John 19:7-35

⁷The Jews answered to him, We have a law, and by the law he oweth to die, for he made him God’s Son.

⁸Therefore when Pilate had heard this word, he dreaded the more or he dreaded more.

⁹And he went into the moot hall again, and said to Jesus, Of whence art thou? But Jesus gave none answer to him.

¹⁰Pilate saith to him, Speakest thou not to me? Knowest thou not, that I have power to crucify thee, and I have power to deliver thee?

¹¹Jesus answered, Thou shouldest not have any power against me, but it were given to thee from above; there-fore he that betook me to thee, hath the more sin.

¹²From that time Pilate sought to deliver him; but the Jews cried, and said, If thou deliverest this man, thou art not the emperor’s friend or the friend of Caesar; for each man that maketh himself king, gainsaith the emperor or against-saith Caesar.

¹³And Pilate, when he had heard these words, led Jesus forth, and sat for doomsman in a place, that is said Lycostratos, but in Hebrew Golgotha (or Gabbatha).

¹⁴And it was pask eve or the making ready, or even, of pask, as it were the sixth hour, or midday. And he saith to the Jews, Lo! your king.

¹⁵But they cried, and said, Take away, take away, or Do away, do away; crucify him. Pilate saith to them, Shall I crucify your king? The bishops answered, We have no king but the emperor or Caesar.

¹⁶And then Pilate betook him to them, that he should be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him out.

¹⁷And he bare to himself a cross, and went out into that place, that is said Calvary, in Hebrew Golgotha;

¹⁸where they crucified him, and others twain with him, one on this side and one on that side, and Jesus in the middle.

¹⁹And Pilate wrote a title, and set or put on the cross; and it was written, Jesus of Nazareth, king of Jews.

²⁰Therefore many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified, was nigh the city, and it was written in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.

²¹Therefore the bishops of the Jews said to Pilate, Do not thou write king of Jews, but that he said, I am king of Jews.

²²Pilate answered, That that I have written, I have written.

²³Therefore the knights when they had crucified him, took his clothes, and made four parts, to each knight a part, and a coat. And the coat was without seam, and woven all about.

²⁴Therefore they said together, Cut we not it, but cast we lot, whose it is; that the scripture be fulfilled, saying, They parted my clothes to them, and on my cloth they cast lot. And the knights did these things.

²⁵But beside the cross of Jesus stood his mother, and the sister of his mother, Mary Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.

²⁶Therefore when Jesus had seen his mother, and the disciple standing, whom he loved, he saith to his mother, Woman, lo! thy son.

²⁷Afterward he saith to the disciple, Lo! thy mother. And from that hour the disciple took her into his mother.

²⁸Afterward Jesus witting, that now all things be ended, that the scripture were fulfilled, he saith, I thirst.

²⁹And a vessel was set full of vinegar or eisell. And they laid in hyssop about the sponge full of vinegar, and put to his mouth./And they took a sponge full of eisell, putting it about with hyssop, and proffered it to his mouth.

³⁰Therefore when Jesus had taken the vinegar, he said, It is ended. And when his head was bowed down, he gave up the ghost./And when Jesus had tasted this eisell, he said, It is ended. And he bowed down the head, and sent out the spirit.

³¹Therefore for it was the pask eve, that the bodies should not abide or dwell on the cross in the sabbath, for that was a great sabbath day, the Jews prayed Pilate, that the hips of them should be broken, and they should be taken away.

³²Therefore knights came, and they brake the thighs of the first, and of the other, that was crucified with him.

³³But when they were come or had come to Jesus, as they saw him dead then, they brake not his thighs;

³⁴but one of the knights opened his side with a spear, and anon blood and water went out.

³⁵And he that saw, bare witnessing thereof, and his witnessing is true; and he knoweth that he saith true things, that ye believe.