Shared Word Translation

John 19

Jesus Mocked and Displayed

Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and placed it on his head, and they clothed him in a purple robe. They came up to him again and again, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and they struck him with their hands.

Pilate went out again and said to them,
“Look, I am bringing him out to you,
so that you may know that I find no case against him.” So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe.
Pilate said to them,
“Behold, the man.”

When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out,
“Crucify! Crucify!”
Pilate said to them,
“Take him yourselves and crucify him;
for I find no case against him.” The Jews answered him,
“We have a law,
and according to that law he ought to die,
because he has made himself the Son of God.”

Pilate Questions Authority

When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid. He entered the headquarters again and said to Jesus,
“Where are you from?”
But Jesus gave him no answer. So Pilate said to him,
“You refuse to speak to me?
Do you not know that I have authority to release you,
and authority to crucify you?” Jesus answered him,
“You would have no authority over me
unless it had been given to you from above.
Therefore the one who handed me over to you
has the greater sin.”

From then on Pilate tried to release him,
but the Jews cried out,
“If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar.
Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.” When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus outside
and sat down on the judge’s seat
at a place called The Stone Pavement,
or in Hebrew, Gabbatha. Now it was the day of Preparation for the Passover,
and it was about noon.
He said to the Jews,
“Here is your king.” 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.” Then he handed him over to them
to be crucified.

The Crucifixion and the Inscription

So they took Jesus,
and he went out,
bearing the cross himself,
to the place called The Place of the Skull,
which in Hebrew is called Golgotha. There they crucified him,
and with him two others,
one on either side,
with Jesus between them.

Pilate also had an inscription written
and placed on the cross.
It read,
“Jesus of Nazareth,
the King of the Jews.” Many of the Jews read this inscription,
because the place where Jesus was crucified
was near the city,
and it was written in Hebrew,
in Latin,
and in Greek. Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate,
“Do not write,
‘The King of the Jews,’
but rather,
‘This man said,
I am King of the Jews.’” Pilate answered,
“What I have written,
I have written.”

When the soldiers crucified Jesus,
they took his garments
and divided them into four parts,
one part for each soldier,
also taking his tunic.
Now the tunic was seamless,
woven in one piece from top to bottom. So they said to one another,
“Let us not tear it,
but cast lots for it
to see whose it shall be.”
This was to fulfill the scripture that says,
“They divided my garments among them,
and for my clothing they cast lots.”
So the soldiers did these things.

Jesus Entrusts His Mother and Dies

Standing near the cross of Jesus were
his mother,
his mother’s sister,
Mary the wife of Clopas,
and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother
and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby,
he said to his mother,
“Woman,
here is your son.” Then he said to the disciple,
“Here is your mother.”
And from that hour
the disciple took her into his own care.

After this,
Jesus, knowing that all was now finished,
said,
in order to fulfill the scripture,
“I am thirsty.” A jar full of sour wine stood there.
So they put a sponge full of the wine
on a branch of hyssop
and held it to his mouth. When Jesus had received the wine,
he said,
“It is finished.”
Then he bowed his head
and handed over his spirit.

The Piercing of Jesus’ Side

Since it was the day of Preparation,
and so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath
—for that Sabbath was a great day—
the Jews asked Pilate
that their legs might be broken
and the bodies taken away. So the soldiers came
and broke the legs of the first,
and of the other who had been crucified with him. But when they came to Jesus
and saw that he was already dead,
they did not break his legs.

Instead, one of the soldiers
pierced his side with a spear,
and at once
blood and water came out. The one who saw this has testified,
and his testimony is true.
He knows that he speaks the truth,
so that you also may believe. For these things took place
so that the scripture might be fulfilled:
“Not one of his bones will be broken.” And again another scripture says,
“They will look on the one whom they have pierced.”

The Burial of Jesus

After these things,
Joseph of Arimathea,
who was a disciple of Jesus,
though secretly,
for fear of the Jews,
asked Pilate
that he might take away the body of Jesus.
Pilate gave him permission.
So he came and took away his body. Nicodemus also came,
the one who had first come to Jesus by night,
bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes,
about a hundred pounds.

They took the body of Jesus
and wrapped it in linen cloths,
with the spices,
according to the burial custom of the Jews. Now there was a garden
in the place where he was crucified,
and in the garden a new tomb,
in which no one had yet been laid. Because it was the Jewish day of Preparation,
and because the tomb was nearby,
they laid Jesus there.