John 19:1-20 ▼

1 Then, therefore, Pilate took Jesus and scourged [Him],

2 and the soldiers having plaited a garland of thorns, placed [it] on His head, and they cast a purple garment around Him,

3 and said, “Hail! The King of the Jews”; and they were giving Him slaps.

4 Pilate, therefore, again went forth outside and says to them, “Behold, I bring Him to you outside, that you may know that I find no fault in Him”;

5 Jesus, therefore, came forth outside, bearing the thorny garland and the purple garment; and he says to them, “Behold, the Man!”

6 When, therefore, the chief priests and the officers saw Him, they cried out, saying, “Crucify! Crucify!” Pilate says to them, “Take Him yourselves and crucify, for I find no fault in Him”;

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

8 When, therefore, Pilate heard this word, he was more afraid,

9 and entered again into the Praetorium and says to Jesus, “Where are You from?” And Jesus gave him no answer.

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

11 Jesus answered, “You would have no authority against Me if it were not having been given you from above; because of this, he who is delivering Me up to you has greater sin.”

12 From this [time] Pilate was seeking to release Him, and the Jews were crying out, saying, “If you may release this One, you are not a friend of Caesar; everyone making himself a king speaks against Caesar.”

13 Pilate, therefore, having heard this word, brought Jesus outside—and he sat down on the judgment seat—to a place called, “Pavement,” and in Hebrew, Gabbatha;

14 and it was the Preparation of the Passover, and as it were the sixth hour, and he says to the Jews, “Behold, your King!”

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

16 Then, therefore, he delivered Him up to them, that He may be crucified, and they took Jesus and led [Him] away,

17 and carrying His cross, He went forth to the [place] called “Place of [the] Skull,” which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha—

18 where they crucified Him, and with Him two others, on this side and on that side, but Jesus in the middle.

19 And Pilate also wrote a title, and put [it] on the cross, and it was written: “JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS”;

20 therefore many of the Jews read this title, because the place was near to the city where Jesus was crucified, and it was having been written in Hebrew, in Greek, in Latin.