Mark 15

¹And as soon as it was morning , the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council . And they bound Jesus and led him away and delivered him over to Pilate .

²And Pilate asked him , Are you the King of the Jews ? And he answered him , You have said so.

³And the chief priests accused him of many things .

⁴And Pilate again asked him , Have you no answer to make ? See how many charges they bring against you .

⁵But Jesus made no further answer , so that Pilate was amazed .

⁶Now at the feast he used to release for them one prisoner for whom they asked .

⁷And among the rebels in prison , who had committed murder in the insurrection , there was a man called Barabbas .

⁸And the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to do as he usually did for them .

⁹And he answered them , saying , Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews ?

¹⁰For he perceived that it was out of envy that the chief priests had delivered him up.

¹¹But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release for them Barabbas instead.

¹²And Pilate again said to them , Then what shall I do with the man you call the King of the Jews ?

¹³And they cried out again , Crucify him .

¹⁴And Pilate said to them , Why , what evil has he done ? But they shouted all the more , Crucify him .

¹⁵So Pilate , wishing to satisfy the crowd , released for them Barabbas , and scourged Jesus , he delivered him to be crucified .

¹⁶And the soldiers led him away inside the palace (that is , the governor’s headquarters ), and they called together the whole battalion .

¹⁷And they clothed him in a purple cloak, and twisting together a crown of thorns , they put it on him .

¹⁸And they began to salute him , Hail , King of the Jews !

¹⁹And they were striking his head with a reed and spitting on him and kneeling down in homage to him .

²⁰And when they had mocked him , they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes on him . And they led him out to crucify him .

²¹And they compelled a passerby , Simon of Cyrene , who was coming in from the country , the father of Alexander and Rufus , to carry his cross .

²²And they brought him to the place called Golgotha ( which means Place of a Skull ).

²³And they offered him wine mixed with myrrh , but he did not take it.

²⁴And they crucified him and divided his garments among them, casting lots for them , to decide what each should take .

²⁵And it was the third hour when they crucified him .

²⁶And the inscription of the charge against him read , The King of the Jews .

²⁷And with him they crucified two robbers , one on his right and one on his left .

²⁹And those who passed by derided him , wagging their heads and saying , Aha ! You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days ,

³⁰save yourself , and come down from the cross !

³¹So also the chief priests with the scribes mocked him to one another , saying, He saved others ; he cannot save himself .

³²Let the Christ , the King of Israel , come down now from the cross that we may see and believe . Those who were crucified with him also reviled him .

³³And when the sixth hour had come , there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour .

³⁴And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice , Eloi , Eloi , lema sabachthani ? which means , My God , my God , why have you forsaken me ?

³⁵And some of the bystanders hearing it said , Behold , he is calling Elijah .

³⁶And someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine , put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink , saying , Wait , let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down .

³⁷And Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed his last .

³⁸And the curtain of the temple was torn in two , from top to bottom .

³⁹And when the centurion , who stood facing him , saw that in this way he breathed his last , he said , Truly this man was the Son of God !

⁴⁰There were also women looking on from a distance , among whom were Mary Magdalene , and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses , and Salome .

⁴¹When he was in Galilee , they followed him and ministered to him , and there were also many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem .

⁴²And when evening had come , since it was the day of Preparation , that is , the day before the Sabbath ,

⁴³Joseph of Arimathea , a respected member of the council , who was also himself looking for the kingdom of God , took courage and went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus .

⁴⁴Pilate was surprised to hear that he should have already died . And summoning the centurion , he asked him whether he was already dead .

⁴⁵And when he learned from the centurion that he was dead, he granted the corpse to Joseph .

⁴⁶And Joseph bought a linen shroud , and taking him down , wrapped him in the linen shroud and laid him in a tomb that had been cut out of the rock . And he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb .

⁴⁷Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where he was laid .