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There they crucified him, and with him
two others, one on either side, with Jesus in the middle. Pilate
also had an inscription written and put on the cross. It read, "Jesus
the Nazorean, the King of the Jews." Now many of the Jews read
this inscription, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the
city; and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek. So the chief
priests of the Jews said to Pilate, "Do not write 'The King of the
Jews,' but that he said, 'I am the King of the Jews.'" Pilate
answered, "What I have written, I have written."
When the soldiers had crucified Jesus,
they took his clothes and divided them into four shares, a share for each
soldier. They also took his tunic, but the tunic was seamless, woven in
one piece from the top down. So they said to one another,
"Let's not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it will
be," in order that the passage of scripture might be fulfilled (that
says): "They divided my garments among them, and for my vesture they
cast lots." This is what the soldiers did.
Standing by the cross of Jesus were
his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of
Magdala. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he
loved, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold, your son."
Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother." And from
that hour the disciple took her into his home. After this, aware
that everything was now finished, in order that the scripture might be
fulfilled, Jesus said, "I thirst." There was a
vessel filled with common wine. So they put a sponge soaked in wine
on a sprig of hyssop and put it up to his mouth. When Jesus had
taken the wine, he said, "It is finished."
And bowing his head, he handed over
the spirit. (John 19:18-30)
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