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📚✭So then Pilate took Jesus and had him whipped. 2 📚And the soldiers twisted together 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 📚Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, “Look, I am bringing him out to you, so 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, “See the man!”
6 📚✭So when the chief priests and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “You take 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 📚✭Therefore, when Pilate heard that statement, he was even more afraid, 9 📚✭and went back into the palace and said to Jesus, “From where are you?” But Jesus gave him no answer.
10 📚✭Then Pilate said to him, “You are not speaking to me? Don’t you know that I have power to crucify you and power to release you?”
11 📚✭Jesus answered, “You could have no power at all against me unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who handed me over to you has the greater sin”.
12 📚✭And from then on Pilate tried 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 is denying Caesar”.
13 📚Therefore, when Pilate heard that statement, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha. 14 📚And it was the day of The Preparation of the Passover, and about six o’clock. And he said to the Jews, “See 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 📚✭So then he handed him over to them to be crucified. And they took Jesus and led him away.
Christ on the cross
17 📚✭And he, bearing his cross, went out to a place called The Place of a Skull, which is called Golgotha in Hebrew.
18 📚There they crucified him, and two others with him, one on each side and Jesus in the middle.
19 📚And Pilate wrote an inscription and had it put on the cross. And this is what was written:
JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.
20 📚Then many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.
21 📚Then the Jewish chief priests said to Pilate, “Don’t write, ‘The King of the Jews’, but, ‘He said, I am the 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 divided them into four parts, a part to each soldier, and also his tunic. Now the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from the top. 24 📚So they said among themselves, “Let’s not tear it, but cast lots✭ for it, to determine whose it shall be”, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says,
They divided my clothing among them,
and cast lots for my garment.
Therefore the soldiers did these things.
25 📚✭Now near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene✭. 26 📚Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved✭ standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, see your son”.
27 📚Then he said to the disciple, “See your mother”. And from that time 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 jar full of sour wine was standing there, and they soaked a sponge in the sour wine, put it on a hyssop stick, and put it to his mouth.
30 📚✭So when Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished”, and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
31 📚✭Then, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was an important day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away✭. 32 📚Then the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man and of the other who had been crucified with him. 33 ✭But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs, 34 📚✭but one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.
35 📚✭And he who saw this has given testimony, and his testimony is true, and he knows that he speaks the truth, so that you might believe. 36 📚For these things were done that this Scripture might be fulfilled:
Not one of his bones will be broken.
37 📚And again another Scripture says,
They will look on him whom
they pierced.
Christ’s body placed in the tomb
38 📚✭And after this, 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 the body of Jesus.
39 📚And Nicodemus✭ came also (the man who at first came to Jesus by night), and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a forty-five kilograms in weight. 40 📚Then they took the body of Jesus, and wrapped it in strips of linen, with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is in burying.