1 Então, por isso, Pilatos tomou a Jesus e mandou açoitá-lo. 2 Os soldados, tendo tecido uma coroa de espinhos, puseram-lha na cabeça e vestiram-no com um manto de púrpura. 3 Chegavam-se a ele e diziam: Salve, rei dos judeus! E davam-lhe bofetadas. 4 Outra vez saiu Pilatos e lhes disse: Eis que eu vo-lo apresento, para que saibais que eu não acho nele crime algum. 5 Saiu, pois, Jesus trazendo a coroa de espinhos e o manto de púrpura. Disse-lhes Pilatos: Eis o homem! 6 Ao verem-no, os principais sacerdotes e os seus guardas gritaram: Crucifica-o! Crucifica-o! Disse-lhes Pilatos: Tomai-o vós outros e crucificai-o; porque eu não acho nele crime algum. 7 Responderam-lhe os judeus: Temos uma lei, e, de conformidade com a lei, ele deve morrer, porque a si mesmo se fez Filho de Deus. 8 Pilatos, ouvindo tal declaração, ainda mais atemorizado ficou, 9 e, tornando a entrar no pretório, perguntou a Jesus: Donde és tu? Mas Jesus não lhe deu resposta. 10 Então, Pilatos o advertiu: Não me respondes? Não sabes que tenho autoridade para te soltar e autoridade para te crucificar? 11 Respondeu Jesus: Nenhuma autoridade terias sobre mim, se de cima não te fosse dada; por isso, quem me entregou a ti maior pecado tem.

12 A partir deste momento, Pilatos procurava soltá-lo, mas os judeus clamavam: Se soltas a este, não és amigo de César! Todo aquele que se faz rei é contra César! 13 Ouvindo Pilatos estas palavras, trouxe Jesus para fora e sentou-se no tribunal, no lugar chamado Pavimento, no hebraico Gabatá. 14 E era a parasceve pascal, cerca da hora sexta; e disse aos judeus: Eis aqui o vosso rei. 15 Eles, porém, clamavam: Fora! Fora! Crucifica-o! Disse-lhes Pilatos: Hei de crucificar o vosso rei? Responderam os principais sacerdotes: Não temos rei, senão César! 16 Então, Pilatos o entregou para ser crucificado.

17 Tomaram eles, pois, a Jesus; e ele próprio, carregando a sua cruz, saiu para o lugar chamado Calvário, Gólgota em hebraico, 18 onde o crucificaram e com ele outros dois, um de cada lado, e Jesus no meio. 19 Pilatos escreveu também um título e o colocou no cimo da cruz; o que estava escrito era: Jesus Nazareno, o Rei dos Judeus. 20 Muitos judeus leram este título, porque o lugar em que Jesus fora crucificado era perto da cidade; e estava escrito em hebraico, latim e grego. 21 Os principais sacerdotes diziam a Pilatos: Não escrevas: Rei dos judeus, e sim que ele disse: Sou o rei dos judeus. 22 Respondeu Pilatos: O que escrevi escrevi.

23 Os soldados, pois, quando crucificaram Jesus, tomaram-lhe as vestes e fizeram quatro partes, para cada soldado uma parte; e pegaram também a túnica. A túnica, porém, era sem costura, toda tecida de alto a baixo. 24 Disseram, pois, uns aos outros: Não a rasguemos, mas lancemos sortes sobre ela para ver a quem caberá — para se cumprir a Escritura:

Repartiram entre si as minhas vestes e sobre a minha túnica lançaram sortes.

Assim, pois, o fizeram os soldados.

25 E junto à cruz estavam a mãe de Jesus, e a irmã dela, e Maria, mulher de Clopas, e Maria Madalena. 26 Vendo Jesus sua mãe e junto a ela o discípulo amado, disse: Mulher, eis aí teu filho. 27 Depois, disse ao discípulo: Eis aí tua mãe. Dessa hora em diante, o discípulo a tomou para casa.

28 Depois, vendo Jesus que tudo já estava consumado, para se cumprir a Escritura, disse: Tenho sede! 29 Estava ali um vaso cheio de vinagre. Embeberam de vinagre uma esponja e, fixando-a num caniço de hissopo, lha chegaram à boca. 30 Quando, pois, Jesus tomou o vinagre, disse: Está consumado! E, inclinando a cabeça, rendeu o espírito.

31 Então, os judeus, para que no sábado não ficassem os corpos na cruz, visto como era a preparação, pois era grande o dia daquele sábado, rogaram a Pilatos que se lhes quebrassem as pernas, e fossem tirados. 32 Os soldados foram e quebraram as pernas ao primeiro e ao outro que com ele tinham sido crucificados; 33 chegando-se, porém, a Jesus, como vissem que já estava morto, não lhe quebraram as pernas. 34 Mas um dos soldados lhe abriu o lado com uma lança, e logo saiu sangue e água. 35 Aquele que isto viu testificou, sendo verdadeiro o seu testemunho; e ele sabe que diz a verdade, para que também vós creiais. 36 E isto aconteceu para se cumprir a Escritura:

Nenhum dos seus ossos será quebrado.

37 E outra vez diz a Escritura:

Eles verão aquele a quem traspassaram.

38 Depois disto, José de Arimateia, que era discípulo de Jesus, ainda que ocultamente pelo receio que tinha dos judeus, rogou a Pilatos lhe permitisse tirar o corpo de Jesus. Pilatos lho permitiu. Então, foi José de Arimateia e retirou o corpo de Jesus. 39 E também Nicodemos, aquele que anteriormente viera ter com Jesus à noite, foi, levando cerca de cem libras de um composto de mirra e aloés. 40 Tomaram, pois, o corpo de Jesus e o envolveram em lençóis com os aromas, como é de uso entre os judeus na preparação para o sepulcro. 41 No lugar onde Jesus fora crucificado, havia um jardim, e neste, um sepulcro novo, no qual ninguém tinha sido ainda posto. 42 Ali, pois, por causa da preparação dos judeus e por estar perto o túmulo, depositaram o corpo de Jesus.

1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. 2 And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and arrayed him in a purple garment; 3 and they came unto him, and said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they struck him with their hands. 4 And Pilate went out again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him out to you, that ye may know that I find no crime in him. 5 Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold, the man! 6 When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him! Pilate saith unto them, Take him yourselves, and crucify him: for I find no crime in him. 7 The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by that law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God. 8 When Pilate therefore heard this saying, he was the more afraid; 9 and he entered into the Prætorium again, and saith unto Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer. 10 Pilate therefore saith unto him, Speakest thou not unto me? knowest thou not that I have power to release thee, and have power to crucify thee? 11 Jesus answered him, Thou wouldest have no power against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath greater sin. 12 Upon this Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou release this man, thou art not Cæsar’s friend: every one that maketh himself a king speaketh against Cæsar. 13 When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment-seat at a place called The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha. 14 Now it was the Preparation of the passover: it was about the sixth hour. And he saith unto the Jews, Behold, your King! 15 They therefore cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him! Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Cæsar. 16 Then therefore he delivered him unto them to be crucified.

17 They took Jesus therefore: and he went out, bearing the cross for himself, unto the place called The place of a skull, which is called in Hebrew Golgotha: 18 where they crucified him, and with him two others, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst. 19 And Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. And there was written, JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS. 20 This title therefore read many of the Jews, for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city; and it was written in Hebrew, and in Latin, and in Greek. 21 The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but, that he said, I am King of the Jews. 22 Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.

23 The soldiers therefore, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. 24 They said therefore one to another, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith,

They parted my garments among them,

And upon my vesture did they cast lots.

25 These things therefore the soldiers did. But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold, thy son! 27 Then saith he to the disciple, Behold, thy mother! And from that hour the disciple took her unto his own home.

28 After this Jesus, knowing that all things are now finished, that the scripture might be accomplished, saith, I thirst. 29 There was set there a vessel full of vinegar: so they put a sponge full of the vinegar upon hyssop, and brought it to his mouth. 30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.

31 The Jews therefore, because it was the Preparation, that the bodies should not remain on the cross upon the sabbath (for the day of that sabbath was a high day), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. 32 The soldiers therefore came, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other that was crucified with him: 33 but when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs: 34 howbeit one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and straightway there came out blood and water. 35 And he that hath seen hath borne witness, and his witness is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye also may believe. 36 For these things came to pass, that the scripture might be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken. 37 And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.

38 And after these things Joseph of Arimathæa, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took away his body. 39 And there came also Nicodemus, he who at the first came to him by night, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds. 40 So they took the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury. 41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new tomb wherein was never man yet laid. 42 There then because of the Jews’ Preparation (for the tomb was nigh at hand) they laid Jesus.

1 Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged.

2 The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe

3 and went up to him again and again, saying, "Hail, king of the Jews!" And they slapped him in the face.

4 Once more Pilate came out and said to the Jews gathered there, "Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him."

5 When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, "Here is the man!"

6 As soon as the chief priests and their officials saw him, they shouted, "Crucify! Crucify!" But Pilate answered, "You take him and crucify him. As for me, I find no basis for a charge against him."

7 The Jewish leaders insisted, "We have a law, and according to that law he must die, because he claimed to be the Son of God."

8 When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid,

9 and he went back inside the palace. "Where do you come from?" he asked Jesus, but Jesus gave him no answer.

10 "Do you refuse to speak to me?" Pilate said. "Don't you realize I have power either to free you or to crucify you?"

11 Jesus answered, "You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin."

12 From then on, Pilate tried to set Jesus free, but the Jewish leaders kept shouting, "If you let this man go, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar."

13 When Pilate heard this, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judge's seat at a place known as the Stone Pavement (which in Aramaic is Gabbatha).

14 It was the day of Preparation of the Passover; it was about noon. "Here is your king," Pilate said to the Jews.

15 But they shouted, "Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!" "Shall I crucify your king?" Pilate asked. "We have no king but Caesar," the chief priests answered.

16 Finally Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified. So the soldiers took charge of Jesus.

17 Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha).

18 There they crucified him, and with him two others —one on each side and Jesus in the middle.

19 Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.

20 Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and Greek.

21 The chief priests of the Jews protested to Pilate, "Do not write 'The King of the Jews,' but that this man claimed to be king of the Jews."

22 Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."

23 When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes, dividing them into four shares, one for each of them, with the undergarment remaining. This garment was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.

24 "Let's not tear it," they said to one another. "Let's decide by lot who will get it." This happened that the scripture might be fulfilled that said, "They divided my clothes among them and cast lots for my garment." "So this is what the soldiers did.

25 Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

26 When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, "Woman, "here is your son,"

27 and to the disciple, "Here is your mother." From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.

28 Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, "I am thirsty."

29 A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus' lips.

30 When he had received the drink, Jesus said, "It is finished." With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

31 Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the Jewish leaders did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down.

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

33 But when they came to Jesus and found that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.

34 Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus' side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water.

35 The man who saw it has given testimony, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe.

36 These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled: "Not one of his bones will be broken," [^3]

37 and, as another scripture says, "They will look on the one they have pierced." [^4]

38 Later, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jewish leaders. With Pilate's permission, he came and took the body away.

39 He was accompanied by Nicodemus, the man who earlier had visited Jesus at night. Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds. [^5]

40 Taking Jesus' body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen. This was in accordance with Jewish burial customs.

41 At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid.

42 Because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.