John 19 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

The Crown of Thorns

(Mat 27:27–31; Mar 15:16–20 )

Jhn 19:1

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

Jhn 19:2

Jhn 19:2And the soldiers plaited a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and arrayed him in a purple robe;

Jhn 19:3

Jhn 19:3they came up to him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and struck him with their hands.

Jhn 19:4

Jhn 19:4Pilate went out again, and said to them, "See, I am bringing him out to you, that you may know that I find no crime in him."

Jhn 19:5

Jhn 19:5So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, "Behold the man!"

Jhn 19:6

Jhn 19:6When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, "Crucify him, crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no crime in him."

Jhn 19:7

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

Jhn 19:8

Jhn 19:8When Pilate heard these words, he was the more afraid;

Jhn 19:9

Jhn 19:9he entered the praetorium again and said to Jesus, "Where are you from?" But Jesus gave no answer.

Jhn 19:10

Jhn 19:10Pilate therefore said to him, "You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have power to release you, and power to crucify you?"

Jhn 19:11

Jhn 19:11Jesus answered him, "You would have no power over me unless it had been given you from above; therefore he who delivered me to you has the greater sin."

Jhn 19:12

Jhn 19:12Upon this Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, "If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend; every one who makes himself a king sets himself against Caesar."

Jhn 19:13

Jhn 19:13When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Pavement, and in Hebrew, Gab'batha.

Jhn 19:14

Jhn 19:14Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover; it was about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, "Behold your King!"

Jhn 19:15

Jhn 19:15They 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."

The Crucifixion

Jhn 19:16

Jhn 19:16Then he handed him over to them to be crucified.

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

Jhn 19:17

Jhn 19:17So they took Jesus, and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called the place of a skull, which is called in Hebrew Gol'gotha.

Jhn 19:18

Jhn 19:18There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them.

Jhn 19:19

Jhn 19:19Pilate also wrote a title and put it on the cross; it read, "Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews."

Jhn 19:20

Jhn 19:20Many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.

Jhn 19:21

Jhn 19:21The chief priests of the Jews then said to Pilate, "Do not write, 'The King of the Jews,' but, 'This man 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 19:23When the soldiers had crucified Jesus they took his garments and made four parts, one for each soldier; also his tunic. But the tunic was without seam, woven from top to bottom;

Jhn 19:24

Jhn 19:24so they said to one another, "Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it shall be." This was to fulfil the scripture, "They parted my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots."

Jhn 19:25

Jhn 19:25So the soldiers did this. But standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Mag'dalene.

Jhn 19:26

Jhn 19:26When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold, your son!"

Jhn 19:27

Jhn 19:27Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.

Jhn 19:28

Jhn 19:28After this Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfil the scripture), "I thirst."

Jhn 19:29

Jhn 19:29A bowl full of vinegar stood there; so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop and held it to his mouth.

Jhn 19:30

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

Care of the Body of Jesus

Jhn 19:31

Jhn 19:31Since it was the day of Preparation, in order to prevent the bodies from remaining on the cross on the sabbath (for that sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

Jhn 19:32

Jhn 19:32So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who had been crucified with him;

Jhn 19:33

Jhn 19:33but when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.

Jhn 19:34

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

Jhn 19:35

Jhn 19:35He who saw it has borne witness--his testimony is true, and he knows that he tells the truth--that you also may believe.

Jhn 19:36

Jhn 19:36For these things took place that the scripture might be fulfilled, "Not a bone of him shall be broken."

Jhn 19:37

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

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

Jhn 19:38

Jhn 19:38After this Joseph of Arimathe'a, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly, for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him leave. So he came and took away his body.

Jhn 19:39

Jhn 19:39Nicode'mus also, who had at first come to him by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds' weight.

Jhn 19:40

Jhn 19:40They took the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.

Jhn 19:41

Jhn 19:41Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb where no one had ever been laid.

Jhn 19:42

Jhn 19:42So because of the Jewish day of Preparation, as the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there.

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John 19 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

The Crown of Thorns

The Crucifixion

Care of the Body of Jesus

Pericope