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& So when the chief priests and the officers saw Him, they cried out saying, "Crucify, crucify!" Pilate *said to them, "Take Him yourselves and crucify Him, for I find no guilt in Him."

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John 19:7

& The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by that law He ought to die because He made Himself out {to be} the Son of God."

John 19:8

& Therefore when Pilate heard this statement, he was {even} more afraid;

John 19:9

& and he entered into the (I.e. governor's official residence) Praetorium again and *said to Jesus, "Where are You from?" But Jesus gave him no answer.

John 19:10

& So Pilate *said to Him, "You do not speak to me? Do You not know that I have authority to release You, and I have authority to crucify You?"

John 19:11

& Jesus answered, "You would have no authority over Me, unless it had been given you from above; for this reason he who delivered Me to you has {the} greater sin."

John 19:12

& As a result of this Pilate made efforts to release Him, but the Jews cried out saying, "If you release this Man, you are no friend of Caesar; everyone who makes himself out {to be} a king opposes Caesar."

John 19:13

& Therefore when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha.

John 19:14

& Now it was the day of preparation for the Passover; it was about the (Perhaps 6 a.m.) sixth hour. And he *said to the Jews, "Behold, your King!"

John 19:15

& So 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."

John 19:16

& So he then handed Him over to them to be crucified.

John 19:17

& They took Jesus, therefore, and He went out, bearing His own cross, to the place called the Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha.

John 19:18

& There they crucified Him, and with Him two other men, one on either side, and Jesus in between.

John 19:19

& Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It was written, "JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS."

John 19:20

& Therefore many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Latin {and} in Greek.

John 19:21

& So 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."'

John 19:22

& Pilate answered, "What I have written I have written."

John 19:23

& Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took His outer garments and made four parts, a part to every soldier and {also} the (Gr {khiton,} the garment worn next to the skin) tunic; now the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece.

John 19:24

& So they said to one another, "Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, {to decide} whose it shall be"; {this was} to fulfill the Scripture: "THEY DIVIDED MY OUTER GARMENTS AMONG THEM, AND FOR MY CLOTHING THEY CAST LOTS."

John 19:25

& Therefore the soldiers did these things.
But standing by the cross of Jesus were His mother, and His mother's sister, Mary the {wife} of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

John 19:26

& When Jesus then saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He *said to His mother, "Woman, behold, your son!"

John 19:27

& Then He *said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" From that hour the disciple took her into his own {household.}

John 19:28

& After this, Jesus, knowing that all things had already been accomplished, to fulfill the Scripture, *said, "I am thirsty."

John 19:29

& A jar full of sour wine was standing there; so they put a sponge full of the sour wine upon {a branch of} hyssop and brought it up to His mouth.

John 19:30

& Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, "It is finished!" And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit.

John 19:31

& Then the Jews, because it was the day of 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.

John 19:32

& So the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first man and of the other who was crucified with Him;

John 19:33

& but coming to Jesus, when they saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs.

John 19:34

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

John 19:35

& And he who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true; and he knows that he is telling the truth, so that you also may believe.

John 19:36

& For these things came to pass to fulfill the Scripture, "NOT A BONE OF HIM SHALL BE BROKEN."

John 19:37

& And again another Scripture says, "THEY SHALL LOOK ON HIM WHOM THEY PIERCED."

John 19:38

& After these things Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but a secret {one} for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate granted permission. So he came and took away His body.

John 19:39

& Nicodemus, who had first come to Him by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds {weight.}

John 19:40

& So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen wrappings with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.