1   So Pilate then took Jesus, and flogged him. 2   The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown, and put it on his head, and dressed him in a purple garment. 3   And they kept coming up to him and saying, "Greetings, King of the Jews." and they struck him with their hands. 4   Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, "Look, I am bringing him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him." 5   Then Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, "Look, here is the man." 6   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." 7   The Jewish leaders answered him, "We have a law, and by that law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God." 8   When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid. 9   He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, "Where are you from?" But Jesus gave him no answer. 10   Pilate therefore said to him, "Are you not speaking to me? Do you not know that I have power to release you, and have power to crucify you?" 11   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." 12   At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jewish leaders shouted, saying, "If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend. Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar." 13   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." 14   Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about noon. He said to the Jewish leaders, "Look, here is your King." 15   They shouted, "Away with him. Away with him. Crucify him." Pilate said to them, "Should I crucify your King?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar." 16   So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus. 17   And he went out, carrying the cross himself, to the place called "The Place of a Skull," which is called in Hebrew, "Golgotha," 18   where they crucified him, and with him two others, on either side one, and Jesus in the middle. 19   Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, "JESUS THE NAZOREAN, THE KING OF THE JEWS." 20   Therefore many 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. 21   The chief priests of the Jewish people therefore said to Pilate, "Do not write, 'The King of the Jews,' but, 'he said, I am King of the Jews.'" 22   Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written." 23   Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his clothes and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the tunic. Now the tunic was without seam, woven from the top throughout. 24   Then they said to one another, "Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide whose it will be," that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says, "They divided my clothes among themselves, and for my clothing they cast a lot." Therefore the soldiers did these things. 25   But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26   Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, "Woman, look, your son." 27   Then he said to the disciple, "Look, your mother." From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home. 28   After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, "I am thirsty." 29   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. 30   When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, "It is finished." He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit. 31   Therefore the Jewish leaders, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies would not 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. 32   Therefore the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with him; 33   but when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. 34   However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out. 35   He who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe. 36   For these things happened, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, "A bone of him will not be broken." 37   Again another Scripture says, "They will look on him whom they pierced." 38   After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jewish leaders, asked of Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission. He came therefore and took away his body. 39   Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds. 40   So they took the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, according to Jewish burial practice. 41   Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden. In the garden was a new tomb in which no one had ever yet been placed. 42   Then because of the Jewish Preparation Day (for the tomb was nearby) they put Jesus there.

This website is public domain.