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 Estas 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 estas 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.
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 levou para a sua casa.
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 rendeu 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}.
38 Depois disso, José de Arimatéia, 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.
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.