16Then delivered he him therefore unto them, that he should be crucified. And they took Jesus and led him away. 17And carrying his cross he went forth to a place called the Place of a Skull, which in the Hebrew is termed Golgotha: 18where they crucified him, and two others with him, on this side and on that, and in the midst Jesus. 19And Pilate also wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And this was the writing: JESUS THE NAZAREAN, THE KING OF THE JEWS, 20This title then many of the Jews read: for the spot where Jesus was crucified was nigh unto the city: and it was written in Hebrew, in Greek, and in Latin. 21The chief priests of the Jews then said to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews. 22Pilate answered, What I have written, I have written.
23Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, for each soldier a part; and his vest: now the vest was without a seam, woven from the upper parts throughout the whole. 24They said therefore one to another, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, “They parted my garments among them, and for my vest they cast lots.” So the soldiers therefore did these things.
25Now beside the cross of Jesus stood his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26When Jesus then beheld his mother, and the disciple whom he loved, standing by, he saith to his mother, Woman, behold thy son! 27Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour the disciple took her unto his own home.
28After this, Jesus, conscious that all things were now finished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. 29Now there was placed a vessel full of vinegar: they then filling a spunge with the vinegar, and putting it on a stick of hyssop, carried it to his mouth. 30When therefore Jesus had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and inclining his head, he surrendered up his spirit.
31The Jews therefore, as it was the preparation, that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath, (for that sabbath-day was a great day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. 32Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with him. 33But when they came to Jesus, as they saw that he was already dead, they brake not his legs: 34but one of the soldiers with his lance pierced his side, and immediately there gushed out blood and water. 35And he that saw it bore witness, and we know that his testimony is true: and he himself is conscious that he speaketh what is true, that ye might believe. 36Now these things were done, that the scripture might be fulfilled, “A bone of him shall not be broken.” 37And again another scripture saith, “They shall look on him whom they have pierced.”
38And after these things Joseph 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 permitted him. Then he came and took away the body of Jesus. 39And Nicodemus, who had come to Jesus by night formerly, came also, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred weight.
40Then they took the body, and bound it with swathes together with the aromatics, as the custom is with the Jews to bury. 41And there was near the spot were he was crucified a garden and in the garden a new tomb, wherein no person had ever yet been laid. 42Because of the preparation of the Jews therefore, they laid Jesus there; for the sepulchre was just by.
[CHAP. XX.]
AND on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalen came very early, whilst yet some darkness remained, to the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre. 2She therefore runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith to them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him. 3Then Peter went out, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulchre. 4And they two ran together: and the other disciple ran before more swiftly than Peter, and came first to the sepulchre. 5And stooping forward, he sees the swathing clothes lying there; yet he did not go in. 6Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and saw the swathing clothes lying, 7and the napkin, which had been round his head, not laid with the linen swathes, but apart folded up in another place. 8Then went in also the other disciple, who had come the first to the sepulchre, and saw, and believed. 9Though not even yet had they known the scripture, that he should rise from the dead. 10Then the disciples went back again to their companions. 11But Mary stood at the sepulchre, without, weeping: as therefore she wept, she bent forward towards the sepulchre. 12And saw two angels in white, sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. 13And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith to them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him. 14And as she thus spoke, she turned about, and beheld Jesus standing by, and knew not that it was Jesus. 15Then Jesus said to her, Woman, why art thou weeping? whom art thou seeking? She, supposing that it was the gardener, said to him, Sir, if thou hast carried him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away. 16Jesus saith to her, Mary! Starting round, she said to him, Rabboni! that is, Master! 17Jesus saith to her, Touch me not; for I have not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and tell them, I am ascending to my Father, and your Father; to my God, and your God. 18Mary Magdalen cometh declaring to the disciples, that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things to her.
19When the evening therefore was come, on the same first day of the week, and the doors being fastened where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said unto them, Peace be to you. 20And thus speaking, he shewed them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad when they saw the Lord. 21Jesus therefore spake to them again, Peace be unto you: as the Father hath sent me, even so send I you. 22And so speaking, he breathed on them, and said, Receive the Holy Ghost: 23whose soever sins ye forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins soever ye retain, they are retained.