John:19

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* Then Pilate therefore took Jesus and scourged [him ]. * And the soldiers having plaited a crown of thorns put it on his head , and put a purple robe on him , * and came to him and said , Hail , king of the Jews ! and gave him blows on the face . * And Pilate went out again and says to them , Lo , I bring him out to you , that ye may know that I find in him no fault whatever . * (Jesus therefore went forth without , wearing the crown of thorn , and the purple robe .) And he says to them , Behold the man ! * When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him they cried out saying , Crucify , crucify [him ]. Pilate says to them , Take him ye and crucify [him ], for I find no fault in him . * The Jews answered him , We have a law , and according to [our ] law he ought to die , because he made himself Son of God . * When Pilate therefore heard this word , he was the rather afraid , * and went into the praetorium again and says to Jesus , Whence art thou ? But Jesus gave him no answer . * Pilate therefore says to him , Speakest thou not to me ? Dost thou not know that I have authority to release thee and have authority to crucify thee ? * Jesus answered , Thou hadst no authority whatever against me if it were not given to thee from above . On this account he that has delivered me up to thee has [the ] greater sin . * From this time Pilate sought to release him ; but the Jews cried out saying , If thou releasest this [man ], thou art not a friend to Caesar . Every one making himself a king speaks against Caesar . * Pilate therefore , having heard these words , led Jesus out and sat down upon [the ] judgment-seat , at a place called Pavement , but in Hebrew Gabbatha ; * (now it was [the ] preparation of the passover ; it was about the sixth hour ;) and he says to the Jews , Behold your king ! * But they cried out , Take [him ] away , take [him ] away , crucify him . Pilate says to them , Shall I crucify your king ? The chief priests answered , We have no king but Caesar . * Then therefore he delivered him up to them , that he might be crucified ; and they took Jesus and led him away . * And he went out , bearing his cross , to the place called [place ] of a skull , which is called in Hebrew , Golgotha ; * where they crucified him , and with him two others , [one ] on this side , and [one ] on that , and Jesus in the middle . * And Pilate wrote a title also and put it on the cross . But there was written : Jesus the Nazaraean , the King of the Jews . * This title therefore many of the Jews read , for the place of the city where Jesus was crucified was near ; and it was written in Hebrew , Greek , Latin . * 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 . * Pilate answered , What I have written , I have written . * The soldiers therefore , when they had crucified Jesus , took his clothes , and made four parts , to each soldier a part , and the body-coat ; but the body-coat was seamless , woven through the whole from the top . * They said therefore to one another , Let us not rend it , but let us cast lots for it , whose it shall be ; that the scripture might be fulfilled which says , They parted my garments among themselves , and on my vesture they cast lots . The soldiers therefore did these things . * And by the cross of Jesus stood his mother , and the sister of his mother , Mary the [wife ] of Clopas , and Mary of Magdala . * Jesus therefore , seeing his mother , and the disciple standing by , whom he loved , says to his mother , Woman , behold thy son . * Then he says unto the disciple , Behold thy mother . And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home . * After this , Jesus , knowing that all things were now finished , that the scripture might be fulfilled , says , I thirst . * There was a vessel therefore there full of vinegar , and having filled a sponge with vinegar , and putting hyssop round it , they put it up to his mouth . * When therefore Jesus had received the vinegar , he said , It is finished ; and having bowed his head , he delivered up his spirit . * The Jews therefore , that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath , for it was [the ] preparation , (for the day of that sabbath was a great [day ],) demanded of Pilate that their legs might be broken and they taken away . * The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first and of the other that had been crucified with him ; * but coming to Jesus , when they saw that he was already dead they did not break his legs , * but one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear , and immediately there came out blood and water . * And he who saw it bears witness , and his witness is true , and he knows that he says true that ye also may believe . * For these things took place that the scripture might be fulfilled , Not a bone of him shall be broken . * And again another scripture says , They shall look on him whom they pierced . * And after these things Joseph of Arimathaea , who was a disciple of Jesus , but secretly through fear of the Jews , demanded of Pilate that he might take the body of Jesus : and Pilate allowed it . He came therefore and took away the body of Jesus . * And Nicodemus also , who at first came to Jesus by night , came , bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes , about a hundred pounds [weight ]. * They took therefore the body of Jesus and bound it up in linen with the spices , as it is the custom with the Jews to prepare for burial . * But there was in the place where he had been crucified a garden , and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had ever been laid . * There therefore , on account of the preparation of the Jews , because the tomb was near , they laid Jesus .

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