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Chapter 19  
     
1.
 Fearing a great riot, Pilate reluctantly therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.
  
2.
 And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe,
  
3.
 And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they struck him with their hands.
  
4.
 Pilate therefore went forth again, and said unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you he who has be scourged and disgraced before your eyes, so that you may know he had been duly punished.
  
5.
 Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate said unto them, Behold the man!
  
6.
 When the chief priests and officers saw him and that Pilate intended to go no further, they cried out hiding in the crowd, saying, Crucify him, crucify him until the whole multitude were chanting as one. Pilate fearing gravely for his safety and that of his garrison then said unto them, Take you him then, your will be done, and crucify him: for you all shall bear witness that I find no fault in him.
  
7.
 The scribes and Pharisees hiding midst the rabble called out falsity, saying: By our law he must die, because he blasphemed Moses and the prophets, because he made himself the Son of God.
  
8.
 When Pilate therefore heard these calls, he was the more afraid ;
  
9.
 He withdrew again into the judgment hall, and said unto Jesus, What art you? But Jesus gave him no answer.
  
10.
 Then said Pilate unto him, Do you now not wish to speak to me? Do you not know that I have both the power to crucify you and the power to pardon you? Speak now, or forever hold your peace before your God.
 
11.
 Jesus answered, Thou has no power against me, except that which is given to you from above: therefore it is not you, but those who have delivered me unto you that have sinned.
  
12.
 And from that moment, Pilate sought for ways to release him without further incident: but the mob spurned on by the hateful lies of the scribes and Pharisees cried out in anger, and the temple officials themselves saying, If you let this man go, you art not Caesar's friend: for whosoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar.
  
13.
 When Pilate therefore heard their threats and the rising anger of the crowd, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha.
  
14.
 And it was the preparation of the Passover, and about the sixth hour: and he said unto the angry multitude: Behold! Is he not your messiah? your King?
 
15.
 But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate said unto them, Should it be your will I crucify your King? The chief priests answered with sickly grin, We have no king but Caesar.
  
16.
 Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away.
  
17.
 And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha:
  
18.
 Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst.
  
19.
 And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was JESUS THE NAZARITE THE KING OF THE JEWS.
  
20.
 This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin.
  
21.
 Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.
  
22.
 Pilate answered in anger at these snakes, What I have written I have written.
  
23.
 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.
  
24.
 They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which said, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.
  
25.
 Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.
  
26.
 When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he said unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son!
  
27.
 Then said he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.
  
28.
 After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, said, I thirst.
  
29.
 Now there was set a vessel full of liquid: and they filled a spunge with it, and put it upon a pole, and put it to his mouth.
  
30.
 When Jesus therefore had received the liquid, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and was silent as if stone.
  
31.
 The chief priests of the temple therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, for that sabbath day was an high day, pleaded with Pilate that he might kill them quickly for such cruelty was crucifixion that death might linger for days.
 
32.
 Yet Pilate had been sent already word that Jesus was like stone and silent, so he taunted the priests saying: what say you then? shall I break their legs to hasten their end?
 
33.
 Then the priests said: Yes, break their legs and hasten their end, lest this spectacle defile our eyes any further, but Pilate refused for he had received word that Jesus was silent as dead.
  
34.
 Then the priests pleaded: Let then one of your soldiers spear him in his heart to make sure he no longer lives, but Pilate refused saying: he is dead, I have seen to it, but no more demands shall you bring forth to me this day, for on my hands you have stained the blood of an innocent; and he called for the priests and their servants to leave his presence.
  
35.
 And it came to pass that the Roman soldiers did break the legs of the Zealots and they died, but did not they spear the side, nor heart of Jesus, but his thigh, whereupon he did not move and little blood and water appeared without and the priests of the temple left the mourners in peace.
  
36.
 For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.
  
37.
 And again another scripture said, They shall look on him whom they pierced.
  
38.
 And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the scribes and Pharisees, sought audience Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus to a secret burial place: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.
  
39.
 And there came also Nicodemus the apothacary, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of herbs and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.
  
40.
 Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound his wounds tightly in linen clothes with the herbs.
  
41.
 Now from the place where he was crucified they took him under small guard to a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.
  
42.
 There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.
  

 
 
 

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