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He That Saw It

He that saw it has testified, and his testimony is true, and he knows that he speaks what is true, that you also may believe ~John 19:35

CHAPTER 19: VERSE 1

Pilate therefore then took Jesus and scourged him.

VERSE 2

And the soldiers plaited a crown of thorns and put it on his
head, and threw a purple garment around him,

VERSE 3

…and came to him and said:

SOLDIERS

Hail, King of the Jews;

…and they struck him with the open hand.

VERSE 4

Pilate again came forth and said to them:

PILATE

Behold, I bring him forth to you,
that you may know that I find no
fault.

VERSE 5

Jesus therefore came forth wearing the crown of thorns and
purple garment. And he says to them:

PILATE

Behold the man.

VERSE 6

Therefore when the chief priests and the attendants saw him,
they cried out:

CHIEF PRIESTS

Crucify, crucify.

Pilate says to them:

PILATE

Take you him and crucify him; for I
find no fault in him.

VERSE 7

The Jews answered:

JEWS

We have a law, and according to the
law he ought to die, because he
made himself the Son of God.

VERSE 8

Thereupon when Pilate heard this word, he was the more
afraid,

VERSE 9

…and went into the pretorium again, and said to Jesus:

PILATE

Whence art thou?

But Jesus gave him no answer.

VERSE 10

Pilate says to him:

PILATE

Speakest thou not to me? Knowest
thou not that I have authority to
release thee and authority to
crucify thee?

VERSE 11

Jesus answered:

JESUS

Thou couldst have had no authority
against me, unless it had been
given thee from above: therefore he
that delivered me to thee has the
greater sin.

VERSE 12

After this Pilate sought to release him; but the Jews cried
out, saying:

JEWS

If thou release this man, thou art
not a friend of Caesar: every one
that makes himself king speaks
against Caesar.

VERSE 13

Then Pilate, after hearing these words, brought Jesus forth,
and sat on the judgment-seat in a place called The Pavement,
but in Hebrew, Gabbatha.

VERSE 14

And it was the preparation of the passover: it was about the
sixth hour. And he says to the Jews:

PILATE

Behold your king.

VERSE 15

They therefore cried out:

JEWS

Away with him, away with him,
crucify him.

Pilate says to them:

PILATE

Shall I crucify your king?

The chief priests answered:

CHIEF PRIESTS

We have no king but Caesar.

VERSE 16

Then therefore he delivered him to them to be crucified.
They therefore took Jesus;

VERSE 17

…and bearing the cross for himself, he went forth to a
place called the place of a skull, which is called in Hebrew
Golgotha,

VERSE 18

…where they crucified him, and with him two others, on
this side and on that, but Jesus in the midst.

VERSE 19

But Pilate wrote a title and put it on the cross; and it was
written:

“JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF
THE JEWS.”

VERSE 20

Many of the Jews therefore read this title, because the
place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it
was written in Hebrew, in Latin, in Greek.

VERSE 21

The chief priests of the Jews then said to, Pilate:

CHIEF PRIESTS

Write not: The king of the Jews,
but that he said: I am the king of
the Jews.

VERSE 22

Pilate answered:

PILATE

What I have written, I have
written.

VERSE 23

The soldiers therefore, when they had crucified Jesus, took
his garments, and made four parts, for each soldier a part,
and his coat. But the coat was without seam, woven from the
top throughout.

VERSE 24

They said therefore one to another:

SOLDIERS

Let us not rend it, but cast lots
for it, whose it shall be.

That the scripture might be
fulfilled: They divided my garments
among them, and on my raiment they
cast lots.

These things therefore the soldiers did.

VERSE 25

But there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother and his
mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleopas, and Mary
Magdalene.

VERSE 26

Jesus therefore seeing his mother, and the disciple whom he
loved standing by, says to his mother:

JESUS

Woman, behold thy son.

VERSE 27

Then he says to the disciple:

JESUS

Behold thy mother.

And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.

VERSE 28

After this, Jesus, knowing that all things had been already
finished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, says:

JESUS

I thirst.

VERSE 29

There lay a vessel full of vinegar: having therefore put a
sponge full of vinegar on hyssop, they put it to his mouth.

VERSE 30

When therefore he had received the vinegar, he said:

JESUS

It is finished;

…and having bowed his head, he gave up the spirit.

VERSE 31

The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the
bodies might not remain on the cross during the sabbath, for
that sabbath was a great day, besought Pilate that their
legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

VERSE 32

Then came the soldiers and broke the legs of the first, and
of the other that was crucified with him;

VERSE 33

…but coming to Jesus, when they saw him already dead, they
broke not his legs;

VERSE 34

…but one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side,
and immediately there came forth blood and water.

VERSE 35

And he that saw it has testified, and his testimony is true,
and he knows that he speaks what is true, that you also may
believe.

VERSE 36

For these things took place that the scripture might be
fulfilled: “A bone of him shall not be
broken.”

VERSE 37

And again another scripture says: “They shall look on him whom they
pierced.”

VERSE 38

But after these things Joseph, who was of Arimathea, being a
disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews,
besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus;
and Pilate gave permission. They came therefore and took him
away.

VERSE 39

But Nicodemus also came, he that had come to him by night at
the first, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a
hundred pounds.

VERSE 40

They therefore took the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen
cloths with the spices, as is the custom of the Jews to
prepare for burial.

VERSE 41

But there was, in the place where he had been crucified, a
garden, and in the garden a new sepulcher, in which no one
had ever yet been laid.

VERSE 42

There then because of the preparation of the Jews, for the
sepulcher was near, laid they Jesus.