019:012 Upon receiving this answer, Pilate was for releasing Him. But the Jews kept shouting, "If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar's. Every one who sets himself up as king declares himself a rebel against Caesar." 019:013 On hearing this, Pilate brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judge's seat in a place called the Pavement-- or in Hebrew, Gabbatha. 019:014 It was the day of Preparation for the Passover, about six o'clock in the morning. Then he said to the Jews, "There is your king!" 019:015 This caused a storm of outcries, "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!" "Am I to crucify your king?" Pilate asked. "We have no king, except Caesar," answered the High Priests. 019:016 Then Pilate gave Him up to them to be crucified. Accordingly they took Jesus; 019:017 and He went out carrying His own cross, to the place called Skull-place--or, in Hebrew, Golgotha-- 019:018 where they nailed Him to a cross, and two others at the same time, one on each side and Jesus in the middle. 019:019 And Pilate wrote a notice and had it fastened to the top of the cross. It ran thus: JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS. 019:020 Many of the Jews read this notice, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the notice was in three languages--Hebrew, Latin, and Greek. 019:021 This led the Jewish High Priests to remonstrate with Pilate. "You should not write `The King of the Jews,'" they said, "but that he claimed to be King of the Jews." 019:022 "What I have written I have written," was Pilate's answer. 019:023 So the soldiers, as soon as they had crucified Jesus, took His garments, including His tunic, and divided them into four parts-- one part for each soldier. The tunic was without seam, woven from the top in one piece. 019:024 So they said to one another, "Do not let us tear it. Let us draw lots for it." This happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled which says, "They shared my garments among them, and drew lots for my clothing." That was just what the soldiers did. 019:025 Now standing close to the cross of Jesus were His mother and His mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. 019:026 So Jesus, seeing His mother, and seeing the disciple whom He loved standing near, said to His mother, "Behold, your son!" 019:027 Then He said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" And from that time the disciple received her into his own home. 019:028 After this, Jesus, knowing that everything was now brought to an end, said--that the Scripture might be fulfilled, "I am thirsty." 019:029 There was a jar of wine standing there. With this wine they filled a sponge, put it on the end of a stalk of hyssop, and lifted it to His mouth.