When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his followers beyond the brook Cedron, where there was a garden, which he entered with his followers.
And Judas Iscariot also knew the place, for Jesus often resorted there with his followers. Judas then, having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, came there with lanterns and torches and weapons.
Jesus, knowing all things that would happen to him, goes forward, and says to them, “Whom do you seek?”
They answer him, “Jesus of Nazareth.”
Jesus says to them, “I am he.” (And Judas also, which betrayed him, stands with them.) As soon then as he has said to them, I am he, they go backward and fall to the ground. Then he asks them again, “Whom do you seek?”
They say, “Jesus of Nazareth.”
Jesus answers: “I have told you that I am he: therefore, if you seek me, let these go their way”―that the saying might be fulfilled, which he had spoken: Of them whom you gave me, I have lost none.
Then Simon Peter, having a sword, draws it and strikes the High Priest’s servant and cuts off his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus.
Then Jesus says to Peter: “Put your sword into its sheath: The cup that my Father has given me―shall I not drink it?”
Then the band and the captain and officers of the Jews took Jesus and bound him and led him away to Annas, for he was father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was the High Priest that year. Now Caiaphas was he who counseled the Jews that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.
And Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple―that disciple was acquainted with the High Priest and went after Jesus into the palace of the High Priest. But Peter stood at the door without. Then the other disciple returned―who was acquainted with the High Priest―and spoke to her who kept the door, and brought in Peter. Then the girl who kept the door said to Peter, “Are not you also one of this man’s followers?” ― He said, “I am not.” And the servants and officers stood there, who had made a fire of coals―for it was cold―and warmed themselves; and Peter stood with them and warmed himself.
The High Priest then questioned Jesus about his followers and about his teaching. Jesus answered him:
“I spoke openly to the world; I always taught in the synagog and in the temple, where the Jews resort―I have said nothing in secret. Why do you question me? Ask them who heard me what I have said to them: Consider: they know what I said.”
And when he had spoken, one of the officers who stood near struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, “Will you answer the High Priest so?”
Jesus answered him: “If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil; but if well, why do you strike me?”
Now Annas sent him, bound, to Caiaphas the High Priest.
And Peter stood and warmed himself. They said to him, “Are not you also one of his followers?” ― He denied it and said, “I am not.” ― One of the servants of the High Priest, being a relative of him whose ear Peter had cut off, said, “Did not I see you in the garden with him?” ― Peter then denied again: and immediately the cock crowed.
Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the judgment hall. And it was early; and they themselves did not go into the judgment hall, so they would not be defiled and might eat the passover.
Pilate then went out to them and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?” ― They answered and said to him, “If he were not a great criminal, we would not have turned him over to you.” ― Then Pilate said to them, “Take him and judge him according to your law.” ― The Jews said to him, “It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death”―that the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he had spoken, signifying what death he would die.
Then Pilate returns to the judgment hall and calls Jesus and says to him, “Are you the king of the Jews?”
Jesus answers him, “Do you ask this for yourself or did others tell you it about me?”
Pilate answers, “Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have turned you over to me: What have you done?”
Jesus answers: “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight so that I would not be delivered to the Jews: But now my kingdom is not of here.”
Pilate therefore says to him, “Are you a king then?”
Jesus answers: “You say that I am a king.
“To this end I was born, and for this cause I came into the world―that I should bear witness of the truth. Every one that is of the truth hears my voice.”
Pilate says to him: “What is truth?”
And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews and said to them, “I find in him no fault at all.
“But you have a custom that I should release to you one person at Passover: Will you, therefore, that I release to you King of the Jews?”
Then cried they all again, saying, “Not this man, but Barabbas.” Now Barabbas was a robber.
Then Pilate took Jesus and scourged him. And the soldiers braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they put a purple robe on him, and said “Hail, King of the Jews!” and struck him with their hands.
Pilate then went forth again and said to them, “Look: I bring him before you so that you may know I find no fault in him.” Then Jesus came forward, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And Pilate said to them:
“Behold the man!”
When the chief priests and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, “Crucify him, crucify him.”
Pilate said to them, “You take him and crucify him―for I find no fault in him.”
The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the son of God.”
When Pilate heard that said, he was more afraid, and he returned into the judgment hall and said to Jesus, “From where are you?” But Jesus gave him no answer.
Then Pilate says to him, “Will not you speak to me? Do not you know that I have power to crucify you and have power to release you?”
Jesus answers: “You could have no power at all against me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore he that turned me over to you has the greater sin.”
And from then on Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, “If you let this man go, you are not Caesar’s friend: whoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar.”
When Pilate heard that said, he brought Jesus forwared and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called The Pavement, or in Hebrew, Gabbatha. And it was the preparation for Passover, about the sixth hour―and he said to the Jews: “Behold your king!”
But 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.”
Then he commanded him to be crucified, and they took Jesus and led him away.
And he, bearing his cross, went out to a place called Place of the Skull, or in Hebrew, Golgotha, where they crucified him, and two others with him―one on either side and Jesus in the middle.
And Pilate wrote a title and put it on the cross―and the writing was:
Jesus of Nazareth
King of the Jews
This title many of the Jews then read, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city. And it was written in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do no write, King of the Jews, but, He said I am the king of the Jews.”
Pilate answered: “What I have written I have written.”
Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part―and also his coat. Now the coat was without seams, woven from the top throughout. They therefore said among themselves, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it whose it will be”―that the scripture might be fulfilled that says: They parted my raiment among them and for my vesture they cast lots. That is why the soldiers did these things.
Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, his mother’s sister Mary wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother, and the follower standing near whom he loved, he said to his mother: “Woman, see your son!” and he said to the follower: “See your mother!” And from that hour on the follower took her into his own home.
After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now completed that the scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I thirst.” Now there was brought a jar of vinegar, and they filled a sponge with vinegar and put it on a hyssop branch and put it to his mouth. When Jesus had drunk the vinegar, he said:
“It is finished.”
And he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
The Jews, because it was the preparation for Passover, and so the bodies would not remain upon the crosses on Sabbath Day (that Sabbath Day was a High Day), requested of Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away. Then came the soldiers and broke the legs of the first, and of the other that was crucified with him. But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was dead already, they did not break his legs.
But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and there burst out blood and water.
And he that saw it bears record, and his record is true―and he knows what he says is true―so that you might believe.
For these things happened so that the scripture might be fulfilled: A bone of him shall not be broken, and again another scripture: They shall look on him whom they pierced.
And after this Joseph Arimathaea, a follower of Jesus, but secretly, for fear of the Jews, requested of Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave.
He came and took the body of Jesus, and Nicodemus also came, who at the beginning had come to Jesus by night, and he brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds’ weight. They took the body of Jesus and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as is the burial manner of the Jews.
Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new sepulcher wherein no man had ever been laid.
There they laid Jesus, because of the Jews’ preparation day―for the sepulcher was close at hand.
—John Apostle
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