So Pilate then took Jesus and ^1ahad Him flogged. 2 ^aAnd the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and placed it on His head, and put a purple ¹cloak on Him; 3 and they repeatedly came up to Him and said, “^aHail, King of the Jews!” and ^bslapped Him in the face again and again. 4 And then Pilate ^acame out again and *said to them, “See, I am bringing Him out to you so that you will know that ^bI find no grounds at all for charges in ¹His case.” 5 Jesus then came out, ^awearing the crown of thorns and the purple cloak. And Pilate *said to them, “Behold, the Man!” 6 So when the chief priests and the ^aofficers saw Him, they shouted, saying, “Crucify, crucify!” Pilate *said to them, “Take Him yourselves and crucify Him; for ^bI find no grounds for charges in ¹His case!” 7 The Jews answered him, “^aWe have a law, and by that law He ought to die, because He ^bmade Himself out to be the Son of God!”

8 Therefore when Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid; 9 and he ^aentered the ¹Praetorium again and *said to Jesus, “Where are You from?” But ^bJesus gave him no answer. 10 So Pilate *said to Him, “Are you not speaking to me? Do You not know that I have authority to release You, and I have authority to crucify You?” 11 Jesus answered him, “^aYou would have no authority ¹over Me at all, if it had not been given to you from above; for this reason ^bthe one who handed Me over to you has the greater sin.” 12 As a result of this, Pilate ¹made efforts to release Him; but the Jews shouted, saying, “^aIf you release this Man, you are not a friend of Caesar; everyone who makes himself out to be a king ²opposes Caesar!”

13 Therefore when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and ^asat down on the judgment seat at a place called ¹The Pavement—but ^bin ²Hebrew, Gabbatha. 14 Now it was ^athe day of preparation for the Passover; it was about the ^1bsixth hour. And he *said to the Jews, “Look, ^cyour King!” 15 So they shouted, “^aAway with Him, away with Him, crucify Him!” Pilate *said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king except Caesar.”

16 So he then ^ahanded Him over to them to be crucified.

17 ^aThey took Jesus, therefore, and He went out, ^1bcarrying His own cross, to the place called ^cthe Place of a Skull, which ^din ²Hebrew is called, Golgotha. 18 There they crucified Him, and with Him ^atwo other men, one on either side, and Jesus in between. 19 Now Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It was written: “^aJESUS THE NAZARENE, ^bTHE KING OF THE JEWS.” 20 Therefore many of the Jews read this inscription, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written ^ain ¹Hebrew, Latin, and in Greek. 21 So the chief priests of the Jews were saying to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘^aThe King of the Jews’; rather, write that He said, ‘I am ^bKing of the Jews.’” 22 Pilate answered, “^aWhat I have written, I have written.”

23 Then ^athe soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took His outer garments and made ^bfour parts: a part to each soldier, and the ¹tunic also; but the tunic was seamless, woven ²in one piece. 24 So they said to one another, “^aLet’s not tear it, but cast lots for it, to decide whose it shall be.” ^bThis happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: “THEY ^cDIVIDED MY GARMENTS AMONG THEMSELVES, AND THEY CAST ¹LOTS FOR MY CLOTHING.” Therefore the soldiers did these things.

25 ^aNow beside the cross of Jesus stood ^bHis mother, His mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and ^cMary Magdalene. 26 So when Jesus saw His mother, and ^athe disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He *said to His mother, “^bWoman, behold, your son!” 27 Then He *said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her into ^ahis own household.

28 After this, Jesus, ^aknowing that all things had already been accomplished, ^bin order that the Scripture would be fulfilled, *said, “^cI am thirsty.” 29 A jar full of sour wine was standing there; so ^athey put a sponge full of the sour wine on a branch of hyssop and brought it up to His mouth. 30 Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “^aIt is finished!” And He bowed His head and ^bgave up His spirit.

31 Now then, since it was ^athe day of preparation, to prevent ^bthe bodies from remaining on the cross on the Sabbath ¹(for that Sabbath was a ^chigh day), the Jews requested of Pilate that their legs be broken, and the bodies be taken away. 32 So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man, and of the other who was ^acrucified with Him; 33 but after they came to Jesus, when they saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs. 34 Yet one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately ^ablood and water came out. 35 And he who has seen has ^atestified, and his testimony is true; and he knows that he is telling the truth, so that you also may believe. 36 For these things took place ^aso that the Scripture would be fulfilled: “^bNOT A BONE OF HIM SHALL BE ¹BROKEN.” 37 And again another Scripture says, “^aTHEY WILL LOOK AT HIM WHOM THEY PIERCED.”

38 Now ^aafter these things Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but a ^bsecret one for ^cfear of the ¹Jews, requested of Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate granted permission. So he came and took away His body. 39 ^aNicodemus, who had first come to Him by night, also came, ^bbringing a ¹mixture of ^cmyrrh and aloes, about a ^2dhundred litras weight. 40 So they took the body of Jesus and ^abound it in ^blinen wrappings with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews. 41 Now in the place where He was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden was a ^anew tomb ^bin which no one had yet been laid. 42 Therefore because of the Jewish day of ^apreparation, since the tomb was ^bnearby, they laid Jesus there.