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Pilate took Jesus and had Him flogged. 2 The soldiers also twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and they clothed Him in a purple robe. 3 They kept coming up to Him and saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” And they struck Him with their hands.
4 Pilate went outside again and said to them, “Look, I am bringing Him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for any charges against Him.”
5 So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”
6 When the chief priests and the temple guards saw Him, they shouted, “Crucify Him, crucify Him!”
But Pilate responded, “Take Him yourselves and crucify Him, for I find no basis for any charges against Him.”
7 The Jews insisted, “We have a law, and according to that law He must die, because He has made Himself the Son of God.”
8 When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid. 9 He went back inside the headquarters and asked Jesus, “Where are You from?” But Jesus gave him no answer. 10 So Pilate said to Him, “Do You refuse to speak to me? Don’t You know that I have power to release You, and the power to crucify You?”
11 Jesus answered, “You would have no power over Me at all unless it had been given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed Me over to you has the greater sin.”
12 From then on Pilate tried to set Jesus free, but the Jews shouted, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. Anyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.”
13 When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judge’s seat at the place called the Stone Pavement (but in Hebrew, Gabbatha). 14 It was the day of Preparation for the Passover, and about the sixth hour.
Then Pilate said to the Jews, “Here is your king!”
15 But they shouted, “Take Him away! Take Him away! Crucify Him!”
Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your king?”
“We have no king but Caesar,” the chief priests answered.
16 Finally Pilate handed Him over to them to be crucified.
So the soldiers took charge of Jesus and led Him away. 17 Carrying His own cross, He went out to what is called the Place of a Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha. 18 There they crucified Him, and two others with Him, one on either side, and Jesus between them. 19 Pilate had an notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read:
20 Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek. 21 So the chief priests of the Jews protested to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews’, but that this Man said, ‘I am King of the Jews’.”
22 Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”
23 When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took His garments and divided them into four parts, one part for each soldier, and also His tunic. But the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.
24 So they said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it, to see who will get it.”
They did this to fulfil what the Scripture says,
“They divided my garments among them,
and for my clothing they cast lots.”
So this is what the soldiers did.
25 Standing near the cross of Jesus were His mother, His mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
26 When Jesus saw His mother and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, “Woman, here is your Son!” 27 Then He said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home.
28 After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now accomplished, in order to fulfil the Scripture, said, “I thirst.” 29 A jar full of the sour wine was sitting there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to His mouth.
30 When Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished.” Then He bowed His head and gave up His spirit.
31 Since it was the day of Preparation, and the following day was to be a special Sabbath, the Jews did not want the bodies to remain on the cross on the Sabbath. So they asked Pilate to have the legs of the crucified men broken, and their bodies taken away. 32 Then the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man and of the other one who had been crucified with Him. 33 Then 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 at once blood and water came out. 35 He who saw it has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, so that you may also believe. 36 For these things took happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken.” 37 Also, another Scripture says, “They will look on Him whom they have pierced.”
38 After this, Joseph of Arimathea, who was the disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission, so he came and took away His body. 39 Nicodemus, who earlier had come to Jesus by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, weighing about thirty-four kilograms. 40 They took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in linen cloths with the aromatic spices, according to the burial custom of the Jews. 41 Now at the place where Jesus was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden there was a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid. 42 So because it was the Jewish day of Preparation, and the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.