[English Bible Study] John chapter 19

Jn. 19:1 Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged.

Jn. 19:2 The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on

his head. They clothed him in a purple robe

Jn. 19:3 and went up to him again and again, saying, “Hail, king of the

Jews!” And they struck him in the face.

Jn. 19:4 Once more Pilate came out and said to the Jews, “Look, I am

bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis

for a charge against him.”

Jn. 19:5 When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the

purple robe, Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”

Jn. 19:6 As soon as the chief priests and their officials saw him, they

shouted, “Crucify! Crucify!” But Pilate answered, “You take

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him and crucify him. As for me, I find no basis for a charge

against him.”

Jn. 19:7 The Jews insisted, “We have a law, and according to that law

he must die, because he claimed to be the Son of God.”

Jn. 19:8 When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid,

Jn. 19:9 and he went back inside the palace. “Where do you come

from?” he asked Jesus, but Jesus gave him no answer.

Jn. 19:10 “Do you refuse to speak to me?” Pilate said. “Don’t you

realise I have power either to free you or to crucify you?”

Jn. 19:11 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.”

Jn. 19:12 From then on, Pilate tried to set Jesus free, but the Jews kept

shouting, “If you let this man go, you are no friend of Caesar.

Anyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar.”

Jn. 19:13 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).

Jn. 19:14 It was the day of Preparation of Passover Week, about the

sixth hour. “Here is your king,” Pilate said to the Jews.

Jn. 19:15 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.

Jn. 19:16 Finally Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified. So the

soldiers took charge of Jesus.

Jn. 19:17 Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull

(which in Aramaic is called Golgotha).

Jn. 19:18 Here they crucified him, and with him two others — one on

each side and Jesus in the middle.

Jn. 19:19 Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It

read: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.

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Jn. 19:20 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.

Jn. 19:21 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.”

Jn. 19:22 Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”

Jn. 19:23 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.

Jn. 19:24 “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 which said, “They divided my garments among them

and cast lots for my clothing.” [Psalm 22:18] So this is what

the soldiers did.

Jn. 19:25 Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister,

Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

Jn. 19:26 When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he

loved standing near by, he said to his mother, “Dear woman,

here is your son,”

Jn. 19:27 and to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” From that time on,

this disciple took her into his home.

Jn. 19:28 Later, knowing that all was now completed, and so that the

Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.”

Jn. 19:29 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.

Jn. 19:30 When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.”

With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

Jn. 19:31 Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to

be a special Sabbath. Because the Jews did not want the

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bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath, they asked

Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down.

Jn. 19:32 The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first

man who had been crucified with Jesus, and then those of the

other.

Jn. 19:33 But when they came to Jesus and found that he was already

dead, they did not break his legs.

Jn. 19:34 Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus’ side with a spear,

bringing a sudden flow of blood and water.

Jn. 19:35 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.

Jn. 19:36 These things happened so that the scripture would be

fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken,” [Exodus

12:46; Num. 9:12; Psalm 34:20]

Jn. 19:37 and, as another scripture says, “They will look on the one

they have pierced.” [Zech. 12:10]

Jn. 19:38 Later, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of

Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly

because he feared the Jews. With Pilate’s permission, he

came and took the body away.

Jn. 19:39 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. [Greek: a hundred litrai

(about 34 kilograms)]

Jn. 19:40 Taking Jesus’ body, the two of them wrapped it, with the

spices, in strips of linen. This was in accordance with Jewish

burial customs.

Jn. 19:41 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.

Jn. 19:42 Because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and since the

tomb was near by, they laid Jesus there.