John 19 :: King James Version (KJV)

The Crown of Thorns

(Mat 27:27–31; Mar 15:16–20 )

Jhn 19:1

Jhn 19:1Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.

Jhn 19:2

Jhn 19:2And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe,

Jhn 19:3

Jhn 19:3And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands.

Jhn 19:4

Jhn 19:4Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him.

Jhn 19:5

Jhn 19:5Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man!

Jhn 19:6

Jhn 19:6When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him.

Jhn 19:7

Jhn 19:7The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.

Jhn 19:8

Jhn 19:8When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid;

Jhn 19:9

Jhn 19:9And went again into the judgment hall, and saith unto Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer.

Jhn 19:10

Jhn 19:10Then saith Pilate unto him, Speakest thou not unto me? knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee?

Jhn 19:11

Jhn 19:11Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.

Jhn 19:12

Jhn 19:12And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar's friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar.

Jhn 19:13

Jhn 19:13When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha.

Jhn 19:14

Jhn 19:14And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!

Jhn 19:15

Jhn 19:15But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.

The Crucifixion

Jhn 19:16

Jhn 19:16Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away.

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

Jhn 19:17

Jhn 19:17And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha:

Jhn 19:18

Jhn 19:18Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst.

Jhn 19:19

Jhn 19:19And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.

Jhn 19:20

Jhn 19:20This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin.

Jhn 19:21

Jhn 19:21Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.

Jhn 19:22

Jhn 19:22Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.

Jhn 19:23

Jhn 19:23Then 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.

Jhn 19:24

Jhn 19:24They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.

Jhn 19:25

Jhn 19:25Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.

Jhn 19:26

Jhn 19:26When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son!

Jhn 19:27

Jhn 19:27Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.

Jhn 19:28

Jhn 19:28After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.

Jhn 19:29

Jhn 19:29Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.

Jhn 19:30

Jhn 19:30When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.

Care of the Body of Jesus

Jhn 19:31

Jhn 19:31The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

Jhn 19:32

Jhn 19:32Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him.

Jhn 19:33

Jhn 19:33But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:

Jhn 19:34

Jhn 19:34But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.

Jhn 19:35

Jhn 19:35And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.

Jhn 19:36

Jhn 19:36For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.

Jhn 19:37

Jhn 19:37And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.

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

Jhn 19:38

Jhn 19:38And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.

Jhn 19:39

Jhn 19:39And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.

Jhn 19:40

Jhn 19:40Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.

Jhn 19:41

Jhn 19:41Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.

Jhn 19:42

Jhn 19:42There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.

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