38 Later,
Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple
of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jewish leaders. With Pilate’s
permission, he came and took the body away. 39 He was
accompanied by Nicodemus, the man who earlier had visited Jesus at night.
Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds.[e]40 Taking
Jesus’ body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen.
This was in accordance with Jewish burial customs. 41 At the
place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new
tomb, in which no one had ever been laid. 42 Because it was the
Jewish day of Preparation and since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.
28 Later,
knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be
fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.” 29 A jar of wine vinegar
was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the
hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus’ lips. 30 When he had
received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head
and gave up his spirit.
31 Now
it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special Sabbath.
Because the Jewish leaders did not want the bodies left on the crosses during
the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken
down. 32 The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the
first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and then those of the other. 33 But
when they came to Jesus and found that he was already dead, they did not break
his legs. 34 Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus’ side
with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water. 35 The
man who saw it has given testimony, and his testimony is true. He knows that he
tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. 36 These
things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones
will be broken,”[c]37 and,
as another scripture says, “They will look on the one they have pierced.”[d]
17 Carrying
his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is
called Golgotha). 18 There they crucified him, and with him two
others—one on each side and Jesus in the middle.
19 Pilate
had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read: jesus of nazareth, the king of the jews. 20 Many
of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near
the city, and the sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and Greek. 21 The
chief priests of the Jews protested to Pilate, “Do not write ‘The King of the
Jews,’ but that this man claimed to be king of the Jews.”
22 Pilate
answered, “What I have written, I have written.”
23 When
the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes, dividing them into four
shares, one for each of them, with the undergarment remaining. This garment was
seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.
24 “Let’s
not tear it,” they said to one another. “Let’s decide by lot who will get it.”
This
happened that the scripture might be fulfilled that said,
“They
divided my clothes among them
and cast lots for my garment.”[a]
So
this is what the soldiers did.
25 Near
the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of
Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 When Jesus saw his mother there,
and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “Woman,[b] here is
your son,” 27 and to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” From
that time on, this disciple took her into his home.
Then
Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. 2 The soldiers twisted
together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple
robe 3 and went up to him again and again, saying, “Hail, king
of the Jews!” And they slapped him in the face.
4 Once
more Pilate came out and said to the Jews gathered there, “Look, I am bringing
him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him.” 5 When
Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to
them, “Here is the man!”
6 As
soon as the chief priests and their officials saw him, they shouted, “Crucify!
Crucify!”
But
Pilate answered, “You take him and crucify him. As for me, I find no basis for
a charge against him.”
7 The
Jewish leaders insisted, “We have a law, and according to that law he must die,
because he claimed to be the Son of God.”
8 When
Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid, 9 and he went back
inside the palace. “Where do you come from?” he asked Jesus, but Jesus gave him
no answer. 10 “Do you refuse to speak to me?” Pilate said.
“Don’t you realize I have power either to free you or to crucify you?”
11 Jesus
answered, “You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from
above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.”
12 From
then on, Pilate tried to set Jesus free, but the Jewish leaders kept shouting,
“If you let this man go, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who claims to be a
king opposes Caesar.”
13 When
Pilate heard this, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judge’s seat at a
place known as the Stone Pavement (which in Aramaic is Gabbatha). 14 It
was the day of Preparation of the Passover; it was about noon.
“Here
is your king,” Pilate said to the Jews.
15 But
they shouted, “Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!”
“Shall
I crucify your king?” Pilate asked.
“We
have no king but Caesar,” the chief priests answered.
16 Finally
Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified. So the soldiers took charge of
Jesus.
