Friday, April 14, 2017

John 19:1-30 (NRSV)

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Chapter 19Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. Verse ²And the soldiers wove a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they dressed him in a purple robe. Verse ³They kept coming up to him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and striking him on the face. Verse ⁴Pilate went out again and said to them, "Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no case against him." Verse ⁵So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, "Here is the man!" Verse ⁶When the chief priests and the police saw him, they shouted, "Crucify him! Crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and crucify him; I find no case against him." Verse ⁷The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die because he has claimed to be the Son of God." Verse ⁸Now when Pilate heard this, he was more afraid than ever. Verse ⁹He entered his headquarters again and asked Jesus, "Where are you from?" But Jesus gave him no answer. Verse ¹⁰Pilate therefore said to him, "Do you refuse to speak to me? Do you not know that I have power to release you, and power to crucify you?" Verse ¹¹Jesus answered him, "You would have no power over me unless it had been given you from above; therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin." Verse ¹²From then on Pilate tried to release him, but the Jews cried out, "If you release this man, you are no friend of the emperor. Everyone who claims to be a king sets himself against the emperor." Verse ¹³When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus outside and sat on the judge's bench at a place called The Stone Pavement, or in Hebrew Gabbatha. Verse ¹⁴Now it was the day of Preparation for the Passover; and it was about noon. He said to the Jews, "Here is your King!" Verse ¹⁵They cried out, "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!" Pilate asked them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king but the emperor."

Verse ¹⁶Then he handed him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus; Verse ¹⁷and carrying the cross by himself, he went out to what is called The Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha. Verse ¹⁸There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, with Jesus between them.

Verse ¹⁹Pilate also had an inscription written and put on the cross. It read, "Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews." Verse ²⁰Many of the Jews read this inscription, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek. Verse ²¹Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, "Do not write, 'The King of the Jews,' but, 'This man said, I am King of the Jews.'" Verse ²²Pilate answered, "What I have written I have written." Verse ²³When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, one for each soldier. They also took his tunic; now the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from the top. Verse ²⁴So they said to one another, "Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see who will get it." This was to fulfill what the scripture says, "They divided my clothes among themselves, and for my clothing they cast lots." Verse ²⁵And that is what the soldiers did. Meanwhile, standing near the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. Verse ²⁶When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing beside her, he said to his mother, "Woman, here is your son." Verse ²⁷Then he said to the disciple, "Here is your mother." And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home. Verse ²⁸After this, when Jesus knew that all was now finished, he said (in order to fulfill the scripture), "I am thirsty." Verse ²⁹A jar full of sour wine was standing there. So they put a sponge full of the wine on a branch of hyssop and held it to his mouth. Verse ³⁰When Jesus had received the wine, he said, "It is finished." Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.