The In-Dept Study of the Bible
John 19
1 So Pilate then took Jesus and
flogged him.
2 The soldiers twisted thorns into a
crown and put it on his head, and dressed
him in a purple garment.
3 They kept saying, “Hail, King of the
Jews!” and they kept slapping him.
4 Then Pilate went out again, and said to
them, “Behold, I bring him out to you, that
you may know that I find no basis for a
charge against him.”
5 Jesus therefore came out, wearing the
crown of thorns and the purple garment.
Pilate said to them, “Behold, the man!”
6 When therefore the chief priests and
the officers saw him, they shouted, saying,
“Crucify! Crucify!” Pilate saidto them,
“Take him your selves and crucify him,
for I find no basis for a charge against 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 therefore Pilate heard this saying,
he was more afraid.
9 He entered into the Praetorium again,
and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?”
But Jesus gave him no answer.
10 Pilate therefore said to him, “Aren’t
you speaking to me? Don’t you know that I
have power to release you and have power
to crucify you?”
11 Jesus answered, “You would have no
power at all against me, unless it were
given to you from above. Therefore he
who delivered me to you has greater sin.”
12 At this, Pilate was seeking to release
him, but the Jews cried out, saying, “If
you release this man, you aren’t Caesar’s
friend! Everyone who 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 Day of the
Passover, at about the sixth hour.† He said
to the Jews, “Behold, your King!”
15 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 Caesar!”
16 So then he delivered him to them to be
crucified. So they took Jesus and led him
away.
17 He went out, bearing his cross, 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 middle.
19 Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on
the cross. There was written, “JESUS OF
NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”
20 Therefore many of the Jews read this
title, for the place where Jesus was crucified
was near the city; and it was written
in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.
21 The chief priests of the Jews therefore
said to Pilate, “Don’t write, ‘The King of
the Jews,’ but, ‘he said, “I am King of the
Jews.” ’ ”
22 Pilate answered, “WhatIhave written,
I have written.”
23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified
Jesus, took his garments and made
four parts, to every soldier a part; and
also the tunic. Now the tunic was without
seam, woven from the top throughout.
24 Then they said to one another, “Let’s
not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide
whose it will be,” that the Scripture might
be fulfilled, which says, “They parted my
garments among them. They cast lots for
my clothing.”* Therefore the soldiers
did these things.
25 But standing by Jesus’ cross were his
mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife
of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
26 Therefore when Jesus saw his mother,
and the disciple whom he loved standing
there, he said to his mother,
“Woman, behold, your son!”
27 Then he said to the disciple, “Behold,
your mother!” From that hour, the disciple
took her to his own home.
28 After this, Jesus, seeing‡ that all things
were now finished, that the Scripture
might be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty!”
29 Now a vessel full of vinegar was set
there; so they put a sponge full of the
vinegar on hyssop, and held it at his mouth.
30 When Jesus therefore had received
the vinegar, he said, “It is finished!” Then
he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
31 Therefore the Jews, because it was
the Preparation Day, so that the bodies
wouldn’t remain on the cross on the Sabbath
(for that Sabbath was a special one),
asked of Pilate that their legs might be
broken and that they might be taken away.
32 Therefore the soldiers came and broke
the legs of the first and of the other who
was crucified with him;
33 but when they came to Jesus and saw
thathe was already dead,they didn’t break
his legs.
34 However, one of the soldiers pierced
his side with a spear, and immediately
blood and water came out.
35 He who has seen has testified, and his
testimony is true. He knows that he tells
the truth, that you may believe.
36 For these things happened that the
Scripture might be fulfilled, “A bone of him
will not be broken.”*
37 Again another Scripture says, “They
will look on him whom they pierced.”*
38 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 Jesus’ body. Pilate gave
him permission. He came therefore and
took away his body.
39 Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus
by night, also came bringing a mixture of
myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman
pounds.§
40 So they took Jesus’ body, 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. In the garden was
a new tomb in which no man had ever yet
been laid.
42 Then, because ofthe Jews’ Preparation
Day (for the tomb was near at hand), they
laid Jesus there.