How do Pilate’s release efforts, crucifixion and nearby burial proceed?

Pilate takes Jesus and scourges Him. Soldiers plait a thorn crown, put it on His head with a purple garment, greet Him as king of the Jews and give Him blows. Pilate goes out, saying he brings Him so they know he finds no cause. Jesus comes crowned and clothed in purple; Pilate says to behold the Man. Chief priests and servants cry for crucifixion. Pilate tells them to take and crucify Him, again finding no cause. They say their law requires His death because He made Himself Son of God. Pilate fears more, goes inside and asks His origin. Jesus gives no answer. Pilate claims power to crucify or release; Jesus says that power against Him must be given from above, and His deliverer has greater sin. Pilate then seeks release, but they say releasing a self-made king means he is not Caesar’s friend.

Hearing this, Pilate brings Jesus out and sits at the judgment seat at Lithostrotos, Hebrew Gabbatha. It is the parasceve of pasch about the sixth hour. The edition defines parasceve as preparation, the eve of a sabbath, here a high sabbath within paschal week. Pilate presents their king; they cry away and crucify. Asked whether he should crucify their king, the chief priests say they have no king but Caesar. He delivers Jesus for crucifixion. Bearing His own cross Jesus goes to Calvary, Hebrew Golgotha, and is crucified between two others. Pilate writes and puts on the cross the title Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews. Many read it because the site is near the city; it is in Hebrew, Greek and Latin. The chief priests ask that it say He claimed that title instead; Pilate maintains what he wrote.

The soldiers divide His garments into four parts, one for each, and take the coat, seamless and woven from the top throughout. They agree not to cut it but cast lots for its recipient; the narrator relates their acts to scripture about divided garments and lots for vesture. At the cross stand His mother, His mother’s sister, Mary of Cleophas and Mary Magdalen. Seeing His mother and the loved disciple standing, He tells her to behold her son and the disciple to behold his mother. From that hour the disciple takes her to his own. Knowing all accomplished, Jesus says He thirsts so scripture is fulfilled. A sponge filled from a vinegar vessel is put about hyssop and to His mouth. After taking it He says it is consummated, bows His head and gives up the ghost.

Because it is preparation and a great sabbath, the Jews ask Pilate that the legs be broken and bodies taken away rather than remain on the cross. Soldiers break the others’ legs but, seeing Jesus already dead, do not break His. One opens His side with a spear; blood and water immediately come out. The witness gives testimony identified as true so others may believe. The narrator cites fulfillment of no broken bone and looking on the pierced one. Joseph of Arimathea, a disciple secretly for fear of the Jews, asks Pilate to take the body and receives leave. Nicodemus, who first came by night, brings about a hundred pound weight of myrrh and aloes. They bind the body in linen cloths with spices according to Jewish burial manner. In a garden at the crucifixion place is a new sepulchre with no previous burial. They lay Jesus there because of preparation and its proximity.