¹ Then therefore Pilate took Jesus and scourged him.

² And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and put on him a purple robe, and approached him

³ and said, Hail, king of the Jews! and they gave him blows on the face.

⁴ Again Pilate went forth, and saith to them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find nothing criminal in him.

⁵ Jesus therefore came forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And [Pilate] saith to them, Behold the man!

⁶ When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify! crucify! Pilate saith to them, Take him yourselves, and crucify him; for I find nothing criminal in him.

⁷ The Jews answered him, We have a law, and according to the law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.

⁸ When Pilate therefore heard this, he was the more afraid;

⁹ and went again into the palace, and saith to Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer.

¹⁰ Pilate saith to him, Dost thou not speak to me? Dost thou not know that I have power to release thee, and have power to crucify thee?

¹¹ Jesus answered, Thou wouldst have no power against me, unless it had been given thee from above; for this cause he that delivered me up to thee hath the greater sin.

¹² From this time Pilate sought to release him. But the Jews cried out, saying, If thou release this man, thou art not a friend of Caesar. Every one that maketh himself a king, setteth himself against Caesar.

¹³ When therefore Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down on the judgment-seat, in a place called the Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha.

¹⁴ Now it was the preparation of the passover. It was about the sixth hour. And he saith to the Jews, Behold your king!

¹⁵ Upon this they cried out, Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him! Pilate saith to them, Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.

¹⁶ Then therefore he delivered him up to them to be crucified. They therefore took Jesus;

¹⁷ and bearing his own cross, he went forth into the place called Place of a Skull; in Hebrew, Golgotha;

¹⁸ where they crucified him, and with him two others, one on each side, and Jesus in the midst.

¹⁹ And Pilate wrote an inscription also, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, "Jesus the Nazarene, the king of the Jews."

²⁰ This inscription therefore was read by many of the Jews; for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.

²¹ Therefore 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.

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

²³ Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part, and also his coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.

²⁴ They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be. That the scripture might be fulfilled: "They parted my garments among them, and for my vesture they cast lots." These things the soldiers did.

²⁵ Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary the Magdalene.

²⁶ Jesus therefore, when he saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing by, saith to his mother, Woman, behold thy son!

²⁷ Then he saith to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.

²⁸ After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now finished, in order that the Scripture might be accomplished, saith, I thirst.

²⁹ A vessel was brought full of vinegar; and putting a sponge filled with vinegar upon a stalk of hyssop, they raised it to his mouth.

³⁰ When therefore he had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished! and he bowed his head, and yielded up his spirit.

³¹ The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies might not remain upon the cross on the sabbath, for that sabbath was a great day, besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

³² So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with him.

³³ But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was already dead, they broke not his legs;

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

³⁵ And he that hath seen hath borne witness, and his witness is true; and he knoweth that he saith what is true, that ye also may believe.

³⁶ For these things came to pass, that the scripture might be fulfilled, "A bone of him shall not be broken."

³⁷ And again another scripture saith, "They shall look on him whom they pierced."

³⁸ And after this, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but concealing it for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave him leave. They came therefore and took him away.

³⁹ Nicodemus also, he who at the first went to him by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds weight.

⁴⁰ Then they took the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the manner of the Jews in preparing for burial.

⁴¹ Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid.

⁴² There then, on account of the Jews’ preparation-day, they laid Jesus; for the tomb was at hand.