John 19

The Demand for Crucifixion John 19:6–11

⁶Verse 6. When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him.” ⁷Verse 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.” ⁸Verse 8. When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid. ⁹Verse 9. He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer. ¹⁰Verse 10. Pilate therefore said to him, “Aren’t you speaking to me? Don’t you know that I have power to release you, and have power to crucify you?”

¹¹Verse 11. Jesus answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”

Pilate's Reluctance John 19:12–16

¹²Verse 12. At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, “If you release this man, you aren’t Caesar’s friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!” ¹³Verse 13. When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called “The Pavement”, but in Hebrew, “Gabbatha.” ¹⁴Verse 14. Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Behold, your King!” ¹⁵Verse 15. They cried out, “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!”

¹⁶Verse 16. So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away.

The Crucifixion John 19:17–24

¹⁷Verse 17. He went out, bearing his cross, to the place called “The Place of a Skull”, which is called in Hebrew, “Golgotha”, ¹⁸Verse 18. where they crucified him, and with him two others, on either side one, and Jesus in the middle. ¹⁹Verse 19. Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, “JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.” ²⁰Verse 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. ²¹Verse 21. The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, “Don’t write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but, ‘he said, “I am King of the Jews.”’”

²²Verse 22. Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.” ²³Verse 23. Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. ²⁴Verse 24. Then they said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide whose it will be,” that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says, “They parted my garments among them. For my cloak they cast lots.” Therefore the soldiers did these things.

Jesus' Final Moments John 19:25–30

²⁵Verse 25. But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.²⁶Verse 26. Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother,“Woman, behold, your son!”²⁷Verse 27. Then he said to the disciple,“Behold, your mother!” From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.²⁸Verse 28. After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said,“I am thirsty.”²⁹Verse 29. Now a vessel full of vinegar was set there; so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop, and held it at his mouth.³⁰Verse 30. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said,“It is finished.” He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.

The Aftermath of Death John 19:31–37

³¹Verse 31. Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn’t remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. ³²Verse 32. Therefore the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with him; ³³Verse 33. but when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was already dead, they didn’t break his legs. ³⁴Verse 34. However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.

³⁵Verse 35. He who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe. ³⁶Verse 36. For these things happened, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, “A bone of him will not be broken.” ³⁷Verse 37. Again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they pierced.”

Burial of Jesus John 19:38–42

³⁸Verse 38. After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away Jesus’ body. Pilate gave him permission. He came therefore and took away his body. ³⁹Verse 39. Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds. ⁴⁰Verse 40. So they took Jesus’ body, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury. ⁴¹Verse 41. Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden. In the garden was a new tomb in which no man had ever yet been laid.

⁴²Verse 42. Then because of the Jews’ Preparation Day (for the tomb was near at hand) they laid Jesus there.