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 arrayed him
in a purple garment;
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and they came to him, and said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they struck him with their
hands.
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And Pilate went out again, and says to them, Behold, I bring him out to you, that
you may know that I find no crime in him.
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Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. And
[Pilate] says to them, Behold, the man!
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When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, saying,
Crucify [him], crucify [him]! Pilate says to them, Take him yourselves, and crucify
him: for I find no crime in him.
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The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by that law he ought to die, because he
made himself the Son of God.
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When Pilate therefore heard this saying, he was the more afraid;
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and he entered into the Praetorium again, and says to Jesus, Whence are you? But Jesus
gave him no answer.
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Pilate therefore says to him, Speak you not to me? Know you not that I have power
to release you, and have power to crucify you?
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Jesus answered him, You would have no power against me, except it were given you from
above: therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.
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Upon this Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If you release
this man, you are not Caesar`s friend: every one that makes himself a king speaks
against Caesar.
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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.
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Now it was the Preparation of the passover: it was about the sixth hour. And he says
to the Jews, Behold, your King!
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They therefore cried out, Away with [him], away with [him], crucify him! Pilate says
to them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but
Caesar.
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Then therefore he delivered him to them to be crucified.
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They took Jesus therefore: and he went out, bearing the cross for himself, to the
place called The place of a skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha:
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where they crucified him, and with him two others, on either side one, and Jesus in
the midst.
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And Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. And there was written, JESUS
OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.
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This title therefore read many of the Jews, for the place where Jesus was crucified
was nigh to the city; and it was written in Hebrew, [and] in Latin, [and] in Greek.
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The chief priests of the Jews therefore said 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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The soldiers therefore, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made
four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat: now the coat was without seam,
woven from the top throughout.
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They said therefore one to another, Let us not rend 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 upon my vesture did they cast lots.
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These things therefore the soldiers did. But there were standing by the cross of Jesus
his mother, and his mother`s sister, Mary the [wife] of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
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When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by whom he loved, he
says to his mother, Woman, behold your son!
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Then says he to the disciple, Behold, your mother! And from that hour the disciple
took her to his own [home].
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After this Jesus, knowing that all things are now finished, that the scripture might
be accomplished, says, I thirst.
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There was set there a vessel full of vinegar: so they put a sponge full of the vinegar
upon hyssop, and brought 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 his spirit.
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The Jews therefore, because it was the Preparation, that the bodies should not remain
on the cross upon the sabbath (for the day of that sabbath was a high [day]), asked
of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and [that] they might be taken away.
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The soldiers therefore came, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other that
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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nevertheless one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and straightway there
came out blood and water.
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And he who has seen has borne witness, and his witness is true: and he knows that
he says true, that you also may believe.
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For these things came to pass, that the scripture might be fulfilled, A bone of him
shall not be broken.
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And again another scripture says, They shall look on him whom they pierced.
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And after these things Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly
for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and
Pilate gave [him] leave. He came therefore, and took away his body.
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And there came also Nicodemus, he who at the first came to him by night, bringing
a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds.
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So they took the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths 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 wherein was never man yet laid.
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There then because of the Jews` Preparation (for the tomb was nigh at hand) they laid
Jesus.