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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>John 19 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/john/19.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/john/19-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > John 19</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../john/18.htm" title="John 18">◄</a> John 19 <a href="../john/20.htm" title="John 20">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/john/19.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Jesus Delivered to Be Crucified</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Pilate took Jesus and flogged him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>They came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and struck him with their hands. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Pilate went out again and said to them, “See, I am bringing him out to you that you may know that I find no guilt in him.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Behold the man!” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no guilt in him.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The Jews<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek Ioudaioi probably refers here to Jewish religious leaders, and others under their influence, in that time; also verses 12, 14, 31, 38">a</a></sup></span> answered him, “We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die because he has made himself the Son of God.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So Pilate said to him, “You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Jesus answered him, <span class="woc">“You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin.”</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>From then on Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>So when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Stone Pavement, and in Aramaic<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or Hebrew; also verses 17, 20">b</a></sup></span> Gabbatha. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, about noon">c</a></sup></span> He said to the Jews, “Behold your King!” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>They cried out, “Away 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.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>So he delivered him over to them to be crucified.</p><p class="heading">The Crucifixion</p><p class="regular">So they took Jesus, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Aramaic, in Latin, and in Greek. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but rather, ‘This man said, I am King of the Jews.’” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Pilate answered, “What I have written I have written.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts, one part for each soldier; also his tunic.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek chiton, a long garment worn under the cloak next to the skin">d</a></sup></span> But the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>so they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it shall be.” This was to fulfill the Scripture which says,</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">“They divided my garments among them,</span><br /><span class="indent">and for my clothing they cast lots.”</span></p><p class="same-paragraph">So the soldiers did these things, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>but standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, <span class="woc">“Woman, behold, your son!”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Then he said to the disciple, <span class="woc">“Behold, your mother!”</span> And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.</p> <p class="heading">The Death of Jesus</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), <span class="woc">“I thirst.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, <span class="woc">“It is finished,”</span> and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.</p> <p class="heading">Jesus’ Side Is Pierced</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Since it was the day of Preparation, and so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who had been crucified with him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>He who saw it has borne witness—his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth—that you also may believe. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>And again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they have pierced.”</p> <p class="heading">Jesus Is Buried</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>After these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took away his body. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>Nicodemus also, who earlier had come to Jesus<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek him">e</a></sup></span> by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek one hundred litras; a litra (or Roman pound) was equal to about 11 1/2 ounces or 327 grams">f</a></sup></span> in weight. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/19-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>So because of the Jewish day of Preparation, since the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">7</span> Greek <i language="Greek">Ioudaioi</i> probably refers here to Jewish religious leaders, and others under their influence, in that time; also verses 12, 14, 31, 38<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">13</span> Or <i>Hebrew</i>; also verses 17, 20<br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> That is, about noon<br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">23</span> Greek <i language="Greek">chiton</i>, a long garment worn under the cloak next to the skin<br /><span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">39</span> Greek <i>him</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">39</span> Greek <i>one hundred litras</i>; a <i language="Greek">litra</i> (or Roman pound) was equal to about 11 1/2 ounces or 327 grams<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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