The Lantern

John19

The Soldiers Mock Jesus

At that time therefore Pilate took Jesus and flogged Him.

And the soldiers, having twisted together a crown of thorns, put it on His head, and a purple robe they cast around Him,

and they were coming up to Him and were saying, “Hail, O King of the Jews!” And they were giving Him blows with the palm.

And Pilate went forth again outside, and he says to them, “Behold, I bring Him out to you, so that you may know that I find no guilt in Him.”

Jesus went forth therefore outside, wearing the thorny crown and the purple robe. And he says to them, “Behold, the man!”

When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw Him, they cried out, saying, “Crucify! Crucify!” Pilate says to them, “Take Him yourselves and crucify him; for I myself find no guilt in Him.”

The Jews answered him, “We ourselves have a law, and according to the law He ought to die, because He made Himself the Son of God.”

When therefore Pilate heard this word, he was the more afraid,

and he went into the Praetorium again and says to Jesus, “From where are You Yourself?” But Jesus did not give him an answer.

Pilate says therefore to Him, “To me you do not speak? Do you not know that I have authority to release You and I have authority to crucify You?”

Jesus answered him, “You were having no authority against Me unless it were given to you from above; because of this the one having betrayed Me to you has greater sin.”

Out of this Pilate was seeking to release Him. But the Jews cried out, saying, “If you shall release this man, you are not a friend of Caesar. Everyone making himself a king speaks against Caesar.”

Therefore Pilate, having heard these words, brought Jesus out and sat down upon the judgment seat at a place being named the Stone Pavement, now in Hebrew Gabbatha.

Now it was the Day of Preparation of the Passover; the hour was about the sixth. And he says to the Jews, “Behold your king!”

They cried out therefore concerning Him: “Away, away! Crucify Him!” Pilate says to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king except Caesar.”

The Crucifixion

Then therefore he delivered Him to them, that He may be crucified. They took Jesus therefore,

and bearing His own cross, He went out to the place being named of the Skull, which is named in Hebrew Golgotha,

where they crucified Him, and with Him two others, on this side and on that side, and Jesus in between.

Pilate then also wrote a title and put it on the cross. Now it was written: JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.

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

The chief priests of the Jews were saying therefore to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but for He said, ‘I am King of the Jews.’”

Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”

The soldiers then, when they crucified Jesus, took His garments and made four parts, a part to each soldier, and also the tunic. Now the tunic was seamless, woven from the top throughout all.

They said therefore to one another, “Let us not tear it up, but let us cast lots for it, whose it will be;” that the Scripture may be fulfilled, what is being spoken: “They divided My garments among themselves, and for My clothing they cast a lot.” The soldiers indeed therefore did these things,

but by the cross of Jesus had been standing His mother, and the sister of His mother, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

Jesus therefore, having seen His mother and the disciple standing by whom He was loving, says to the mother, “Woman, behold your son.”

Then He says to the disciple, “Behold your mother.” And from that very hour the disciple took her to his own.

The Death of Jesus

After this, Jesus knowing that now all things has been accomplished, so that the Scripture may be fulfilled, He says, “I thirst.”

A vessel was set there full of sour wine; a sponge therefore full of the sour wine, having put on a hyssop stalk, they brought it to the mouth.

When then Jesus took the sour wine, He said, “It has been finished.” And having bowed the head, He yielded up the spirit.

Jesus’ Side Is Pierced

Therefore the Jews, since it was the Preparation, so that the bodies may not remain on the cross on the Sabbath — for that Sabbath’s day was a high one — asked Pilate that their legs may be broken and they may be taken away.

The soldiers came therefore and broke the legs of the first indeed, and of the other which had been crucified with Him.

But having come to Jesus, when they saw Him already having been dead, they did not break His legs;

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

And the one having seen has borne witness, and his testimony is true. And He knows that he is speaking truth, that you yourselves also may believe.

For these things took place so that the Scripture may be fulfilled: “Not one bone of Him will be broken.”

And again another Scripture says: “They will look upon the One whom they pierced.”

The Burial of Jesus

After then these things, Joseph the one from Arimathea asked Pilate — being a disciple of Jesus, concealed, however, through the fear of the Jews — that he may take away the body of Jesus. And Pilate gave permission. He came therefore and took away His body.

Now Nicodemus also came, the one having come to Him by night at the first, bearing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred litras.

They took therefore the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, even as the custom is among the Jews to prepare for burial.

Now there was in the place where He was crucified a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one was yet already laid.

There therefore, on account of the Preparation of the Jews, because the tomb was near, they laid Jesus.