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Jesus Delivered to Be Crucified

¹ Then Pilate took Jesus and ^(a)flogged him. ^2 (b)And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe. ³ They came up to him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and struck him with their hands. ⁴ Pilate went out again and said to them, "See, I am bringing him out to you that you may know that ^(c)I find no guilt in him." ⁵ So Jesus came out, wearing ^(d)the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, ^(e)"Behold the man!" ⁶ When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, "Crucify him, crucify him!" Pilate said to them, ^(f)"Take him yourselves and crucify him, for ^(g)I find no guilt in him." ⁷ The Jews^[a] answered him, "We have a law, and ^(h)according to that law he ought to die because ⁽ⁱ⁾he has made himself the Son of God." ⁸ When Pilate heard this statement, ^(j)he was even more afraid. ^9 (k)He entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus, ^(l)"Where are you from?" But ^(m)Jesus gave him no answer. ¹⁰ So Pilate said to him, "You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you?" ¹¹ Jesus answered him, ⁽ⁿ⁾"You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore ^(o)he who delivered me over to you ^(p)has the greater sin."

¹² From then on ^(q)Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, "If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend. ^(r)Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar." ¹³ So when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on ^(s)the judgment seat at a place called The Stone Pavement, and in Aramaic^[b] Gabbatha. ¹⁴ Now it was ^(t)the day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour.^[c] He said to the Jews, ^(u)"Behold your King!" ¹⁵ 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." ^16 (w)So he ^(x)delivered him over to them to be crucified.

The Crucifixion

So they took Jesus, ¹⁷ and ^(y)he went out, ^(z)bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha. ^18 (aa)There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them. ¹⁹ Pilate ^(ab)also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, "Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews." ²⁰ Many of the Jews read this inscription, for ^(ac)the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Aramaic, in Latin, and in Greek. ²¹ So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, "Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,' but rather, ‘This man said, I am King of the Jews.'" ²² Pilate answered, ^(ad)"What I have written I have written."

^23 (ae)When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts, one part for each soldier; also his tunic.^[d] But the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom, ²⁴ so they said to one another, "Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it shall be." ^(af)This was to fulfill the Scripture which says,

So the soldiers did these things, ^25 (ah)but standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. ²⁶ When Jesus saw his mother and ^(ai)the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, ^(aj)"Woman, behold, your son!" ²⁷ Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" And from that hour the disciple took her to ^(ak)his own home.

The Death of Jesus

²⁸ After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now ^(al)finished, said (^(am)to fulfill the Scripture), ^(an)"I thirst." ²⁹ A jar full of sour wine stood there, ^(ao)so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth. ³⁰ When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, ^(ap)"It is finished," and he bowed his head and ^(aq)gave up his spirit.

Jesus' Side Is Pierced

³¹ Since it was ^(ar)the day of Preparation, and ^(as)so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was ^(at)a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away. ³² So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other ^(au)who had been crucified with him. ³³ But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. ³⁴ But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out ^(av)blood and water. ^35 (aw)He who saw it has borne witness—^(ax)his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth—^(ay)that you also may believe. ^36 (az)For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled: ^(ba)"Not one of his bones ^(bb)will be broken." ³⁷ And again another Scripture says, ^(bc)"They will look on him whom they have pierced."

Jesus Is Buried

^38 (bd)After these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly ^(be)for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took away his body. ^39 (bf)Nicodemus also, who earlier had come to Jesus^[e] by night, came ^(bg)bringing a mixture of ^(bh)myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds^[f] in weight. ⁴⁰ So they took the body of Jesus and ^(bi)bound it in ^(bj)linen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews. ⁴¹ Now in the place where he was crucified there was a ^(bk)garden, and ^(bl)in the garden a new tomb ^(bm)in which no one had yet been laid. ⁴² So because of the Jewish ^(bn)day of Preparation, ^(bo)since the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there.