1Pilate gave orders for Jesus to be beaten with a whip.
2The soldiers made a crown out of thorn branches and put it on Jesus. Then they put a purple robe on him.
3They came up to him and said, “Hey, you king of the Jews!” They also hit him with their fists.
4Once again Pilate went out. This time he said, “I will have Jesus brought out to you again. Then you can see for yourselves that I have not found him guilty.”
5Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said, “Here is the man!”
6When the chief priests and the temple police saw him, they yelled, “Nail him to a cross! Nail him to a cross!”
Pilate told them, “You take him and nail him to a cross! I don't find him guilty of anything.”
7The crowd replied, “He claimed to be the Son of God! Our law says that he must be put to death.”
8When Pilate heard this, he was terrified.
9He went back inside and asked Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus did not answer.
10“Why won't you answer my question?” Pilate asked. “Don't you know I have the power to let you go free or to nail you to a cross?”
11 In Aramaic this place is called “Golgotha.”
18There Jesus was nailed to the cross, and on each side of him a man was also nailed to a cross.
19Pilate ordered the charge against Jesus to be written on a board and put above the cross. It read, “Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews.”
20The words were written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.
The place where Jesus was taken wasn't far from the city, and many of the people read the charge against him.
21So the chief priests went to Pilate and said, “Why did you write that he is King of the Jews? You should have written, ‘He claimed to be King of the Jews.’ ”
22But Pilate told them, “What is written will not be changed!”
23After the soldiers had nailed Jesus to the cross, they divided up his clothes into four parts, one for each of them. But his outer garment was made from a single piece of cloth, and it did not have any seams.
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26When Jesus saw his mother and his favorite disciple with her, he said to his mother, “This man is now your son.”
27Then he said to the disciple, “She is now your mother.” From then on, that disciple took her into his own home.
The Death of Jesus(Matthew 27.45-56; Mark 15.33-41; Luke 23.44-49)28 and they did not want the bodies to stay on the crosses during this day. So they asked Pilate to break the men's legs and take their bodies down.
32The soldiers first broke the legs of the other two men who were nailed there.
33But when they came to Jesus, they saw he was already dead, and they did not break his legs.
34One of the soldiers stuck his spear into Jesus' side, and blood and water came out.
35We know this is true, because it was told by someone who saw it happen. Now you can have faith too.
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40The two men wrapped the body in a linen cloth, together with the spices, which was how the Jewish people buried their dead.
41In the place where Jesus had been nailed to a cross, there was a garden with a tomb that had never been used.
42The tomb was nearby, and since it was the time to prepare for the Sabbath, they were in a hurry to put Jesus' body there.
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