Thematic Bible

John 19:1

Pilate then took Jesus and scourged Him.

John 19:2

And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and put a purple robe on Him;

John 19:3

and they began to come up to Him and say, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and to give Him slaps in the face.

John 19:4

Pilate came out again and *said to them, “Behold, I am bringing Him out to you so that you may know that I find no guilt in Him.”

John 19:5

Jesus then came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate *said to them, “Behold, the Man!”

John 19:6

So when the chief priests and the officers saw Him, they cried out saying, “Crucify, crucify!” Pilate *said to them, “Take Him yourselves and crucify Him, for I find no guilt in Him.”

John 19:7

The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by that law He ought to die because He made Himself out to be the Son of God.”

John 19:8

Therefore when Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid;

John 19:9

and he entered into the Praetorium again and *said to Jesus, “Where are You from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.

John 19:10

So Pilate *said to Him, “You do 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

Jesus answered, You would have no authority over Me, unless it had been given you from above; for this reason he who delivered Me to you has the greater sin.”

John 19:12

As a result of this Pilate made efforts to release Him, but the Jews cried out saying, “If you release this Man, you are no friend of Caesar; everyone who makes himself out to be a king opposes Caesar.”

John 19:13

Therefore when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha.

John 19:14

Now it was the day of preparation for the Passover; it was about the sixth hour. And he *said to the Jews, “Behold, your King!”

John 19:15

So 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.”

John 19:16

So he then handed Him over to them to be crucified.

John 19:17

They took Jesus, therefore, and He went out, bearing His own cross, to the place called the Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha.

John 19:18

There they crucified Him, and with Him two other men, one on either side, and Jesus in between.

John 19:19

Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It was written, “JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”

John 19:20

Therefore many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Latin and in Greek.

John 19:21

So the chief priests of the Jews were saying to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews’; but that He said, ‘I am King of the Jews.’”

John 19:22

Pilate answered, “What I have written I have written.”

John 19:23

Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took His outer garments and made four parts, a part to every soldier and also the tunic; now the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece.

John 19:24

So they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, to decide whose it shall be”; this was to fulfill the Scripture: “They divided My outer garments among them, and for My clothing they cast lots.”

John 19:25

Therefore the soldiers did these things.But standing by the cross of Jesus were His mother, and His mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

John 19:26

When Jesus then saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He *said to His mother, Woman, behold, your son!”

John 19:27

Then He *said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” From that hour the disciple took her into his own household.

John 19:28

After this, Jesus, knowing that all things had already been accomplished, to fulfill the Scripture, *said, I am thirsty.”

John 19:29

A jar full of sour wine was standing there; so they put a sponge full of the sour wine upon a branch of hyssop and brought it up to His mouth.

John 19:30

Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, It is finished!” And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit.

John 19:31

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 a high day), asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

John 19:32

So the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first man and of the other who was crucified with Him;

John 19:33

but coming to Jesus, when they saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs.

John 19:34

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

John 19:35

And he who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true; and he knows that he is telling the truth, so that you also may believe.

John 19:36

For these things came to pass to fulfill the Scripture, “Not a bone of Him shall be broken.”

John 19:37

And again another Scripture says, “They shall look on Him whom they pierced.”

John 19:38

After these things Joseph of Arimathea, being 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 granted permission. So he came and took away His body.

John 19:39

Nicodemus, who had first come to Him by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds weight.

John 19:40

So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen wrappings with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.

John 19:41

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.

John 19:42

Therefore because of the Jewish day of preparation, since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.