The Crucifixion of Jesus. So they took Jesus,
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and carrying the cross himself – he went out to what is called the Place of the Skull, in Hebrew, Golgotha.
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There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, with Jesus in the middle.
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Pilate also had an inscription written and put on the cross. It read, “Jesus the Nazorean, the King of the Jews.”
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Now many of the Jews read this inscription, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.
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So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that he said, ‘I am the King of the Jews.’”
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Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”
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When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four shares, a share for each soldier. They also took his tunic, but the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from the top down.
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So they said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it will be,” in order that the passage of scripture might be fulfilled [that says]:
“They divided my garments among them, and for my vesture they cast lots.”
This is what the soldiers did.
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Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala.
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When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son.”
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Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.
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After this, aware that everything was now finished, in order that the scripture might be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I thirst.”
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There was a vessel filled with common wine. So they put a sponge soaked in wine on a sprig of hyssop and put it up to his mouth.
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When Jesus had taken the wine, he said, “It is finished.” And bowing his head, he handed over the spirit.
The Blood and Water.
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Now since it was preparation day, in order that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath, for the sabbath day of that week was a solemn one, the Jews asked Pilate that their legs be broken and they be taken down.
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So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and then of the other one who was crucified with Jesus.
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But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs,
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but one soldier thrust his lance into his side, and immediately blood and water flowed out.
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An eyewitness has testified, and his testimony is true; he knows that he is speaking the truth, so that you also may [come to] believe.
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For this happened so that the scripture passage might be fulfilled: “Not a bone of it will be broken.”
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And again another passage says:
“They will look upon him whom they have pierced.”