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Jesus Flogged and Mocked

¹ Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. ² The soldiers also twisted together a crown^(C1) of thorns, put it on his head, and clothed him in a purple robe. ³ And they kept coming up to him^(C1) and saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and were slapping his face.

⁴ Pilate went outside again and said to them, “Look, I’m bringing him out to you to let you know I find no grounds^(C1) for charging him.” ⁵ Then Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe.^(C1) Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!” ^(C2)

Pilate Sentences Jesus to Death

⁶ When the chief priests and the temple servants^(F1) saw him, they shouted, “Crucify! Crucify!”

Pilate responded, “Take him and crucify him yourselves, since I find no grounds for charging him.”

⁷ “We have a law,” the Jews replied to him, “and according to that law he ought to die,^(C1) because he made himself the Son of God.”^(C2)

⁸ When Pilate heard this statement, he was more afraid than ever. ⁹ He went back into the headquarters^(C1) and asked Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus did not give him an answer.^{(C2) 10} So Pilate said to him, “Do you refuse to speak to me? Don’t you know that I have the authority to release you and the authority to crucify you?”

¹¹ “You would have no authority over me at all,”

¹² From that moment Pilate kept trying^(F1) to release him. But the Jews shouted, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. Anyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar!”

¹³ When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus outside. He sat down on the judge’s seat in a place called the Stone Pavement (but in Aramaic,^(F1) Gabbatha). ¹⁴ It was the preparation day for the Passover, and it was about noon.^(F1) Then he told the Jews, “Here is your king!”

¹⁵ They shouted, “Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!”

Pilate said to them, “Should I crucify your king?”

“We have no king but Caesar!” the chief priests answered.

¹⁶ Then he handed him over to be crucified.

The Crucifixion

Then they took Jesus away.^{(F1) 17} Carrying^(C1) the cross by himself,^(C2) he went out to what is called Place of the Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha. ¹⁸ There they crucified him and two others with him, one on either side, with Jesus in the middle. ¹⁹ Pilate also had a sign made and put on the cross. It said: Jesus of²⁰ Many of the Jews read this sign, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city,^(C1) and it was written in Aramaic, Latin, and Greek. ²¹ So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Don’t write, ‘The King of the Jews,’^(C1) but that he said, ‘I am the King of the Jews.’”

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

²³ When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, a part for each soldier. They also took the tunic, which was seamless, woven in one piece from the top. ²⁴ So they said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it, to see who gets it.” This happened that the Scripture^(C1) might be fulfilled^(C2) that says: They divided my clothes among themselves, and they cast lots for my clothing.^(F1)(C3) This is what the soldiers did.

Jesus’s Provision for His Mother

²⁵ Standing^(C1) by the cross^(C2) of Jesus were his mother,^(C3) his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.^{(C4) 26} When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple he loved^(C1) standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, here is your son.”²⁷ Then he said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.”

The Finished Work of Jesus

²⁸ After^(C1) this, when Jesus knew that everything was now finished^(C2) that the Scripture might be fulfilled, he said, “I’m thirsty.”²⁹ A jar full of sour wine was sitting there; so they fixed a sponge full of sour wine on a hyssop branch^(C1) and held it up to his mouth.

³⁰ When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished.”

Jesus’s Side Pierced

³¹ Since it was the preparation day,^(C1) the Jews did not want the bodies^(C2) to remain on the cross^(C3) on the Sabbath^(C4) (for that Sabbath was a special^(F1) day). They requested that Pilate have the men’s legs broken and that their bodies be taken away.^{(C5) 32} So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man and of the other one who had been crucified with him. ³³ When they came to Jesus, they did not break his legs since they saw that he was already dead.^{(C1) 34} But one of the soldiers pierced^(C1) his side^(C2) with a spear, and at once blood and water^(C3) came out. ³⁵ He who saw this has testified^(C1) so that you also may believe. His testimony is true, and he knows he is telling the truth.^{(C2) 36} For these things happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled:^(C1) Not one of his bones will be broken.^{(F1)(C2) 37} Also, another Scripture says: They will look at the one they pierced.^(F1)(C1)

Jesus’s Burial

³⁸ After^(C1) this, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus—but secretly because of his fear of the Jews—asked Pilate that he might remove Jesus’s body.^(C2) Pilate gave him permission; so he came and took his body away. ³⁹ Nicodemus^(C1) (who had previously come to him at night) also came, bringing a mixture of about seventy-five pounds^(F1) of myrrh and aloes. ⁴⁰ They took Jesus’s body^(C1) and wrapped it in linen cloths^(C2) with the fragrant spices, according to the burial^(C3) custom of the Jews. ⁴¹ There was a garden in the place where he was crucified. A new tomb was in the garden; no one had yet been placed in it. ⁴² They placed Jesus there because of the Jewish day of preparation and since the tomb was nearby.