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* After that Pilate took Jesus and had him scourged ; * 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 , * saying , "Hail ! King of the Jews !" They also gave him blow after blow with their hands . * 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 ," * Then as Jesus came out , wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe , Pilate said to them , "BEHOLD , THE MAN !" * 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 ." * 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 ," * Now when Pilate heard these words he was more alarmed than ever , * and entering the Praetorium again , he said to Jesus , "What is your origin ?" * 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 ?" * "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 ." * 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 ." * 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 ). * 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 !" * 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 !" * So then he gave him over to them to be crucified . * 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 . * There they crucified him ; and with him two others , one on either side , and Jesus between them . * And Pilate moreover wrote an inscription and placed it above the cross . What he wrote was , "JESUS , THE NAZARENE , KING OF THE JEWS " * 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 . * 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 ." * Pilate answered , "What I have written , I have written !" * 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 ; * 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 . * Now there stood near the cross of Jesus , his mother and his mothers sister , Mary the wife of Clopas , and Mary Magdalene . * When Jesus saw his mother , and standing near her the disciple whom he loved , he said to his mother , "Woman behold your son ." * Then he said to the disciple , "Behold your mother ." And from that hour the disciple took her to his home . * After that , when Jesus knew that everything was now accomplished , he said in fulfilment of the words of Scripture , "I am thirsty ." * 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 . * Then after he had taken the vinegar , Jesus said , "IT IS FINISHED !" And bowing his head , he yielded up his spirit . * 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 . * So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man and of the other who had been crucified with him . * But upon coming to Jesus they saw that he was already dead , and did not break his legs . * One of the soldiers , however , pierced his side with a lance , and immediately blood and water flowed out . * 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 . * For this happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled , Not one of his bones shall be broken . * And again another Scripture says , They shall look on him whom they have pierced . * 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 . * Nicodemus also (the one who visited Jesus by night , at first ) came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes , weighing nearly a hundred pounds . * So they took the body of Jesus and wound it in linen with the spices , according to the Jewish mode of burial . * 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 . * Here , because of its being Preparation Day , and as the tomb was near by , they placed Jesus .

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