17. …So they took Jesus, ¹⁷and he went out, carrying his own cross, to the place called “The Place of the Skull” (called Golgotha in Aramaic). ¹⁸There they crucified him along with two others, one on each side, with Jesus in the middle.

19. Pilate also had a notice written and fastened to the cross.
    It read: “Jesus the Nazarene, the king of the Jews.”
20. Many of the Jews read this notice, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the notice was written in Aramaic, Latin, and Greek.
21. Therefore 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. Now when the soldiers had crucified Jesus,
    they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, one part for each soldier, and the tunic remained. (Now the tunic was seamless, woven from top to bottom as a single piece.)
24. So the soldiers said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but throw dice to see who will get it.” This took place to fulfill the scripture that says, “They divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they threw dice.”
    So the soldiers did these things.

25. Now standing beside Jesus’ cross were his mother,
    his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
26. So when Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Dear woman, look, your son!” ²⁷He then said to his disciple, “Look, your mother!”
    From that hour the disciple took her into his own home.

28. After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now accomplished,
    said (to fulfill the scripture), “I am thirsty!”
29. A jar full of sour wine was there, so they put a sponge soaked in sour wine on a branch of hyssop and held it to his mouth.
30. When he had received the sour wine,
    Jesus said, “It is accomplished!” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

The Spear in the Side

31. Then, because it was the day of preparation,
    so that the bodies should not stay on the crosses on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was an especially important one), the Jewish leaders asked Pilate to have the victims’ legs broken and the bodies taken down.
32. So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the two men who had been crucified with Jesus, first the one and then the other. ³³But when they came to Jesus 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 blood and water flowed out immediately. ³⁵And the person who saw it has testified (and his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth), so that you also may believe.
36. For these things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled, “Not a bone of his will be broken.” ³⁷And again another scripture says, “They will look on the one whom they have pierced.”

Jesus’ Burial

38. After this, Joseph of Arimathea, a disciple of Jesus (but secretly, because he feared the Jewish leaders), asked Pilate if he could remove the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission, so he went and took the body away. ³⁹Nicodemus, the man who had previously come to Jesus at night, accompanied Joseph, carrying a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about seventy-five pounds. ⁴⁰Then they took Jesus’ body and wrapped it, with the aromatic spices, in strips of linen cloth according to Jewish burial customs. ⁴¹Now at the place where Jesus was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden was a new tomb where no one had yet been buried.
42. And so, because it was the Jewish day of preparation and the tomb was nearby, they placed Jesus’ body there.