John 19:16-42

16Finally, Pilate handed Yeshua over to be crucified.

17Then they took Yeshua. He went out, carrying His own crossbar, to the Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha.

18There they crucified Him, and with Him two others, one on each side and Yeshua in between.

19Pilate also wrote a sign and put it on the execution stake. It was written, “YESHUA HA-NATZRATI, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”

20Many Judeans read this sign, because the place where Yeshua was executed was near the city; it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.

21The ruling kohanim of the Judeans were saying to Pilate, “Don’t write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that He said, ‘I am King of the Jews.’”

22“What I have written, I have written,” Pilate answered.

23So the soldiers, when they executed Yeshua, took His outer garments and made four parts, a part for each soldier. They took His tunic also, but it was seamless, woven top to bottom in one piece.

24So they said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it will be.” This was so the Scripture would be fulfilled, “They divided My garments among them, and for My clothing they cast lots.” So the soldiers did these things.

25Standing near the execution stake of Yeshua were His mother, His mother’s sister, Miriam the wife of Clopas, and Miriam from Magdala.

26Yeshua saw His mother and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby. He tells His mother, “Woman, behold, your son!”

27Then He tells the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” From that very hour, the disciple took her into his own home.

28After this, when Yeshua knew that all things were now completed, to fulfill the Scripture He said, “I am thirsty.”

29A jar full of sour wine was sitting there, so they put a sponge soaked with the sour wine on a hyssop branch and brought it to His mouth.

30When Yeshua tasted the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit.

31It was the Day of Preparation, and the next day was a festival Shabbat. So that the bodies should not remain on the execution stake during Shabbat, the Judean leaders asked Pilate to have the legs broken and to have the bodies taken away.

32So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and then the other who had been executed with Yeshua.

33Now when they came to Yeshua and saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs.

34But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.

35He who has seen it has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he is telling the truth, so that you also may believe.

36These things happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled, “Not a bone of His shall be broken.”

37And again another Scripture says, “They shall look on Him whom they have pierced.”

38After these things, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate if he could take Yeshua’s body away. Joseph was a disciple of Yeshua, but secretly for fear of the Judean leaders. Pilate gave permission, so Joseph came and took the body away.

39Nicodemus, who had first visited Yeshua at night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds.

40Then they took the body of Yeshua and wrapped it in linen with the spices, as is the Jewish burial custom.

41Now in the place where He was executed, there was a garden. In the garden was a new tomb where no one had yet been buried.

42Because it was the Jewish Day of Preparation and the tomb was nearby, they laid Yeshua there.