New Testament in a Year

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.”