1 ^19:17THEN they took Jesus, and putting the cross on him he went out to what is called the place of a cranium, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha, ^19:18where they crucified him, and two others with him, one on one side and the other on the other, and Jesus between. ^19:19And Pilate wrote an inscription and put on the cross. And it was written, JESUS THE NAZORÆAN, THE KING OF THE JEWS. ^19:20Many of the Jews therefore read this inscription, because the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek. ^19:21Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews, but that he said, I am King of the Jews. ^19:22Pilate answered, what I have written I have written.

2 ^19:23Then the soldiers, when they crucified Jesus, took his clothes and made four parts, a part to each soldier, and his coat. But his coat was without seam, woven from the top through the whole. ^19:24They said, therefore, one to another, Let us not divide this, but cast lots for it whose it shall be; that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says, They parted my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots. The soldiers therefore did indeed these things.

3 ^19:25And there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother, and the sister of his mother, Mary the wife of Cleopas, and Mary the Magdalene. ^19:26Then Jesus seeing his mother, and the disciple standing by whom he loved, said to his mother, Woman, behold your son. ^19:27Then he said to the disciple, Behold your mother. And from that hour the disciple took her to his own [house].

4 ^19:28After this, Jesus knowing that all things were already finished, that the Scripture might be fully accomplished, said, I thirst. ^19:29Then a vessel was set full of vinegar; and filling a sponge with vinegar, and putting it on a hyssop stalk, they presented it to his mouth. ^19:30When therefore Jesus took the vinegar, he said, It is finished; and inclining his head gave up the spirit.

5 ^19:31Then the Jews, that the bodies might not continue on the cross on the sabbath, for it was the preparation, for that was a great sabbath, asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and they be taken down. ^19:32Then the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other crucified with him, ^19:33and coming to Jesus, when they saw him already dead, they broke not his legs; ^19:34but one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately there came out blood and water. ^19:35He who saw has testified, and his testimony is true, for he knows that he says what is true, that you also may believe. ^19:36For these things were done that the Scripture might be fulfilled, Not a bone of him shall be broken; ^19:37and again another Scripture says, They shall look on him whom they have pierced.

6 ^19:38After these things Joseph from Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take down the body of Jesus; and Pilate permitted him. Then he came and took his body. ^19:39And Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds. ^19:40Then they took the body of Jesus, and bound it with bandages, with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to prepare for burial. ^19:41And there was in the place where he was crucified a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one was yet laid. ^19:42In that therefore they laid Jesus, on account of the preparation of the Jews, because the tomb was near.