The Skeptics Annotated Bible (862 page)

39 But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews?

40 Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.

19
Then
Pilate
therefore
took Jesus
, and scourged him.

2
And the soldiers
platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they
put on him a purple robe
,

(19.1-2) “Pilate … took Jesus … and the soldiers … put on him a purple robe.”
391 Who put the robe on Jesus?
392 What color was Jesus’ robe?

3 And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands.

4 Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him.

5 Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man!

6 When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him.

(19.7-15) The Jews are blamed for the death of Jesus.

7
The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die
, because he made himself the Son of God.

(19.7)
“The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die.”

8 When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid;

9 And went again into the judgment hall, and saith unto Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer.

10 Then saith Pilate unto him, Speakest thou not unto me? knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee?

11 Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.

12 And from thenceforth
Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar’s friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar.

(19.12) “Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar’s friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar.”

13 When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha.

14 And
it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour
: and
he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!

(19.14a) “It was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour.”
425 When (at what time of day) was Jesus crucified?
423 Was Jesus crucified the day before or the day after the Passover meal?

(19.14b)
“He saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!”

15
But they cried out
, Away with him, away with him,
crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.

(19.15)
“But they cried out … crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.
”

16 Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away.

17 And
he bearing his cross went forth into
a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew
Golgotha
:

(19.17)
“He bearing his cross went forth into … Golgotha.”
393 Who carried Jesus’ cross?

18 Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst.

19 And
Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.

(19.19)
“Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.”
395 What did the sign over Jesus say?

20 This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin.

21 Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.

22 Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.

23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.

24 They said therefore among themselves,
Let us
not rend it, but
cast lots for it
, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.

(19.24)
“Let us … cast lots for it.”
141 Is it OK to gamble?

25 Now
there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.

(19.25) “There stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.”
400 From where were the women watching?