John 19 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

The Crown of Thorns

(Mat 27:27–31; Mar 15:16–20 )

Jhn 19:1

Jhn 19:1Then Pilate took Jesus and had him whipped with cords.

Jhn 19:2

Jhn 19:2And the men of the army made a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they put a purple robe on him.

Jhn 19:3

Jhn 19:3And they kept coming and saying, Long life to the King of the Jews! And they gave him blows with their hands.

Jhn 19:4

Jhn 19:4And Pilate went out again and said to them, See, I let him come out to you to make it clear to you that I see no wrong in him.

Jhn 19:5

Jhn 19:5Then Jesus came out with the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And Pilate said to them, Here is the man!

Jhn 19:6

Jhn 19:6So when the chief priests and the police saw him they gave a loud cry, To the cross! to the cross! Pilate said to them, Take him yourselves and put him on the cross: I see no crime in him.

Jhn 19:7

Jhn 19:7And the Jews made answer, We have a law, and by that law it is right for him to be put to death because he said he was the Son of God.

Jhn 19:8

Jhn 19:8When this saying came to Pilate's ears his fear became greater;

Jhn 19:9

Jhn 19:9And he went again into the Praetorium and said to Jesus, Where do you come from? But Jesus gave him no answer.

Jhn 19:10

Jhn 19:10Then Pilate said to him, You say nothing to me? is it not clear to you that I have power to let you go free and power to put you to death on the cross?

Jhn 19:11

Jhn 19:11Jesus gave this answer: You would have no power at all over me if it was not given to you by God; so that he who gave me up to you has the greater sin.

Jhn 19:12

Jhn 19:12Hearing this, Pilate had a desire to let him go free, but the Jews said in a loud voice, If you let this man go, you are not Caesar's friend: everyone who makes himself a king goes against Caesar.

Jhn 19:13

Jhn 19:13So when these words came to Pilate's ear, he took Jesus out, seating himself in the judge's seat in a place named in Hebrew, Gabbatha, or the Stone Floor.

Jhn 19:14

Jhn 19:14(It was the day when they made ready for the Passover; and it was about the sixth hour.) And he said to the Jews, There is your King!

Jhn 19:15

Jhn 19:15Then they gave a loud cry, Away with him! away with him! to the cross! Pilate said to them, Am I to put your King to death on the cross? The chief priests said in answer, We have no king but Caesar.

The Crucifixion

Jhn 19:16

Jhn 19:16So then he gave him up to them to be put to death on the cross. And they took Jesus away;

(Mat 27:32–56; Mar 15:21–41; Luk 23:26–49 )

Jhn 19:17

Jhn 19:17And he went out with his cross on him to the place which is named Dead Man's Head (in Hebrew, Golgotha):

Jhn 19:18

Jhn 19:18Where they put him on the cross with two others, one on this side and one on that, and Jesus in the middle.

Jhn 19:19

Jhn 19:19And Pilate put on the cross a statement in writing. The writing was: JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS.

Jhn 19:20

Jhn 19:20The writing was seen by a number of the Jews, for the place where Jesus was put to death on the cross was near the town; and the writing was in Hebrew and Latin and Greek.

Jhn 19:21

Jhn 19:21Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, Do not put, The King of the Jews, but, He said, I am the King of the Jews.

Jhn 19:22

Jhn 19:22But Pilate made answer, What I have put in writing will not be changed.

Jhn 19:23

Jhn 19:23And when Jesus was nailed to the cross, the men of the army took his clothing, and made a division of it into four parts, to every man a part, and they took his coat: now the coat was without a join, made out of one bit of cloth.

Jhn 19:24

Jhn 19:24So they said among themselves, Let this not be cut up, but let us put it to the decision of chance and see who gets it. (They did this so that the Writings might come true, which say, They made a distribution of my clothing among them, and my coat they put to the decision of chance.) This was what the men of the army did.

Jhn 19:25

Jhn 19:25Now by the side of the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother's sister Mary, the wife of Cleopas, and Mary Magdalene.

Jhn 19:26

Jhn 19:26So when Jesus saw his mother and the disciple who was dear to him, he said to his mother, Mother, there is your son!

Jhn 19:27

Jhn 19:27Then he said to the disciple, There is your mother! And from that hour the disciple took her to his house.

Jhn 19:28

Jhn 19:28After this, being conscious that all things had now been done so that the Writings might come true, Jesus said, Give me water.

Jhn 19:29

Jhn 19:29Now there was a vessel ready, full of bitter wine, and they put a sponge full of it on a stick and put it to his mouth.

Jhn 19:30

Jhn 19:30So when Jesus had taken the wine he said, All is done. And with his head bent he gave up his spirit.

Care of the Body of Jesus

Jhn 19:31

Jhn 19:31Now it was the day of getting ready for the Passover, and so that the bodies might not be on the cross on the Sabbath (because the day of that Sabbath was a great day), the Jews made a request to Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

Jhn 19:32

Jhn 19:32So the men of the army came, and the legs of the first were broken and then of the other who was put to death on the cross with Jesus:

Jhn 19:33

Jhn 19:33But when they came to Jesus, they saw that he was dead by this time, and so his legs were not broken;

Jhn 19:34

Jhn 19:34But one of the men made a wound in his side with a spear, and straight away there came out blood and water.

Jhn 19:35

Jhn 19:35And he who saw it has given witness (and his witness is true; he is certain that what he says is true) so that you may have belief.

Jhn 19:36

Jhn 19:36These things came about so that the Writings might be true, No bone of his body will be broken.

Jhn 19:37

Jhn 19:37And again another verse says, They will see him who was wounded by their spears.

(Mat 27:57–61; Mar 15:42–47; Luk 23:50–56 )

Jhn 19:38

Jhn 19:38After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, made a request to Pilate to let him take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate said he might do so. So he went and took away his body.

Jhn 19:39

Jhn 19:39And Nicodemus came (he who had first come to Jesus by night) with a roll of myrrh and aloes mixed, about a hundred pounds.

Jhn 19:40

Jhn 19:40Then they took the body of Jesus, folding linen about it with the spices, as is the way of the Jews when they put the dead to rest.

Jhn 19:41

Jhn 19:41Now there was a garden near the cross, and in the garden a new place for the dead in which no man had ever been put.

Jhn 19:42

Jhn 19:42So they put Jesus there, because it was the Jews' day of getting ready for the Passover, and the place was near.

The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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John 19 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

The Crown of Thorns

The Crucifixion

Care of the Body of Jesus

Pericope