The Concordant Literal New Testament

John’s Account

Chapter 19

¹ Then Pilate took Jesus, then, and scourges Him.
² And the soldiers, braiding a wreath out of thorns, place it on His head, and with a purple cloak they clothed Him.
³ And they came to Him and said, "Rejoice! King of the Jews!" and give Him slaps.
⁴ And Pilate came outside again, and is saying to them, "Lo! I am leading him outside to you, that you may know that not one fault am I finding in him."
⁵ Jesus, then, came outside, wearing the thorny wreath and the purple cloak. And he is saying to them, "Lo! the man!"
⁶ When, then, the chief priests and the deputies perceived Him, they clamor, saying, "Crucify! Crucify him!" And Pilate is saying to them, "You take him and crucify him, for I am finding no fault in him."
⁷ The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die, for he makes himself son of God."
⁸ When, then, Pilate hears this saying, he was the more afraid.
⁹ And he entered into the pretorium again, and is saying to Jesus, "Whence are you?" Yet Jesus gives him no answer.
¹⁰ Pilate, then, is saying to Him, "To me you are not speaking! Are you not aware that I have authority to release you and have authority to crucify you?"
¹¹ Jesus answered him, "No authority have you against Me in anything, except it were given to you from above. Therefore he who is giving Me up to you has the greater sin."
¹² At this, Pilate sought to release Him, yet the Jews clamored, saying, "If ever this man you should be releasing, you are not a friend of Caesar! Everyone who is making himself king is contradicting Caesar!"
¹³ Pilate, then, hearing these words, led Jesus outside, and is seated on a dais in a place termed the "Pavement," yet in Hebrew, "Gabbatha."
¹⁴ Now it was the preparation of the Passover; the hour was about the third. And he is saying to the Jews, "Lo! your king!"
¹⁵ Yet they clamor then, "Away! Away! Crucify him!" Pilate is saying to them, "Shall I crucify your king?" The chief priests answered, "No king have we except Caesar!"
¹⁶ Then he gives Him up to them, then, that He may be crucified. They took Jesus along, then, and led Him away.
¹⁷ They took Jesus along, then, and led Him away. And, bearing the cross Himself, He came out to what is termed a "Skull's Place," which is termed, in Hebrew, "Golgotha,"
¹⁸ where they crucify Him, and with Him two others, hence and hence, yet in the midst is Jesus. 19 Now Pilate writes a title also, and places it on the cross. Now it was written, "Jesus the Nazarene, the King of the Jews."
²⁰ This title, then, many of the Jews read, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, Latin and Greek.
²¹ The chief priests of the Jews, then, said to Pilate, "Do not be writing 'The King of the Jews' but that 'that one said "King of the Jews am I."'"
²² Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written!"
²³ The soldiers, then, when they crucify Jesus, took His garments and make four parts -- to each soldier a part; and the tunic. Now the tunic was seamless, woven from above throughout the whole.
²⁴ They said, then, to one another, "We should not be rending it, but we may take chances on it, whose it shall be," that the scripture may be fulfilled which is saying, "They divide My garments among themselves, And on My vesture they cast the lot." The soldiers, indeed, then, do these things.
²⁵ Now there stood beside the cross of Jesus His mother and the sister of His mother, Mary of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
²⁶ Jesus, then, perceiving His mother and the disciple whom He loved standing by, is saying to His mother, "Woman, lo! your son!"
²⁷ Thereafter He is saying to the disciple, "Lo! your mother!" And from that hour the disciple took her to his own.
²⁸ After this, Jesus, being aware that all is already accomplished, that the scripture may be perfected, is saying, "I thirst!"
²⁹ Now a vessel lay there distended with vinegar. Sticking a sponge, then, distended with vinegar, on hyssop, they carry it to His mouth.
³⁰ When, then, Jesus took the vinegar, He said, "It is accomplished!" And reclining His head, He gives up the spirit.
³¹ The Jews, then, since it was the preparation, lest the bodies should be remaining on the cross on the sabbath (for it was the great day, that sabbath), ask Pilate that they might be fracturing their legs, and they may be taken away.
³² The soldiers, then, came and fractured indeed the legs of the first and of the other who is crucified together with Him.
³³ Yet, coming on to Jesus, as they perceived He had already died, they do not fracture His legs.
³⁴ But one of the soldiers pierces His side with a lance head, and straightway out came blood and water.
³⁵ And he who has seen has testified, and true is his testimony. And he is aware that he is telling the truth, that you, also, should be believing.
³⁶ For these things occurred that the scripture may be fulfilled, "A bone of it shall not be crushed."
³⁷ And again, a different scripture is saying, they shall see Him whom they stab.
³⁸ Now after these things Joseph from Arimathea (being a disciple of Jesus, yet hidden because of fear of the Jews) asks Pilate that he should be taking away the body of Jesus. And Pilate permits him. He came, then, and takes away His body.
³⁹ Now Nicodemus also came (who came to Him at night at first), bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds troy.
⁴⁰ They got the body of Jesus, then, and they bind it in swathings with the spices, according as the custom of the Jews is to bury.
⁴¹ Now there was in the place where He was crucified, a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one has been placed as yet.
⁴² There, then, because of the preparation of the Jews, seeing that the tomb was near, they place Jesus.

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