1Then Pilate took Jesus and had him beaten with whips.
2The soldiers twisted thorn branches into a crown and put it on Jesus’ head, and they dressed him in a purple robe.
3They kept coming up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and kept slapping him.
4Pilate went out again and said to them, “Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him.”
5So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Look, here is the man!”
6When the leading priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, “Crucify! Crucify!” Pilate told them, “You take him and crucify him, because I find no basis for a charge against him.”
7The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to our law, he must die, because he claimed to be the Son of God.”
8When Pilate heard this, he became even more afraid.
9He went back into the palace and asked Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus did not answer him.
10Pilate then said to him, “Are you refusing to speak to me? Don’t you know that I have the power to either release you or crucify you?”
11Jesus answered, “You would have no power over me at all if it hadn’t been given to you from above. That is why the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.”
12At this, Pilate wanted to release him, but the Jews shouted, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend! Everyone who claims to be a king is speaking against Caesar!”
13When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judge’s seat in a place called “The Pavement,” or in Hebrew, “Gabbatha.”
14It was the Preparation Day of the Passover, around noon. Pilate said to the Jews, “Look, here is your King!”
15They shouted, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate asked them, “Should I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!”
16So Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified. Then they took Jesus and led him away.
17He went out, carrying his own cross, to the place called “The Place of a Skull,” which in Hebrew is “Golgotha.”
18There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on each side, with Jesus in the middle.
19Pilate also wrote a sign and placed it on the cross. It read, “JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”
20Many of the Jews read this sign, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city. It was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.
21So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Don’t write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but rather, ‘He said, “I am the King of the Jews.”’”
22Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”
23Then the soldiers, after they had crucified Jesus, took his clothes and divided them into four parts, one for each soldier. They also took his tunic. The tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.
24They said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide who will get it.” This happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled, which says, “They divided my clothes among them, and for my garment they cast lots.” So the soldiers did these things.
25Standing near the cross of Jesus were his mother, his mother’s sister (Mary the wife of Clopas), and Mary Magdalene.
26When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, here is your son!”
27Then he said to the disciple, “Here is your mother!” From that time on, the disciple took her into his own home.
28After this, Jesus, knowing that everything was now finished, and to fulfill the Scripture, said, “I am thirsty.”
29A jar full of sour wine was sitting there. So they soaked a sponge in the wine, put it on a hyssop branch, and held it to his mouth.
30When Jesus had received the wine, he said, “It is finished.” Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
31Because it was the Preparation Day, the Jews did not want the bodies to remain on the crosses on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one). So they asked Pilate to have the legs of the crucified men broken and their bodies taken down.
32So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man and the other man who were crucified with Jesus.
33But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.
34However, one of the soldiers stabbed Jesus' side with a spear, and immediately blood and water flowed out.
35The person who saw this has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he is telling the truth so that you can believe.
36These things happened to fulfill the Scripture that says, "Not one of his bones will be broken."
37And another Scripture says, "They will look at the one they pierced."
38After these things, Joseph of Arimathea, a disciple of Jesus (but secretly because he was afraid of the Jewish leaders), asked Pilate if he could take Jesus' body. Pilate gave him permission. So Joseph came and took his body.
39Nicodemus, who had first come to Jesus at night, also came, bringing about 75 pounds of a mixture of myrrh and aloes.
40They took Jesus' body and wrapped it in linen cloths with the spices, which was the Jewish custom for burial.
41Now, there was a garden in the place where Jesus was crucified. In the garden was a new tomb where no one had ever been buried before.
42Because it was the Jewish Preparation Day and the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.