒就把她接到自己的家里去了。
耶稣死时的情形(B)
28 这事以后,耶稣知道一切都已经成就了,为了要使经上的话应验,就说:“我渴了。” 29 在那里有一个坛子,盛满了酸酒,他们就拿海绵浸了酸酒,绑在牛膝草上,送到他的口里。 30 耶稣尝了那酸酒,说:“成了!”就低下头,断了气。
31 因为那天是预备日,为了要避免尸体在安息日留在十字架上(因为那安息日是个重要的日子),犹太人就请求彼拉多打断那些被钉十字架的人的腿,把他们拿下来。 32 于是士兵来了,把和耶稣一同钉十字架的那两个人的腿都先后打断了。 33 他们来到耶稣那里,看见他已经死了,就没有打断他的腿。 34 但是有一个士兵用枪刺他的肋旁,立刻有血和水流出来。 35 那看见这事的人已经作证了,他的见证是真实的,他也知道自己所说的是实在的,使你们也相信。 36 这些事的发生,是要应验经上所说的:“他的骨头,一根也不可折断。” 37 另有一处经文说:“他们要仰望自己所刺的人。”
耶稣葬在新坟墓里(C)
38 这些事以后,有一个亚利马太人约瑟来求彼拉多,要领耶稣的身体;他因为怕犹太人,就暗暗地作耶稣的门徒。彼拉多批准了,他便把耶稣的身体领去。 39 从前夜间来见耶稣的尼哥德慕也来了,带着没药和沉香混合的香料,约有三十二公斤。 40 他们领取了耶稣的身体,照着犹太人的葬礼的规例,用细麻布和香料把他裹好。 41 在耶稣钉十字架的地方,有一个园子,园里有一个新的墓穴,是从来没有葬过人的。 42 因为那天是犹太人的预备日,又因为那墓穴就在附近,他们就把耶稣葬在那里。
John 19
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Chapter 19
1 [a](A)Then Pilate took Jesus and had him scourged. 2 And the soldiers wove a crown out of thorns and placed it on his head, and clothed him in a purple cloak, 3 and they came to him and said, “Hail, King of the Jews!” And they struck him repeatedly. 4 Once more Pilate went out and said to them, “Look, I am bringing him out to you, so that you may know that I find no guilt in him.”(B) 5 So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple cloak. And he said to them, “Behold, the man!”(C) 6 When the chief priests and the guards saw him they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him. I find no guilt in him.”(D) 7 [b]The Jews answered,(E) “We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.” 8 Now when Pilate heard this statement, he became even more afraid, 9 and went back into the praetorium and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” Jesus did not answer him.(F) 10 So Pilate said to him, “Do you not speak to me? Do you not know that I have power to release you and I have power to crucify you?” 11 Jesus answered [him], “You would have no power over me if it had not been given to you from above. For this reason the one who handed me over to you has the greater sin.”(G) 12 Consequently, Pilate tried to release him; but the Jews cried out, “If you release him, you are not a Friend of Caesar.[c] Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.”(H)
13 When Pilate heard these words he brought Jesus out and seated him[d] on the judge’s bench in the place called Stone Pavement, in Hebrew, Gabbatha. 14 It was preparation day for Passover, and it was about noon.[e] And he said to the Jews, “Behold, your king!” 15 They cried out, “Take him away, take him away! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your king?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.” 16 Then he handed him over to them to be crucified.[f]
The Crucifixion of Jesus. So they took Jesus, 17 (I)and carrying the cross himself[g] he went out to what is called the Place of the Skull, in Hebrew, Golgotha. 18 There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, with Jesus in the middle. 19 [h]Pilate also had an inscription written and put on the cross. It read, “Jesus the Nazorean, the King of the Jews.” 20 Now many of the Jews read this inscription, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek. 21 So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that he said, ‘I am the King of the Jews.’”(J) 22 Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”
23 [i]When the soldiers had crucified Jesus,(K) they took his clothes and divided them into four shares, a share for each soldier.(L) They also took his tunic, but the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from the top down. 24 So they said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it will be,” in order that the passage of scripture might be fulfilled [that says]:
“They divided my garments among them,
and for my vesture they cast lots.”
This is what the soldiers did. 25 [j](M)Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. 26 When Jesus saw his mother[k] and the disciple there whom he loved, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son.”(N) 27 Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.
28 (O)After this, aware that everything was now finished, in order that the scripture might be fulfilled,[l] Jesus said, “I thirst.”(P) 29 There was a vessel filled with common wine.[m] So they put a sponge soaked in wine on a sprig of hyssop and put it up to his mouth. 30 [n]When Jesus had taken the wine, he said, “It is finished.”(Q) And bowing his head, he handed over the spirit.
The Blood and Water. 31 Now since it was preparation day, in order that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath, for the sabbath day of that week was a solemn one, the Jews asked Pilate that their legs be broken and they be taken down.(R) 32 So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and then of the other one who was crucified with Jesus. 33 But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs, 34 [o](S)but one soldier thrust his lance into his side, and immediately blood and water flowed out. 35 An eyewitness has testified, and his testimony is true; he knows[p] that he is speaking the truth, so that you also may [come to] believe.(T) 36 For this happened so that the scripture passage might be fulfilled:
“Not a bone of it will be broken.”(U)
37 And again another passage says:
“They will look upon him whom they have pierced.”(V)
The Burial of Jesus.[q] 38 (W)After this, Joseph of Arimathea, secretly a disciple of Jesus for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate if he could remove the body of Jesus. And Pilate permitted it. So he came and took his body. 39 Nicodemus, the one who had first come to him at night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about one hundred pounds.(X) 40 They took the body of Jesus and bound it with burial cloths along with the spices, according to the Jewish burial custom. 41 Now in the place where he had been crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had yet been buried. 42 So they laid Jesus there because of the Jewish preparation day; for the tomb was close by.
Footnotes
- 19:1 Luke places the mockery of Jesus at the midpoint in the trial when Jesus was sent to Herod. Mark and Matthew place the scourging and mockery at the end of the trial after the sentence of death. Scourging was an integral part of the crucifixion penalty.
- 19:7 Made himself the Son of God: this question was not raised in John’s account of the Jewish interrogations of Jesus as it was in the synoptic account. Nevertheless, see Jn 5:18; 8:53; 10:36.
- 19:12 Friend of Caesar: a Roman honorific title bestowed upon high-ranking officials for merit.
- 19:13 Seated him: others translate “(Pilate) sat down.” In John’s thought, Jesus is the real judge of the world, and John may here be portraying him seated on the judgment bench. Stone Pavement: in Greek lithostrotos; under the fortress Antonia, one of the conjectured locations of the praetorium, a massive stone pavement has been excavated. Gabbatha (Aramaic rather than Hebrew) probably means “ridge, elevation.”
- 19:14 Noon: Mk 15:25 has Jesus crucified “at the third hour,” which means either 9 a.m. or the period from 9 a.m. to 12 noon, the time when, according to John, Jesus was sentenced to death, was the hour at which the priests began to slaughter Passover lambs in the temple; see Jn 1:29.
- 19:16 He handed him over to them to be crucified: in context this would seem to mean “handed him over to the chief priests.” Lk 23:25 has a similar ambiguity. There is a polemic tendency in the gospels to place the guilt of the crucifixion on the Jewish authorities and to exonerate the Romans from blame. But John later mentions the Roman soldiers (Jn 19:23), and it was to these soldiers that Pilate handed Jesus over.
- 19:17 Carrying the cross himself: a different picture from that of the synoptics, especially Lk 23:26, where Simon of Cyrene is made to carry the cross, walking behind Jesus. In John’s theology, Jesus remained in complete control and master of his destiny (cf. Jn 10:18). Place of the Skull: the Latin word for skull is Calvaria; hence “Calvary.” Golgotha is actually an Aramaic rather than a Hebrew word.
- 19:19 The inscription differs with slightly different words in each of the four gospels. John’s form is fullest and gives the equivalent of the Latin INRI = Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum. Only John mentions its polyglot character (Jn 19:20) and Pilate’s role in keeping the title unchanged (Jn 19:21–22).
- 19:23–25a While all four gospels describe the soldiers casting lots to divide Jesus’ garments (see note on Mt 27:35), only John quotes the underlying passage from Ps 22:19, and only John sees each line of the poetic parallelism literally carried out in two separate actions (Jn 19:23–24).
- 19:25 It is not clear whether four women are meant, or three (i.e., Mary the wife of Cl[e]opas [cf. Lk 24:18] is in apposition with his mother’s sister) or two (his mother and his mother’s sister, i.e., Mary of Cl[e]opas and Mary of Magdala). Only John mentions the mother of Jesus here. The synoptics have a group of women looking on from a distance at the cross (Mk 15:40).
- 19:26–27 This scene has been interpreted literally, of Jesus’ concern for his mother; and symbolically, e.g., in the light of the Cana story in Jn 2 (the presence of the mother of Jesus, the address woman, and the mention of the hour) and of the upper room in Jn 13 (the presence of the beloved disciple; the hour). Now that the hour has come (Jn 19:28), Mary (a symbol of the church?) is given a role as the mother of Christians (personified by the beloved disciple); or, as a representative of those seeking salvation, she is supported by the disciple who interprets Jesus’ revelation; or Jewish and Gentile Christianity (or Israel and the Christian community) are reconciled.
- 19:28 The scripture…fulfilled: either in the scene of Jn 19:25–27, or in the I thirst of Jn 19:28. If the latter, Ps 22:16; 69:22 deserve consideration.
- 19:29 Wine: John does not mention the drugged wine, a narcotic that Jesus refused as the crucifixion began (Mk 15:23), but only this final gesture of kindness at the end (Mk 15:36). Hyssop, a small plant, is scarcely suitable for carrying a sponge (Mark mentions a reed) and may be a symbolic reference to the hyssop used to daub the blood of the paschal lamb on the doorpost of the Hebrews (Ex 12:22).
- 19:30 Handed over the spirit: there is a double nuance of dying (giving up the last breath or spirit) and that of passing on the holy Spirit; see Jn 7:39, which connects the giving of the Spirit with Jesus’ glorious return to the Father, and Jn 20:22, where the author portrays the conferral of the Spirit.
- 19:34–35 John probably emphasizes these verses to show the reality of Jesus’ death, against the docetic heretics. In the blood and water there may also be a symbolic reference to the Eucharist and baptism.
- 19:35 He knows: it is not certain from the Greek that this he is the eyewitness of the first part of the sentence. May [come to] believe: see note on Jn 20:31.
- 19:38–42 In the first three gospels there is no anointing on Friday. In Matthew and Luke the women come to the tomb on Sunday morning precisely to anoint Jesus.
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