10. Pilate said to Him, “Are You not speaking to me? Do You not know that I have power to release You, and power to crucify You?”
11. Jesus answered, “You would have no power at all over Me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who handed Me over to you has the greater sin.”
12. From then on, Pilate tried to release Him. But the Jews cried out, “If you release this Man, you are not Caesar’s friend. Whoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!”
13. When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Pavement (which in Hebrew is Gabbatha).
14. It was the Day of Preparation of the Passover and about the sixth hour.He said to the Jews, “Here is your King!”
15. But they shouted, “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!”
16. Then he handed Him over to them to be crucified.So they took Jesus and led Him away.
17. He went out, carrying His own cross, to a place called The Place of a Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha.
18. There they crucified Him, and two others with Him, one on either side, and Jesus in the middle.
19. Pilate wrote a title and put it on the cross. The writing was:
20. Many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city. And it was written in Hebrew, in Greek, and in Latin.
21. The chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but ‘He said, I am King of the Jews.’ ”
22. Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”
23. When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took His garments and divided them into four parts, a part for each soldier; and also His tunic. Now the tunic was seamless, woven from top to bottom.
24. So they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide whose it shall be.”This happened to fulfill the Scripture which says: “They divided My garments among them,and for My clothing they cast lots.”Therefore the soldiers did these things.
25. But standing by the cross of Jesus were His mother, and His mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
26. When Jesus saw His mother and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, “Woman, here is your son.”
27. Then He said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” From that time, this disciple took her to his own home.