John 19:19-32

¹⁹Pilate also had these words written and put up over the cross — ‘JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.’

²⁰These words were read by many people, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and they were written in Hebrew, Latin and Greek.

²¹The chief priests said to Pilate, “Do not write ‘The king of the Jews’, but write what the man said — ‘I am the king of the Jews.’”

²²But Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”

²³When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four shares — a share for each soldier — and they took the coat also. The coat had no seam, being woven in one piece from top to bottom.

²⁴So they said to one another, “Do not let us tear it, but let us cast lots for it, to see who will have it.” This was in fulfilment of the words of scripture — ‘They shared my clothes amongst them, And over my clothing they cast lots.’ That was what the soldiers did.

²⁵Meanwhile near the cross of Jesus were standing his mother and his mother's sister, as well as Mary the wife of Clopas and Mary of Magdala.

²⁶When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved, standing near, he said to his mother, “There is your son.”

²⁷Then he said to that disciple, “There is your mother.” And from that very hour the disciple took her to live in his house.

²⁸Afterward, knowing that everything was now finished, Jesus said, in fulfilment of the words of scripture, “I am thirsty.”

²⁹There was a bowl standing there full of common wine; so they put a sponge soaked in the wine on the end of a hyssop-stalk, and held it up to his mouth.

³⁰When Jesus had received the wine, he exclaimed, “All is finished!” Then, bowing his head, he resigned his spirit to God.

³¹It was the Preparation day, and so, to prevent the bodies from remaining on the crosses during the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a great day), the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies removed.

³²Accordingly the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man, and then those of the other who had been crucified with Jesus;