John 19
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So then Pilate took Jesus and flogged [Him].
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And the soldiers twisted a crown out of thorns and put it on His head, and they put
a purple robe around Him.
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And they kept saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!"And they were striking Him with their
hands.
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Pilate then went out again, and said to them, "Behold, I am bringing Him out to you,
so that you may know that I find no fault in Him."
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Then Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And Pilate said
to them, "Behold, the Man!"
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Therefore, when the chief priests and the attendants saw Him, they cried out, saying,
"Crucify, crucify Him!"Pilate said to them, "You take Him and crucify [Him], for I
find no fault in Him."
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The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and according to our law He ought to die, because
He made Himself the Son of God."
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Therefore, when Pilate heard this saying, he was [even] more afraid,
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and he entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, "Where are You from?"But
Jesus gave him no answer.
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Then Pilate said to Him, "Are You not speaking to me? Do You not know that I have
authority to crucify You, and I have authority to release You?"
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Jesus answered, "You would have no authority at all against Me unless it had been
given to you from above. Therefore the one who betrayed Me to you has a greater sin."
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From this [point ]Pilate was seeking to release Him, but the Jews kept crying out,
saying, "If you release this [Man], you are no friend of Caesar's. Whoever makes himself
a king speaks against Caesar."
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Therefore Pilate, having heard this saying, led Jesus outside and sat down on the
judgment seat in a place that is called [The] Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha.
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Now it was the Preparation [Day] of the Passover, and about the sixth hour. And he
said to the Jews, "Behold your King!"
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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!"
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Then he delivered Him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led [Him ]away.
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And bearing His cross, He went out to a place called the Place of a Skull, which is
called in Hebrew, Golgotha,
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where they crucified Him, and two others with Him, one on each side, and Jesus in
the middle.
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Now Pilate wrote a title and he put [it] on the cross. And it was written: JESUS THE
NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS.
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Then many of the Jews read this title, because the place where Jesus was crucified
was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Greek, and in Latin.
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Therefore the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, "Do not write, 'The King of
the Jews,' but, 'He said, "I am the 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 crucified Jesus, took His garments and made four parts,
to each soldier a part, and also the tunic. Now the tunic was seamless, woven from
the top in one piece.
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Therefore they said to one another, "Let us not tear it, but let us cast lots for
it, whose it will be,"so that the Scripture might be fulfilled which says: "They divided
My garments among them, and for My clothing they cast lots."Therefore the soldiers
did these things.
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Now there stood by the cross of Jesus His mother, and His mother's sister, Mary the
[wife] of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
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Therefore Jesus, seeing His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing by, He
said to His mother, "Woman, behold your son!"
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Then He said to the disciple, "Behold your mother!"And from that hour that disciple
took her into his own [care].
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After this, Jesus, seeing that all things already had been fulfilled, so that the
Scripture might be fulfilled, He said, "I thirst!"
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Now a vessel was set full of sour wine; and they, having filled a sponge with sour
wine, put it around a hyssop, they held it to His mouth.
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Therefore when Jesus received the sour wine, He said, "It is finished!"And bowing
His head, He gave up His spirit.
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Therefore the Jews, since it was the Preparation [Day], that the bodies should not
remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), asked Pilate
that their legs might be broken, and they might be taken away.
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Then the soldiers came and they broke the legs of the first [man,] and of the other
who was crucified with Him.
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But having come to Jesus, when they saw that He was already dead, they did not break
His legs.
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But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water
came out.
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And he who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true; and he knows that he
tells the truth, so that you may believe.
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For these things were done that the Scripture should be fulfilled, "Not a bone of
His shall be broken."
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And again another Scripture says, "They shall look at [Him] whom they pierced."
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After these things[,] Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly,
for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and
Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took away the body of Jesus.
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And Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came, bringing a mixture
of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds.
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Then they took the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen strips with the spices, as
the custom 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
tomb in which no one had yet been buried.
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So there they laid Jesus, because of the Jews' Preparation Day, because the tomb was
near.