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¹ Then Pilate order'd Jesus to be scourged. ² and the soldiers having made a crown of thorns, they put it on his head, and threw a purple robe about him. ³ hail king of the Jews! said they, and struck him on the cheeks. ⁴ Pilate therefore went out again, and said to them, observe, I bring him out to you, to acquaint you that I find no fault in him. ⁵ so Jesus marched out wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. and Pilate said to them, here's the man. ⁶ as soon as the chief priests and officers saw him, they cried out, "crucify him, crucify him." Pilate said to them, take him yourselves, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him. ⁷ the Jews answered him, we have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he pretended to be the son of God. ⁸ Pilate upon hearing that, was still more apprehensive. ⁹ and went again into the Pretorium, and said to Jesus, who was your father? but Jesus gave him no answer. ¹⁰ then said Pilate to him, won't you give me an answer? don't you know that it is in my power to crucify you, or to release you? ¹¹ Jesus answered, you could not have any power over me, except you deriv'd it from above: therefore they who delivered me into your hands are the most culpable. ¹² upon this, Pilate propos'd to release him: but the Jews cried out, if you let this man go, you are not Cesar's friend: he that sets up for king, opposes Cesar. ¹³ Pilate therefore hearing them talk at this rate, order'd Jesus to be brought forth, and then sat down in a place of Mosaic work on his tribunal, in Syriac call'd Gabbatha. ¹⁴ it was then about the sixth hour of the day before the sabbath of the passover: and he said to the Jews, behold your king. ¹⁵ but they cried out, 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 Cesar.

¹⁶ upon which he delivered him up to them to be crucified. So the soldiers took Jesus and led him away. ¹⁷ and he bearing his cross, marched out to a place called the skull, which is in the Syriac, Golgotha: where they crucified him, ¹⁸ and two others with him, one on each side, and Jesus in the middle.

¹⁹ and Pilate caused an inscription to be put over the cross, in these words, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS. ²⁰ now this inscription was read by many of the Jews: for Jesus was crucified nigh the city: and it was written in Syriac, Greek, and Latin. ²¹ thereupon the chief priests of the Jews went to Pilate, saying, don't write, "The king of the Jews;" but that he said, I am king of the Jews. ²² Pilate answered, what I have writ, I have writ. ²³ The soldiers, after they had crucified Jesus, took his garments (and made four parts, to every soldier a part) and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. ²⁴ they said therefore among themselves, let us not rent it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: so that the scripture was fulfilled, which said , "they parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots." this was what the soldiers actually did. ²⁵ In the mean time the mother of Jesus, and her sister Mary, the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene, were standing by the cross. ²⁶ when Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing by, he said to his mother, woman, behold thy son. ²⁷ then he said to the disciple, behold thy mother. and from that time the disciple took her to his own home. ²⁸ after this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be be fulfilled, said, I thirst. ²⁹ now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon a stick of hyssop, and held it to his mouth. ³⁰ when Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, it is finished: and bowing his head, he expir'd.

³¹ Now for fear the bodies should remain upon the cross on the sabbath-day, for it was then the eve of the pascal-sabbath, a day of high solemnity, the Jews desired Pilate that their legs might be broke, and that they might be taken away. ³² accordingly the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with him. ³³ then they came to Jesus, and finding that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. ³⁴ but one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and immediately blood and water issued out. ³⁵ he that relates this, was an eye-witness of it, and his relation is true: and he is so assured, what he says is true, that you may rely upon it. ³⁶ for these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled , "a bone of him shall not be broken." ³⁷ and again the scripture saith elsewhere , "they shall look on him whom they pierced."

³⁸ after this, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but for fear of the Jews a conceal'd one, pray'd Pilate to let him take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave: so he went and took the body of Jesus. ³⁹ Nicodemus, who formerly went to Jesus by night, came likewise and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight. ⁴⁰ they took therefore the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, according to the manner of burial among the Jews. ⁴¹ now near the place where he was crucified, there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, in which no body had ever yet been laid. ⁴² as this sepulchre was nigh at hand, they laid Jesus therein, because the time of the preparation of the Jews was expiring.