The Gospel According to
John 19
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The Soldiers Mock Jesus
Then Pilate took Jesus and had Him flogged. The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns, set it on His head, and dressed Him in a purple robe. And they went up to Him again and again, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and slapping Him in the face.
Once again Pilate came out and said to the Jews, “Look, I am bringing Him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against Him.” When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”
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Chief priests & scribes
As soon as the chief priests and officers saw Him, they shouted, “Crucify Him!
The officers
Crucify Him!”
Pilate
“You take Him and crucify Him,” Pilate replied, “for I find no basis for a charge against Him.”
The Jewish leaders
“We have a law,” answered the Jews, “and according to that law He must die, because He declared Himself to be the Son of God.”
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When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid, and he went back into the Praetorium.
Pilate
“Where are You from?” he asked.
But Jesus gave no answer.
Pilate
So Pilate said to Him, “Do You refuse to speak to me? Do You not know that I have authority to release You and authority to crucify You?”
Jesus
Jesus answered, “You would have no authority over Me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed Me over to you is guilty of greater sin.”
You would have no authority over Me if it were not given to you from above.
John 19:11
From then on, Pilate tried to release Him, but the Jews kept shouting, “If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who declares himself a king is defying Caesar.”
When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat on the judgment seat at a place called the Stone Pavement, which in Hebrew is Gabbatha.
It was the day of Preparation for the Passover, about the sixth hour.
Pilate
And Pilate said to the Jews, “Here is your King!”
At this, they shouted, “Away with Him! Away with Him! Crucify Him!” “Shall I crucify your King?” Pilate asked. “We have no king but Caesar,” replied the chief priests.
Out and in
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The accusers stay outside, and Jesus waits inside. Pilate keeps crossing the courtyard between them. He knows the truth, “I find no basis for a charge against Him,” but in the end he sits down on the judgment seat and hands Jesus over.
The Crucifixion
Then Pilate handed Jesus over to be crucified, and the soldiers took Him away. Carrying His own cross, He went out to The Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha.
There they crucified Him, and with Him two others, one on each side, with Jesus in the middle.
JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS
John 19:19
Many of the Jews read this sign, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.
Chief priests & scribes
So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but only that He said, ‘I am the King of the Jews.’”
Pilate
Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”
What I have written, I have written.
John 19:22
Question
Quick question
Pilate’s notice hung over the cross where everyone passing by could read it.
In how many languages was the sign on the cross written?
The Death of Jesus
After this, knowing that everything had now been accomplished, and to fulfill the Scripture, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.” A jar of sour wine was sitting there. So they soaked a sponge in the wine, put it on a stalk of hyssop, and lifted it to His mouth.
When Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished.” And bowing His head, He yielded up His spirit.
Jesus’ Side Is Pierced
It was the day of Preparation, and the next day was a High Sabbath. In order that the bodies would not remain on the cross during the Sabbath, the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies removed. So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and those of the other.
But when they came to Jesus and saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs. Instead, one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water flowed out.
so that you also may believe
John 19:35
Now these things happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: “Not one of His bones will be broken.” And, as another Scripture says: “They will look on the One they have pierced.”
To fulfill the Scripture
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Four times in one chapter John points back to Scripture. Twice he uses the very words “to fulfill the Scripture.” Soldiers gambling, a dying man’s thirst, legs left unbroken, a spear. None of it was chance. God had written it down long before.
Reflect
It is finished
Jesus said, “It is finished,” and then He “yielded up His spirit.” Nothing was left undone. Is there anything you are still trying to add to what Jesus finished, to earn God’s welcome? Write it down, and hand it over to Him.
The Burial of Jesus
Afterward, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus (but secretly for fear of the Jews), asked Pilate to let him remove the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission, so he came and removed His body.
Nicodemus, who had previously come to Jesus at night, also brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds.
So they took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in linen cloths with the spices, according to the Jewish burial custom.
Now there was a garden in the place where Jesus was crucified, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid. And because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and the tomb was nearby, they placed Jesus there.
Pray
Out into the open
Joseph had followed “secretly for fear of the Jews.” Nicodemus had first come “at night.” At the cross both men stepped into the open and gave what they had. Ask God for the courage to stop following Jesus in secret, and to honor Him openly where you are.
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It is finished.
John 19:30
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