KJ3 Literal Translation
John 19
1 Christ is scourged, crowned with thorns, and beaten. 28 He dies. 38 He is buried by Joseph.
1Therefore, then, Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him.
2And having plaited a wreath out of thorns, the soldiers put it on His head. And they threw a purple garment around Him,
3and said, Hail, King of the Jews! And they were giving Him slaps.
4Then Pilate went outside again and said to them, Behold, I bring Him out to you that you may know that I find not even one cause of death in Him!
5Then Jesus came outside, wearing the thorny wreath and the purple garment. And he says to them, Behold, the Man!
6Therefore when the chief priests and the under-officers saw Him, they cried out, saying, Crucify! Crucify! Pilate says to them, You take Him and crucify Him, for I find not even one cause of death in Him!
7Then the Jews answered him, We have a law, and according to our Law He ought to die because He made Himself Son of God!
8Therefore when Pilate heard this word, he was more afraid.
9And he entered into the praetorium again and said to Jesus, From where are You? But Jesus did not give him an answer.
10Then Pilate says to Him, Do You not speak to me? Do You not know that I have authority to crucify You, and I have authority to release You?
11Jesus answered, You would not have authority against Me, not even any if it was not being given to you from above. Because of this the one giving Me over to you has a greater sin.
12From this, Pilate sought to release Him. But the Jews were crying out, saying, If you release this one, you are not a friend of Caesar. Everyone making himself a king speaks against Caesar.
13Then hearing this word, Pilate led Jesus out. And he sat down on the judgment seat, at a place called The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha.
14And it was the Preparation of the Passover, and about the sixth hour. And he says to the Jews, Behold, your King!
15But they cried out, Away, Away! Crucify Him! Pilate said to them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We do not have a king except Caesar.
16Therefore, then, he gave Him over to them, that He might be crucified. And they took Jesus and led Him away.
17And He went out bearing His cross, to the place called Of a Skull (which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha),
18where they crucified Him, and two others with Him, from here and from there, and Jesus in the middle.
19And Pilate also wrote a title and put it on the cross. And having been written, it was: JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS.
20Therefore, this title many of the Jews read, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city. And it was written in Hebrew, in Greek, in Latin.
21Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, Do not write, The King of the Jews, but that One said, I am King of the Jews.
22Pilate answered, What I have written, I have written.
23Then when they crucified Jesus, the soldiers took His garments and made four parts, a part to each soldier, also the tunic. And the tunic was seamless, woven from the top through all.
24Then they said to one another, Let us not tear it, but let us cast lots about it, whose it will be (that the Scripture might be fulfilled which said, “They divided My garments among them,” and “they threw a lot for My garment”). Then indeed the soldiers did these things. LXX-Psa. 21:19; MT-Psa. 22:18 )
25And there stood His mother, and His mother’s sister Mary, the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene by the cross of Jesus.
26Therefore Jesus, seeing His mother and the disciple whom He loved standing by, He says to His mother, Woman, behold your son!
27Then He says to the disciple, Behold, your mother! And from that hour, the disciple took her into his own home.
28After this, Jesus knowing that all things have now been finished that the Scripture be fulfilled, He says, I thirst.
29Then a vessel full of vinegar was set, and having filled a sponge with vinegar, and putting hyssop around, they brought it to His mouth. Psa. 69:21
30Therefore when Jesus took the vinegar, He said, It has been finished. And bowing His head, He gave over the spirit.
31Therefore, since it was Preparation, that the bodies not remain on the cross on the sabbath, for great was the day of that sabbath, the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and they be taken away.
32Then the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man, and of the other one crucified with Him.
33But on coming to Jesus, when they saw Him having died already, they did not break His legs.
34But one of the soldiers took a spear and pierced His side, and at once blood and water came out.
35And the one having seen has borne witness and the witness of him is true; and that one knows that he says true things, that you may believe.
36For these things happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled, “Not a bone of Him shall be broken.” Ex. 12:46; Psa. 34:20
37And again, a different Scripture says, “They shall look at Him whom they have pierced.” Zech. 12:10
38And after these things, Joseph, the one from Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but having been hidden because of fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take the body of Jesus. And Pilate gave permission. Then he came and took the body of Jesus.
39And Nicodemus also came, the one coming at first to Jesus by night, bearing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds.
40Then they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen strips, with the spices, just as is the custom with the Jews in burying.
41And there was a garden in the place where He was crucified, and a new tomb in the garden, in which no one yet had been put, not one.
42There, then, because of the Preparation of the Jews, because the tomb was near, they put Jesus.
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