17 And bearing his own cross, he went forth to that place which is called
Calvary, but in Hebrew Golgotha.
18 Where they crucified him, and with him two others, one on each side,
and Jesus in the midst.
19 And Pilate wrote a title also, and he put it upon the cross. And the
writing was: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.
20 This title therefore many of the Jews did read: because the place where
Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, in
Greek, and in Latin.
21 Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate: Write not, The King
of the Jews; but that he said, I am the King of the Jews.
22 Pilate answered: What I have written, I have written.
23 The soldiers therefore, when they had crucified him, took his garments,
(and they made four parts, to every soldier a part,) and also his coat.
Now the coat was without seam, woven from the
top throughout.
24 They said then one to another: Let us not cut it, but let us cast lots
for it, whose it shall be; that the scripture might be fulfilled, saying:
They have parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture they have
cast lot. And the soldiers indeed did these things.
25 Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother, and his mother's
sister, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalen.
26 When Jesus therefore had seen his mother and the disciple standing whom
he loved, he saith to his mother: Woman, behold thy son.
27 After that, he saith to the disciple: Behold thy mother. And from that
hour, the disciple took her to his own.
28 Afterwards, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that
the scripture might be fulfilled, said: I thirst.
29 Now there was a vessel set there full of vinegar. And they, putting a
sponge full of vinegar and hyssop, put it to his mouth.
30 Jesus therefore, when he had taken the vinegar, said: It is
consummated. And bowing his head, he gave up the ghost.
31 Then the Jews, (because it was the parasceve,) that the bodies might
not remain on the cross on the sabbath day, (for that was a great sabbath
day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might
be taken away.
32 The soldiers therefore came; and they broke the legs of the first, and
of the other that was crucified with him.
33 But after they were come to Jesus, when they saw that he was already
dead, they did not break his legs.
34 But one of the soldiers with a spear opened his side, and immediately
there came out blood and water.
35 And he that saw it, hath given testimony, and his testimony is true.
And he knoweth that he saith true; that you also
may believe.
36 For these things were done, that the scripture might be fulfilled: You
shall not break a bone of him.
37 And again another scripture saith: They shall look on him whom they
pierced.
38 And after these things, Joseph of Arimathea (because he was a disciple
of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews) besought Pilate that he might
take away the body of Jesus. And Pilate gave leave. He came therefore, and
took the body of Jesus.
39 And Nicodemus also came, (he who at the first came to Jesus by night,)
bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.
40 They took therefore the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths,
with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
41 Now there was in the place where he was crucified, a garden; and in the
garden a new sepulchre, wherein no man yet had been laid.
42 There, therefore, because of the parasceve of the Jews, they laid
Jesus, because the sepulchre was nigh at hand.
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