John Chapter 19

Question 1

John 19:1

Answer 1

Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged.

Question 2

John 19:2

Answer 2

The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe

Question 3

John 19:3

Answer 3

and went up to him again and again, saying, “Hail, king of the Jews!” And they struck him in the face.

Question 4

John 19:4

Answer 4

Once more Pilate came out and said to the Jews, “Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him.”

Question 5

John 19:5

Answer 5

When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”

Question 6

John 19:6

Answer 6

As soon as the chief priests and their officials saw him, they shouted, “Crucify! Crucify!” But Pilate answered, “You take him and crucify him. As for me, I find no basis for a charge against him.”

Question 7

John 19:7

Answer 7

The Jews insisted, “We have a law, and according to that law he must die, because he claimed to be the Son of God.”

Question 8

John 19:8

Answer 8

When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid,

Question 9

John 19:9

Answer 9

and he went back inside the palace. “Where do you come from?” he asked Jesus, but Jesus gave him no answer.

Question 10

John 19:10

Answer 10

“Do you refuse to speak to me?” Pilate said. “Don’t you realize I have power either to free you or to crucify you?”

Question 11

John 19:11

Answer 11

Jesus answered, “You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.”

Question 12

John 19:12

Answer 12

From then on, Pilate tried to set Jesus free, but the Jews kept shouting, “If you let this man go, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar.”

Question 13

John 19:13

Answer 13

When Pilate heard this, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judge’s seat at a place known as the Stone Pavement (which in Aramaic is Gabbatha).

Question 14

John 19:14

Answer 14

It was the day of Preparation of Passover Week, about the sixth hour. “Here is your king,” Pilate said to the Jews.

Question 15

John 19:15

Answer 15

But they shouted, “Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!” “Shall I crucify your king?” Pilate asked. “We have no king but Caesar,” the chief priests answered.

Question 16

John 19:16

Answer 16

Finally Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified. So the soldiers took charge of Jesus.

Question 17

John 19:17

Answer 17

Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha).

Question 18

John 19:18

Answer 18

Here they crucified him, and with him two others - one on each side and Jesus in the middle.

Question 19

John 19:19

Answer 19

Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.

Question 20

John 19:20

Answer 20

Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and Greek.

Question 21

John 19:21

Answer 21

The chief priests of the Jews protested to Pilate, “Do not write ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that this man claimed to be king of the Jews.”

Question 22

John 19:22

Answer 22

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

Question 23

John 19:23

Answer 23

When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes, dividing them into four shares, one for each of them, with the undergarment remaining. This garment was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.

Question 24

John 19:24

Answer 24

“Let’s not tear it,” they said to one another. “Let’s decide by lot who will get it.” This happened that the scripture might be fulfilled which said, “They divided my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing.” So this is what the soldiers did.

Question 25

John 19:25

Answer 25

Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

Question 26

John 19:26

Answer 26

When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Dear woman, here is your son,”

Question 27

John 19:27

Answer 27

and to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.

Question 28

John 19:28

Answer 28

Later, knowing that all was now completed, and so that the Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.”

Question 29

John 19:29

Answer 29

A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus’ lips.

Question 30

John 19:30

Answer 30

When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

Question 31

John 19:31

Answer 31

Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the Jews did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down.

Question 32

John 19:32

Answer 32

The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and then those of the other.

Question 33

John 19:33

Answer 33

But when they came to Jesus and found that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.

Question 34

John 19:34

Answer 34

Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus’ side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water.

Question 35

John 19:35

Answer 35

The man who saw it has given testimony, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe.

Question 36

John 19:36

Answer 36

These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken,”

Question 37

John 19:37

Answer 37

and, as another scripture says, “They will look on the one they have pierced.”

Question 38

John 19:38

Answer 38

Later, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jews. With Pilate’s permission, he came and took the body away.

Question 39

John 19:39

Answer 39

He was accompanied by Nicodemus, the man who earlier had visited Jesus at night. Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds.

Question 40

John 19:40

Answer 40

Taking Jesus’ body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen. This was in accordance with Jewish burial customs.

Question 41

John 19:41

Answer 41

At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid.

Question 42

John 19:42

Answer 42

Because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.