Pilate went back out again and said to the religious folks.
PILATE: I present him back to you. I want you to know that I don’t want to deal with him any more.
Narrator: Just then Jesus came out wearing the thorn crown and purple robe.
PILATE: Here he is: the Man.
JESUS (V.O.): When the religious people saw me, they shouted in frenzy, "Crucify! Crucify!"
PILATE: You take him. You crucify him. I find nothing wrong with him.
CAIAPHAS: We have a law, and by that law he must die because he claimed to be the Son of God.
JESUS (V.O.): When Pilate heard this, he became even more scared. He went back into the palace and said to me:
PILATE: Where did you come from?
Jesus: (Silence)
PILATE: You won't talk? Don't you know that I can release you secretly or secretly kill you?
Jesus: You don’t have any authority over me except what has been given you from heaven. That's why the one who betrayed me to you has committed a far greater fault.
JESUS (V.O.): At this, Pilate tried his best to release me, but the religious shouted him down:
The Religious: If you release this man, we are going to go to your boss and settle with him.
JESUS (V.O.): When Pilate heard those words, he led me outside. He sat down for awhile. The hour was noon. He tried again.
PILATE: Here is your Leader.
CAIAPHAS: (They shouted back) Kill him! Kill him!
JESUS (V.O.): Pilate caved in to their demand. He turned me over to be killed. They took me away. I went out to the place, where they killed me. Pilate wrote a sign. It read: Jesus the Leader.
JESUS (V.O.): When they killed me, the gunmen took my clothes and divided them up four ways, to each gunman a fourth. But for my jacket they said to each other, "Let's not tear it up. Let's throw dice to see who gets it." This confirmed the Bible that said, "They divided up my clothes among them and threw dice for my jacket."
My mother, my aunt, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene found me as I was dieing. I saw my mother and John near her. I said to my mother:
Jesus: …lady, here is your son…
(Turning to John)
Jesus: …Here is your mother, John…
JESUS (V.O.): From that moment John accepted her as his own mother.
They threaten and push away my mother and others. Seeing that everything had been completed as so that the Bible record might also be complete, I said, "I'm thirsty."
A jug of sour wine was standing by. Someone put a sponge soaked with the wine and put it to my mouth. After I took the wine, I said, "It's done . . . complete." Bowing my head, I release my spirit.
Then the gunmen came and saw that I was dead already. One of the gunmen stabbed me in the side with his knife. Blood and water gushed out.
After all this, Joseph persuades everyone to take the body of mine. Joseph wanted to give me a nice burial at least. Nicodemus, who had first come to me at night, came also in broad daylight to help him. They took my body and, wrapped it in linen.
There was a garden near the place. In the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been placed. This tomb was convenient for them. So they placed me in it.
