19 ¹⁷ JESUS WAS NOW TAKEN in charge and, carrying his own cross, went out to the Place of the Skull, as it is called (or, in the Jews' language, 'Golgotha'), 19 ¹⁸ where they crucified him, and with him two others, one on the right, one on the left, and Jesus between them.
19 ¹⁹ And Pilate wrote an inscription to be fastened to the cross; it read, 'Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jews.' 19 ²⁰ This inscription was read by many Jews, because the place where Jesus was crucified was not far from the city, and the inscription was in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek. 19 ²¹ Then the Jewish chief priests said to Pilate, 'You should not write "King of the Jews"; write, "He claimed to be king of the Jews." ' 19 ²² Pilate replied, 'What I have written, I have written.'

19 ²³ The soldiers, having crucified Jesus, took possession of his clothes, and divided them into four parts, one for each soldier, leaving out the tunic. The tunic was seamless, woven in one piece throughout; 19 ²⁴ so they said to one another, 'We must not tear this; let us toss for it'; and thus the text of Scripture came true: 'They shared my garments among them, and cast lots for my clothing.'

19 ²⁵ That is what the soldiers did. But meanwhile near the cross where Jesus hung stood his mother, with her sister, Mary wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. 19 ²⁶ Jesus saw his mother, with the disciple whom he loved standing beside her. He said to her, 'Mother, there is your son'; 19 ²⁷ and to the disciple, 'There is your mother'; and from that moment the disciple took her into his home.