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PASSION of The
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Jesus is
condemned to death (John Chapter 19)
JB JOHN Chapter 19
19:1 Pilate then
had Jesus taken away and scourged;
19:2 and
after this, the soldiers twisted some thorns into a crown and put it on his
head, and dressed him in a purple robe.
19:3 They
kept coming up to him and saying, 'Hail, king of the Jews!';
and they slapped him in the face.
19:4 Pilate
came outside again and said to them, 'Look, I am going to bring him out to you
to let you see that I find no case'.
19:5 Jesus
then came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said,
'Here is the man'.
19:6 When they saw him the chief priests and the guards shouted,
'Crucify him! Crucify him!' Pilate said, 'Take him yourselves and crucify him:
I can find no case against him'.
19:7 'We have
a Law,' the Jews replied 'and according to that Law he ought to die, because he
has claimed to be the Son of God.'
19:8 When
Pilate heard them say this his fears increased.
19:9
Re-entering the Praetorium, he said to Jesus, 'Where
do you come from?' But Jesus made no answer.
19:10 Pilate
then said to him, 'Are you refusing to speak to me? Surely you know I have
power to release you and I have power to crucify you?'
19:11 'You
would have no power over me' replied Jesus 'if it had not been given you from
above; that is why the one who handed me over to you has the greater guilt.'
Jesus is condemned to death
19:12 From that moment Pilate was anxious to set him free, but the
Jews shouted, 'If you set him free you are no friend of Caesar's; anyone who
makes himself king is defying Caesar'.
19:13 Hearing
these words, Pilate had Jesus brought out, and seated himself on the chair of judgement at a place called the Pavement, in Hebrew Gabbatha.
19:14 It was Passover Preparation Day, about the sixth hour. 'Here
is your king' said Pilate to the Jews.
19:15 'Take
him away, take him away!' they said. 'Crucify him!' 'Do you want me to crucify
your king?' said Pilate. The chief priests answered, 'We have no king except
Caesar'.
19:16 So in the end Pilate handed him over to them to be
crucified.
The crucifixion
They then
took charge of Jesus,
19:17 and
carrying his own cross he went out of the city to the place of the skull or, as
it was called in Hebrew, Golgotha,
19:18 where
they crucified him with two others, one on either side with Jesus in the
middle.
19:19 Pilate
wrote out a notice and had it fixed to the cross; it ran: 'Jesus the Nazarene,
King of the Jews'.
19:20 This notice was read by many of the Jews, because the place
where Jesus was crucified was not far from the city, and the writing was in
Hebrew, Latin and Greek.
19:21 So the Jewish chief priests said to Pilate, 'You should not
write "King of the Jews", but "This man said: I am King of the
Jews"'.
19:22 Pilate
answered, 'What I have written, I have written'.
Christ's garments divided
19:23 When the soldiers had finished crucifying Jesus they took
his clothing and divided it into four shares, one for each soldier. His
undergarment was seamless, woven in one piece from neck to hem;
19:24 so they
said to one another, 'Instead of tearing it, let's throw dice to decide who is
to have it'. In this way the words of scripture were fulfilled: They shared out
my clothing among them. They cast lots for my clothes. This is exactly what the
soldiers did.
Jesus and his mother
19:25 Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother and his mother's
sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala.
19:26 Seeing his mother and the disciple he loved standing near
her, Jesus said to his mother, 'Woman, this is your son.
19:27 Then to
the disciple he said, 'This is your mother'. And from that moment the disciple
made a place for her in his home.
The death of Jesus
19:28 After this, Jesus knew that everything had now been
completed, and to fulfil the scripture perfectly he
said: 'I am thirsty'.
19:29 A jar-full of vinegar stood there, so putting a sponge
soaked in the vinegar on a hyssop stick they held it up to his mouth.
19:30 After
Jesus had taken the vinegar he said, 'It is accomplished'; and bowing his head
he gave up his spirit.
The pierced Christ
19:31 It was
Preparation Day, and to prevent the bodies remaining on the cross during the sabbath - since that sabbath was
a day of special solemnity - the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs broken and
the bodies taken away.
19:32 Consequently the soldiers came and broke the legs of the
first man who had been crucified with him and then of the other.
19:33 When
they came to Jesus, they found he was already dead, and so instead of breaking
his legs
19:34 one of
the soldiers pierced his side with a lance; and immediately there came out
blood and water.
19:35 This is the evidence of one who saw it - trustworthy
evidence, and he knows he speaks the truth - and he gives it so that you may
believe as well.
19:36 Because all this happened to fulfil
the words of scripture: Not one bone of his will be broken;
19:37 and
again, in another place scripture says: They will look on the one whom they
have pierced.
The burial
19:38 After this, Joseph of Arimathaea,
who was a disciple of Jesus - though a secret one because he was afraid of the
Jews - asked Pilate to let him remove the body of Jesus. Pilate gave
permission, so they came and took it away.
19:39
Nicodemus came as well - the same one who had first come to Jesus at night-time
- and he brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, weighing about a hundred pounds.
19:40 They took the body of Jesus and wrapped it with the spices
in linen cloths, following the Jewish burial custom.
19:41 At the place where he had been crucified there was a garden,
and in this garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been buried.
19:42 Since it was the Jewish Day of Preparation and the tomb was
near at hand, they laid Jesus there.
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