18:28 Then they brought Jesus from Caiaphas to the Roman governor’s residence. 1 (Now it was very early morning.) 2 They 3 did not go into the governor’s residence 4 so they would not be ceremonially defiled, but could eat the Passover meal. 18:29 So Pilate came outside to them and said, “What accusation 5 do you bring against this man?” 6 18:30 They replied, 7 “If this man 8 were not a criminal, 9 we would not have handed him over to you.” 10
18:31 Pilate told them, 11 “Take him yourselves and pass judgment on him 12 according to your own law!” 13 The Jewish leaders 14 replied, 15 “We cannot legally put anyone to death.” 16 18:32 (This happened 17 to fulfill the word Jesus had spoken when he indicated 18 what kind of death he was going to die. 19 )
18:33 So Pilate went back into the governor’s residence, 20 summoned Jesus, and asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?” 21 18:34 Jesus replied, 22 “Are you saying this on your own initiative, 23 or have others told you about me?” 18:35 Pilate answered, “I am not a Jew, am I? 24 Your own people 25 and your chief priests handed you over 26 to me. What have you done?”
18:36 Jesus replied, “My kingdom is not from this world. If my kingdom were from this world, my servants would be fighting to keep me from being 27 handed over 28 to the Jewish authorities. 29 But as it is, 30 my kingdom is not from here.” 18:37 Then Pilate said, 31 “So you are a king!” Jesus replied, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I was born, and for this reason I came into the world – to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to 32 my voice.” 18:38 Pilate asked, 33 “What is truth?” 34
When he had said this he went back outside to the Jewish leaders 35 and announced, 36 “I find no basis for an accusation 37 against him. 18:39 But it is your custom that I release one prisoner 38 for you at the Passover. 39 So do you want me to release for you the king of the Jews?” 18:40 Then they shouted back, 40 “Not this man, 41 but Barabbas!” 42 (Now Barabbas was a revolutionary. 43 ) 44
19:1 Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged severely. 45 19:2 The soldiers 46 braided 47 a crown of thorns 48 and put it on his head, and they clothed him in a purple robe. 49 19:3 They 50 came up to him again and again 51 and said, “Hail, king of the Jews!” 52 And they struck him repeatedly 53 in the face.
19:4 Again Pilate went out and said to the Jewish leaders, 54 “Look, I am bringing him out to you, so that you may know that I find no reason for an accusation 55 against him.” 19:5 So Jesus came outside, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. 56 Pilate 57 said to them, “Look, here is the man!” 58 19:6 When the chief priests and their officers saw him, they shouted out, “Crucify 59 him! Crucify him!” 60 Pilate said, 61 “You take him and crucify him! 62 Certainly 63 I find no reason for an accusation 64 against him!” 19:7 The Jewish leaders 65 replied, 66 “We have a law, 67 and according to our law he ought to die, because he claimed to be the Son of God!” 68
19:8 When Pilate heard what they said, 69 he was more afraid than ever, 70 19:9 and he went back into the governor’s residence 71 and said to Jesus, “Where do you come from?” But Jesus gave him no answer. 19:10 So Pilate said, 72 “Do you refuse to speak to me? Don’t you know I have the authority 73 to release you, and to crucify you?” 74 19:11 Jesus replied, “You would have no authority 75 over me at all, unless it was given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you 76 is guilty of greater sin.” 77
19:12 From this point on, Pilate tried 78 to release him. But the Jewish leaders 79 shouted out, 80 “If you release this man, 81 you are no friend of Caesar! 82 Everyone who claims to be a king 83 opposes Caesar!” 19:13 When Pilate heard these words he brought Jesus outside and sat down on the judgment seat 84 in the place called “The Stone Pavement” 85 (Gabbatha in 86 Aramaic). 87 19:14 (Now it was the day of preparation 88 for the Passover, about noon. 89 ) 90 Pilate 91 said to the Jewish leaders, 92 “Look, here is your king!”
19:15 Then they 93 shouted out, “Away with him! Away with him! 94 Crucify 95 him!” Pilate asked, 96 “Shall I crucify your king?” The high priests replied, “We have no king except Caesar!” 19:16 Then Pilate 97 handed him over 98 to them to be crucified.
So they took Jesus, 19:17 and carrying his own cross 99 he went out to the place called “The Place of the Skull” 100 (called in Aramaic 101 Golgotha). 102 19:18 There they 103 crucified 104 him along with two others, 105 one on each side, with Jesus in the middle. 19:19 Pilate also had a notice 106 written and fastened to the cross, 107 which read: 108 “Jesus the Nazarene, the king of the Jews.” 19:20 Thus many of the Jewish residents of Jerusalem 109 read this notice, 110 because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the notice was written in Aramaic, 111 Latin, and Greek. 19:21 Then the chief priests of the Jews 112 said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The king of the Jews,’ but rather, ‘This man said, I am king of the Jews.’” 19:22 Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”
19:23 Now when the soldiers crucified 113 Jesus, they took his clothes and made four shares, one for each soldier, 114 and the tunic 115 remained. (Now the tunic 116 was seamless, woven from top to bottom as a single piece.) 117 19:24 So the soldiers said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but throw dice 118 to see who will get it.” 119 This took place 120 to fulfill the scripture that says, “They divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they threw dice.” 121 So the soldiers did these things.
19:25 Now standing beside Jesus’ cross were his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 122 19:26 So when Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, 123 look, here is your son!” 19:27 He then said to his disciple, “Look, here is your mother!” From that very time 124 the disciple took her into his own home.
19:28 After this Jesus, realizing that by this time 125 everything was completed, 126 said (in order to fulfill the scripture), 127 “I am thirsty!” 128 19:29 A jar full of sour wine 129 was there, so they put a sponge soaked in sour wine on a branch of hyssop 130 and lifted it 131 to his mouth. 19:30 When 132 he had received the sour wine, Jesus said, “It is completed!” 133 Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. 134
19:31 Then, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies should not stay on the crosses on the Sabbath 135 (for that Sabbath was an especially important one), 136 the Jewish leaders 137 asked Pilate to have the victims’ legs 138 broken 139 and the bodies taken down. 140 19:32 So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the two men who had been crucified 141 with Jesus, 142 first the one and then the other. 143 19:33 But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. 19:34 But one of the soldiers pierced 144 his side with a spear, and blood and water 145 flowed out immediately. 19:35 And the person who saw it 146 has testified (and his testimony is true, and he 147 knows that he is telling the truth), 148 so that you also may believe. 19:36 For these things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled, “Not a bone of his will be broken.” 149 19:37 And again another scripture says, “They will look on the one whom they have pierced.” 150