Show Don't Tell: John 19:1-16

Instead of saying "Pilate had Jesus flogged and then sentenced him," hear the mocking coronation. Then Pilate takes Jesus and has him flogged. The soldiers twist together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothe him in a purple robe and go up to him again and again: "Hail, king of the Jews!" And they slap him in the face. Pilate goes out again: "Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him." When Jesus comes out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate says: "Here is the man!" When the chief priests and their officials see him, they shout: "Crucify! Crucify!" "You take him and crucify him. As for me, I find no basis for a charge against him." "We have a law, and according to that law he must die, because he claimed to be the Son of God." When Pilate hears this, he is even more afraid. He goes back inside: "Where do you come from?" Jesus gives no answer. "Don't you realize I have power either to free you or to crucify you?" "You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above." From then on, Pilate tries to set Jesus free, but the Jewish leaders keep shouting: "If you let this man go, you are no friend of Caesar!" Pilate brings Jesus out and sits down on the judge's seat at a place known as the Stone Pavement (in Aramaic, Gabbatha). It is the day of Preparation of the Passover; it is about noon. "Here is your king." "Take him away! Crucify him!" "Shall I crucify your king?" "We have no king but Caesar." Finally Pilate hands him over to them to be crucified.