Brookfield Church of Christ
Oct 18, 2026 Sunday School - John
Study in the Book of John
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  • John 18:38–40 ESV
    Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” After he had said this, he went back outside to the Jews and told them, “I find no guilt in him. But you have a custom that I should release one man for you at the Passover. So do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?” They cried out again, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber.
    TETRARCH Ruler over a part of a Roman province.
    John 19:1–3 ESV
    Then Pilate took Jesus and flogged him. And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe. They came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and struck him with their hands.
    Question #1
    What did Pilate do to Jesus before presenting Him to the crowd, and what did the soldiers put on Him to mock Him? (John 19:1–3)
    John 19:4–6 ESV
    Pilate went out again and said to them, “See, I am bringing him out to you that you may know that I find no guilt in him.” So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Behold the man!” When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no guilt in him.”
    Question #2
    When Pilate brought Jesus out, what did he say to the crowd, and how did the chief priests respond?
    Pilates Intentions
    Avoid executing an innocent man
    Placate Jewish leaders
    Ridicule the Jews
    John 19:7–11 ESV
    The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die because he has made himself the Son of God.” When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid. He entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer. So Pilate said to him, “You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you?” Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin.”
    WHY PILATE WAS AFRAID
    He knew Jesus was innocent. Three times he said, "I find no fault in Him" (John 18:38; 19:4, 6).
    His wife had warned him.
    Matthew 27:19 ESV
    Besides, while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered much because of him today in a dream.”
    Jesus was not like other prisoners.
    Jesus did not beg, argue, or threaten.
    He spoke calmly about a kingdom "not of this world" and said He came "to bear witness to the truth" (John 18:36–37).
    Pilate had never dealt with a prisoner like that.

    “Son of God” John 19:7

    Psalm 2:7 ESV
    I will tell of the decree: The Lord said to me, “You are my Son; today I have begotten you.
    Proverbs 30:4 ESV
    Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name? Surely you know!
    That claim struck Pilate in two ways:
    His Roman background. Romans grew up on stories of gods visiting the earth and of "sons of the gods" walking among men. A superstitious governor would wonder, "What if this Man really is divine? What have I already done to Him?" He had just had Jesus scourged and mocked (19:1–3).
    His conscience. Pilate already knew he was condemning an innocent man. Now that man might be far more than a man. Mistreating an innocent person is serious, but mistreating the Son of God is worse.
    "Where Are You From?"
    Pilate was not asking about geography. He already knew Jesus was from Galilee (Luke 23:6–7). He was asking about Jesus' true origin: "Are You from heaven?" That is the very question John's Gospel presses on every reader (John 1:1, 14; 3:13, 31; 8:23).
    Question #3
    According to Jesus, where did Pilate's authority over Him come from? (John 19:10–11)
    John 19:12 ESV
    From then on Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.”
    Question #4
    What did the Jews shout that pressured Pilate into handing Jesus over to be crucified?
    John 19:13–15 ESV
    So when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Stone Pavement, and in Aramaic Gabbatha. Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Behold your King!” They cried out, “Away with him, away with him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.”
    Question #5
    When Pilate asked, "Shall I crucify your King?", what did the chief priests answer?
    John 19:16–17 ESV
    So he delivered him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus, and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha.
    Question #6
    What was the name of the place where Jesus was crucified, and what does it mean? (John 19:17)
    Golgotha means "Place of the Skull." Scholars offer three main explanations for the name:
    The shape of the hill. The rocky outcrop may have looked like a skull.
    A place of execution. Skulls or remains of the executed may have been associated with the site, which would make the name a grim label for where criminals were put to death.
    A burial connection. Some link the name to the tombs and graves nearby.
    John 19:18–22 ESV
    There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them. Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.” Many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Aramaic, in Latin, and in Greek. So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but rather, ‘This man said, I am King of the Jews.’ ” Pilate answered, “What I have written I have written.”
    Question #7
    When the chief priests objected to the sign on the cross, what was Pilate's reply?
    John 19:23–27 ESV
    When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts, one part for each soldier; also his tunic. But the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom, so they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it shall be.” This was to fulfill the Scripture which says, “They divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.” So the soldiers did these things, but standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.
    Question #8
    What did Jesus say while on the cross to fulfill Scripture, and what was He given to drink? (John 19:28–29; Psalm 69:21)
    John 19:28–29 ESV
    After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), “I thirst.” A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth.
    Psalm 69:21 ESV
    They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me sour wine to drink.
    John 19:30–37 ESV
    When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. Since it was the day of Preparation, and so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away. So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who had been crucified with him. But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water. He who saw it has borne witness—his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth—that you also may believe. For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken.” And again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they have pierced.”
    Question #9
    Which Old Testament prophecy was fulfilled when the soldier pierced Jesus' side? (John 19:37; Zechariah 12:10
    Zechariah 12:10 ESV
    “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.
    John 19:38–42 ESV
    After these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took away his body. Nicodemus also, who earlier had come to Jesus by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds in weight. So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews. Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid. So because of the Jewish day of Preparation, since the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there.
    Question #10
    Which two men prepared Jesus' body for burial, and where did they lay Him?

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