mnt - John:18-19

mnt@John:18:1 @ After he had spoken these words Jesus went forth with his disciples to a place across the Ravine of the Cedars, where there was a garden into which he and his disciples went.

mnt@John:18:2 @ Judas the Traitor also knew this place; for Jesus and his disciples often met there.

mnt@John:18:3 @ So after getting troops and some Temple police from the chief priests and Pharisees, Judas came there with lanterns and torches and weapons.

mnt@John:18:4 @ Then Jesus, knowing all that was coming upon him, went forth to meet them, and asked them, "Who is it that you are looking for?"

mnt@John:18:5 @ "For Jesus of Nazareth," they answered. He said to them, "I am he." (Now Judas also, the betrayer, was standing with them.)

mnt@John:18:6 @ When Jesus said "I am he," they drew back and fell to the ground;

mnt@John:18:7 @ so he asked them once more, "Whom are you looking for?" and they replied, "Jesus of Nazareth."

mnt@John:18:8 @ "I have already told you that I am he," said Jesus. "If, then, you are looking for me, let these go their way."

mnt@John:18:9 @ "(In order that the word which he had spoken might be fulfilled, "Of those whom thou hast given me I have not lost one.")

mnt@John:18:10 @ Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it, and striking at the high priests slave, cut off his right ear.

mnt@John:18:11 @ (The slaves name was Malchus.) Then Jesus said to Peter. "Put up your sword in its sheath. the cup which my Father has given me, shall I not drink it?"

mnt@John:18:12 @ So the troops and their commandant and the Jewish police took Jesus, and bound him,

mnt@John:18:13 @ and led him to Annas first. (For Annas was the Father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was the high priest that year -

mnt@John:18:14 @ the Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it was for their advantage that one man should die for the people.)

mnt@John:18:15 @ Meanwhile Simon Peter was following Jesus, and so was another disciple who was known to the high priest, and they went in with Jesus into the court of the high priests palace.

mnt@John:18:16 @ But Peter took his stand outside, near the door. So the other disciple who was known to the high priest came out and spoke to the doorkeeper and brought Peter in.

mnt@John:18:17 @ The doorkeeper (a maid servant) then said to Peter, "Are not you also one of this mans disciples?" "No I am not," he answered.

mnt@John:18:18 @ Now the slaves and the attendants were standing and warming themselves about a charcoal fire, which they had made because it was cold; and Peter also stood with them, and was warming himself.

mnt@John:18:19 @ Then the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.

mnt@John:18:20 @ Jesus answered him. "I have spoken to all the world openly. I always taught in a synagogue and in the temple, places where all the Jews are wont to assemble, and in secret I have spoken nothing.

mnt@John:18:21 @ "Why do you question me? Ask those who heard what I have said to them; these witnesses here know what I said."

mnt@John:18:22 @ When he had spoken these words, one of the police standing by gave him a blow with his hand, saying as he did so, "Is that the way you answer the high priest?"

mnt@John:18:23 @ Jesus replied "If I have said anything wrong, give evidence concerning the wrong; but if I said what was true, why do you strike me?"

mnt@John:18:24 @ Then Annas sent him in chains to Caiaphas, the high priest.

mnt@John:18:25 @ Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him, "You are not also one of his disciples, are you not?" He denied it, saying "I am not."

mnt@John:18:26 @ One of the slaves of the high priest, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Did not I myself see you with him in the garden."

mnt@John:18:27 @ Peter again denied it; and at that very moment a cock crew.

mnt@John:18:28 @ From the house of Caiaphas they took Jesus to the Praetorium, and it was dawn. They themselves would not enter the Praetorium, in order that they might not be ceremonially defiled, but might be able to eat the Passover.

mnt@John:18:29 @ So Pilate came outside to them and asked, "What charge do you bring against this man?"

mnt@John:18:30 @ In reply they said, "If he had not been a criminal, we should not have handed him over you."

mnt@John:18:31 @ "Take him yourselves," answered Pilate, "and judge him according to your law."

mnt@John:18:32 @ The Jews answered him, "We are not allowed to put anyone to death" (that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled in which he predicted the kind of death he was to die).

mnt@John:18:33 @ So Pilate went into the Praetorium again, and summoned Jesus. "Are you the King of the Jews?" he said.

mnt@John:18:34 @ Jesus answered, "Are you saying this of your own accord, or did others say it to you about me?"

mnt@John:18:35 @ "I am not a Jew, am I?" replied Pilate; "It is your own nation and the high priests who have handed you over to me. What have you done?"

mnt@John:18:36 @ Jesus answered him. "My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants have fought hard that I should not be handed the Jews; but in reality my kingdom is not of such origins."

mnt@John:18:37 @ "You are a king, then? You!" said Pilate. "You say truly that I am a king." answered Jesus, "for this purpose I was born, and to this end came I into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Every man who is of the truth listens to my voice."

mnt@John:18:38 @ Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" As he said this, he went outside again to the Jews and said to them.

mnt@John:18:39 @ "I find no crime in this man. Now it is a custom of yours that I release one prisoner to you at the time of the Passover feast. Do you wish me to release to you the King of the Jews?"

mnt@John:18:40 @ Then they all shouted again. "No, not him! Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber.

mnt@John:19:1 @ After that Pilate took Jesus and had him scourged;

mnt@John:19:2 @ and the soldiers plaited a crown of thorns, placed it on his head, and threw a purple cloak about him, and kept marching up to him,

mnt@John:19:3 @ saying, "Hail! King of the Jews!" They also gave him blow after blow with their hands.

mnt@John:19:4 @ Pilate again came forth and said to the people, "See, I am going to bring his out to you, that you may clearly know that I find no crime in him,"

mnt@John:19:5 @ Then as Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, "BEHOLD, THE MAN!"

mnt@John:19:6 @ So when the chief priests and the police saw him, they shouted. "Crucify him! Crucify him!" "Take him yourselves and crucify him," said Pilate, "for I find no crime in him."

mnt@John:19:7 @ The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by that law he ought to die, because he made himself out to be Gods Son,"

mnt@John:19:8 @ Now when Pilate heard these words he was more alarmed than ever,

mnt@John:19:9 @ and entering the Praetorium again, he said to Jesus, "What is your origin?"

mnt@John:19:10 @ Jesus made no answer. So Pilate said to him. "Do you not speak to me? Do you not know that I have power to release you, or power to crucify you?"

mnt@John:19:11 @ "You would have no power over me," answered Jesus, "unless it had been given you from above. For this reason he who has betrayed me to you has the greater sin."

mnt@John:19:12 @ After that Pilate began to seek to release him, but the Jews shouted out. "If you release this man you are no friend of the Emperor. Any man who makes himself out to be king is a rebel against the Emperor."

mnt@John:19:13 @ On hearing what they said, Pilate brought Jesus out and made him sit on the judges seat in a place called the Mosaic Pavement (the Hebrew name is Gabbatha).

mnt@John:19:14 @ And it was the day of Preparation for the Passover, about six oclock in the morning. Then he said to the Jews, "Behold your King!"

mnt@John:19:15 @ Then they shouted. "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!" "Crucify your King?" said Pilate. The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar!"

mnt@John:19:16 @ So then he gave him over to them to be crucified.

mnt@John:19:17 @ So they took Jesus, who went forth bearing his own cross, to a place called The Place of a Skull - in the Hebrew tongue, Golgotha.

mnt@John:19:18 @ There they crucified him; and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them.

mnt@John:19:19 @ And Pilate moreover wrote an inscription and placed it above the cross. What he wrote was, "JESUS, THE NAZARENE, KING OF THE JEWS"

mnt@John:19:20 @ This inscription was read by many of the Jews, because the place where they crucified Jesus was near the city, and the inscription was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.

mnt@John:19:21 @ So the high priests of the Jews said to Pilate, "Do not write King of the Jews, but He said, I am King of the Jews."

mnt@John:19:22 @ Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written!"

mnt@John:19:23 @ After the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts, to each soldier a part, and the tunic. Now the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom;

mnt@John:19:24 @ so the soldiers said one to another. "Let us not tear it. Let us draw lots, to see whose it shall be" - that the Scripture might be fulfilled. They divided my garments among them, For my raiment did they cast lots. This was what the soldiers did.

mnt@John:19:25 @ Now there stood near the cross of Jesus, his mother and his mothers sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

mnt@John:19:26 @ When Jesus saw his mother, and standing near her the disciple whom he loved, he said to his mother, "Woman behold your son."

mnt@John:19:27 @ Then he said to the disciple, "Behold your mother." And from that hour the disciple took her to his home.

mnt@John:19:28 @ After that, when Jesus knew that everything was now accomplished, he said in fulfilment of the words of Scripture, "I am thirsty."

mnt@John:19:29 @ There was a jar full of vinegar standing there; and they filled a sponge with vinegar, and put it upon a stalk of hyssop, and put it to his lips.

mnt@John:19:30 @ Then after he had taken the vinegar, Jesus said, "IT IS FINISHED!" And bowing his head, he yielded up his spirit.

mnt@John:19:31 @ It was Preparation Day, so in order to prevent the bodies hanging on the cross during the Sabbath (for the Sabbath was a great day) the Jews begged Pilate to have the legs broken, and the bodies taken away.

mnt@John:19:32 @ So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man and of the other who had been crucified with him.

mnt@John:19:33 @ But upon coming to Jesus they saw that he was already dead, and did not break his legs.

mnt@John:19:34 @ One of the soldiers, however, pierced his side with a lance, and immediately blood and water flowed out.

mnt@John:19:35 @ And he who saw it has borne testimony, and his testimony is trustworthy, and he knows that he is telling the truth in order that you may believe.

mnt@John:19:36 @ For this happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled, Not one of his bones shall be broken.

mnt@John:19:37 @ And again another Scripture says, They shall look on him whom they have pierced.

mnt@John:19:38 @ After these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but in secret because of fear of the Jews, asked Pilate for permission to take the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him leave. So he came and took the body.

mnt@John:19:39 @ Nicodemus also (the one who visited Jesus by night, at first) came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, weighing nearly a hundred pounds.

mnt@John:19:40 @ So they took the body of Jesus and wound it in linen with the spices, according to the Jewish mode of burial.

mnt@John:19:41 @ There was a garden near the place where Jesus had been crucified, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had ever been laid.

mnt@John:19:42 @ Here, because of its being Preparation Day, and as the tomb was near by, they placed Jesus.

mnt@John:20:1 @ On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, while it was yet dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and discovered that the stone had been removed from the tomb.