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John 19
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1 Then therefore Pilate took Jesus and scourged him.
2 And the soldiers platting a crown of thorns, put it upon his head: and they put on him a purple garment.
3 And they came to him and said: Hail, king of the Jews. And they gave him blows.
4 Pilate therefore went forth again and saith to them: Behold, I bring him forth unto you, that you may know that I find no cause in him.
5 (Jesus therefore came forth, bearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment.) And he saith to them: Behold the Man.
6 When the chief priests, therefore, and the servants had seen him, they cried out, saying: Crucify him, Crucify him. Pilate saith to them: Take him you, and crucify him: for I find no cause in him.
7 The Jews answered him: We have a law; and according to the law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.
8 When Pilate therefore had heard this saying, he feared the more.
9 And he entered into the hall again; and he said to Jesus: Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer.
10 Pilate therefore saith to him: Speakest thou not to me? Knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and I have power to release thee?
11 Jesus answered: Thou shouldst not have any power against me, unless it were given thee from above. Therefore, he that hath delivered me to thee hath the greater sin. CCC · Fathers
12 And from henceforth Pilate sought to release him. But the Jews cried out, saying: If thou release this man, thou art not Caesar’s friend. For whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar. CCC
13 Now when Pilate had heard these words, he brought Jesus forth and sat down in the judgment seat, in the place that is called Lithostrotos, and in Hebrew Gabbatha.
14 And it was the parasceve of the pasch, about the sixth hour: and he saith to the Jews: Behold your king.
15 But they cried out: Away with him: Away with him: Crucify him. Pilate saith to them: shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered: We have no king but Caesar. CCC · Fathers
16 Then therefore he delivered him to them to be crucified. And they took Jesus and led him forth.
17 And bearing his own cross, he went forth to the place which is called Calvary, but in Hebrew Golgotha.
18 Where they crucified him, and with him two others, one on each side, and Jesus in the midst.
19 And Pilate wrote a title also: and he put it upon the cross. And the writing was: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS. CCC
20 This title therefore many of the Jews did read: because the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city. And it was written in Hebrew, in Greek, and in Latin. CCC
21 Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate: Write not: The King of the Jews. But that he said: I am the King of the Jews. CCC
22 Pilate answered: What I have written, I have written. CCC
23 The soldiers therefore, when they had crucified him, took his garments, (and they 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 then one to another: Let us not cut it but let us cast lots for it, whose it shall be; that the scripture might be fulfilled, saying: They have parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture they have cast lots. And the soldiers indeed did these things.
25 Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalen. CCC
26 When Jesus therefore had seen his mother and the disciple standing whom he loved, he saith to his mother: Woman, behold thy son. CCC
27 After that, he saith to the disciple: Behold thy mother. And from that hour, the disciple took her to his own. 1 CCC
28 Afterwards, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, said: I thirst. CCC
29 Now there was a vessel set there, full of vinegar. And they, putting a sponge full of vinegar about hyssop, put it to his mouth.
30 Jesus therefore, when he had taken the vinegar, said: It is consummated. And bowing his head, he gave up the ghost. CCC
31 Then the Jews (because it was the parasceve), that the bodies might not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day (for that was a great sabbath day), besought Pilate that their legs might be broken: and that they might be taken away. CCC
32 The soldiers therefore came: and they broke the legs of the first, and of the other that was crucified with him.
33 But after they were come to Jesus, when they saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.
34 But one of the soldiers with a spear opened his side: and immediately there came out blood and water. CCC · Fathers
35 And he that saw it hath given testimony: and his testimony is true. And he knoweth that he saith true: that you also may believe.
36 For these things were done that the scripture might be fulfilled: You shall not break a bone of him. CCC
37 And again another scripture saith: They shall look on him whom they pierced. CCC
38 And after these things, Joseph of Arimathea (because he was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews), besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus. And Pilate gave leave. He came therefore and took away the body of Jesus. CCC
39 And Nicodemus also came (he who at the first came to Jesus by night), bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.
40 They took therefore the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths, with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
41 Now there was in the place where he was crucified a garden: and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein no man yet had been laid.
42 There, therefore, because of the parasceve of the Jews, they laid Jesus: because the sepulchre was nigh at hand. CCC
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- CCC 600 “To God, all moments of time are present in their immediacy. When therefore he establishes his eternal plan of "predestination", he includes…”
“… no means at rest, He saith to him: "To thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him." Thus did He in like manner speak to Pilate: "Thou shouldest have no power at all against Me, unless it were given thee from above;”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book IV, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XVIII. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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- CCC 596 “The religious authorities in Jerusalem were not unanimous about what stance to take towards Jesus. The Pharisees threatened to excommunicate his followers.…”
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- CCC 596 “The religious authorities in Jerusalem were not unanimous about what stance to take towards Jesus. The Pharisees threatened to excommunicate his followers.…”
“first-born, when his brother looked on them with contempt; even as also the younger nation received Him, Christ, the first-begotten, when the elder nation rejected Him, saying, "We have no king but Cæsar.”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book IV, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XXI. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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- CCC 440 “Jesus accepted Peter's profession of faith, which acknowledged him to be the Messiah, by announcing the imminent Passion of the Son of…”
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- CCC 440 “Jesus accepted Peter's profession of faith, which acknowledged him to be the Messiah, by announcing the imminent Passion of the Son of…”
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- CCC 440 “Jesus accepted Peter's profession of faith, which acknowledged him to be the Messiah, by announcing the imminent Passion of the Son of…”
- CCC 596 “The religious authorities in Jerusalem were not unanimous about what stance to take towards Jesus. The Pharisees threatened to excommunicate his followers.…”
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- CCC 440 “Jesus accepted Peter's profession of faith, which acknowledged him to be the Messiah, by announcing the imminent Passion of the Son of…”
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- CCC 495 “Called in the Gospels "the mother of Jesus", Mary is acclaimed by Elizabeth, at the prompting of the Spirit and even before…”
- CCC 726 “At the end of this mission of the Spirit, Mary became the Woman, the new Eve ("mother of the living"), the mother…”
- CCC 2618 “The Gospel reveals to us how Mary prays and intercedes in faith. At Cana, The mother of Jesus asks her son for…”
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- CCC 501 “Jesus is Mary's only son, but her spiritual motherhood extends to all men whom indeed he came to save: "The Son whom…”
- CCC 726 “At the end of this mission of the Spirit, Mary became the Woman, the new Eve ("mother of the living"), the mother…”
- CCC 964 “Mary's role in the Church is inseparable from her union with Christ and flows directly from it. "This union of the mother…”
- CCC 2605 “When the hour had come for him to fulfill the Father's plan of love, Jesus allows a glimpse of the boundless depth…”
- CCC 2618 “The Gospel reveals to us how Mary prays and intercedes in faith. At Cana, The mother of Jesus asks her son for…”
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- CCC 501 “Jesus is Mary's only son, but her spiritual motherhood extends to all men whom indeed he came to save: "The Son whom…”
- CCC 726 “At the end of this mission of the Spirit, Mary became the Woman, the new Eve ("mother of the living"), the mother…”
- CCC 964 “Mary's role in the Church is inseparable from her union with Christ and flows directly from it. "This union of the mother…”
- CCC 2605 “When the hour had come for him to fulfill the Father's plan of love, Jesus allows a glimpse of the boundless depth…”
- CCC 2618 “The Gospel reveals to us how Mary prays and intercedes in faith. At Cana, The mother of Jesus asks her son for…”
- CCC 2677 “Holy Mary, Mother of God: With Elizabeth we marvel, "and why is this granted me, that the mother of my Lord should…”
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- CCC 544 “The kingdom belongs to the poor and lowly, which means those who have accepted it with humble hearts. Jesus is sent to…”
- CCC 607 “The desire to embrace his Father's plan of redeeming love inspired Jesus' whole life, for his redemptive passion was the very reason…”
- CCC 2561 “You would have asked him, and he would have given you living water." Paradoxically our prayer of petition is a response to…”
- CCC 2605 “When the hour had come for him to fulfill the Father's plan of love, Jesus allows a glimpse of the boundless depth…”
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- CCC 607 “The desire to embrace his Father's plan of redeeming love inspired Jesus' whole life, for his redemptive passion was the very reason…”
- CCC 624 “By the grace of God" Jesus tasted death "for every one". In his plan of salvation, God ordained that his Son should…”
- CCC 730 “At last Jesus' hour arrives: he commends his spirit into the Father's hands 118 at the very moment when by his death…”
- CCC 2605 “When the hour had come for him to fulfill the Father's plan of love, Jesus allows a glimpse of the boundless depth…”
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- CCC 641 “Mary Magdalene and the holy women who came to finish anointing the body of Jesus, which had been buried in haste because…”
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- CCC 478 “Jesus knew and loved us each and all during his life, his agony and his Passion, and gave himself up for each…”
- CCC 694 “Water. the symbolism of water signifies the Holy Spirit's action in Baptism, since after the invocation of the Holy Spirit it becomes…”
- CCC 766 “The Church is born primarily of Christ's total self-giving for our salvation, anticipated in the institution of the Eucharist and fulfilled on…”
- CCC 1225 “In his Passover Christ opened to all men the fountain of Baptism. He had already spoken of his Passion, which he was…”
“And how, again, supposing that He was not flesh, but was a man merely in appearance, could He have been crucified, and could blood and water have issued from His pierced side?”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book IV, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XXXIII. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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- CCC 608 “After agreeing to baptize him along with the sinners, John the Baptist looked at Jesus and pointed him out as the "Lamb…”
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- CCC 1432 “The human heart is heavy and hardened. God must give man a new heart. Conversion is first of all a work of…”
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- CCC 575 “Many of Jesus' deeds and words constituted a "sign of contradiction", but more so for the religious authorities in Jerusalem, whom the…”
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