Joseph and Nicodemus

Jesus Delivered to Be Crucified

¹Then Pilate took Jesus and qflogged him. ²rAnd the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe. ³They came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and struck him with their hands. ⁴Pilate went out again and said to them, “See, I am bringing him out to you that you may know that sI find no guilt in him.” ⁵So Jesus came out, wearing tthe crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, u“Behold the man!” ⁶When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, v“Take him yourselves and crucify him, for wI find no guilt in him.” ⁷The Jews1 answered him, “We have a law, and xaccording to that law he ought to die because yhe has made himself the Son of God.” ⁸When Pilate heard this statement, zhe was even more afraid. ⁹aHe entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus, b“Where are you from?” But cJesus gave him no answer. ¹⁰So Pilate said to him, “You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you?” ¹¹Jesus answered him, d“You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore ehe who delivered me over to you fhas the greater sin.”

¹²From then on gPilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend. hEveryone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.” ¹³So when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on ithe judgment seat at a place called The Stone Pavement, and in Aramaic2 Gabbatha. ¹⁴Now it was jthe day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour.3 He said to the Jews, k“Behold your King!” ¹⁵They cried out, l“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.” ¹⁶mSo he ndelivered him over to them to be crucified.

The Crucifixion

So they took Jesus, ¹⁷and ohe went out, pbearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha. ¹⁸qThere they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them. ¹⁹Pilate ralso wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.” ²⁰Many of the Jews read this inscription, for sthe place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Aramaic, in Latin, and in Greek. ²¹So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but rather, ‘This man said, I am King of the Jews.’” ²²Pilate answered, t“What I have written I have written.”

²³uWhen the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts, one part for each soldier; also his tunic.4 But the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom, ²⁴so they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it shall be.” vThis was to fulfill the Scripture which says,

w“They divided my garments among them,

and for my clothing they cast lots.”

So the soldiers did these things, ²⁵xbut standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. ²⁶When Jesus saw his mother and ythe disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, z“Woman, behold, your son!” ²⁷Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to ahis own home.

The Death of Jesus

²⁸After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now bfinished, said (vto fulfill the Scripture), c“I thirst.” ²⁹A jar full of sour wine stood there, dso they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth. ³⁰When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, e“It is finished,” and he bowed his head and fgave up his spirit.

Jesus' Side Is Pierced

³¹Since it was gthe day of Preparation, and hso that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was ia high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away. ³²So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other jwho had been crucified with him. ³³But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. ³⁴But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out kblood and water. ³⁵lHe who saw it has borne witness—mhis testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth—nthat you also may believe. ³⁶oFor these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled: p“Not one of his bones qwill be broken.” ³⁷And again another Scripture says, r“They will look on him whom they have pierced.”

Jesus Is Buried

³⁸sAfter these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly tfor 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 his body. ³⁹uNicodemus also, who earlier had come to Jesus5 by night, came vbringing a mixture of wmyrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds6 in weight. ⁴⁰So they took the body of Jesus and xbound it in ylinen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews. ⁴¹Now in the place where he was crucified there was a zgarden, and ain the garden a new tomb bin which no one had yet been laid. ⁴²So because of the Jewish cday of Preparation, dsince the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there.