John · Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
John 19 Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
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Notes on this text (2)
- The Old Testament is translated from the Hebrew, not from the Septuagint read in the Orthodox Church; there are no deuterocanonical books.
- Katharevousa (learned 19th-century Greek), as in the CrossWire module (text from theword.gr).
1 Τότε λοιπόν έλαβεν ο Πιλάτος τον Ιησούν και εμαστίγωσε.
1 So Pilate then took Jesus and flogged him.
2 Και οι στρατιώται, πλέξαντες στέφανον εξ ακανθών, έθεσαν επί της κεφαλής αυτού και ενέδυσαν αυτόν ιμάτιον πορφυρούν
2 The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown and put it on his head, and dressed him in a purple garment.
3 και έλεγον· Χαίρε βασιλεύ των Ιουδαίων· και έδιδον εις αυτόν ραπίσματα.
3 They kept saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and they kept slapping him.
4 Εξήλθε δε πάλιν έξω ο Πιλάτος και λέγει προς αυτούς· Ιδού, σας φέρω αυτόν έξω, διά να γνωρίσητε ότι ουδέν έγκλημα ευρίσκω εν αυτώ.
4 Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, “Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him.”
5 Εξήλθε λοιπόν ο Ιησούς έξω, φορών τον ακάνθινον στέφανον και το πορφυρούν ιμάτιον, και λέγει προς αυτούς ο Πιλάτος· Ιδέ ο άνθρωπος.
5 Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, “Behold, the man!”
6 Ότε δε είδον αυτόν οι αρχιερείς και οι υπηρέται, εκραύγασαν λέγοντες· Σταύρωσον, σταύρωσον αυτόν. Λέγει προς αυτούς ο Πιλάτος· Λάβετε αυτόν σεις και σταυρώσατε· διότι εγώ δεν ευρίσκω εν αυτώ έγκλημα.
6 When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him.”
7 Απεκρίθησαν προς αυτόν οι Ιουδαίοι· Ημείς νόμον έχομεν, και κατά τον νόμον ημών πρέπει να αποθάνη, διότι έκαμεν εαυτόν Υιόν του Θεού.
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.”
8 Ότε δε ήκουσεν ο Πιλάτος τούτον τον λόγον, μάλλον εφοβήθη,
8 When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid.
9 και εισήλθε πάλιν εις το πραιτώριον, και λέγει προς τον Ιησούν· Πόθεν είσαι συ; Ο δε Ιησούς απόκρισιν δεν έδωκεν εις αυτόν.
9 He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.
10 Λέγει λοιπόν προς αυτόν ο Πιλάτος· Προς εμέ δεν λαλείς; δεν εξεύρεις ότι εξουσίαν έχω να σε σταυρώσω και εξουσίαν έχω να σε απολύσω;
10 Pilate therefore said to him, “Aren’t you speaking to me? Don’t you know that I have power to release you and have power to crucify you?”
11 Απεκρίθη ο Ιησούς· Δεν είχες ουδεμίαν εξουσίαν κατ' εμού, εάν δεν σοι ήτο δεδομένον άνωθεν· διά τούτο ο παραδίδων με εις σε έχει μεγαλητέραν αμαρτίαν.
11 Jesus answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”
12 Έκτοτε εζήτει ο Πιλάτος να απολύση αυτόν· οι Ιουδαίοι όμως έκραζον, λέγοντες· Εάν τούτον απολύσης, δεν είσαι φίλος του Καίσαρος. Πας όστις κάμνει εαυτόν βασιλέα αντιλέγει εις τον Καίσαρα.
12 At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, “If you release this man, you aren’t Caesar’s friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!”
13 Ο Πιλάτος λοιπόν, ακούσας τούτον τον λόγον, έφερεν έξω τον Ιησούν και εκάθησεν επί του βήματος εις τον τόπον λεγόμενον Λιθόστρωτον, Εβραϊστί δε Γαβαθθά.
13 When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called “The Pavement”, but in Hebrew, “Gabbatha.”
14 Ήτο δε παρασκευή του πάσχα και ώρα περίπου έκτη· και λέγει προς τους Ιουδαίους· Ιδού ο βασιλεύς σας.
14 Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Behold, your King!”
15 Οι δε εκραύγασαν· Άρον, άρον, σταύρωσον αυτόν. Λέγει προς αυτούς ο Πιλάτος· Τον βασιλέα σας να σταυρώσω; Απεκρίθησαν οι αρχιερείς· Δεν έχομεν βασιλέα ειμή Καίσαρα.
15 They cried out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!”
16 Τότε λοιπόν παρέδωκεν αυτόν εις αυτούς διά να σταυρωθή. Και παρέλαβον τον Ιησούν και απήγαγον·
16 So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away.
17 και βαστάζων τον σταυρόν αυτού, εξήλθεν εις τον λεγόμενον Κρανίου τόπον, όστις λέγεται Εβραϊστί Γολγοθά,
17 He went out, bearing his cross, to the place called “The Place of a Skull”, which is called in Hebrew, “Golgotha”,
18 όπου εσταύρωσαν αυτόν και μετ' αυτού άλλους δύο εντεύθεν και εντεύθεν, μέσον δε τον Ιησούν.
18 where they crucified him, and with him two others, on either side one, and Jesus in the middle.
19 Έγραψε δε και τίτλον ο Πιλάτος και έθεσεν επί του σταυρού· ήτο δε γεγραμμένον· Ιησούς ο Ναζωραίος ο Βασιλεύς των Ιουδαίων.
19 Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, “JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”
20 Και τούτον τον τίτλον ανέγνωσαν πολλοί των Ιουδαίων, διότι ήτο πλησίον της πόλεως ο τόπος, όπου εσταυρώθη ο Ιησούς· και ήτο γεγραμμένον Εβραϊστί, Ελληνιστί, Ρωμαϊστί.
20 Therefore many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.
21 Έλεγον λοιπόν προς τον Πιλάτον οι αρχιερείς των Ιουδαίων· Μη γράφε, Ο βασιλεύς των Ιουδαίων· αλλ' ότι εκείνος είπε, Βασιλεύς είμαι των Ιουδαίων.
21 The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, “Don’t write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but, ‘he said, “I am King of the Jews.”’”
22 Απεκρίθη ο Πιλάτος· Ο γέγραφα, γέγραφα.
22 Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”
23 Οι στρατιώται λοιπόν, αφού εσταύρωσαν τον Ιησούν, έλαβον τα ιμάτια αυτού και έκαμον τέσσαρα μερίδια, εις έκαστον στρατιώτην εν μερίδιον, και τον χιτώνα· ήτο δε ο χιτών άρραφος, από άνωθεν όλος υφαντός.
23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the tunic. Now the tunic was without seam, woven from the top throughout.
24 Είπον λοιπόν προς αλλήλους· Ας μη σχίσωμεν αυτόν, αλλ' ας ρίψωμεν λαχνόν περί αυτού τίνος θέλει είσθαι· διά να πληρωθή η γραφή η λέγουσα· Διεμερίσθησαν τα ιμάτιά μου εις εαυτούς, και επί τον ιματισμόν μου έβαλον κλήρον· οι μεν λοιπόν στρατιώται ταύτα έκαμον.
24 Then they said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide whose it will be,” that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says, “They parted my garments among them. They cast lots for my clothing.” Therefore the soldiers did these things.
25 Ίσταντο δε πλησίον εις τον σταυρόν του Ιησού η μήτηρ αυτού και η αδελφή της μητρός αυτού, Μαρία η γυνή του Κλωπά και Μαρία η Μαγδαληνή.
25 But standing by Jesus’ cross were his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
26 Ο Ιησούς λοιπόν, ως είδε την μητέρα και τον μαθητήν παριστάμενον, τον οποίον ηγάπα, λέγει προς την μητέρα αυτού· Γύναι, ιδού ο υιός σου.
26 Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!”
27 Έπειτα λέγει προς τον μαθητήν· Ιδού η μήτηρ σου. Και απ' εκείνης της ώρας έλαβεν αυτήν ο μαθητής εις την οικίαν αυτού.
27 Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.
28 Μετά τούτο γινώσκων ο Ιησούς ότι πάντα ήδη ετελέσθησαν διά να πληρωθή η γραφή, λέγει· Διψώ.
28 After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty!”
29 Έκειτο δε εκεί αγγείον πλήρες όξους· και εκείνοι γεμίσαντες σπόγγον από όξους και περιθέσαντες εις ύσσωπον προσέφεραν εις το στόμα αυτού.
29 Now a vessel full of vinegar was set there; so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop, and held it at his mouth.
30 Ότε λοιπόν έλαβε το όξος ο Ιησούς, είπε, Τετέλεσται· και κλίνας την κεφαλήν παρέδωκε το πνεύμα.
30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, “It is finished!” Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
31 Οι δε Ιουδαίοι, διά να μη μείνωσιν επί του σταυρού τα σώματα εν τω σαββάτω, επειδή ήτο παρασκευή· διότι ήτο μεγάλη εκείνη η ημέρα του σαββάτου· παρεκάλεσαν τον Πιλάτον διά να συνθλασθώσιν αυτών τα σκέλη, και να σηκωθώσιν.
31 Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn’t remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away.
32 Ήλθον λοιπόν οι στρατιώται, και του μεν πρώτου συνέθλασαν τα σκέλη και του άλλου του συσταυρωθέντος μετ' αυτού·
32 Therefore the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other who was crucified with him;
33 εις δε τον Ιησούν ελθόντες, ως είδον αυτόν ήδη τεθνηκότα, δεν συνέθλασαν αυτού τα σκέλη,
33 but when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they didn’t break his legs.
34 αλλ' εις των στρατιωτών εκέντησε με λόγχην την πλευράν αυτού, και ευθύς εξήλθεν αίμα και ύδωρ.
34 However, one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.
35 Και ο ιδών μαρτυρεί, και αληθινή είναι η μαρτυρία αυτού, και εκείνος εξεύρει ότι αλήθειαν λέγει, διά να πιστεύσητε σεις.
35 He who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe.
36 Διότι έγειναν ταύτα, διά να πληρωθή η γραφή, Οστούν αυτού δεν θέλει συντριφθή.
36 For these things happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled, “A bone of him will not be broken.”
37 Και πάλιν άλλη γραφή λέγει· Θέλουσιν επιβλέψει εις εκείνον, τον οποίον εξεκέντησαν.
37 Again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they pierced.”
38 Μετά δε ταύτα Ιωσήφ ο από Αριμαθαίας, όστις ήτο μαθητής του Ιησού, κεκρυμμένος όμως διά τον φόβον των Ιουδαίων, παρεκάλεσε τον Πιλάτον να σηκώση το σώμα του Ιησού· και ο Πιλάτος έδωκεν άδειαν. Ήλθε λοιπόν και εσήκωσε το σώμα του Ιησού.
38 After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away Jesus’ body. Pilate gave him permission. He came therefore and took away his body.
39 Ήλθε δε και ο Νικόδημος, όστις είχεν ελθεί προς τον Ιησούν διά νυκτός κατ' αρχάς, φέρων μίγμα σμύρνης και αλόης έως εκατόν λίτρας.
39 Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds.
40 Έλαβον λοιπόν το σώμα του Ιησού και έδεσαν αυτό με σάβανα μετά των αρωμάτων, καθώς είναι συνήθεια εις τους Ιουδαίους να ενταφιάζωσιν.
40 So they took Jesus’ body, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury.
41 Ήτο δε εν τω τόπω όπου εσταυρώθη κήπος, και εν τω κήπω μνημείον νέον, εις το οποίον ουδείς έτι είχε τεθή.
41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden. In the garden was a new tomb in which no man had ever yet been laid.
42 Εκεί λοιπόν έθεσαν τον Ιησούν διά την παρασκευήν των Ιουδαίων, διότι ήτο πλησίον το μνημείον.
42 Then, because of the Jews’ Preparation Day (for the tomb was near at hand), they laid Jesus there.
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Clopas
Named only in John 19:25 as the husband of the Mary standing near the cross.
Cited in the guide: John 19:25
Mary
One of the women who stood near the cross of Jesus with His mother and Mary Magdalene, identified in John 19:25 as the wife of Clopas.
Cited in the guide: John 19:25
Mary Magdalene
A woman from whom seven demons had gone out, who followed and supported Jesus from Galilee, stood by the cross, saw the burial, and was the first to see the empty tomb and the…
Cited in the guide: Matthew 27:56; Luke 8:2; John 19:25
Mary's sister
John 19:25 says that near the cross stood His mother and her sister, then Mary the wife of Clopas and Mary Magdalene. The text gives her no name, and it is not stated whether she…
Cited in the guide: John 19:25
Nicodemus
A Pharisee and leader of the Jews who came to Jesus at night, later asked the council to hear Jesus before judging him, and brought myrrh and aloes of about seventy-five pounds…
Cited in the guide: John 3:1; John 7:50; John 19:39
Cross references (41)
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- 1 Isaiah 53:5; Matthew 20:19; Isaiah 50:6; Luke 23:16; Luke 18:33
- 2 Mark 15:16–20; Psalm 22:6; Isaiah 53:3; Matthew 27:27–31; Luke 23:11
- 3 Matthew 27:29; Matthew 26:49; Luke 1:28; John 19:19–22; John 18:33
- 4 John 18:38; John 19:6; Luke 23:4; Luke 23:47; 1 Peter 2:22
- 5 John 19:2; John 1:29; Isaiah 7:14; Hebrews 12:2; Isaiah 40:9
- 6 John 18:31; John 19:4; Matthew 27:22; Acts 13:27–29; Matthew 27:24
- 7 Leviticus 24:16; John 5:18; Matthew 26:63–66; Romans 1:4; Matthew 27:42–43
- 8 John 19:13; Acts 14:11–19
- 9 John 18:33; Philippians 1:28; Judges 13:6; Mark 15:3–5; Psalm 38:13–15
- 10 Daniel 5:19; Daniel 3:14–15; John 18:39
- 11 Romans 13:1; John 3:27; Acts 2:23; Daniel 4:17; John 7:30
- 12 Mark 6:16–26; John 18:33–36; Acts 17:6–7; Luke 23:2–5; Acts 24:24–27
- 13 Psalm 82:5–7; Matthew 27:19; Isaiah 51:12–13; Amos 4:7; Luke 12:5
- 14 Matthew 27:62; John 19:5; Mark 15:25; John 19:42; Mark 15:33–34
- 15 Luke 23:18; Acts 21:36; John 19:6; Genesis 49:10; Acts 22:22
- 16 Luke 23:24–25; Matthew 27:26–31; Mark 15:15–20
- 17 Luke 23:33; Luke 14:27; Luke 23:26; Acts 7:58; Mark 15:32
- 18 Isaiah 53:12; John 18:32; Mark 15:24–27; Matthew 27:44; Matthew 27:35–38
- 19 Matthew 27:37; Mark 15:26; Luke 23:38; John 19:14; John 19:21
- 20 Acts 26:14; John 5:2; Acts 22:2; Revelation 16:16; John 19:13
- 21 John 19:14; John 19:19
- 22 Psalm 76:10; John 19:12; Esther 4:16; Proverbs 8:29; Psalm 65:7
- 23 Luke 23:34; Mark 15:24; Matthew 27:35; Exodus 39:22–23
- 24 Psalm 22:18; John 19:36–37; John 19:28; Acts 13:27
- 25 Luke 23:49; Matthew 27:55–56; Mark 15:40–41; John 20:1; John 20:11–18
- 26 John 21:24; John 13:23; John 2:4; John 21:7; John 20:2
- 27 Matthew 12:48–50; John 16:32; 1 Timothy 5:2–4; 1 John 3:18–19; John 1:11
- 28 Psalm 69:21; Psalm 22:15; John 19:30; Luke 22:37; Luke 18:31
- 29 Numbers 19:18; Luke 23:36; Mark 15:36; Exodus 12:22; Matthew 27:48
- 30 John 17:4; Philippians 2:8; Colossians 2:14–17; John 10:11; Hebrews 12:2
- 31 John 19:14; John 19:42; Mark 15:42; Joshua 8:29; Leviticus 23:7–16
- 32 John 19:18; Luke 23:39–43
- 34 1 John 5:6; Zechariah 13:1; Zechariah 12:10; 1 John 5:8; Titus 3:5–7
- 35 John 21:24; 1 John 1:1–3; John 15:27; Hebrews 2:3–4; John 20:31
- 36 Psalm 34:20; Numbers 9:12; Exodus 12:46; John 19:28; Psalm 22:14
- 37 Zechariah 12:10; Revelation 1:7; Psalm 22:16–17
- 38 Mark 15:42–47; Proverbs 29:25; Matthew 27:57–61; Philippians 1:14; John 7:13
- 39 John 7:50–52; John 3:1–21; Song of Songs 4:14; Matthew 12:20; John 12:7
- 40 John 11:44; Acts 5:6; John 20:5–7; Matthew 26:12; Luke 24:12
- 41 Luke 23:53; Matthew 27:60; Isaiah 22:16; John 20:15; 2 Kings 23:30
- 42 John 19:14; John 19:31; Isaiah 53:9; John 19:41; Matthew 12:40
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What the Fathers said
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
On the Jews crying out that they did not wish Jesus to be released unto them at the passover, but Barabbas the robber; not the Saviour, but the murderer; not the Giver of life, but the destroyer,--"then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him." We must believe that Pilate acted thus for no other reason than that the Jews, glutted with …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)
Successes have terrible power to cast down or draw aside those who take not heed. Thus the Jews, who at first enjoyed the influence of God, sought the law of royalty from the Gentiles, and in the wilderness after the manna remembered the onions.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 14 (1889)
… 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;" God always giving up the righteous one [in this life to suffering], that he, having …
… very nature of His death, that is, the height of the cross, is understood by the single words "Thou are gone up." The evangelist explains what is added, "Lying down, thou hast slept," when he says, "He bowed His head, and gave up the ghost." Or at least His burial is to be understood, in which He lay down sleeping, …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
For if he had known her, and had kept her in the place of a wife, how is it that our Lord commits her, as unprotected, and having no one, to His disciple, and commands him to take her to his own home?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)