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¹ Then Pilate therefore took Jesus and scourged him.² And the soldiers having platted a crown of thorns, put it on his head, and put on him a purple robe, And said, Hail, king of the Jews.³ And they smote him on the cheeks.⁴ Pilate went out again, and saith to them, Lo, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know, I find no fault in him.⁵ Then Jesus came forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe, And he saith to them, Behold the man.⁶ But when the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify, crucify him. Pilate saith to them, Take ye him 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 made himself the Son of God.⁸ When Pilate heard that saying,⁹ he was the more afraid, And returned into the palace and saith to Jesus, Whence art thou?¹⁰ But Jesus gave him no answer. Then Pilate saith to him, Speakest thou not to me? Knowest thou not, that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee?¹¹ Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power over me, unless it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me to thee, hath the greater sin.¹² Upon this Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou release this man, thou art not a friend to Cesar. Whosoever maketh himself a king, opposeth Cesar.¹³ Pilate hearing this saying, brought Jesus forth, and sat on the judgment seat, in a place called the Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha;¹⁴ (It was then the preparation of the passover, and about the third hour:) And saith to the Jews, Behold your king.¹⁵ But they cried out, Away with him, away with him. Pilate saith to them, Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Cesar.

¹⁶ Then delivered he him to them, to be crucified.¹⁷ And they took Jesus and led him away. And he bearing his cross, went forth to the place, called the place of a skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha:¹⁸ Where they crucified him, and two others with him, one on each side, and Jesus in the midst.

¹⁹ And Pilate wrote an inscription also, and put it on the cross: and the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.²⁰ Many of the Jews read this inscription; for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin.²¹ Then said the chief priests to Pilate, Write not, the king of the Jews; but that he said, I am the king of the Jews.²² Pilate answered, What I have written, I have written.²³ And the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part, and also his vesture: now the vesture was without seam, woven from the top throughout.²⁴ They said therefore one to another, Let us not rent it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and cast lots for my vesture. These things therefore the soldiers did.²⁵ Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleopas, and Mary Magdalene.²⁶ Jesus therefore seeing his mother, and the disciple standing by whom he loved, saith to his mother, Woman, behold thy son.²⁷ Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother. And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.²⁸ After this, Jesus knowing, that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.²⁹ Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar. And filling a sponge with vinegar, and putting it on a stalk of hyssop, they put it to his mouth.³⁰ When Jesus had taken the vinegar, he said, It is finished, and bowing the head, he gave up the Ghost.

³¹ Now because it was the preparation, lest the bodies should remain upon the cross on the sabbath (for that sabbath was a great day) the Jews besought Pilate, that their legs might be broken, and they might be taken away.³² Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first and of the other who was crucified with him.³³ But coming to Jesus, when they saw he was dead already, they brake not his legs.³⁴ But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and forthwith there came out blood and water.³⁵ And he that saw, hath testified it, and his testimony is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye may believe.³⁶ For these things were done, that the scripture might be fulfilled, A bone of it shall not be broken.³⁷ And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they have pierced.

³⁸ And after these things, Joseph of Arimathea (being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly, for fear of the Jews) asked Pilate leave, to take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore and took the body of Jesus.³⁹ And Nicodemus also came (who at first had come to Jesus by night) bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pounds.⁴⁰ So they took the body of Jesus, and wrapped it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner 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 sepulchre, in which no man had ever been laid.⁴² There therefore they laid Jesus, because of the preparation -day of the Jews; for the sepulchre was nigh.