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¹ Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.² And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and arrayed him in a purple garment;³ and they came to him, and said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they struck him with their hands.⁴ And Pilate went out again, and says to them, Look, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no crime in him.⁵ Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. And [Pilate] says to them, Look, the man!⁶ When therefore the chief priests and the attendants saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify [him], crucify [him]! Pilate says to them, Take him yourselves, and crucify him: for I find no crime in him.⁷ The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by that law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.⁸ When Pilate therefore heard this saying, he was the more afraid;⁹ and he entered into the Praetorium again, and says to Jesus, Where are you from? But Jesus gave him no answer.¹⁰ Pilate therefore says to him, Don't you speak to me? Don't you know that I have power to release you, and have power to crucify you?¹¹ Jesus answered him, You would have no power against me, except it were given you from above: therefore he that delivered me to you has greater sin.¹² On this Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend: every one that makes himself a king speaks against Caesar.¹³ When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment-seat at a place called The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha.¹⁴ Now it was the Preparation of the passover: it was about the sixth hour. And he says to the Jews, Look, your King!¹⁵ They therefore cried out, Away with [him], away with [him], crucify him! Pilate says to them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.

¹⁶ Then therefore he delivered him to them to be crucified. They took Jesus therefore:¹⁷ and he went out, bearing the cross for himself, to the place called The place of a skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha:¹⁸ where they crucified him, and with him two others, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst.

¹⁹ And Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. And there was written, JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.²⁰ This title therefore read many of the Jews, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near to the city; and it was written in Hebrew, [and] in Latin, [and] in Greek.²¹ The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, Do not write, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.²² Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.²³ The soldiers therefore, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.²⁴ They said therefore one to another, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which says, They parted my garments among them, And on my vesture they cast lots.²⁵ These things therefore the soldiers did. But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the [wife] of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.²⁶ When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by whom he loved, he says to his mother, Woman, here is your son.²⁷ Then he says to the disciple, Here is your mother. And from that hour the disciple took her to his own [home].²⁸ After this Jesus, knowing that all things are now finished, that the scripture might be accomplished, says, I thirst.²⁹ There was set there a vessel full of vinegar: so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop, and brought it to his mouth.³⁰ When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.

³¹ The Jews therefore, because it was the Preparation, that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for the day of that Sabbath was a high [day]), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and [that] they might be taken away.³² The soldiers therefore came, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other that was crucified with him:³³ but when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they did not break his legs:³⁴ nevertheless one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and immediately there came out blood and water.³⁵ And he that has seen has borne witness, and his witness is true: and he knows that he says true, that you also may believe.³⁶ For these things came to pass, that the scripture might be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.³⁷ And again another scripture says, They shall look at him whom they pierced.

³⁸ And after these things Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave [him] leave. He came therefore, and took away his body.³⁹ And there came also Nicodemus, he who at the first came to him by night, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds.⁴⁰ So they took the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury.⁴¹ Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new tomb wherein man was never yet laid.⁴² There then because of the Jews' Preparation (for the tomb was near at hand) they laid Jesus.