Read John 18:1-19:42
18 After Jesus had said this prayer, he left with
his disciples and went across the brook called Kidron. There was a garden in
that place, and Jesus and his disciples went in. 2Judas, the
traitor, knew where it was, because many times Jesus had met there with his disciples.
3So Judas went to the garden, taking with him a group of Roman
soldiers, and some temple guards sent by the chief priests and the Pharisees;
they were armed and carried lanterns and torches. 4Jesus knew
everything that was going to happen to him, so he stepped forward and asked
them, “Who is it you are looking for?”
5 “Jesus
of Nazareth,” they answered.
“I am
he,” he said. Judas
, the
traitor, was standing there with them. 6When Jesus said to them, “I
am he,” they moved back and fell to the ground. 7Again Jesus asked
them, “Who is it you are looking for?”
“Jesus of
Nazareth,” they said.
8 “I
have already told you that I am he,” Jesus said. “If, then, you are looking for
me, let these others go.” 9(He said this so that what he had said
might come true: “Father, I have not lost even one of those you gave me.”)
10 Simon
Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the High Priest’s slave, cutting off
his right ear. The name of the slave was Malchus. 11Jesus said to Peter,
“Put your sword back in its place! Do you think that I will not drink the cup
of suffering which my Father has given me?”
Jesus before Annas
12 Then
the Roman soldiers with their commanding officer and the Jewish guards arrested
Jesus, bound him, 13and took him first to Annas. He was the
father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was High Priest that year. 14It
was Caiaphas who had advised the Jewish authorities that it was better that one
man should die for all the people.
Peter Denies Jesus
(Matt 26:69, 70; Mark 14:66–68; Luke 22:25–57)
15 Simon
Peter and another disciple followed Jesus. That other disciple was well known
to the High Priest, so he went with Jesus into the courtyard of the High
Priest’s house, 16while Peter stayed outside by the gate. Then the
other disciple went back out, spoke to the girl at the gate, and brought Peter
inside. 17The girl at the gate said to Peter, “Aren’t you also one
of the disciples of that man?”
“No, I am
not,” answered Peter.
18 It
was cold, so the servants and guards had built a charcoal fire and were
standing round it, warming themselves. So Peter went over and stood with them,
warming himself.
The High Priest Questions Jesus
(Matt 26:59–66; Mark 14:55–64; Luke 22:66–71)
19 The
High Priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching. 20Jesus
answered, “I have always spoken publicly to everyone; all my teaching was done
in the synagogues and in the Temple, where all the people come together. I have
never said anything in secret. 21Why, then, do you question me?
Question the people who heard me. Ask them what I told them—they know what I
said.”
22 When
Jesus said this, one of the guards there slapped him and said, “How dare you
talk like that to the High Priest!”
23 Jesus
answered him, “If I have said anything wrong, tell everyone here what it was.
But if I am right in what I have said, why do you hit me?”
24 Then
Annas sent him, still bound, to Caiaphas the High Priest.
Peter Denies Jesus Again
(Matt 26:71–75; Mark 14:69–72; Luke 22:58–62)
25 Peter
was still standing there keeping himself warm. So the others said to him,
“Aren’t you also one of the disciples of that man?”
But Peter
denied it. “No, I am not,” he said.
26 One
of the High Priest’s slaves, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off,
spoke up. “Didn’t I see you with him in the garden?” he asked.
27 Again
Peter said “No”—and at once a cock crowed.
Jesus Is Brought Before Pilate
(Matt 27:1, 2, 11–14; Mark 15:1–5; Luke 22:1–5)
28 Early
in the morning Jesus was taken from Caiaphas’ house to the governor’s palace.
The Jewish authorities did not go inside the palace, for they wanted to keep
themselves ritually clean, in order to be able to eat the Passover meal. 29So
Pilate went outside to them and asked, “What do you accuse this man of?”
30 Their
answer was, “We would not have brought him to you if he had not committed a
crime.”
31 Pilate
said to them, “Then you yourselves take him and try him according to your own
law.”
They
replied, “We are not allowed to put anyone to death.” 32(This
happened in order to make the words of Jesus come true, the words he used when
he indicated the kind of death he would die.)
33 Pilate
went back into the palace and called Jesus. “Are you the King of the Jews?” he
asked him.
34 Jesus
answered, “Does this question come from you or have others told you about me?”
35 Pilate
replied, “Do you think I am a Jew? It was your own people and the chief priests
who handed you over to me. What have you done?”
36 Jesus
said, “My kingdom does not belong to this world; if my kingdom belonged to this
world, my followers would fight to keep me from being handed over to the Jewish
authorities. No, my kingdom does not belong here!”
37 So
Pilate asked him, “Are you a king, then?”
Jesus
answered, “You say that I am a king. I was born and came into the world for
this one purpose, to speak about the truth. Whoever belongs to the truth
listens to me.”
38 “And
what is truth?” Pilate asked.
Jesus Is Sentenced to Death
(Matt 27:15–31; Mark 15:6–20; Luke 23:13–25)
Then
Pilate went back outside to the people and said to them, “I cannot find any
reason to condemn him. 39But according to the custom you have, I
always set free a prisoner for you during the Passover. Do you want me to set
free for you the King of the Jews?”
40 They
answered him with a shout, “No, not him! We want Barabbas!” (Barabbas was a
bandit.)
19 Then Pilate took Jesus and had him whipped. 2The
soldiers made a crown out of thorny branches and put it on his head; then they
put a purple robe on him 3and came to him and said, “Long live the
King of the Jews!” And they went up and slapped him.
4 Pilate
went out once more and said to the crowd, “Look, I will bring him out here to
you to let you see that I cannot find any reason to condemn him.” 5So
Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to
them, “Look! Here is the man!”
6 When
the chief priests and the temple guards saw him, they shouted, “Crucify him!
Crucify him!”
Pilate said
to them, “You take him, then, and crucify him. I find no reason to condemn
him.”
7 The
crowd answered back, “We have a law that says he ought to die, because he
claimed to be the Son of God.”
8 When
Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid. 9He went back into the
palace and asked Jesus, “Where do you come from?”
But Jesus
did not answer. 10Pilate said to him, “You will not speak to me?
Remember, I have the authority to set you free and also to have you crucified.”
11 Jesus
answered, “You have authority over me only because it was given to you by God.
So the man who handed me over to you is guilty of a worse sin.”
12 When
Pilate heard this, he tried to find a way to set Jesus free. But the crowd
shouted back, “If you set him free, that means that you are not the Emperor’s
friend! Anyone who claims to be a king is a rebel against the Emperor!”
13 When
Pilate heard these words, he took Jesus outside and sat down on the judge’s
seat in the place called “The Stone Pavement”. (In Hebrew the name is “Gabbatha”.)
14It was then almost noon of the day before the Passover. Pilate
said to the people, “Here is your king!”
15 They
shouted back, “Kill him! Kill him! Crucify him!”
Pilate
asked them, “Do you want me to crucify your king?”
The chief
priests answered, “The only king we have is the Emperor!” 16Then
Pilate handed Jesus over to them to be crucified.
Jesus Is Crucified
(Matt 27:32–44; Mark 15:21–32; Luke 23:26–43)
So they
took charge of Jesus. 17He went out, carrying his cross, and came to
“The Place of the Skull”, as it is called. (In Hebrew it is called “Golgotha”.)
18There they crucified him; and they also crucified two other men,
one on each side, with Jesus between them. 19Pilate wrote a notice
and had it put on the cross. “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews”, is what
he wrote. 20Many people read it, because the place where Jesus was
crucified was not far from the city. The notice was written in Hebrew, Latin,
and Greek. 21The chief priests said to Pilate, “Do not write ‘The
King of the Jews’ , but rather, ‘This man said, I am the King of the Jews.’ ”
22 Pilate
answered, “What I have written stays written.”
23 After
the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into
four parts, one part for each soldier. They also took the robe, which was made
of one piece of woven cloth without any seams in it. 24The soldiers said to
one another, “Let’s not tear it; let’s throw dice to see who will get it.” This
happened in order to make the scripture come true:
“They divided my clothes among themselves
and gambled for my robe.”
And this
is what the soldiers did.
25 Standing
close to Jesus’ cross were his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of
Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26Jesus saw his mother and the disciple
he loved standing there; so he said to his mother, “He is your son.”
27 Then
he said to the disciple, “She is your mother.” From that time the disciple took
her to live in his home.
The Death of Jesus
(Matt 27:45–56; Mark 15:33–41; Luke 23:44–49)
29 A
bowl was there, full of cheap wine; so a sponge was soaked in the wine, put on
a stalk of hyssop, and lifted up to his lips. 30Jesus drank the wine
and said, “It is finished!”
Then he
bowed his head and died.
Jesus’ Side Is Pierced
31 Then
the Jewish authorities asked Pilate to allow them to break the legs of the men
who had been crucified, and to take the bodies down from the crosses. They
requested this because it was Friday, and they did not want the bodies to stay
on the crosses on the Sabbath, since the coming Sabbath was especially holy. 32So
the soldiers went and broke the legs of the first man and then of the other man
who had been crucified with Jesus. 33But when they came to Jesus,
they saw that he was already dead, so they did not break his legs. 34One
of the soldiers, however, plunged his spear into Jesus’ side, and at once blood
and water poured out. 35(The one who saw this happen has spoken of
it, so that you also may believe.k What he said is true, and he knows
that he speaks the truth.) 36This was done to make the scripture come
true: “Not one of his bones will be broken.” 37And there is another
scripture that says, “People will look at him whom they pierced.”
The Burial of Jesus
(Matt 27:57–61; Mark 15:42–47; Luke 23:50–56)
38 After
this, Joseph, who was from the town of Arimathea, asked Pilate if he could take
Jesus’ body. (Joseph was a follower of Jesus, but in secret, because he was
afraid of the Jewish authorities.) Pilate told him he could have the body, so
Joseph went and took it away. 39Nicodemus, who at first had
gone to see Jesus at night, went with Joseph, taking with him about 30
kilogrammes of spices, a mixture of myrrh and aloes. 40The two men
took Jesus’ body and wrapped it in linen with the spices according to the
Jewish custom of preparing a body for burial. 41There was a garden
in the place where Jesus had been put to death, and in it there was a new tomb
where no one had ever been buried. 42Since it was the day before the
Sabbath and because the tomb was close by, they placed Jesus’ body there. [1]
Pray
Love so amazing, so Divine, demands my soul, my life, my
all.
11 18.11: Mt
26:39; Mk 14:36; Lk 22:42
14 18.14: Jn
11:49, 50
32 18.32: Jn
3:14; 12:32
24 19.24: Ps
22:18
28 19.28: Ps
69:21; 22:15
k believe; some
manuscripts have continue to believe.
36 19.36: Ex
12:46; Nu 9:12; Ps 34:20
37 19.37:
Zec 12:10; Rev 1:7
39 19.39: Jn
3:1, 2
[1]
American Bible Society. (1992). The Holy
Bible: The Good news Translation (2nd ed., Jn 18:1–19:42). New York:
American Bible Society.
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