São João 19

1 Pilatos mandou então flagelar Jesus.

2 Os soldados teceram de espinhos uma coroa e puseram-lha sobre a cabeça e cobriram-no com um manto de púrpura.

3 Aproximavam-se dele e diziam: "Salve, rei dos judeus!". E davam-lhe bofetadas.

4 Pilatos saiu outra vez e disse-lhes: "Eis que vo-lo trago fora, para que saibais que não acho nele nenhum motivo de acusação".

5 Apareceu então Jesus, trazendo a coroa de espinhos e o manto de púrpura. Pilatos disse: "Eis o homem!".

6 Quando os pontífices e os guardas o viram, gritaram: "Crucifica-o! Crucifica-o. Falou-lhes Pilatos: "Tomai-o vós e crucificai-o, pois eu não acho nele culpa alguma".

7 Responderam-lhe os judeus: "Nós temos uma Lei, e segundo essa Lei ele deve morrer, porque se declarou Filho de Deus".

8 Essas palavras impressionaram Pilatos.

9 Entrou novamente no pretório e perguntou a Jesus: "De onde és tu?". Mas Jesus não lhe respondeu.

10 Pilatos então lhe disse: "Tu não me respondes? Não sabes que tenho poder para te soltar e para te crucificar?".

11 Respondeu Jesus: "Não terias poder algum sobre mim, se de cima não te fora dado. Por isso, quem me entregou a ti tem pecado maior".

12 Desde então Pilatos procurava soltá-lo. Mas os judeus gritavam: "Se o soltares, não és amigo do imperador, porque todo o que se faz rei se declara contra o imperador".

13 Ouvindo essas palavras, Pilatos trouxe Jesus para fora e sentou-se no tribunal, no lugar chamado Lajeado, em hebraico Gábata.

14 (Era a Preparação para a Páscoa, cerca da hora sexta.) Pilatos disse aos judeus: "Eis o vosso rei!".

15 Mas eles clamavam: "Fora com ele! Fora com ele! Crucifica-o!". Pilatos perguntou-lhes: "Hei de crucificar o vosso rei?". Os sumos sacerdotes responderam: "Não temos outro rei senão César!".

16 Entregou-o então a eles para que fosse crucificado. (= Mt 27,32-56 = Mc 15,21-41 = Lc 23,26-49)

17 Levaram então consigo Jesus. Ele próprio carregava a sua cruz para fora da cidade, em direção ao lugar chamado Calvário, em hebraico Gólgota.

18 Ali o crucificaram, e com ele outros dois, um de cada lado, e Jesus no meio.

19 Pilatos redigiu também uma inscrição e a fixou por cima da cruz. Nela estava escrito: "Jesus de Nazaré, rei dos judeus".

20 Muitos dos judeus leram essa inscrição, porque Jesus foi crucificado perto da cidade e a inscrição era redigida em hebraico, em latim e em grego.

21 Os sumos sacerdotes dos judeus disseram a Pilatos: "Não escrevas: Rei dos judeus, mas sim: Este homem disse ser o rei dos judeus".

22 Respondeu Pilatos: "O que escrevi, escrevi".

23 Depois de os soldados crucificarem Jesus, tomaram as suas vestes e fizeram delas quatro partes, uma para cada soldado. A túnica, porém, toda tecida de alto a baixo, não tinha costura.

24 Disseram, pois, uns aos outros: "Não a rasguemos, mas deitemos sorte sobre ela, para ver de quem será". Assim se cumpria a Escritura: Repartiram entre si as minhas vestes e deitaram sorte sobre a minha túnica (Sl 21,19). Isso fizeram os soldados.

25 Junto à cruz de Jesus estavam de pé sua mãe, a irmã de sua mãe, Maria, mulher de Cléofas, e Maria Madalena.

26 Quando Jesus viu sua mãe e perto dela o discípulo que amava, disse à sua mãe: "Mulher, eis aí teu filho".

27 Depois disse ao discípulo: "Eis aí tua mãe". E dessa hora em diante o discípulo a recebeu como sua mãe.

28 Em seguida, sabendo Jesus que tudo estava consumado, para se cumprir plenamente a Escritura, disse: "Tenho sede".

29 Havia ali um vaso cheio de vinagre. Os soldados encheram de vinagre uma esponja e, fixando-a numa vara de hissopo, chegaram-lhe à boca.

30 Havendo Jesus tomado do vinagre, disse: "Tudo está consumado". Inclinou a cabeça e entregou o espírito.

31 Os judeus temeram que os corpos ficassem na cruz durante o sábado, porque já era a Preparação e esse sábado era particularmente solene. Rogaram a Pilatos que se lhes quebrassem as pernas e fossem retirados.

32 Vieram os soldados e quebraram as pernas do primeiro e do outro, que com ele foram crucificados.

33 Chegando, porém, a Jesus, como o vissem já morto, não lhe quebraram as pernas,

34 mas um dos soldados abriu-lhe o lado com uma lança e, imediatamente, saiu sangue e água.

35 O que foi testemunha desse fato o atesta (e o seu testemunho é digno de fé, e ele sabe que diz a verdade), a fim de que vós creiais.

36 Assim se cumpriu a Escritura: Nenhum dos seus ossos será quebrado (Ex 12,46).

37 E diz em outra parte a Escritura: Olharão para aquele que trans­pas­sa­ram (Zc 12,10). (= Mt 27,57-61 = Mc 15,42-47 = Lc 23,50-56)

38 Depois disso, José de Arimateia, que era discípulo de Jesus, mas ocultamente, por medo dos judeus, rogou a Pilatos a autori­zação para tirar o corpo de Jesus. Pilatos permitiu. Foi, pois, e tirou o corpo de Jesus.

39 Acompanhou-o Nicodemos (aquele que anterior­mente fora de noite ter com Jesus), levando umas cem libras de uma mistura de mirra e aloés.

40 Tomaram o corpo de Jesus e envolveram-no em panos com os aromas, como os judeus costumam sepultar.

41 No lugar em que ele foi crucificado havia um jardim, e no jardim um sepulcro novo, em que ninguém ainda fora depositado.

42 Foi ali que depositaram Jesus por causa da Preparação dos judeus e da proximidade do túmulo. (= Mt 28,1-10 = Mc 16,1-10= Lc 24,1-12)

1 So Pilate then took Jesus and flogged him. 2 The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown and put it on his head, and dressed him in a purple garment. 3 They kept saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and they kept slapping him.

4 Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, "Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him."

5 Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, "Behold, the man!"

6 When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify!"

Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him."

7 The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God."

8 When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid. 9 He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, "Where are you from?" But Jesus gave him no answer. 10 Pilate therefore said to him, "Aren’t you speaking to me? Don’t you know that I have power to release you and have power to crucify you?"

11 Jesus answered, "You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin."

12 At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, "If you release this man, you aren’t Caesar’s friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!"

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 Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour.*19:14 "the sixth hour" would have been 6:00 a.m. according to the Roman timekeeping system, or noon for the Jewish timekeeping system in use, then. He said to the Jews, "Behold, your King!"

15 They cried out, "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!"

Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?"

The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar!"

16 So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away. 17 He went out, bearing his cross, to 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 middle. 19 Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, "JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS." 20 Therefore many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek. 21 The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, "Don’t write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but, ‘he said, "I am King of the Jews."’"

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

23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the tunic. Now the tunic was without seam, woven from the top throughout. 24 Then they said to one another, "Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide whose it will be," that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says,

"They parted my garments among them.

They cast lots for my clothing."✝19:24 Psalms 22:18

Therefore the soldiers did these things.

25 But standing by Jesus’ cross were his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold, your son!" 27 Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.

28 After this, Jesus, seeing*19:28 NU, TR read "knowing" instead of "seeing" that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, "I am thirsty!" 29 Now a vessel full of vinegar was set there; so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop, and held it at his mouth. 30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, "It is finished!" Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

31 Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn’t remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away. 32 Therefore the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other who was crucified with him; 33 but when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they didn’t break his legs. 34 However, one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out. 35 He who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe. 36 For these things happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled, "A bone of him will not be broken."✝19:36 Exodus 12:46; Numbers 9:12; Psalms 34:20 37 Again another Scripture says, "They will look on him whom they pierced."✝19:37 Zechariah 12:10

38 After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away Jesus’ body. Pilate gave him permission. He came therefore and took away his body. 39 Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds.*19:39 100 Roman pounds of 12 ounces each, or about 72 pounds, or 33 Kilograms. 40 So they took Jesus’ body, 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. In the garden was a new tomb in which no man had ever yet been laid. 42 Then, because of the Jews’ Preparation Day (for the tomb was near at hand), they laid Jesus there.