John 19:16b-30 - The Scene of Y'shua's Crucifixion and Death
(16b) So they took Jesus,
17 and he went out,
bearing his own
cross
,
to the place called The Place of
a Skull
, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha.
18 There they crucified him,
and with him two others,
one on either side,
and Jesus between them.
19 Pilate also wrote an inscription
and put it on the cross.
It read, “Jesus of Nazareth,
the King of the Jews.”
20 Many of the Jews read this inscription,
for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city,
and it was written in Aramaic, in Latin, and in Greek.
21 So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate,
“Do not write,
‘The King of the Jews,’
but rather,
‘This man said, I am King of the Jews.’”
22 Pilate answered,
“What I have
written
I have
written.”
23 When the soldiers had crucified Jesus,
they took
his garments
and
divided them
into four parts,
one part
for each soldier;
also his tunic.
But the tunic was seamless,
woven in
one piece
from top to bottom,
24 so
they said
to one another,
“Let us
not tear it
,
but
cast lots
for it to see whose it shall be.”
This was to fulfill the Scripture
which says
,
“They
divided my garments
among them,
and for my clothing they
cast lots
.”
So the soldiers did these things,
25 but standing by the cross of Jesus
were his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
26 When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved
standing nearby,
he said to his mother,
“Woman, behold, your son!”
27 Then he said to the disciple,
“Behold, your mother!”
And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.
28 After this, Jesus, knowing
that all was now finished,
said (to fulfill the Scripture),
“I thirst.”
29 A jar full of sour wine stood there,
so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a
hyssop branch
and held it to his mouth.
30 When Jesus had received the sour wine,
he said,
“It is finished,”
and he bowed
his head
and gave up his spirit.