8When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was the more afraid. 9And he went again into the palace, and says to Jesus: Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer. 10Then says Pilate to him: Dost thou not speak to me? Knowest thou not that I have power to release thee, and have power to crucify thee? 11Jesus answered: Thou wouldst have no power against me, except it were given thee from above. Therefore he that delivers me to thee has the greater sin. 12Thenceforth Pilate sought to release him. But the Jews cried out, saying: If thou let this man go, thou art not a friend of Cæsar. Whoever makes himself a king speaks against Cæsar.
13When therefore Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down on the judgment-seat in a place called the Pavement, and in Hebrew, Gabbatha. 14And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour. And he says to the Jews: Behold your king! 15But they cried out: Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate says to them: Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered: We have no king but Cæsar. 16Then therefore he delivered him to them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away.
17And bearing his cross he went forth into the place called Place of a skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha; 18where they crucified him, and two others with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst. 19And Pilate wrote also a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was: JESUS THE NAZARENE THE KING OF THE JEWS.
20This title therefore many of the Jews read; because the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city, and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin. 21Therefore said the chief priests of the Jews 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 crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part, and also his coat. And the coat was without a seam, woven from the top throughout. 24They said therefore to one another: Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be; that the scripture might be fulfilled which says:
They parted my garments among them.
And for my vesture they cast lots.
These things the soldiers did. 25And there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary the Magdalene. 26Jesus therefore seeing his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing by, says to his mother: Woman, behold thy son! 27Then he says to the disciple: Behold thy mother! And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.
28After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now finished, that the scripture might be accomplished, says: I thirst. 29Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar; and they, having filled a sponge with vinegar, and put it on a hyssop-stalk, bore it to his mouth. 30When Jesus therefore received the vinegar, he said: It is finished; and he bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.
31The Jews therefore, since it was the preparation, that the bodies might not remain upon the cross on the sabbath (for that sabbath day was a great day), besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and they be taken away. 32The soldiers came, therefore, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with him. 33But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was already dead, they broke not his legs. 34But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith there came out blood and water.