John 19

John 19:1-3

¹So Pilate then took Jesus and flogged him. ²The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown and put it on his head, and dressed him in a purple garment. ³They kept saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and they kept slapping him.

Pilate has Jesus flogged; soldiers crown Him with thorns, robe Him in purple, mock Hail King of the Jews, and strike Him.

John 19:4

⁴Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, “Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him.”

Pilate brings Jesus out again, saying he finds no basis for a charge.

John 19:5

⁵Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, “Behold, the man!”

Jesus comes out in thorns and purple; Pilate says, Behold the man!

John 19:6

⁶When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him.”

Chief priests and officers shout Crucify; Pilate tells them to crucify Him themselves, again finding no fault.

John 19:7

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

They say by their law He ought to die because He made Himself God’s Son.

John 19:8-10

⁸When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid. ⁹He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer. ¹⁰Pilate therefore said to him, “Aren’t you speaking to me? Don’t you know that I have power to release you and have power to crucify you?”

Pilate grows more afraid, asks Jesus where He is from, and when Jesus is silent asks if He knows Pilate has power to release or crucify.

John 19:11

¹¹Jesus answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”

Jesus says Pilate would have no power unless given from above; the one who delivered Him has greater sin.

John 19:12

¹²At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, “If you release this man, you aren’t Caesar’s friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!”

Pilate seeks to release Jesus; the crowd says releasing Him means opposing Caesar, for anyone making himself a king opposes Caesar.

John 19:13-14

¹³When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called “The Pavement”, but in Hebrew, “Gabbatha.” ¹⁴Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Behold, your King!”

Pilate brings Jesus to the pavement judgment seat at about the sixth hour of Preparation Day and says, Behold your King!

John 19:15

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!”

They cry Away with Him, crucify; Pilate asks if he should crucify their King; chief priests answer they have no king but Caesar.

John 19:16-21

¹⁶So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away. ¹⁷He went out, bearing his cross, to the place called “The Place of a Skull”, which is called in Hebrew, “Golgotha”, ¹⁸where they crucified him, and with him two others, on either side one, and Jesus in the middle. ¹⁹Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, “JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.” ²⁰Therefore many 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. ²¹The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, “Don’t write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but, ‘he said, “I am King of the Jews.”’”

Pilate delivers Jesus to be crucified; He carries the cross to the Place of a Skull; they crucify Him with two others; the title reads Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jews in three languages; chief priests protest the wording.

John 19:22

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

Pilate answers, What I have written, I have written.

John 19:23-24

²³Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the tunic. Now the tunic was without seam, woven from the top throughout. ²⁴Then they said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide whose it will be,” that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says, “They parted my garments among them. They cast lots for my clothing.” Therefore the soldiers did these things.

Soldiers divide Jesus’ garments and cast lots for the seamless tunic, fulfilling Scripture.

John 19:25-27

²⁵But standing by Jesus’ cross were his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. ²⁶Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” ²⁷Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.

Women including Jesus’ mother stand by the cross; Jesus entrusts her to the beloved disciple and him to her.

John 19:28-29

²⁸After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty!” ²⁹Now a vessel full of vinegar was set there; so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop, and held it at his mouth.

Knowing all is finished, Jesus says I thirst to fulfill Scripture, receives sour wine, says It is finished, bows His head, and gives up His spirit.

John 19:30

³⁰When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, “It is finished!” Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

From the cross Jesus says, “It is finished,” bows His head, and gives up His spirit—the work of redemption completed.

John 19:31-37

³¹Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn’t remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away. ³²Therefore the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other who was crucified with him; ³³but when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they didn’t break his legs. ³⁴However, one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out. ³⁵He who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe. ³⁶For these things happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled, “A bone of him will not be broken.” ³⁷Again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they pierced.”

To clear bodies before Sabbath, legs of the others are broken; Jesus is already dead, so a spear pierces His side—blood and water—fulfilling no bone broken and they will look on Him whom they pierced.

John 19:38-42

³⁸After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away Jesus’ body. Pilate gave him permission. He came therefore and took away his body. ³⁹Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds. ⁴⁰So they took Jesus’ body, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury. ⁴¹Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden. In the garden was a new tomb in which no man had ever yet been laid. ⁴²Then, because of the Jews’ Preparation Day (for the tomb was near at hand), they laid Jesus there.

Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus take Jesus’ body, wrap it with spices in linen, and lay it in a new nearby garden tomb because of the Jewish Preparation.

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