The Crucifixion

21 ^wAnd they compelled a passerby, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross. 22 And they brought him to the place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull). 23 And they ^xoffered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it. 24 And they crucified him and ^ydivided his garments among them, casting lots for them, to decide what each should take. 25 And it was the third hour¹ when they crucified him. 26 And the inscription of the charge against him read, “The King of the Jews.” 27 And ^zwith him they crucified two robbers, one on his right and one on his left.² 29 And those who ^apassed by derided him, ^bwagging their heads and saying, “Aha! You who would ^cdestroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, 30 save yourself, and come down from the cross!” 31 So also the chief priests with the scribes mocked him to one another, saying, “He saved others; he cannot save himself. 32 Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross that we may see and believe.” Those who were crucified with him also reviled him.

The Crucifixion

26 ^mAnd as they led him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it behind Jesus. 27 And there followed him a great multitude of the people and of women who were mourning and lamenting for him. 28 But turning to them Jesus said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but ⁿweep for yourselves and for your children. 29 For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ^o‘Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’ 30 Then they will begin to ^psay to the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’ 31 For if they do these things when the wood is ^qgreen, what will happen when it is dry?”

32 ^rTwo others, who were criminals, were led away to be put to death with him. 33 And when they came to the place that is called The Skull, there they crucified him, and the criminals, one on his right and one on his left. 34 And Jesus said, ^s“Father, forgive them, for they ^tknow not what they do.”¹ And ^uthey cast lots to divide his garments. 35 And the people stood by, watching, but the rulers scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others; let him save himself, if he is the ^vChrist of God, his ^wChosen One!” 36 The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and ^xoffering him ^ysour wine 37 and saying, “If you are the King of the Jews, ^zsave yourself!” 38 There was also an inscription over him,² “This is the King of the Jews.”

39 One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him,³ saying, “Are you not the ^aChrist? Save yourself and us!” 40 But the other rebuked him, saying, “Do you not ^bfear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? 41 And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong.” 42 And he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” 43 And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.”

16 So he delivered him over to them to be crucified.

The Crucifixion

^pSo they took Jesus, 17 and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha. 18 There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them. 19 Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.” 20 Many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Aramaic, in Latin, and in Greek. 21 So 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 When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts, one part for each soldier; also his tunic.¹ But the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom, 24 so they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it shall be.” This was ^qto fulfill the Scripture which says,

So the soldiers did these things,