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Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>When the chief priests and the police saw him, they shouted, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him; I find no case against him.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die because he has claimed to be the Son of God.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Now when Pilate heard this, he was more afraid than ever. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>He entered his headquarters<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-31096a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> again and asked Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>Pilate therefore said to him, “Do you refuse to speak to me? Do you not know that I have power to release you, and power to crucify you?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Jesus answered him, “You would have no power over me unless it had been given you from above; therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>From then on Pilate tried to release him, but the Jews cried out, “If you release this man, you are no friend of the emperor. Everyone who claims to be a king sets himself against the emperor.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus outside and sat<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-31100b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> on the judge’s bench at a place called The Stone Pavement, or in Hebrew<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-31100c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> Gabbatha. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>Now it was the day of Preparation for the Passover; and it was about noon. He said to the Jews, “Here is your King!” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>They cried out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate asked them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but the emperor.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>Then he handed him over to them to be crucified.</span></p><h3><span class="text">The Crucifixion of Jesus</span></h3><p><span class="text">So they took Jesus; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>and carrying the cross by himself, he went out to what is called The Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-31104d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> is called Golgotha. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, with Jesus between them. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>Pilate also had an inscription written and put on the cross. It read, “Jesus of Nazareth,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-31106e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> the King of the Jews.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>Many of the Jews read this inscription, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-31107f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote f">f</a>]</span> in Latin, and in Greek. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but, ‘This man said, I am King of the Jews.’” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>Pilate answered, “What I have written I have written.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, one for each soldier. They also took his tunic; now the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from the top. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>So they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see who will get it.” This was to fulfill what the scripture says,</span></p><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text">“They divided my clothes among themselves,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and for my clothing they cast lots.”</span></span></p></div> <p class="first-line-none"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>And that is what the soldiers did.</span></p><p><span class="text">Meanwhile, standing near the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing beside her, he said to his mother, “Woman, here is your son.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>Then he said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>After this, when Jesus knew that all was now finished, he said (in order to fulfill the scripture), “I am thirsty.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>A jar full of sour wine was standing there. So they put a sponge full of the wine on a branch of hyssop and held it to his mouth. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">30</span>When Jesus had received the wine, he said, “It is finished.” Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Jesus’ Side Is Pierced</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">31</span>Since it was the day of Preparation, the Jews did not want the bodies left on the cross during the sabbath, especially because that sabbath was a day of great solemnity. So they asked Pilate to have the legs of the crucified men broken and the bodies removed. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">32</span>Then the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other who had been crucified with him. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">33</span>But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">34</span>Instead, one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once blood and water came out. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">35</span>(He who saw this has testified so that you also may believe. His testimony is true, and he knows<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-31122g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote g">g</a>]</span> that he tells the truth.) </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">36</span>These things occurred so that the scripture might be fulfilled, “None of his bones shall be broken.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">37</span>And again another passage of scripture says, “They will look on the one whom they have pierced.”</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Burial of Jesus</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">38</span>After these things, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, though a secret one because of his fear of the Jews, asked Pilate to let him take away the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission; so he came and removed his body. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">39</span>Nicodemus, who had at first come to Jesus by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, weighing about a hundred pounds. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">40</span>They took the body of Jesus and wrapped it with the spices in linen cloths, according to the burial custom of the Jews. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">41</span>Now there was a garden in the place where he was crucified, and in the garden there was a new tomb in which no one had ever been laid. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">42</span>And so, because it was the Jewish day of Preparation, and the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to John 19:9">John 19:9</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>the praetorium</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to John 19:13">John 19:13</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>seated him</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to John 19:13">John 19:13</a> <span class='footnote-text'>That is, <i>Aramaic</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to John 19:17">John 19:17</a> <span class='footnote-text'>That is, <i>Aramaic</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to John 19:19">John 19:19</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>the Nazorean</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to John 19:20">John 19:20</a> <span class='footnote-text'>That is, <i>Aramaic</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to John 19:35">John 19:35</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>there is one who knows</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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