John 19:1-6

Contemporary English Version

19 Pilate gave orders for Jesus to be beaten with a whip. ² The soldiers made a crown out of thorn branches and put it on Jesus. Then they put a purple robe on him. ³ They came up to him and said, “Hey, you king of the Jews!” They also hit him with their fists.

⁴ Once again Pilate went out. This time he said, “I will have Jesus brought out to you again. Then you can see for yourselves that I have not found him guilty.”

⁵ Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said, “Here is the man!”^[a]

⁶ When the chief priests and the temple police saw him, they yelled, “Nail him to a cross! Nail him to a cross!”

Pilate told them, “You take him and nail him to a cross! I don't find him guilty of anything.”