John 19

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1 Then Pilate took Jesus, and [ordered] to beat him.
2 And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and clothed him with purple,
3 and said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands.
4 Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that you may know that I find no fault in him.
5 Then came Jesus in a crown of thorns and the purple robe. And said unto them, [Pilate], Behold the man!
6 When they saw his priests and ministers, they cried out: Crucify him, crucify him! Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, 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 heard this word, he was the more afraid.
9 And he went again into the judgment hall, and said to Jesus: Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer.
10 Pilate saith to him: Do not you answer me? knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee?
eleven Jesus answered, You would have had no need to me no power, if it were not given you from above; therefore the greater sin who delivered me unto thee.
12 From this [time] Pilate sought to release him. Jews cried out: If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend; whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar.
13 When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha.
14 And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour. And he said, [Pilate] to the Jews, Behold your King!
15 But they cried out, Take him, crucify him! Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.

16 Then he delivered him to them to be crucified. And they took Jesus and led.
17 And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the Skull, in Hebrew, Golgotha;
18 there they crucified him, and with him two others, 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 This title then read many of the Jews, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.
21 The chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, Write not, 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 a tunic; the coat was without seam, woven from the top.
24 They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose will, --da might be fulfilled in Scripture: They parted my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots. So the soldiers did.
25 The cross of Jesus stood his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.
26 Jesus saw his mother and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, says his mother, Woman! behold thy son.
27 Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour the disciple took her to his own.
28 After this, Jesus knowing that all things were ended, scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.
29 Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar. [Warriors], watered sponge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.
thirty When Jesus had received the vinegar, he said, It is done! And he bowed his head, gave up the ghost.

31 But since [then] was the preparation, that the Jews, bodies should not remain upon the cross on the Sabbath, --ibo that Sabbath was a high day, --prosili Pilate to kill in their legs and to remove them.
32 So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him.
33 But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:
34 but one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
35 And he that saw it bare record, and his testimony is true; he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
36 For these things took place that the scripture might be fulfilled: A bone of him shall not be broken.
37 Also, in another [place] the Scripture says, They shall look on Him whom they pierced.

38 After this Joseph of Arimathea - a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, --prosil Pilate to remove the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave him leave. He went and took the body of Jesus.
39 And there came also Nicodemus, --prihodivshy first came to Jesus by night, --and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloe, about a hundred liters.
40 So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
41 At the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and a new tomb in the garden, in which was never man yet laid.
42 There laid they Jesus for the sake of the Jews, because the tomb was close.

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