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John 19:11Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged severely.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 53:5Isa 50:6Matt 20:19Luke 18:33Luke 23:16Luke 23:23Mark 10:33-34Mark 15:15-20Matt 23:34Matt 27:26-31
John 19:22The soldiers braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they clothed him in a purple robe.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 15:16-20Isa 53:3Luke 23:11Matt 27:27-31Ps 22:6Isa 49:7John 19:5
John 19:33They came up to him again and again and said, “Hail, king of the Jews!” And they struck him repeatedly in the face.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 27:29Luke 1:28Matt 26:49John 18:33John 19:19-22John 18:22
John 19:44Again Pilate went out and said to the Jewish leaders, “Look, I am bringing him out to you, so that you may know that I find no reason for an accusation against him.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 18:38John 19:6Luke 23:41 Pet 2:22Luke 23:471 John 3:51 Pet 1:191 Pet 3:182 Cor 5:21Luke 23:41
John 19:55So Jesus came outside, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Look, here is the man!”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 19:2Heb 12:2Isa 7:14John 1:29Isa 40:9Isa 43:1
John 19:66When the chief priests and their officers saw him, they shouted out, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” Pilate said, “You take him and crucify him! Certainly I find no reason for an accusation against him!”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 18:31John 19:4Acts 13:27-29Acts 2:23Acts 3:13-15Acts 7:52Luke 23:4Mark 15:12-15Matt 27:22Matt 27:24
John 19:77The Jewish leaders replied, “We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die, because he claimed to be the Son of God!”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 24:16John 5:18Matt 26:63-66Rom 1:4Mark 14:61-64Mark 15:39Matt 27:42-43John 10:30-33John 10:36-38Deut 18:20
John 19:88When Pilate heard what they said, he was more afraid than ever,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 19:13Acts 14:11-19
John 19:99and he went back into the governor’s residence and said to Jesus, “Where do you come from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 18:33Acts 8:32-33Isa 53:7John 8:14John 9:29-30Judg 13:6Mark 15:3-5Matt 26:63Matt 27:12-14Phil 1:28
John 19:1010So Pilate said, “Do you refuse to speak to me? Don’t you know I have the authority to release you, and to crucify you?”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 3:14-15Dan 5:19John 18:39
John 19:1111Jesus replied, “You would have no authority over me at all, unless it was given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of greater sin.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 13:1John 3:27Acts 2:23Dan 4:17Acts 3:13John 7:30Dan 4:25Jas 1:17Jas 4:17Jer 27:5-8
John 19:1212From this point on, Pilate tried to release him. But the Jewish leaders shouted out, “If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar! Everyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar!”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 17:6-7John 18:33-36Luke 23:2-5Mark 6:16-26Acts 24:24-27
John 19:1313When Pilate heard these words he brought Jesus outside and sat down on the judgment seat in the place called “The Stone Pavement” (Gabbatha in Aramaic).Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 27:19Ps 82:5-7Acts 4:19Amos 4:7Eccl 5:8Isa 51:12-13Isa 57:11John 19:8Luke 12:5Prov 29:25
John 19:1414(Now it was the day of preparation for the Passover, about noon. ) Pilate said to the Jewish leaders, “Look, here is your king!”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 27:62John 19:5John 19:42Mark 15:25John 19:19-22John 19:3John 19:31-32Luke 23:54Mark 15:33-34Mark 15:42
John 19:1515Then they shouted out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate asked, “Shall I crucify your king?” The high priests replied, “We have no king except Caesar!”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 23:18Acts 21:36Acts 22:22Gen 49:10John 19:6Ezek 21:26-27John 18:31
John 19:1616Then Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 23:24-25Matt 27:26-31Mark 15:15-20
John 19:1717and carrying his own cross he went out to the place called “The Place of the Skull” (called in Aramaic Golgotha ).Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 23:33Luke 14:27Luke 23:26Acts 7:58Heb 13:11-13Mark 15:321 Kgs 21:13Lev 16:21-22Lev 24:14Luke 23:38
John 19:1818There they crucified him along with two others, one on each side, with Jesus in the middle.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 53:12Gal 3:13John 18:32Mark 15:24-27Matt 27:35-38Matt 27:44Ps 22:16Heb 12:2Luke 23:32-34
John 19:1919Pilate also had a notice written and fastened to the cross, which read: “Jesus the Nazarene, the king of the Jews.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 27:37Luke 23:38Mark 15:26John 19:14Acts 26:9Acts 3:6John 1:45-46John 1:49John 18:33John 19:12
John 19:2020Thus many of the Jewish residents of Jerusalem read this notice, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the notice was written in Aramaic, Latin, and Greek.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 21:37Acts 21:40Acts 22:2Acts 26:14John 19:13John 5:2Rev 16:16Heb 13:12Rev 9:11
John 19:2121Then 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.’”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 19:14John 19:19
John 19:2222Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 76:10Esth 4:16Gen 43:14John 19:12Prov 8:29Ps 65:7
John 19:2323Now when the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and made four shares, one for each soldier, and the tunic remained. (Now the tunic was seamless, woven from top to bottom as a single piece.)Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 23:34Mark 15:24Matt 27:35Exod 39:22-23
John 19:2424So the soldiers said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but throw dice to see who will get it.” This took place to fulfill the scripture that says, “They divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they threw dice.” So the soldiers did these things.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 22:18John 19:28John 19:36-37Acts 13:27
John 19:2525Now standing beside Jesus’ cross were his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 23:49Matt 27:55-56John 20:1Mark 15:40-41John 20:11-18Luke 2:35Luke 24:18Luke 8:2Mark 16:9Matt 12:46
John 19:2626So when Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, look, here is your son!”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 21:24John 13:23John 2:4John 20:2John 21:7John 21:20
John 19:2727He then said to his disciple, “Look, here is your mother!” From that very time the disciple took her into his own home.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 12:48-501 Tim 5:2-4John 16:321 John 3:18-19John 1:11Gen 45:8
John 19:2828After this Jesus, realizing that by this time everything was completed, said (in order to fulfill the scripture), “I am thirsty!”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 69:21Ps 22:15John 19:30Luke 22:37Luke 18:31John 19:24John 18:4John 13:1Acts 13:29Luke 9:31
John 19:2929A jar full of sour wine was there, so they put a sponge soaked in sour wine on a branch of hyssop and lifted it to his mouth.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 19:18Luke 23:36Mark 15:36Exod 12:22Matt 27:48Ps 51:7Matt 27:341 Kgs 4:33
John 19:3030When he had received the sour wine, Jesus said, “It is completed!” Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 17:4Phil 2:8Col 2:14-17Heb 12:2John 10:11Dan 9:24Isa 53:10Luke 23:46Heb 9:11-14Rom 10:4
John 19:3131Then, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies should not stay on the crosses on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was an especially important one), the Jewish leaders asked Pilate to have the victims’ legs broken and the bodies taken down.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 19:14John 19:42Mark 15:42Josh 8:29Deut 21:22-23Exod 12:16John 19:1Josh 10:26-27Lev 23:7-16Mic 3:3
John 19:3232So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the two men who had been crucified with Jesus, first the one and then the other.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 19:18Luke 23:39-43
John 19:3333But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
John 19:3434But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and blood and water flowed out immediately.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 5:6Zech 12:10Zech 13:11 John 5:8Ezek 36:25Titus 3:5-7Rev 7:14Eph 5:26Rev 1:51 Cor 1:30
John 19:3535And the person who saw it has testified (and his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth), so that you also may believe.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 21:241 John 1:1-3Heb 2:3-4John 15:271 Pet 5:1Acts 10:39John 20:31Rom 15:41 John 5:13John 11:15
John 19:3636For these things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled, “Not a bone of his will be broken.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 34:20Num 9:12Exod 12:46John 19:28Ps 22:14Ps 35:10Matt 1:22John 19:24
John 19:3737And again another scripture says, “They will look on the one whom they have pierced.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Zech 12:10Rev 1:7Ps 22:16-17
John 19:3838After this, Joseph of Arimathea, a disciple of Jesus (but secretly, because he feared the Jewish leaders ), asked Pilate if he could remove the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission, so he went and took the body away.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 15:42-47Matt 27:57-61Prov 29:25John 7:13Luke 23:50-56Phil 1:14
John 19:3939Nicodemus, the man who had previously come to Jesus at night, accompanied Joseph, carrying a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about seventy-five pounds.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 7:50-52John 3:1-21Song 4:142 Chr 16:14John 12:7Mark 16:1Matt 12:20Matt 19:30Prov 7:17Ps 45:8
John 19:4040Then they took Jesus’ body and wrapped it, with the aromatic spices, in strips of linen cloth according to Jewish burial customs.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 11:44Acts 5:6John 20:5-7Luke 24:12Matt 26:12
John 19:4141Now at the place where Jesus was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden was a new tomb where no one had yet been buried.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 23:53Matt 27:60Isa 22:16John 20:152 Kgs 23:30Matt 27:64-66
John 19:4242And so, because it was the Jewish day of preparation and the tomb was nearby, they placed Jesus’ body there.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 19:14John 19:31Isa 53:9John 19:411 Cor 15:4Acts 13:29Col 2:12John 19:20Matt 12:40Ps 22:15
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