1Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged.

2The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown and put it on His head, and they put a purple robe on Him.

3They kept coming up to Him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and slapping Him on the face.

4Pilate then went out again, and told the Jews, “Look, I’m bringing Him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against Him.”

5Then Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, and Pilate said to them, “Look! Here is the man!”

6When the chief priests and officers saw Him, they shouted “Crucify Him! Crucify Him!” Pilate told them, “You take Him and crucify Him, because I find no basis for a charge against Him.”

7The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to our law He ought to die, because He claimed to be God’s Son.”

8When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid,

9and went back into the Praetorium, and asked Jesus, “Where are You from?” But Jesus didn’t answer him.

10Pilate therefore asked him, “Do you refuse to speak to me? Don’t you know that I have authority to release you, and authority to crucify you?”

11Jesus answered, “You would have no authority at all against me unless it had been given you from above. Therefore the one who delivered me to you has the greater sin.”

12From then on, Pilate tried to release Him, but the Jews shouted, “If you let this man go, you aren’t Caesar’s friend. Whoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar.”

13Therefore when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called “The Pavement,” but in Hebrew, “Gabbatha.”

14Now it was the day of preparation for the Passover. It was about the sixth hour. ³⁹Pilate told the Jews, “Look! Here is your King!”

15They therefore shouted, “Away with Him! Away with Him! Crucify Him!” Pilate asked them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!”

16Then Pilate delivered Jesus to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led Him away.

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

18There they crucified Him, and two others with Him, one on either side, with Jesus in the center.

19Now Pilate wrote a notice, and put it on the cross. The notice said:
“JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”

20Then many of the Jews read this notice, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.

21Therefore the chief priests of the Jews told Pilate, “Don’t write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but, ‘He said, “I am the King of the Jews.”’”

22Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”

23When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they split His garments into four parts, to each soldier a part, including the tunic. Now the tunic was without seam, woven from the top in one piece.

24Therefore they said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but cast lots to see whose it will be,” that the Scripture might be fulfilled which says: “They divided my garments among them, And for my clothing they cast lots.” ⁴⁰So the soldiers did these things.

25Now Jesus’ mother, His mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene stood by Jesus’ cross.

26Therefore when Jesus saw His mother, and the disciple who He sincerely loved standing by, He told His mother, “Woman, here is your son!”

27Then He told the disciple, “Here is your mother!” From that hour, that disciple took her into his own home.

28After this, Jesus, knowing that everything was now accomplished, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I’m thirsty!”

29A jar full of vinegar ⁴¹was standing there, so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on a hyssop stalk, and lifted it up to His mouth.

30When Jesus had received the vinegar, He said, “It is finished!” Then, He bowed His head, and gave up His spirit.

31Because it was the Preparation Day, ⁴²the Jews asked Pilate for the prisoners’ legs to be broken, and that they might be taken away, so that the bodies wouldn’t stay on the cross on the Sabbath (because that Sabbath was a special one).

32Then the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man and of the other man who was crucified with Jesus,

33but when they came to Jesus and saw that He was already dead, they didn’t break His legs.

34Instead, one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.

35He who saw it has testified, and his testimony is true; and he knows that he is telling the truth, so that you may believe.

36These things were done so that the Scripture should be fulfilled, “Not one of His bones shall be broken.” ⁴³

37Another Scripture says, “They will look on Him who they pierced.” ⁴⁴

38After this, Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly, for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate if he could take the body of Jesus away; and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took the body of Jesus.

39Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came, bringing about a hundred Roman pounds ⁴⁵of a mixture of myrrh ⁴⁶and aloes. ⁴⁷

40So they took the body of Jesus, and wrapped it in strips of linen with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.

41In the place where He was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had yet been laid.

42Because of the Jewish Preparation Day, and because the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.