Gen Z: John 19
1So Pilate straight up took Jesus and gave him a savage beatdown.
2The soldiers flexed and made a crown of thorns, tossed it on his head, and draped him in a purple robe, no cap.
3They were like, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and slapped him around.
4Pilate came out again, saying, "Yo, check it, I’m bringing him to you so you know I see no issues with him."
5Then Jesus came out rocking the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate was like, "Look at this dude!"
6When the chief priests and officers peeped him, they started screaming, "Crucify him, crucify him!" Pilate was like, "You handle it, I see no fault in him."
7The Jews shot back, "We got a law, and according to that, he’s gotta die for claiming he’s the Son of God."
8When Pilate heard that, he got even more shook.
9He went back into the judgment hall and asked Jesus, "Where you from?" But Jesus was like, "Silence."
10Then Pilate was like, "You not gonna talk to me? Don’t you know I can crucify you or let you go?"
11Jesus was like, "You only got power over me 'cause it was given from above, no cap. The dude who turned me in? Way bigger sin vibes."
12After that, Pilate was tryna set him free, but the Jews were like, "If you let this guy go, you ain't a friend of Caesar. Anyone claiming to be a king is totally sus."
13When Pilate heard that, he brought Jesus out and sat down at the judgment spot called Pavement, or Gabbatha in Hebrew.
14It was Passover prep time, around six o'clock, and he said to the Jews, "Yo, check out your King!"
15But they were like, "Get rid of him, crucify him!" Pilate asked, "Should I crucify your King?" The chief priests were savage, saying, "We only got Caesar as our king."
16So, he gave Jesus up to them to be crucified. They took him and led him away, for real.
17Jesus was carrying his cross, heading to this spot called the place of a skull, which is Golgotha in Hebrew.
18They crucified him there, with two others, one on each side, and Jesus in the middle, just vibin'.
19Pilate wrote a sign and put it on the cross that said, "JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS."
20A lot of Jews saw that sign because the spot where Jesus was crucified was super close to the city, and it was in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.
21Then the chief priests were like, “Yo Pilate, don’t write ‘The King of the Jews’; just say He claimed to be King of the Jews.”
22Pilate was like, “What I wrote, I wrote. No cap.”
23After they crucified Jesus, the soldiers were like, “Let’s split His drip into four parts,” and His coat was all seamless and lit.
24They were chatting, “Let’s not tear it; let’s roll dice for it,” so the scripture would pop off, saying, “They split my fits among them, and for my swag they cast lots.” So that’s what the soldiers did.
25Standing by the cross was Jesus’ mom, her sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene, just vibing.
26When Jesus saw His mom and the disciple He vibed with, He said, “Woman, check out your son!”
27Then He told the disciple, “Yo, that’s your mom now!” And from then on, that disciple took her home.
28After this, Jesus knew everything was done so the scripture would be fulfilled, and He said, “I’m thirsty, fr.”
29They had a vessel full of vinegar, and they soaked a sponge in it, put it on hyssop, and offered it to His mouth.
30After He took the vinegar, Jesus was like, “It’s finished,” then bowed His head and ghosted.
31The Jews were like, "Yo, we gotta get those bodies down from the cross before the sabbath hits, it’s a whole vibe," so they asked Pilate to break their legs and take them away.
32Then the soldiers showed up and broke the legs of the first guy and the other dude who was crucified with him.
33But when they got to Jesus and saw He was already gone, they didn’t break His legs, fr.
34But one of the soldiers took a spear and pierced His side, and out came blood and water, no cap.
35The dude who saw it is keeping it 100; his record is true, and he knows what he’s saying so you can believe it.
36All this went down to make sure the scripture was on point, like, "A bone of Him shall not be broken."
37And again, another scripture says, "They shall look on Him whom they pierced," periodt.
38After this, Joseph of Arimathea, a secret disciple of Jesus 'cause he was lowkey scared of the Jews, asked Pilate if he could take Jesus' body, and Pilate was like, "Bet." So he came and took the body.
39Nicodemus also rolled up, the dude who first came to Jesus at night, bringing a mix of myrrh and aloes, like a hundred pounds worth.
40Then they took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in linen with the spices, just how the Jews do when they bury someone.
41So where they nailed him, there was this garden, and in it, a fresh tomb that nobody's vibed in yet.
42They put Jesus there 'cause it was the Jews' prep day, and the tomb was super close, no cap.