Thematic Bible




John 19:1 (show verse)

So then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged.

John 19:2 (show verse)

And the soldiers wove a crown of thorns and placed [it] on his head, and put a purple robe on him,

John 19:3 (show verse)

and were coming up to him and saying, "Hail, king of the Jews!" and were giving him slaps in the face.

John 19:4 (show verse)

And Pilate came outside again and said to them, "Behold, I am bringing him outside to you, so that you will know that I find no basis for an accusation against him."

John 19:5 (show verse)

Then Jesus came outside wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, and he said to them, "Behold the man!"

John 19:6 (show verse)

So when they saw him, the chief priests and the officers shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify!" Pilate said to them, "You take him and crucify [him]! For I do not find a basis for an accusation against him."

John 19:7 (show verse)

The Jews replied to him, "We have a law, and according to the law he ought to die, because he made himself out to be the Son of God!"

John 19:8 (show verse)

So when Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid,

John 19:9 (show verse)

and he entered into the governor's residence again and said to Jesus, "Where are you from?" But Jesus did not give him an answer.

John 19:10 (show verse)

So Pilate said to him, "Will you not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you, and I have authority to crucify you?"

John 19:11 (show verse)

Jesus replied to him, "You would not have any authority over me unless it was given to you from above. For this [reason] the one who handed me over to you has greater sin."

John 19:12 (show verse)

From this [point on] Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews shouted, saying, "If you release this man, you are not a friend of Caesar! Everyone who makes himself out to be a king opposes Caesar!"

John 19:13 (show verse)

So Pilate, [when he] heard these words, brought Jesus outside and sat down on the judgment seat, in the place called The Stone Pavement (but Gabbatha in Aramaic).

John 19:14 (show verse)

(Now it was the day of preparation of the Passover; it was about the sixth hour.) And he said to the Jews, "Behold your king!"

John 19:15 (show verse)

Then those shouted, "Away [with him]! Away [with him]! Crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your king?" The chief priests replied, "We do not have a king except Caesar!"

John 19:16 (show verse)

So then he handed him over to them in order that he could be crucified.

John 19:17 (show verse)

and carrying for himself the cross, he went out to the [place] called The Place of a Skull (which is called Golgotha in Aramaic),

John 19:18 (show verse)

where they crucified him, and with him two others, {one on each side}, and Jesus in the middle.

John 19:19 (show verse)

And Pilate also wrote a notice and placed [it] on the cross, and it was written: "Jesus the Nazarene, the king of the Jews."

John 19:20 (show verse)

So many of the Jews read this notice, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city. And it was written in Aramaic, in Latin, [and] in Greek.

John 19:21 (show verse)

Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, "Do not write 'The king of the Jews,' but, 'He said, I am king of the Jews.'"

John 19:22 (show verse)

Pilate replied, "What I have written, I have written."

John 19:23 (show verse)

Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his clothing and made four shares--for each soldier a share--and the tunic. (Now the tunic was seamless, woven from the top {in a single piece}.)

John 19:24 (show verse)

So they said to one another, "Let us not tear it apart, but cast lots for it, [to see] whose it will be," so that the scripture would be fulfilled that says, "They divided my garments among themselves, and for my clothing they cast lots." Thus the soldiers did these [things].

John 19:25 (show verse)

Now his mother and the sister of his mother, Mary the [wife] of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene were standing near the cross of Jesus.

John 19:26 (show verse)

So Jesus, seeing [his] mother and the disciple whom he loved standing there, said to [his] mother, "Woman, behold your son!"

John 19:27 (show verse)

Then he said to the disciple, "Behold your mother!" And from that hour the disciple took her into his own [home].

John 19:28 (show verse)

After this, Jesus, knowing that now at last everything was completed, in order that the scripture would be fulfilled, said, "I am thirsty."

John 19:29 (show verse)

A jar full of sour wine was standing there, so [they] put a sponge full of the sour wine on a [branch of] hyssop [and] brought [it] to his mouth.

John 19:30 (show verse)

Then when he had received the sour wine, Jesus said, "It is completed," and bowing [his] head, he gave up [his] spirit.

John 19:31 (show verse)

Then the Jews, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was an important day), asked Pilate that their legs could be broken and they could be taken away.

John 19:32 (show verse)

So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other who had been crucified with him.

John 19:33 (show verse)

But [when they] came to Jesus, after they saw he was already dead, they did not break his legs.

John 19:34 (show verse)

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

John 19:35 (show verse)

And the one who has seen [it] has testified, and his testimony is true, and that person knows that he is telling the truth, so that you also may believe.

John 19:36 (show verse)

For these [things] happened in order that the scripture would be fulfilled: "Not a bone of his will be broken."

John 19:37 (show verse)

And again another scripture says, "They will look on [the one] whom they have pierced."

John 19:38 (show verse)

And after these [things], Joseph [who was] from Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus (but a secret one for fear of the Jews), asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus. And Pilate allowed [it], so he came and took away his body.

John 19:39 (show verse)

And Nicodemus--the one who had come to him formerly at night--also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes [weighing] about a hundred pounds.

John 19:40 (show verse)

So they took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in [strips of] linen cloth with the fragrant spices, as is the Jews' custom to prepare for burial.

John 19:41 (show verse)

Now [there] was a garden at the place where he was crucified, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one was yet buried.

John 19:42 (show verse)

So there, on account of the day of preparation of the Jews, because the tomb was close by, they buried Jesus.