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* So Pilate then took Jesus , and flogged him . * The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown , and put it on his head , and dressed him in a purple garment . * They kept saying , "Hail , King of the Jews !" and they kept slapping him . * 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 ." * Jesus therefore came out , wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment . Pilate said to them , "Behold , the man !" * When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him , they shouted , saying , "Crucify ! Crucify !" Pilate said to them , "Take him yourselves , and crucify him , for I find no basis for a charge against him ." * The Jews answered him , "We have a law , and by our law he ought to die , because he made himself the Son of God ." * When therefore Pilate heard this saying , he was more afraid . * He entered into the Praetorium again , and said to Jesus , "Where are you from ?" But Jesus gave him no answer . * 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 ?" * 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 ." * 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 !" * 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 ." * Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover , at about the sixth hour . {"the sixth hour " would have been strkjv @6:00 AM according to the Roman timekeeping system , or noon for the Jewish timekeeping system in use , then .} He said to the Jews , "Behold , your King !" * 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 !" * So then he delivered him to them to be crucified . So they took Jesus and led him away . * He went out , bearing his cross , to the place called "The Place of a Skull ," which is called in Hebrew , "Golgotha ," * where they crucified him , and with him two others , on either side one , and Jesus in the middle . * Pilate wrote a title also , and put it on the cross . There was written , "JESUS OF NAZARETH , THE KING OF THE JEWS ." * 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 . * 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 .'" * Pilate answered , "What I have written , I have written ." * Then the soldiers , when they had crucified Jesus , took his garments and made four parts , to every soldier a part ; and also the coat . Now the coat was without seam , woven from the top throughout . * 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 . For my cloak they cast lots ." {Psalm strkjv @22:18 } Therefore the soldiers did these things . * But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother , and his mother 's sister , Mary the wife of Clopas , and Mary Magdalene . * Therefore when Jesus saw his mother , and the disciple whom he loved standing there , he said to his mother , "Woman , behold your son !" * Then he said to the disciple , "Behold , your mother !" From that hour , the disciple took her to his own home . * After this , Jesus , seeing {NU , TR read "knowing " instead of "seeing "} that all things were now finished , that the Scripture might be fulfilled , said , "I am thirsty ." * 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 . * When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar , he said , "It is finished ." He bowed his head , and gave up his spirit . * 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 . * Therefore the soldiers came , and broke the legs of the first , and of the other who was crucified with him ; * but when they came to Jesus , and saw that he was already dead , they didn 't break his legs . * However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear , and immediately blood and water came out . * He who has seen has testified , and his testimony is true . He knows that he tells the truth , that you may believe . * For these things happened , that the Scripture might be fulfilled , "A bone of him will not be broken ." {Exodus strkjv @12:46 ; Numbers strkjv @9:12 ; Psalm strkjv @34:20 } * Again another Scripture says , "They will look on him whom they pierced ." {Zechariah strkjv @12:10 } * 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 . * Nicodemus , who at first came to Jesus by night , also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes , about a hundred Roman pounds . {100 Roman pounds of 12 ounces each , or about 72 pounds , or 33 Kilograms .} * So they took Jesus ' body , and bound it in linen cloths with the spices , as the custom of the Jews is to bury . * 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 . * Then because of the Jews ' Preparation Day (for the tomb was near at hand ) they laid Jesus there .

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