## Jesus Flogged and Rejected as King 

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Pilate then took Jesus and flogged Him. 

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And when the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns, they put it on His head, and put a purple robe on Him; 

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and they were coming to Him and saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and were giving Him slaps _in the face_. 

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And Pilate came out again and *said to them, "Behold, I am bringing Him out to you so that you may know that I find no guilt in Him." 

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Jesus then came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. _Pilate_ *said to them, "Behold, the man!" 

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So when the chief priests and the officers saw Him, they cried out saying, "Crucify, crucify!" Pilate *said to them, "Take Him yourselves and crucify Him, for I find no guilt in Him." 

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The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by that law He ought to die because He made Himself out _to be_ the Son of God." 

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Therefore when Pilate heard this statement, he became more afraid; 

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and he entered into the Praetorium again and *said to Jesus, "Where are You from?" But Jesus gave him no answer. 

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So Pilate *said to Him, "You do not speak to me? Do You not know that I have authority to release You, and I have authority to crucify You?" 

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Jesus answered, **"You would have no authority over Me, unless it had been given you from above; for this reason he who delivered Me to you has _the_ greater sin."** 

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As a result of this Pilate kept seeking to release Him, but the Jews cried out saying, "If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar; everyone who makes himself _to be_ a king opposes Caesar." 

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Therefore when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Stone Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha. 

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Now it was the day of Preparation for the Passover; it was about the sixth hour. And he *said to the Jews, "Behold, your King!" 

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So they cried out, "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." 

## The Crucifixion 

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So he then delivered Him over to them to be crucified. 

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They took Jesus, therefore, and He went out, bearing His own cross, to the place called the Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha. 

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There they crucified Him, and with Him two other men, one on either side, and Jesus in between. 

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And Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It was written, "JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS." 

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Therefore many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, _and_ in Greek. 

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So the chief priests of the Jews were saying to Pilate, "Do not write, 'The King of the Jews;' but that He said, 'I am King of the Jews.'" 

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Pilate answered, "What I have written I have written." 

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Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took His garments and made four parts, a part to each soldier and _also_ His tunic; now that tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from the top. 

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So they said to one another, "Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, _to decide_ whose it shall be;" _this was_ in order that the Scripture would be fulfilled: "They divided My garments among them, and for My clothing they cast lots." 

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Therefore the soldiers did these things. But standing by the cross of Jesus were His mother, and His mother's sister, Mary the _wife_ of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 

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When Jesus then saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He *said to His mother, **"Woman, behold, your son!"** 

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Then He *said to the disciple, **"Behold, your mother!"** From that hour the disciple took her into his _home_. 

## Scripture Fulfilled--It Is Finished 

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After this, Jesus, knowing that all things had already been finished, in order to finish the Scripture, *said, **"I am thirsty."** 

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A jar full of sour wine was standing there; so they put a sponge full of the sour wine upon _a branch of_ hyssop and brought it up to His mouth. 

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Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, **"It is finished!"** And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit. 

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Then the Jews, because it was the day of Preparation, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and _that_ they might be taken away. 

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So the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first man and of the other who was crucified with Him; 

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but coming to Jesus, when they saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs. 

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But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out. 

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And he who has seen has borne witness, and his witness is true; and he knows that he is telling the truth, so that you also may believe. 

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For these things came to pass in order that the Scripture would be fulfilled, "Not a bone of Him shall be broken." 

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And again another Scripture says, "They shall look on Him whom they pierced." 

## Jesus Is Buried 

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Now after these things Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly because of his fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate granted permission. So he came and took away His body. 

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And Nicodemus, who had first come to Him by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, _weighing_ about one hundred litras. 

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So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen wrappings with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews. 

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Now in the place where He was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid. 

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Therefore because of the Jewish day of Preparation, since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.