John 19 - Lighthouse Bible 2006

¹ Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.

² And the soldiers braided a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe,

³ And said, Hail, King of the Jews! And they struck him with their hands.

⁴ Pilate therefore went out again, and said to them, Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no fault in him.

⁵ Then Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate said to them, Behold the man!

⁶ When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate said to them, Take him yourselves, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him.

⁷ The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.

⁸ When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid;

⁹ And went again into the judgment hall, and said to Jesus, Where are you from? But Jesus gave him no answer.

¹⁰ Then said Pilate to him, Will you not speak to me? Do you not know that I have power to crucify you, and have power to release you?

¹¹ Jesus answered, You could have no power at all against me, unless it were given you from above: therefore he that delivered me to you has the greater sin.

¹² And from that time on Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If you let this man go, you are not Caesar’s friend: whoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar.

¹³ When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus out, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha.

¹⁴ And it was the preparation day of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he said to the Jews, Behold your King!

¹⁵ But 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.

¹⁶ Then he delivered him therefore to them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away.

¹⁷ And he carrying his cross went out into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha:

¹⁸ Where they crucified him, and two others with him, one on either side, and Jesus in the midst.

¹⁹ And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.

²⁰ Many of the Jews then read this title: for the place where Jesus was crucified was near to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin.

²¹ Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Do not write, The King of the Jews; but that 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 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.

²⁴ They said therefore among themselves, Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which says, They parted my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.

²⁵ Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.

²⁶ When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he said to his mother, Woman, behold your son!

²⁷ Then he said to the disciple, Behold your mother! And from that hour that disciple took her to his own home.

²⁸ After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, said, I thirst.

²⁹ Now a vessel full of vinegar was sitting there: and they filled a sponge with vinegar, and put it on hyssop, and put it to his mouth.

³⁰ When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the spirit.

³¹ The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation day, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was a high day,) pleaded with Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

³² Then came the soldiers, 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 dead already, they did not break his legs:

³⁴ But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and at once there came out blood and water.

³⁵ And he who saw it bore record, and his record is true: and he knows that he speaks truly, that you might believe.

³⁶ For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.

³⁷ And again another scripture says, They shall look on him whom they pierced.

³⁸ And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, pleaded with Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him permission. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.

³⁹ And there came also Nicodemus, who at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds’ weight.

⁴⁰ Then they took the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.

⁴¹ Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulcher, in which no one had ever been laid.

⁴² There they laid Jesus therefore because of the Jews’ preparation day; for the sepulcher was near at hand.