Worsley - John - 19

19:1  Then Pilate therefore took Jesus and scourged Him.

19:2  And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head,

19:3  and threw a purple robe about Him, and said, "Hail king of the Jews," and struck Him with their hands.

19:4  Pilate therefore came out again, and saith unto them, Behold I bring Him out to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in Him.

19:5  So Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, "Behold the man."

19:6  When the chief priests therefore and the officers saw Him, they cried out, saying, "Crucify Him, crucify Him." Pilate saith unto them, Take Him yourselves, and crucify Him: for I find no fault in Him.

19:7  The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law He ought to die, because He made himself the Son of God.

19:8  Now when Pilate heard this he was the more afraid;

19:9  and went into the palace again, and saith to Jesus, From whence art thou? but Jesus gave him no answer.

19:10  Pilate therefore saith unto Him, Dost thou not speak to me? knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee?

19:11  Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above; wherefore he, that delivered me up to thee, hath the greater sin.

19:12  Upon this Pilate sought to release Him; but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou release this man, thou art not Cesar's friend; for whosoever maketh himself a king, opposeth Cesar.

19:13  Therefore when Pilate heard this he brought Jesus forth, and sat down on the tribunal, in a place called the Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha.

19:14  (And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour.) And he saith to the Jews, Behold your king. But they cried out,

19:15  Away with Him, away with Him, crucify Him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Cesar.

19:16  Then delivered he Him therefore unto them to be crucified.

19:17  And they took Jesus, and led Him away. And He went out, bearing his cross, into a place called the place of a scull, in Hebrew Golgotha:

19:18  where they crucified Him, and with Him two others, one on each side, and Jesus in the middle.

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

19:20  Many of the Jews therefore read this inscription; for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.

19:21  And the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, Write not "The king of the Jews," but that "He said, I am king of the Jews."

19:22  Pilate answered, What I have written, I have written.

19:23  And the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, (and made four parts, to each soldier a part,) and his coat. Now the coat had no seam in it, being woven from the top throughout:

19:24  they said therefore to one another, Let us not cut it, but let us cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, "They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots." These things therefore the soldiers did.

19:25  Now there stood near the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleopas, and Mary Magdalene.

19:26  Jesus therefore seeing his mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing by, saith to his mother, Woman, behold thy son:

19:27  and then saith to the disciple, Behold thy mother. And from that hour the same disciple took her to his own home.

19:28  After this Jesus knowing that all things were now finished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.

19:29  Now there was set a vessel there full of vinegar: so they filled a spunge with the vinegar, and putting it upon hyssop, held it up to his mouth.

19:30  And when Jesus had received the vinegar, He said, It is finished. And reclining his head, He yielded up the ghost.

19:31  The Jews therefore, that the bodies might not remain upon the cross on the sabbath-day, because it was now the preparation, (for that sabbath-day was an high-day) desired Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

19:32  So the soldiers came, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other that was crucified with Him. But coming to Jesus,

19:33  as they saw He was dead already, they did not break his legs:

19:34  but one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately there came out blood and water.

19:35  And he that saw it testifieth it, and his testimony is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye may believe.

19:36  For these things were done, that the scripture might be fulfilled, Not a bone of Him shall be broken.

19:37  And again another scripture saith, They shall look on Him whom they have pierced.

19:38  And after these things Joseph of Arimathea (who was a disciple of Jesus, but a concealed one for fear of the Jews) petitioned Pilate, that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave him leave: he came therefore and took away the body of Jesus.

19:39  And there came also Nicodemus (who at first came to Jesus by night) and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes about an hundred pound weight.

19:40  So they took the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen cloths, with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury.

19:41  Now there was a garden in the place where He was crucified; and in the garden a new sepulchre, in which none had ever yet been laid.

19:42  There therefore they laid Jesus, because of the Jews preparation-day; for the sepulchre was near.