John 19:
"Jesus Sentenced to Death
Then
Pilate had Jesus flogged with a lead-tipped whip. The soldiers wove a
crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they put a purple robe on
him. “Hail! King of the Jews!” they mocked, as they slapped him across
the face.
Pilate
went outside again and said to the people, “I am going to bring him out
to you now, but understand clearly that I find him not guilty.” Then
Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And
Pilate said, “Look, here is the man!”
When they saw him, the leading priests and Temple guards began shouting, “Crucify him! Crucify him!”
“Take him yourselves and crucify him,” Pilate said. “I find him not guilty.”
The Jewish leaders replied, “By our law he ought to die because he called himself the Son of God.”
When
Pilate heard this, he was more frightened than ever. He took Jesus back
into the headquarters again and asked him, “Where are you from?” But
Jesus gave no answer. “Why don’t you talk to me?” Pilate demanded.
“Don’t you realize that I have the power to release you or crucify
you?”
Then
Jesus said, “You would have no power over me at all unless it were given
to you from above. So the one who handed me over to you has the greater
sin.”
Then
Pilate tried to release him, but the Jewish leaders shouted, “If you
release this man, you are no ‘friend of Caesar.’ Anyone who declares
himself a king is a rebel against Caesar.”
When
they said this, Pilate brought Jesus out to them again. Then Pilate sat
down on the judgment seat on the platform that is called the Stone
Pavement (in Hebrew, Gabbatha). It was now about noon on the day of
preparation for the Passover. And Pilate said to the people, “Look, here
is your king!” “
Away with him,” they yelled. “Away with him! Crucify him!”
“What? Crucify your king?” Pilate asked. “We have no king but Caesar,” the leading priests shouted back.
Then Pilate turned Jesus over to them to be crucified.
The Crucifixion
So
they took Jesus away. Carrying the cross by himself, he went to the
place called Place of the Skull (in Hebrew, Golgotha). There they nailed
him to the cross. Two others were crucified with him, one on either
side, with Jesus between them. And Pilate posted a sign on the cross
that read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.” The place where
Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in
Hebrew, Latin, and Greek, so that many people could read it.
Then
the leading priests objected and said to Pilate, “Change it from ‘The
King of the Jews’ to ‘He said, I am King of the Jews.’”
Pilate replied, “No, what I have written, I have written.”
When
the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they divided his clothes among the
four of them. They also took his robe, but it was seamless, woven in one
piece from top to bottom. So they said, “Rather than tearing it apart,
let’s throw dice for it.” This fulfilled the Scripture that says, “They
divided my garments among themselves and threw dice for my clothing.” So
that is what they did.
Standing near the cross were Jesus’ mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary (the wife of Clopas), and Mary Magdalene.
When
Jesus saw his mother standing there beside the disciple he loved, he
said to her, “Dear woman, here is your son.” And he said to this
disciple, “Here is your mother.” And from then on this disciple took her
into his home.
The Death of Jesus
Jesus
knew that his mission was now finished, and to fulfill Scripture he
said, “I am thirsty.” A jar of sour wine was sitting there, so they
soaked a sponge in it, put it on a hyssop branch, and held it up to his
lips. When Jesus had tasted it, he said, “It is finished!” Then he bowed
his head and released his spirit.
It
was the day of preparation, and the Jewish leaders didn’t want the
bodies hanging there the next day, which was the Sabbath (and a very
special Sabbath, because it was the Passover). So they asked Pilate to
hasten their deaths by ordering that their legs be broken. Then their
bodies could be taken down. So the soldiers came and broke the legs of
the two men crucified with Jesus. But when they came to Jesus, they saw
that he was already dead, so they didn’t break his legs. One of the
soldiers, however, pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood
and water flowed out. (This report is from an eyewitness giving an
accurate account. He speaks the truth so that you also can believe.)
These things happened in fulfillment of the Scriptures that say, “Not
one of his bones will be broken,” and “They will look on the one they
pierced.”
The Burial of Jesus
Afterward
Joseph of Arimathea, who had been a secret disciple of Jesus (because
he feared the Jewish leaders), asked Pilate for permission to take down
Jesus’ body. When Pilate gave permission, Joseph came and took the body
away. With him came Nicodemus, the man who had come to Jesus at night.
He brought about seventy-five pounds of perfumed ointment made from
myrrh and aloes. Following Jewish burial custom, they wrapped Jesus’
body with the spices in long sheets of linen cloth. The place of
crucifixion was near a garden, where there was a new tomb, never used
before. And so, because it was the day of preparation for the Jewish
Passover and since the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there."
Saturday 11 April 2020
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