One
Solitary Life
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To
Be Given In Exchange
And they took Jesus, and led him away.
And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which
is called in the Hebrew Golgotha: Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on
either side one, and Jesus in the midst. And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on
the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS. This title then
read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and
it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin. Then said the chief priests
of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the
Jews. Pilate answered, What I have written I have written. Then the soldiers, when they
had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and
also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. They
said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall
be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them,
and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did. Now there
stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of
Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple
standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son! Then saith he
to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own
home. After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the
scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar:
and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to
his mouth. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he
bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. John 19:16-30
(KJV)
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