John 19:1-15 ▼

1 So at that time Pilate took Jesus and flogged Him.

2 And the soldiers, having twisted together a crown of thorns, put it on His head and cast around Him a purple garment.

3 And they were coming up to Him and saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” And they kept giving Him slaps.

4 And Pilate went forth outside again, and he says to them, “Behold, I bring Him out to you? so that you? may know that I find no guilt in Him.”

5 Therefore Jesus went forth outside, wearing the thorny crown and the purple garment. And he says to them, “Behold the man!”

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

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

8 Therefore when Pilate heard this word, he was even more afraid.

9 And he went into the Praetorium again, and he says to Jesus, “Where are You from?” But Jesus did not give him an answer.

10 Therefore Pilate says to Him, “Do You not speak to me? Do You not know that I have authority to release You, and I have authority to crucify You?”

11 Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over Me if it were not given to you from above. Because of this, the one having delivered Me up to you has greater sin.”

12 From this time Pilate was seeking to release Him; but the Jews cried out, saying, “If you release this man, you are not a friend of Caesar. Everyone making himself a king speaks against Caesar.”

13 Therefore Pilate, having heard these words, brought Jesus out and sat down upon the judgment seat at a place called The Stone Pavement, and in Hebrew, Gabbatha.

14 Now it was the Preparation of the Passover; it was about the sixth hour. And he says to the Jews, “Behold your? King!”

15 So they cried out, “Away with Him, away! Crucify Him!” Pilate says to them, “Shall I crucify your? King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king except Caesar.”