1Then Pilate took Jesus and flogged him. (太20:19; 太27:26; 可15:15; 路23:16)2And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe. (太27:27; 可15:16)3They came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and struck him with their hands.4Pilate went out again and said to them, “See, I am bringing him out to you that you may know that I find no guilt in him.” (约18:38; 约19:6)5So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Behold the man!” (约19:2; 约19:14)6When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no guilt in him.” (约18:31; 约19:4)7The Jews[1] answered him, “We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die because he has made himself the Son of God.” (利24:16; 太26:63; 路22:70; 约5:17; 约10:33; 约10:36)8When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid. (太27:19)9He entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer. (太26:63; 约7:27; 约18:33; 约18:37)10So Pilate said to him, “You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you?”11Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin.” (太27:2; 约9:41; 约18:14; 约18:28; 羅13:1)12From then on Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.” (路23:2; 徒3:13)13So when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Stone Pavement, and in Aramaic[2] Gabbatha. (太27:19)14Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour.[3] He said to the Jews, “Behold your King!” (太27:62; 约18:28; 约19:5)15They 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.” (路23:18; 徒21:36)
The Crucifixion
16So he delivered him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus, (太27:26; 可15:15; 路23:25; 约18:36)17and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha. (太27:32; 太27:33; 可15:21; 可15:22; 路14:27; 路23:26; 路23:33)18There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them. (太27:38; 可15:24; 可15:27; 路23:32)19Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.” (太27:37; 可15:26; 路23:38)20Many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Aramaic, in Latin, and in Greek. (民15:35; 约19:17; 來13:12)21So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but rather, ‘This man said, I am King of the Jews.’”22Pilate answered, “What I have written I have written.” (创43:14; 斯4:16)23When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts, one part for each soldier; also his tunic.[4] But the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom, (太27:35; 可15:24; 路23:34)24so they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it shall be.” This was to fulfill the Scripture which says, “They divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.” So the soldiers did these things, (诗22:18; 约13:18)25but standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. (太27:55; 可15:40; 路23:49)26When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” (约2:4; 约13:23)27Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home. (约16:32)
The Death of Jesus
28After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), “I thirst.” (诗69:21; 约4:6; 约19:24; 约19:30)29A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth. (太27:48; 可15:36; 路23:36)30When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. (太27:50; 可15:37; 路23:46; 约17:4; 约19:28; 徒13:29)
Jesus’ Side Is Pierced
31Since it was the day of Preparation, and so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away. (出12:16; 申21:23; 书8:29; 书10:26; 约19:14)32So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who had been crucified with him. (约19:18)33But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.34But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water. (约一5:6; 约一5:8)35He who saw it has borne witness—his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth—that you also may believe. (约15:27; 约20:31; 约21:24; 约一1:1; 启1:2)36For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken.” (出12:46; 民9:12; 诗34:20; 太1:22; 林前5:7)37And again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they have pierced.” (亚12:10; 启1:7)
Jesus Is Buried
38After these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took away his body. (太27:57; 可15:42; 路23:50; 约7:13)39Nicodemus also, who earlier had come to Jesus[5] by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds[6] in weight. (诗45:8; 箴7:17; 歌4:14; 可16:1; 路24:1; 约3:1; 约7:50)40So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews. (代下16:14; 路24:12; 约11:44; 约20:5; 徒5:6)41Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid. (王下21:18; 王下21:26; 可11:2; 路23:53; 约20:15)42So because of the Jewish day of Preparation, since the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there. (约19:14; 约19:31; 约19:41)