The Gospel of
John Chapter 19
(Today's
English King James)
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Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.
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And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns, and put it
on his head, and they put on him a purple robe,
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And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they struck him
with their hands.
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Pilate therefore went forth again, and said to them,
Behold, I bring him forth to you, that you may know
that I find no fault in him.
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Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns,
and the purple robe. And Pilate said to them, Behold
the man!
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When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him,
they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him.
Pilate said to them, Take you him, and crucify him:
for I find no fault in him.
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The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law
he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of
God.
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When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the
more afraid;
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And went again into the judgment hall, and said to
Jesus, From where are you? But Jesus gave him no
answer.
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Then said Pilate to him, Speak you not to me? know you
not that I have power to crucify you, and have power
to release you?
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Jesus answered, You could have no power at all against
me, except it were given you from above: therefore he
that delivered me to you has the greater sin.
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And from thereafter Pilate sought to release him: but
the Jews cried out, saying, If you let this man go,
you are not Caesar's friend: whoever makes himself a
king speaks against Caesar.
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When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought
Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a
place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew,
Gabbatha.
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And it was the preparation of the passover, and about
the sixth hour: and he said to the Jews, Behold your
King!
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But 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.
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Then delivered he him therefore to them to be
crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away.
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And he bearing his cross went forth into a place
called the place of a skull, which is called in the
Hebrew Golgotha:
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Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on
either side one, and Jesus in the middle.
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And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And
the writing was JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE
JEWS.
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This title then read many of the Jews: for the place
where Jesus was crucified was near to the city: and it
was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin.
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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.
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Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.
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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.
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They said therefore among themselves, Let us not tear
it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the
scripture might be fulfilled, which said, They parted
my garments among them, and for my clothing they did
cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.
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Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and
his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and
Mary Magdalene.
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When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple
standing by, whom he loved, he said to his mother,
Woman, behold your son!
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Then said he to the disciple, Behold your mother! And
from that hour that disciple took her to his own home.
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After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now
accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled,
said, I thirst.
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Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they
filled a sponge with vinegar, and put it on hyssop,
and put it to his mouth.
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When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he
said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave
up the ghost.
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The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation,
that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the
sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was a high day,)
sought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and
that they might be taken away.
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Then came the soldiers, and broke the legs of the
first, and of the other which was crucified with him.
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But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead
already, they broke not his legs:
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But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side,
and immediately came there out blood and water.
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And he that saw it bore record, and his record is
true: and he knows that he said true, that you might
believe.
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For these things were done, that the scripture should
be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.
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And again another scripture said, They shall look on
him whom they pierced.
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And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple
of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, sought
Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and
Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the
body of Jesus.
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And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came
to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and
aloes, about a hundred pound weight.
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Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in
linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the
Jews is to bury.
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Now in the place where he was crucified there was a
garden; and in the garden a new tomb, wherein was
never man yet laid.
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There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews'
preparation day; for the tomb was near at hand.