1 ¶ Therefore Pilate took Jesus, and had him scourged.

2 And the soldiers wove a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and put a purple robe on him,

3 And kept saying, Hail, King of the Jews! and hitting him with their hands.

4 Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, Look, I am bringing him out to you, to let you know that I find no fault in him.

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

6 When the chief priests and officers saw him, they shouted out, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate said, You take him, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him.

7 The Jews insisted, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.

8 When Pilate heard that, he was even more afraid;

9 And went back into the judgment hall, and asked Jesus, Where are you from? But Jesus gave him no answer.

10 Then Pilate said, Do you refuse to speak to me? Don’t you realize that I have the power to crucify you, and the power to release you?

11 Jesus answered, You would not have any power over me at all, unless it was given to you from above: therefore he who delivered me to you has the greater sin.

12 And from that time forth Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews shouted, If you let this man go, you are not Caesar’s friend: anyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.

13 When Pilate heard that, he brought Jesus out, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha.

14 And it was the day of preparation during passover week, and at about the sixth hour: and he said to the Jews, Behold your King!

15 But they shouted, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate asked them, Shall I crucify your King? And the chief priests replied, We have no king but Caesar.

16 ¶ Finally Pilate handed Jesus over to them to be crucified. And they took him, and led him away.

17 And he went out, bearing his own cross, to a place called the place of a skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha:

18 Where they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus in the middle.

19 ¶ And Pilate prepared a notice, and had it fastened to the cross. And it read, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.

20 This notice was read by many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was near to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.

21 Then the chief priests of the Jews protested to Pilate, saying, Do not write, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.

22 Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.

23 Then, after the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothing, dividing it into four parts, one part to every soldier; and also took his tunic: but the tunic was seamless, woven from the top to bottom.

24 Therefore they said among themselves, Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, to decide whose it will be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which said, They divided my clothing among themselves, and cast lots for my garment. So the soldiers did these things.

25 Now near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.

26 Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, Woman, behold your son!

27 Then he said to that disciple, Behold your mother! And from that hour that disciple took her into his own home.

28 After this Jesus, knowing that all was now complete, said, I thirst, so that the scripture might be fulfilled.

29 Now a jar full of vinegar was sitting there: and they filled a sponge with vinegar, and put it on hyssop stalk, and put it to his mouth.

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

31 ¶ Now since it was the day of preparation, to prevent the bodies from remaining on the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was a high day,) the Jews requested Pilate to have their legs broken, and the bodies taken away.

32 The soldiers therefore came, and broke the legs of the first, and of the second man who had been crucified with Jesus.

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

34 But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water.

35 And he who saw it bears witness to it, and his witness is true: and he knows that what he says is true, so that you might believe.

36 For these things were done, in fulfillment of the scripture, Not a bone of him will be broken.

37 And as another scripture says, They will look on him whom they pierced.

38 ¶ After this Joseph of Arimathaea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate to let him take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate granted him permission. So he came and took away the body of Jesus.

39 And Nicodemus also came, the man who earlier had come to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, weighing about seventy-five pounds.

40 Then they took the body of Jesus, and wound it together with the spices in strips of linen, as is the burial custom of the Jews.

41 Now there was a garden in the place where Jesus was crucified; and there was a new tomb in the garden, in which no one had ever been laid.

42 Therefore they laid Jesus there, because the tomb was nearby; and because it was the Jewish day of preparation.