John 19:17-42 ▼

17 And bearing His own cross, He went out to the place called Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha,

18 where they crucified Him, and with Him two others, on this side and on that side, and Jesus in between.

19 And Pilate also wrote a title and put it on the cross. And it was written: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.

20 Therefore many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.

21 Therefore the chief priests of the Jews were saying to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that He said, ‘I am King of the Jews.’”

22 Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”

23 Then the soldiers, when they crucified Jesus, took His garments and made four parts, to each soldier a part, and also the tunic. Now the tunic was seamless, woven from the top all throughout.

24 Therefore they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but let us cast a lot for it, whose it will be,” so that the Scripture would be fulfilled, the one saying: “They divided My garments among them, and for My clothing they cast a lot.” Therefore indeed the soldiers did these things.

25 Now His mother, and the sister of His mother, and Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene had been standing by the cross of Jesus.

26 Therefore Jesus, having seen His mother and the disciple whom He loved standing by, says to His mother, “Woman, behold your son.”

27 Then He says to the disciple, “Behold your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own.

28 After this, Jesus, knowing that now all things had been accomplished, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled, says, “I thirst.”

29 A vessel had been set there, full of sour wine; therefore, having put on a stalk of hyssop a sponge filled with sour wine, they brought it to the mouth.

30 Therefore when Jesus took the sour wine, He said, “It has been finished.” And having bowed the head, He yielded up the spirit.

31 Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath—for that Sabbath was a high day—asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away.

32 So the soldiers came, and indeed they broke the legs of the first, and of the other one having been crucified with Him.

33 But having come to Jesus, when they saw Him already having been dead, they did not break His legs.

34 But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and blood and water came out immediately.

35 And the one having seen has testified, and his testimony is true. And he knows that he is speaking the truth, so that you? also might believe.

36 For these things took place so that the Scripture might be fulfilled: “Not one bone of Him will be broken.”

37 And again, another Scripture says: “They will look on the One they pierced.”

38 And after these things, Joseph from Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus (but concealed because of the fear of the Jews) asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave permission. Therefore he came and took away His body.

39 And Nicodemus, the one having come to Him by night at the first, also came bearing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred litras.

40 Therefore they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the custom among the Jews to prepare for burial.

41 Now there was a garden in the place where He was crucified, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one was yet having been laid.

42 Therefore because of the Preparation of the Jews and since the tomb was near, they laid Jesus there.