John:19
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Then Pilate therefore took Jesus ,
and scourged him .
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And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns ,
and put it on his head ,
and they put on him a purple robe ,
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And said ,
Hail ,
King of the Jews !
and they smote him with their hands .
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Pilate therefore went forth again ,
and saith unto them ,
Behold ,
I bring him forth to you ,
that ye may know that I find no fault in him .
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Then came Jesus forth ,
wearing the crown of thorns ,
and the purple robe .
And Pilate saith unto them ,
Behold the man !
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When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him ,
they cried out ,
saying ,
Crucify him ,
crucify him .
Pilate saith unto them ,
Take ye him ,
and crucify him :
for I find no fault in him .
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The Jews answered him ,
We have a law ,
and by our law he ought to die ,
because he made himself the Son of God .
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When Pilate therefore heard that saying ,
he was the more afraid ;
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And went again into the judgment hall ,
and saith unto Jesus ,
Whence art thou ?
But Jesus gave him no answer .
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Then saith Pilate unto him ,
Speakest thou not unto me ?
knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee ,
and have power to release thee ?
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Jesus answered ,
Thou couldest have no power at all against me ,
except it were given thee from above :
therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin .
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And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him :
but the Jews cried out ,
saying ,
If thou let this man go ,
thou art not Caesar '
s friend :
whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar .
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When Pilate therefore heard that saying ,
he brought Jesus forth ,
and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement ,
but in the Hebrew ,
Gabbatha .
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And it was the preparation of the passover ,
and about the sixth hour :
and he saith unto the Jews ,
Behold your King !
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But they cried out ,
Away with him ,
away with him ,
crucify him .
Pilate saith unto them ,
Shall I crucify your King ?
The chief priests answered ,
We have no king but Caesar .
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Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified .
And they took Jesus ,
and led him away .
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And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull ,
which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha :
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Where they crucified him ,
and two other with him ,
on either side one ,
and Jesus in the midst .
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And Pilate wrote a title ,
and put it on the cross .
And the writing was ,
JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS .
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This title then read many of the Jews :
for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city :
and it was written in Hebrew ,
and Greek ,
and Latin .
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Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate ,
Write not ,
The King of the Jews ;
but that he said ,
I am King of the Jews .
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Pilate answered ,
What I have written I have written .
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Then the soldiers ,
when they had crucified Jesus ,
took his garments ,
and made four parts ,
to every soldier a part ;
and also his coat :
now the coat was without seam ,
woven from the top throughout .
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They said therefore among themselves ,
Let us not rend it ,
but cast lots for it ,
whose it shall be :
that the scripture might be fulfilled ,
which saith ,
They parted my raiment among them ,
and for my vesture they did cast lots .
These things therefore the soldiers did .
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Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother ,
and his mother '
s sister ,
Mary the wife of Cleophas ,
and Mary Magdalene .
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When Jesus therefore saw his mother ,
and the disciple standing by ,
whom he loved ,
he saith unto his mother ,
Woman ,
behold thy son !
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Then saith he to the disciple ,
Behold thy mother !
And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home .
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After this ,
Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished ,
that the scripture might be fulfilled ,
saith ,
I thirst .
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Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar :
and they filled a spunge with vinegar ,
and put it upon hyssop ,
and put it to his mouth .
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When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar ,
he said ,
It is finished :
and he bowed his head ,
and gave up the ghost .
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The Jews therefore ,
because it was the preparation ,
that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day , (
for that sabbath day was an high day ,)
besought Pilate that their legs might be broken ,
and that they might be taken away .
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Then came the soldiers ,
and brake the legs of the first ,
and of the other which was crucified with him .
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But when they came to Jesus ,
and saw that he was dead already ,
they brake not his legs :
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But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side ,
and forthwith came there out blood and water .
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And he that saw it bare record ,
and his record is true :
and he knoweth that he saith true ,
that ye might believe .
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For these things were done ,
that the scripture should be fulfilled ,
A bone of him shall not be broken .
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And again another scripture saith ,
They shall look on him whom they pierced .
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And after this Joseph of Arimathaea ,
being a disciple of Jesus ,
but secretly for fear of the Jews ,
besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus :
and Pilate gave him leave .
He came therefore ,
and took the body of Jesus .
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And there came also Nicodemus ,
which at the first came to Jesus by night ,
and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes ,
about an hundred pound weight .
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Then took they the body of Jesus ,
and wound it in linen clothes with the spices ,
as the manner of the Jews is to bury .
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Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden ;
and in the garden a new sepulchre ,
wherein was never man yet laid .
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There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews '
preparation day ;
for the sepulchre was nigh at hand .