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John 19

The Crown of Thorns

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Pilate then took Jesus and  1 ascourged Him.

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 aAnd the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and put a purple robe on Him;

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and they began to come up to Him and say, " aHail, King of the Jews!" and to  bgive Him slaps in the face.

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Pilate  acame out again and *said to them, "Behold, I am bringing Him out to you so that you may know that  bI find no guilt in Him."

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Jesus then came out,  awearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate *said to them, "Behold, the Man!"

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So when the chief priests and the  aofficers saw Him, they cried out saying, "Crucify, crucify!" Pilate *said to them, "Take Him yourselves and crucify Him, for  bI find no guilt in Him."

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The Jews answered him, " aWe have a law, and by that law He ought to die because He  bmade Himself out to be the Son of God."

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Therefore when Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid;

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and he  aentered into the  1Praetorium again and *said to Jesus, "Where are You from?" But  bJesus gave him no answer.

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So Pilate *said to Him, "You do not speak to me? Do You not know that I have authority to release You, and I have authority to crucify You?"

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Jesus answered, aYou would have no authority  1over Me, unless it had been given you from above; for this reason  bhe who delivered Me to you has the greater sin."

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As a result of this Pilate  1made efforts to release Him, but the Jews cried out saying, " aIf you release this Man, you are no friend of Caesar; everyone who makes himself out to be a king  2opposes Caesar."

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Therefore when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and  asat down on the judgment seat at a place called  1The Pavement, but  bin  2Hebrew, Gabbatha.

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Now it was  athe day of preparation for the Passover; it was about the  1 bsixth hour. And he *said to the Jews, "Behold,  cyour King!"

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So they cried out, " aAway 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."

The Crucifixion

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So he then  ahanded Him over to them to be crucified.

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 aThey took Jesus, therefore, and He went out,  1 bbearing His own cross, to the place called  cthe Place of a Skull, which is called  din  2Hebrew, Golgotha.

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There they crucified Him, and with Him  atwo other men, one on either side, and Jesus in between.

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Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It was written, " aJESUS THE NAZARENE,  bTHE KING OF THE JEWS."

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Therefore many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written  ain  1Hebrew, Latin and in Greek.

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So the chief priests of the Jews were saying to Pilate, "Do not write, ` aThe King of the Jews'; but that He said, `I am  aKing of the Jews.' "

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Pilate answered, " aWhat I have written I have written."

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Then  athe soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took His outer garments and made  bfour parts, a part to every soldier and also the  1tunic; now the tunic was seamless, woven  2in one piece.

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So they said to one another, " aLet us not tear it, but cast lots for it, to decide whose it shall be";  bthis was to fulfill the Scripture: "THEY  cDIVIDED MY OUTER GARMENTS AMONG THEM, AND FOR MY CLOTHING THEY CAST  1LOTS."

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Therefore the soldiers did these things.

 aBut standing by the cross of Jesus were  bHis mother, and His mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and  cMary Magdalene.

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When Jesus then saw His mother, and  athe disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He *said to His mother, bWoman, behold, your son!"

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Then He *said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" From that hour the disciple took her into  ahis own household.

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After this, Jesus,  aknowing that all things had already been accomplished,  bto fulfill the Scripture, *said, cI am thirsty."

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A jar full of sour wine was standing there; so  athey put a sponge full of the sour wine upon a branch of hyssop and brought it up to His mouth.

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Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, aIt is finished!" And He bowed His head and  bgave up His spirit.

Care of the Body of Jesus

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Then the Jews, because it was  athe day of preparation, so that  bthe bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath ( 1for that Sabbath was a  chigh day), asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

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So the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first man and of the other who was  acrucified with Him;

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but coming to Jesus, when they saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs.

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But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately  ablood and water came out.

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And he who has seen has  atestified, and his testimony is true; and he knows that he is telling the truth, so that you also may believe.

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For these things came to pass  ato fulfill the Scripture, " bNOT A BONE OF HIM SHALL BE  1BROKEN."

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And again another Scripture says, " aTHEY SHALL LOOK ON HIM WHOM THEY PIERCED."

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 aAfter these things Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but a  bsecret one for  cfear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate granted permission. So he came and took away His body.

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 aNicodemus, who had first come to Him by night, also came,  bbringing a  1mixture of  cmyrrh and aloes, about a  dhundred  2pounds weight.

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So they took the body of Jesus and  abound it in  blinen wrappings with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.

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Now in the place where He was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a  anew tomb  bin which no one had yet been laid.

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Therefore because of the Jewish day of  apreparation, since the tomb was  bnearby, they laid Jesus there.



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