1 Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged.
2 The soldiers wove a crown out of thorns and set it on his head, and they threw a purple robe around him.
3 They kept saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and slapping him.
4 Pilate went outside once more and said to them, "See, I am bringing him out to you so that you will know that I find no case against him."
5 So Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, "Look, the man!"
6 When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, "Crucify! Crucify!" Pilate told them, "You take him and crucify him; I find no case against him."
7 The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and under that law he must die, because he made himself out to be the Son of God."
8 When Pilate heard this, he became even more afraid.
9 He went back into the headquarters and asked Jesus, "Where do you come from?" But Jesus gave him no reply.
10 So Pilate said to him, "You will not speak to me? Do you not realize that I have authority to crucify you and authority to release you?"
11 Jesus answered, "You would have no authority over me at all if it had not been given to you from above. That is why the one who handed me over to you has the greater sin."
12 From that moment Pilate kept trying to release him, but the Jews shouted, "If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar! Anyone who makes himself a king sets himself against Caesar."
13 On hearing these words, Pilate brought Jesus outside and sat down on the judge's seat at a place called the Stone Pavement, in Hebrew Gabbatha.
14 It was the day of Preparation for the Passover, about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, "Look, your King!"
15 But they shouted, "Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Am I to crucify your King?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king except Caesar."
16 Then he handed him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him off.
17 Carrying his own cross, he went out to what is called the Place of the Skull, in Hebrew Golgotha.
18 There they crucified him, and two others with him, one on either side, with Jesus between them.
19 Pilate also had a notice written and fastened to the cross. It read: "JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS."
20 Many of the Jews read this notice, because the place where Jesus was crucified was close to the city, and it was written in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.
21 So the chief priests of the Jews told Pilate, "Do not write, 'The King of the Jews,' but rather, 'This man said, I am King of the Jews.'"
22 Pilate answered, "What I have written stays written."
23 When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, one part for each soldier. They also took the tunic; but the tunic had no seam, being woven in one piece from top to bottom.
24 So they said to one another, "Let us not tear it; let us draw lots for it to see who gets it." This was to fulfill the Scripture that says, "They divided my clothes among them, and for my garment they cast lots." That is what the soldiers did.
25 Standing near the cross of Jesus were his mother, his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
26 When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, "Woman, here is your son."
27 Then he said to the disciple, "Here is your mother." And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.
28 After this, Jesus, knowing that everything was now completed, said, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled, "I am thirsty."
29 A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they soaked a sponge in the sour wine, put it on a stalk of hyssop, and raised it to his mouth.
30 When Jesus had taken the sour wine, he said, "It is finished." Then he bowed his head and handed over his spirit.
31 Since it was the day of Preparation, the Jews did not want the bodies to remain on the cross on the Sabbath, for that Sabbath was a great day. So they asked Pilate to have the men's legs broken and the bodies removed.
32 The soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man, and then of the other one crucified with him.
33 But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.
34 Instead, one of the soldiers jabbed his side with a spear, and at once blood and water flowed out.
35 The one who saw this has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he is telling the truth, so that you may believe.
36 For these things took place to fulfill the Scripture: "Not a bone of his will be broken."
37 And another Scripture says, "They will look on the one they have pierced."
38 Afterward Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, though a secret one for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate for permission to remove the body of Jesus. Pilate allowed it, so he came and removed the body of Jesus.
39 Nicodemus, the man who had first come to Jesus at night, came too, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about a hundred pounds.
40 They took Jesus' body and wrapped it in strips of linen with the spices, following the burial custom of the Jews.
41 At the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb where no one had ever been laid.
42 Since it was the Jewish day of Preparation and the tomb was close by, they laid Jesus there.