Outline
I. Prologue: The Word Became Flesh (1:1-18)
The Beginning of Jesus' Ministry (1:19-51)
Changing Water into Wine (2:1-11)Cleansing the Temple (2:12-25)Jesus Teaches Nicodemus (3:1-21)John the Baptist's Final Testimony about Jesus (3:22-36)Jesus and the Samaritans (4:1-42)Healing of the Official's Son (4:43-54)Jesus' Visit to Jerusalem at an Annual Feast (ch. 5)Feeding the 5,000 and Jesus' Claim to Be the Bread of Life (ch. 6)Jesus at the Feast of Tabernacles and Disputes over Who He Is (chs. 7-8)Healing of the Man Born Blind (ch. 9)Jesus is the Good Shepherd (10:1-21)Conflict at the Feast of Dedication over Jesus' Identity (10:22-42)The Raising of Lazarus (ch. 11)
V. Jesus' Resurrection (20:1-29)
Statement of the Gospel's Purpose (20:30-31)Epilogue: Jesus' Recommissioning of the Disciples (ch. 21)
John 18 NLT
1 After saying these things, Jesus crossed
the Kidron Valley with his disciples and entered a grove of olive trees.
2 Judas, the betrayer, knew this place,
because Jesus had often gone there with his disciples.
3 The leading priests and Pharisees had
given Judas a contingent of Roman soldiers and Temple guards to accompany him.
Now with blazing torches, lanterns, and weapons, they arrived at the olive
grove.
4 Jesus fully realized all that was going
to happen to him, so he stepped forward to meet them. “Who are you looking for?”
he asked.
5 “Jesus the Nazarene,” they replied. “I
AM he,” Jesus said. (Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them.)
6 As Jesus said “ he,” they all drew back
and fell to the ground!
7 Once more he asked them, “Who are you
looking for?” And again they replied, “Jesus the Nazarene.”
8 “I told you that I AM he,” Jesus said.
“And since I am the one you want, let these others go.”
9 He did this to fulfill his own
statement: “I did not lose a single one of those you have given me.”
10 Then Simon Peter drew a sword and
slashed off the right ear of Malchus, the high priest’s slave.
11 But Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword
back into its sheath. Shall I not drink from the cup of suffering the Father
has given me?”
12 So the soldiers, their commanding
officer, and the Temple guards arrested Jesus and tied him up.
13 First they took him to Annas, since he
was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest at that time.
14 Caiaphas was the one who had told the
other Jewish leaders, “It’s better that one man should die for the people.”
15 Simon Peter followed Jesus, as did
another of the disciples. That other disciple was acquainted with the high
priest, so he was allowed to enter the high priest’s courtyard with
Jesus.
16 Peter had to stay outside the gate. Then
the disciple who knew the high priest spoke to the woman watching at the gate,
and she let Peter in.
17 The woman asked Peter, “You’re not one
of that man’s disciples, are you?” “No,” he said, “I am not.”
18 Because it was cold, the household
servants and the guards had made a charcoal fire. They stood around it, warming
themselves, and Peter stood with them, warming himself.
19 Inside, the high priest began asking
Jesus about his followers and what he had been teaching them.
20 Jesus replied, “Everyone knows what I
teach. I have preached regularly in the synagogues and the Temple, where the
people gather. I have not spoken in secret.
21 Why are you asking me this question? Ask
those who heard me. They know what I said.”
22 Then one of the Temple guards standing
nearby slapped Jesus across the face. “Is that the way to answer the high
priest?” he demanded.
23 Jesus replied, “If I said anything
wrong, you must prove it. But if I’m speaking the truth, why are you beating
me?”
24 Then Annas bound Jesus and sent him to
Caiaphas, the high priest.
25 Meanwhile, as Simon Peter was standing
by the fire warming himself, they asked him again, “You’re not one of his
disciples, are you?” He denied it, saying, “No, I am not.”
26 But one of the household slaves of the
high priest, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked, “Didn’t
I see you out there in the olive grove with Jesus?”
27 Again Peter denied it. And immediately a
rooster crowed.
28 Jesus’ trial before Caiaphas ended in
the early hours of the morning. Then he was taken to the headquarters of the
Roman governor. His accusers didn’t go inside because it would defile them, and
they wouldn’t be allowed to celebrate the Passover.
29 So Pilate, the governor, went out to
them and asked, “What is your charge against this man?”
30 “We wouldn’t have handed him over to you
if he weren’t a criminal!” they retorted.
31 “Then take him away and judge him by
your own law,” Pilate told them. “Only the Romans are permitted to execute
someone,” the Jewish leaders replied.
32 (This fulfilled Jesus’ prediction about
the way he would die. )
33 Then Pilate went back into his
headquarters and called for Jesus to be brought to him. “Are you the king of
the Jews?” he asked him.
34 Jesus replied, “Is this your own
question, or did others tell you about me?”
35 “Am I a Jew?” Pilate retorted. “Your own
people and their leading priests brought you to me for trial. Why? What have
you done?”
36Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not an earthly
kingdom. If it were, my followers would fight to keep me from being handed over
to the Jewish leaders. But my Kingdom is not of this world.”
37 Pilate said, “So you are a king?” Jesus
responded, “You say I am a king. Actually, I was born and came into the world
to testify to the truth. All who love the truth recognize that what I say is
true.”
38 “What is truth?” Pilate asked. Then he
went out again to the people and told them, “He is not guilty of any
crime.
39 But you have a custom of asking me to
release one prisoner each year at Passover. Would you like me to release this
‘King of the Jews’?”
40 But they shouted back, “No! Not this
man. We want Barabbas!” (Barabbas was a revolutionary.)
John 19 NLT
1 Then Pilate had Jesus flogged with a
lead-tipped whip.
2 The soldiers wove a crown of thorns and
put it on his head, and they put a purple robe on him.
3 “Hail! King of the Jews!” they mocked,
as they slapped him across the face.
4 Pilate went outside again and said to
the people, “I am going to bring him out to you now, but understand clearly
that I find him not guilty.”
5 Then Jesus came out wearing the crown of
thorns and the purple robe. And Pilate said, “Look, here is the man!”
6 When they saw him, the leading priests
and Temple guards began shouting, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” “Take him
yourselves and crucify him,” Pilate said. “I find him not guilty.”
7 The Jewish leaders replied, “By our law
he ought to die because he called himself the Son of God.”
8 When Pilate heard this, he was more
frightened than ever.
9 He took Jesus back into the headquarters
again and asked him, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave no answer.
10 “Why don’t you talk to me?” Pilate
demanded. “Don’t you realize that I have the power to release you or crucify
you?”
11 Then Jesus said, “You would have no
power over me at all unless it were given to you from above. So the one who
handed me over to you has the greater sin.”
12 Then Pilate tried to release him, but
the Jewish leaders shouted, “If you release this man, you are no ‘friend of
Caesar.’ Anyone who declares himself a king is a rebel against Caesar.”
13 When they said this, Pilate brought
Jesus out to them again. Then Pilate sat down on the judgment seat on the
platform that is called the Stone Pavement (in Hebrew, ).
14 It was now about noon on the day of
preparation for the Passover. And Pilate said to the people, “Look, here is
your king!”
15 “Away with him,” they yelled. “Away with
him! Crucify him!” “What? Crucify your king?” Pilate asked. “We have no king
but Caesar,” the leading priests shouted back.
16 Then Pilate turned Jesus over to them to
be crucified. The Crucifixion So they took Jesus away.
17 Carrying the cross by himself, he went
to the place called Place of the Skull (in Hebrew, ).
18 There they nailed him to the cross. Two
others were crucified with him, one on either side, with Jesus between
them.
19 And Pilate posted a sign on the cross
that read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.”
20 The place where Jesus was crucified was
near the city, and the sign was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek, so that
many people could read it.
21 Then the leading priests objected and
said to Pilate, “Change it from ‘The King of the Jews’ to ‘He said, I am King
of the Jews.’”
22 Pilate replied, “No, what I have
written, I have written.”
23 When the soldiers had crucified Jesus,
they divided his clothes among the four of them. They also took his robe, but
it was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.
24So they said, “Rather than tearing it apart,
let’s throw dice for it.” This fulfilled the Scripture that says, “They divided
my garments among themselves and threw dice for my clothing.” So that is what
they did.
25 Standing near the cross were Jesus’
mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary (the wife of Clopas), and Mary
Magdalene.
26 When Jesus saw his mother standing there
beside the disciple he loved, he said to her, “Dear woman, here is your
son.”
27 And he said to this disciple, “Here is
your mother.” And from then on this disciple took her into his home.
28 Jesus knew that his mission was now
finished, and to fulfill Scripture he said, “I am thirsty.”
29 A jar of sour wine was sitting there, so
they soaked a sponge in it, put it on a hyssop branch, and held it up to his
lips.
30 When Jesus had tasted it, he said, “It
is finished!” Then he bowed his head and released his spirit.
31 It was the day of preparation, and the
Jewish leaders didn’t want the bodies hanging there the next day, which was the
Sabbath (and a very special Sabbath, because it was the Passover). So they
asked Pilate to hasten their deaths by ordering that their legs be broken. Then
their bodies could be taken down.
32 So the soldiers came and broke the legs
of the two men crucified with Jesus.
33 But when they came to Jesus, they saw
that he was already dead, so they didn’t break his legs.
34One of the soldiers, however, pierced his side
with a spear, and immediately blood and water flowed out.
35 (This report is from an eyewitness
giving an accurate account. He speaks the truth so that you also may continue
to believe. )
36 These things happened in fulfillment of
the Scriptures that say, “Not one of his bones will be broken,”
37 and “They will look on the one they
pierced.”
38 Afterward Joseph of Arimathea, who had
been a secret disciple of Jesus (because he feared the Jewish leaders), asked
Pilate for permission to take down Jesus’ body. When Pilate gave permission,
Joseph came and took the body away.
39 With him came Nicodemus, the man who had
come to Jesus at night. He brought about seventy-five pounds of perfumed
ointment made from myrrh and aloes.
40 Following Jewish burial custom, they
wrapped Jesus’ body with the spices in long sheets of linen cloth.
41 The place of crucifixion was near a
garden, where there was a new tomb, never used before.
42 And so, because it was the day of
preparation for the Jewish Passover and since the tomb was close at hand, they
laid Jesus there.
