1Então Pilatos mandou açoitar Jesus.2Os soldados teceram uma coroa de espinhos e a puseram na cabeça dele. Vestiram-no com uma capa de púrpura,3e, chegando-se a ele, diziam: “Salve, rei dos judeus!” E batiam-lhe no rosto.4Mais uma vez, Pilatos saiu e disse aos judeus: “Vejam, eu o estou trazendo a vocês, para que saibam que não acho nele motivo algum de acusação”.5Quando Jesus veio para fora, usando a coroa de espinhos e a capa de púrpura, disse-lhes Pilatos: “Eis o homem!”6Ao vê-lo, os chefes dos sacerdotes e os guardas gritaram: “Crucifica-o! Crucifica-o!” Mas Pilatos respondeu: “Levem-no vocês e crucifiquem-no. Quanto a mim, não encontro base para acusá-lo”.7Os judeus insistiram: “Temos uma lei e, de acordo com essa lei, ele deve morrer, porque se declarou Filho de Deus”.8Ao ouvir isso, Pilatos ficou ainda mais amedrontado9e voltou para dentro do palácio. Então perguntou a Jesus: “De onde você vem?”, mas Jesus não lhe deu resposta.10“Você se nega a falar comigo?”, disse Pilatos. “Não sabe que eu tenho autoridade para libertá-lo e para crucificá-lo?”11Jesus respondeu: “Não terias nenhuma autoridade sobre mim se esta não te fosse dada de cima. Por isso, aquele que me entregou a ti é culpado de um pecado maior”.12Daí em diante Pilatos procurou libertar Jesus, mas os judeus gritavam: “Se deixares esse homem livre, não és amigo de César. Quem se diz rei opõe-se a César”.13Ao ouvir isso, Pilatos trouxe Jesus para fora e sentou-se na cadeira de juiz, num lugar conhecido como Pavimento de Pedra (que em aramaico é Gábata).14Era o Dia da Preparação na semana da Páscoa, por volta das seis horas da manhã[1]. “Eis o rei de vocês”, disse Pilatos aos judeus.15Mas eles gritaram: “Mata! Mata! Crucifica-o!” “Devo crucificar o rei de vocês?”, perguntou Pilatos. “Não temos rei, senão César”, responderam os chefes dos sacerdotes.
A Crucificação
16Finalmente Pilatos o entregou a eles para ser crucificado. Então os soldados encarregaram-se de Jesus.17Levando a sua própria cruz, ele saiu para o lugar chamado Caveira (que em aramaico é chamado Gólgota).18Ali o crucificaram, e com ele dois outros, um de cada lado de Jesus.19Pilatos mandou preparar uma placa e pregá-la na cruz, com a seguinte inscrição: JESUS NAZARENO, O REI DOS JUDEUS.20Muitos dos judeus leram a placa, pois o lugar em que Jesus foi crucificado ficava próximo da cidade, e a placa estava escrita em aramaico, latim e grego.21Os chefes dos sacerdotes dos judeus protestaram junto a Pilatos: “Não escrevas ‘O Rei dos Judeus’, mas sim que esse homem se dizia rei dos judeus”.22Pilatos respondeu: “O que escrevi, escrevi”.23Tendo crucificado Jesus, os soldados tomaram as roupas dele e as dividiram em quatro partes, uma para cada um deles, restando a túnica. Esta, porém, era sem costura, tecida numa única peça, de alto a baixo.24“Não a rasguemos”, disseram uns aos outros. “Vamos decidir por sorteio quem ficará com ela.” Isso aconteceu para que se cumprisse a Escritura que diz: “Dividiram as minhas roupas entre si, e tiraram sortes pelas minhas vestes”. Foi o que os soldados fizeram.25Perto da cruz de Jesus estavam sua mãe, a irmã dela, Maria, mulher de Clopas, e Maria Madalena.26Quando Jesus viu sua mãe ali, e, perto dela, o discípulo a quem ele amava, disse à sua mãe: “Aí está o seu filho”,27e ao discípulo: “Aí está a sua mãe”. Daquela hora em diante, o discípulo a recebeu em sua família.
A Morte de Jesus
28Mais tarde, sabendo então que tudo estava concluído, para que a Escritura se cumprisse, Jesus disse: “Tenho sede”.29Estava ali uma vasilha cheia de vinagre. Então embeberam uma esponja nela, colocaram a esponja na ponta de um caniço de hissopo e a ergueram até os lábios de Jesus.30Tendo-o provado, Jesus disse: “Está consumado!” Com isso, curvou a cabeça e entregou o espírito.31Era o Dia da Preparação e o dia seguinte seria um sábado especialmente sagrado. Como não queriam que os corpos permanecessem na cruz durante o sábado, os judeus pediram a Pilatos que mandasse quebrar as pernas dos crucificados e retirar os corpos.32Vieram, então, os soldados e quebraram as pernas do primeiro homem que fora crucificado com Jesus e, em seguida, as do outro.33Mas, quando chegaram a Jesus, constatando que já estava morto, não lhe quebraram as pernas.34Em vez disso, um dos soldados perfurou o lado de Jesus com uma lança, e logo saiu sangue e água.35Aquele que o viu, disso deu testemunho, e o seu testemunho é verdadeiro. Ele sabe que está dizendo a verdade, e dela testemunha para que vocês também creiam.36Estas coisas aconteceram para que se cumprisse a Escritura: “Nenhum dos seus ossos será quebrado”,37e, como diz a Escritura noutro lugar: “Olharão para aquele que traspassaram”.
O Sepultamento de Jesus
38Depois disso José de Arimateia pediu a Pilatos o corpo de Jesus. José era discípulo de Jesus, mas o era secretamente, porque tinha medo dos judeus. Com a permissão de Pilatos, veio e levou embora o corpo.39Ele estava acompanhado de Nicodemos, aquele que antes tinha visitado Jesus à noite. Nicodemos levou cerca de trinta e quatro quilos[2] de uma mistura de mirra e aloés.40Tomando o corpo de Jesus, os dois o envolveram em faixas de linho, com as especiarias, de acordo com os costumes judaicos de sepultamento.41No lugar onde Jesus foi crucificado havia um jardim; e no jardim, um sepulcro novo, onde ninguém jamais fora colocado.42Por ser o Dia da Preparação dos judeus, e visto que o sepulcro ficava perto, colocaram Jesus ali.
1Then Pilate took Jesus and flogged him. (Mt 20:19; Mt 27:26; Mc 15:15; Lc 23:16)2And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe. (Mt 27:27; Mc 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.” (Jo 18:38; Jo 19:6)5So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Behold the man!” (Jo 19:2; Jo 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.” (Jo 18:31; Jo 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.” (Lv 24:16; Mt 26:63; Lc 22:70; Jo 5:17; Jo 10:33; Jo 10:36)8When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid. (Mt 27:19)9He entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer. (Mt 26:63; Jo 7:27; Jo 18:33; Jo 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.” (Mt 27:2; Jo 9:41; Jo 18:14; Jo 18:28; Rm 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.” (Lc 23:2; At 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. (Mt 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!” (Mt 27:62; Jo 18:28; Jo 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.” (Lc 23:18; At 21:36)
The Crucifixion
16So he delivered him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus, (Mt 27:26; Mc 15:15; Lc 23:25; Jo 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. (Mt 27:32; Mt 27:33; Mc 15:21; Mc 15:22; Lc 14:27; Lc 23:26; Lc 23:33)18There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them. (Mt 27:38; Mc 15:24; Mc 15:27; Lc 23:32)19Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.” (Mt 27:37; Mc 15:26; Lc 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. (Nm 15:35; Jo 19:17; Hb 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.” (Gn 43:14; Et 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, (Mt 27:35; Mc 15:24; Lc 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, (Sl 22:18; Jo 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. (Mt 27:55; Mc 15:40; Lc 23:49)26When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” (Jo 2:4; Jo 13:23)27Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home. (Jo 16:32)
The Death of Jesus
28After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), “I thirst.” (Sl 69:21; Jo 4:6; Jo 19:24; Jo 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. (Mt 27:48; Mc 15:36; Lc 23:36)30When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. (Mt 27:50; Mc 15:37; Lc 23:46; Jo 17:4; Jo 19:28; At 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. (Ex 12:16; Dt 21:23; Js 8:29; Js 10:26; Jo 19:14)32So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who had been crucified with him. (Jo 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. (1 Jo 5:6; 1 Jo 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. (Jo 15:27; Jo 20:31; Jo 21:24; 1 Jo 1:1; Ap 1:2)36For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken.” (Ex 12:46; Nm 9:12; Sl 34:20; Mt 1:22; 1 Co 5:7)37And again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they have pierced.” (Zc 12:10; Ap 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. (Mt 27:57; Mc 15:42; Lc 23:50; Jo 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. (Sl 45:8; Pv 7:17; Ct 4:14; Mc 16:1; Lc 24:1; Jo 3:1; Jo 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. (2 Cr 16:14; Lc 24:12; Jo 11:44; Jo 20:5; At 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. (2 Rs 21:18; 2 Rs 21:26; Mc 11:2; Lc 23:53; Jo 20:15)42So because of the Jewish day of Preparation, since the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there. (Jo 19:14; Jo 19:31; Jo 19:41)