Soldiers mock Jesus

1So then Pilate took Jesus and had Him flogged.

2And the soldiers twisted a crown out of [poisonous] thorns and put it on His head; they also threw a purple robe around Him

3and started saying, “Hail, O King of the Jews!” And they slapped Him repeatedly.

“Behold the Man!”

4Pilate then went out again and says to them, “Look, I am bringing him out to you so that you may know that I find no crime in him at all.” ⁵⁴⁸

5Then Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe; and Pilate says to them, “Look at the man!”

6Well when the chief priests and the operatives saw Him they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify him!” Pilate says to them, “You take and crucify him, because I find no crime in him.” ⁵⁴⁹

7The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die, because he made himself ‘Son of God’!”

Pilate and Jesus, again

8Hey, when Pilate heard this statement he was more afraid than ever! ⁵⁵⁰

9So back into the Praetorium he went and says to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus did not answer him.

10So Pilate says to Him: “Are you not speaking to me? Don't you know that I have authority to crucify you and authority to release you?”

11Jesus answered: “You would have no authority over me at all if it had not been given to you from Above. ⁵⁵¹Therefore the one who handed me over to you has the greater sin.”

The Jews best Pilate

12From that moment Pilate really tried to release Him; but the Jews kept shouting, saying: “If you release this fellow you are no friend of Caesar's! Whoever makes himself a king is opposing Caesar!” ⁵⁵²

13Well, upon hearing this statement Pilate led Jesus outside and sat down on the judgment seat, in a place called ‘Stone Pavement’, while in Hebrew ‘Gabatha’ ⁵⁵³

14(now it was the day of preparation for the Passover; ⁵⁵⁴the hour was about six a.m.), ⁵⁵⁵and he says to the Jews, “Look at your king!”

15But they shouted, “Out! Out! Crucify him!” Pilate says to them, “Shall I crucify your king?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!” ⁵⁵⁶

16So then he handed Him over to them to be crucified. Jesus is crucified So they took Jesus and lead Him away.

17And carrying His cross He went out to the place called ‘Skull’, which in Hebrew is called ‘Golgotha’;

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

19Now Pilate had also written a notice, and put it on the cross; and the inscription was: JESUS THE NATSOREAN ⁵⁵⁷THE KING OF THE JEWS.

20So many of the Jews read this notice, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; further, it was written in Hebrew, Greek and Latin! ⁵⁵⁸

21So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Don't write, ‘The king of the Jews’, but that the fellow said, ‘I am the king of the Jews.’ ”

22Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written!” ⁵⁵⁹

Psalm 22:18 is fulfilled

23Now when the soldiers had crucified Jesus they took His clothes and made four parts, a part for each soldier. ⁵⁶⁰They also took His tunic, but the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from the top.

24So they said among themselves, “Let's not rip it, but toss for it, to see whose it will be,” so that the Scripture might be fulfilled which says: “They divided my clothes among themselves, and for my clothing they cast a lot.” That is why the soldiers did these things. ⁵⁶¹

Jesus provides for His mother

25Now Jesus' mother and her sister, Mary of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene were standing by His cross.

26So Jesus, seeing His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing by, He says to His mother, “Woman, there is your son!”

27Then He says to the disciple, “There is your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her into his home. ⁵⁶²

The shout of victory

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

29Now a vessel full of sour wine was sitting there; so they filled a sponge with sour wine, placed it on a hyssop, and put it to His mouth.

30Then, when He had received ⁵⁶³the sour wine, Jesus said, “Paid in full!!” ⁵⁶⁴And bowing His head He dismissed His spirit. ⁵⁶⁵

A soldier spears His side

31Now then, because it was Preparation Day, so that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews requested Pilate that their legs might be broken and they be removed.

32Then the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man and of the other one who had been crucified with Him.

33But upon coming to Jesus, they did not break His legs, since they saw that He had already died.

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

35And the one who saw has testified, ⁵⁶⁶and his testimony is true (yes, he knows he is telling the truth), so that you may believe.

36Because these things happened so that the Scripture should be fulfilled: “Not a bone of His will be broken.” ⁵⁶⁷

37And again another Scripture says: “They will look on Him whom they pierced.” ⁵⁶⁸

Jesus is buried

38After these things Joseph, the one from Arimathea (being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews), requested Pilate that he might remove the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave permission. So he came and removed Jesus' body.

39Now Nicodemus also came ⁵⁶⁹(the one who at first came to Jesus by night), bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds. ⁵⁷⁰

40Then they took Jesus' body and wrapped it in linen strips, with the aromatic spices, according to the burial custom of the Jews.

41Now at the place where He was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been buried. ⁵⁷¹

42So that is where they put Jesus, because of the Jews' Preparation Day, since the tomb was nearby.