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Who only does wondrous things!
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forever!
And let the whole earth be filled with 19:12 not Caesar’s friend. This statement by
His glory. the Jews was loaded with irony, for the Jews’
Amen and Amen. hatred of Rome certainly indicated they too
were no friends of Caesar.But they knew Pilate
20 The prayers of David the son of Jesse feared Tiberius Caesar (the Roman emperor at
are ended. the time of Jesus’ crucifixion) since he had a
highly suspicious personality and exacted
Proverbs 18:14–15 ruthless punishment. Pilate had already creat-
14 The spirit of a man will sustain him in ed upheaval in Palestine by several foolish
sickness, acts that had infuriated the Jews, and so was
But who can bear a broken spirit? under the scrutiny of Rome to see if his inept-
ness continued. The Jews were intimidating
him by threatening another upheaval that
15 The heart of the prudent acquires could spell the end of his power in Palestine,if
knowledge, he did not execute Jesus.
And the ear of the wise seeks
knowledge.
John 19:1–22 13 When Pilate therefore heard that saying,
So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged he brought Jesus out and sat down in the judg-
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19 Him. And the soldiers twisted a crown of ment seat in a place that is called The
thorns and put it on His head, and they put on Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha. Now it
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Him a purple robe. Then they said, “Hail, was the Preparation Day of the Passover, and
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King of the Jews!” And they struck Him with about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews,
their hands. “Behold your King!”
4 Pilate then went out again, and said to 15 But they cried out, “Away with Him, away
them, “Behold, I am bringing Him out to you, with Him! Crucify Him!”
that you may know that I find no fault in Him.” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your
5 Then Jesus came out, wearing the crown of King?”
thorns and the purple robe. And Pilate said to
them, “Behold the Man!”
6 Therefore, when the chief priests and offi-
cers saw Him, they cried out, saying, “Crucify
Him, crucify Him!”
Pilate said to them, “You take Him and cru- 19:18 crucified Him.Jesus was made to lie on
cify Him, for I find no fault in Him.” the ground while His arms were stretched out
7 The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and nailed to the horizontal beam that He car-
and according to our law He ought to die, ried. The beam was then hoisted up, along
because He made Himself the Son of God.” with the victim, and fastened to the vertical
8 Therefore, when Pilate heard that saying, beam. His feet were nailed to the vertical
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he was the more afraid, and went again into beam to which sometimes was attached a
the Praetorium, and said to Jesus, “Where are piece of wood that served as a kind of seat
that partially supported the weight of the
You from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.
10 Then Pilate said to Him, “Are You not body. The latter, however, was designed to
speaking to me? Do You not know that I have prolong and increase the agony, not relieve it.
Having been stripped naked and beaten,
power to crucify You, and power to release Jesus could hang in the hot sun for hours if
You?” not days.To breathe, it was necessary to push
11 Jesus answered, “You could have no power with the legs and pull with the arms, creating
at all against Me unless it had been given you excruciating pain. Terrible muscle spasms
from above. Therefore the one who delivered wracked the entire body; but since collapse
Me to you has the greater sin.” meant asphyxiation, the struggle for life con-
12 From then on Pilate sought to release tinued.two others. Matthew (27:38) and Luke
Him, but the Jews cried out, saying, “If you let (23:33) use the same word for these two as
this Man go, you are not Caesar’s friend. John used for Barabbas, i.e., guerrilla fighters.
Whoever makes himself a king speaks against
Caesar.”

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