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- They took Jesus, therefore, and He went out, bearing His own cross, to the place called the Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha.
- There they crucified Him, and with Him two other men, one on either side, and Jesus in between.
- Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It was written, "JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS."
- Therefore many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Latin and in Greek.
- So the chief priests of the Jews were saying to Pilate, "Do not write, 'The King of the Jews'; but that He said, 'I am King of the Jews.'"
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- Pilate answered, "What I have written I have written."
- Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took His outer garments and made four parts, a part to every soldier and also the tunic; now the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece.
- So they said to one another, "Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, to decide whose it shall be"; this was to fulfill the Scripture: "THEY DIVIDED MY OUTER GARMENTS AMONG THEM, AND FOR MY CLOTHING THEY CAST LOTS."
- Therefore the soldiers did these things. But standing by the cross of Jesus were His mother, and His mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
- When Jesus then saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, "Woman, behold, your son!"
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- Then He said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" From that hour the disciple took her into his own household.
- After this, Jesus, knowing that all things had already been accomplished, to fulfill the Scripture, said, "I am thirsty."
- A jar full of sour wine was standing there; so they put a sponge full of the sour wine upon a branch of hyssop and brought it up to His mouth.
- Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, "It is finished!" And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit.
- Then the Jews, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
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- So the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first man and of the other who was crucified with Him;
- but coming to Jesus, when they saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs.
- But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.
- And he who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true; and he knows that he is telling the truth, so that you also may believe.
- For these things came to pass to fulfill the Scripture, "NOT A BONE OF HIM SHALL BE BROKEN."
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- And again another Scripture says, "THEY SHALL LOOK ON HIM WHOM THEY PIERCED."
- After these things Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but a secret one for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate granted permission. So he came and took away His body.
- Nicodemus, who had first come to Him by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds weight.
- So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen wrappings with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.
- Now in the place where He was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid.
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- Therefore because of the Jewish day of preparation, since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.
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