Mark 15
v1
Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, bound Jesus, carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.
v2
Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” He answered, “So you say.”
v3
The chief priests accused him of many things.
v4
Pilate again asked him, “Have you no answer? See how many things they testify against you!“
v5
But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate marveled.
v6
Now at the feast he used to release to them one prisoner, whom they asked of him.
v7
There was one called Barabbas, bound with his fellow insurgents, men who in the insurrection had committed murder.
v8
The multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do as he always did for them.
v9
Pilate answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?“
v10
For he perceived that for envy the chief priests had delivered him up.
v11
But the chief priests stirred up the multitude, that he should release Barabbas to them instead.
v12
Pilate again asked them, “What then should I do to him whom you call the King of the Jews?“
v13
They cried out again, “Crucify him!“
v14
Pilate said to them, “Why, what evil has he done?” But they cried out exceedingly, “Crucify him!“
v15
Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.
v16
The soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium; and they called together the whole cohort.
v17
They clothed him with purple, and weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on him.
v18
They began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!“
v19
They struck his head with a reed, and spat on him, and bowing their knees, did homage to him.
v20
When they had mocked him, they took the purple off him, and put his own garments on him. They led him out to crucify him.
v21
They compelled one passing by, coming from the country, Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to go with them, that he might bear his cross.
v22
They brought him to the place called Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, “The place of a skull.”
v23
They offered him wine mixed with myrrh to drink, but he didn’t take it.
v24
Crucifying him, they parted his garments among them, casting lots on them, what each should take.
v25
It was the third hour, and they crucified him.
v26
The superscription of his accusation was written over him, “THE KING OF THE JEWS.”
v27
With him they crucified two robbers; one on his right hand, and one on his left.
v28
The Scripture was fulfilled, which says, “He was counted with transgressors.”
v29
Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, “Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,
v30
save yourself, and come down from the cross!“
v31
Likewise, also the chief priests mocking among themselves with the scribes said, “He saved others. He can’t save himself.
v32
Let the Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe him.” Those who were crucified with him also insulted him.
v33
When the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
v34
At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is, being interpreted, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?“
v35
Some of those who stood by, when they heard it, said, “Behold, he is calling Elijah.”
v36
One ran, and filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Let him be. Let’s see whether Elijah comes to take him down.”
v37
Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and gave up the spirit.
v38
The veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom.
v39
When the centurion, who stood by opposite him, saw that he cried out like this and breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!“
v40
There were also women watching from afar, among whom were both Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;
v41
who, when he was in Galilee, followed him and served him; and many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.
v42
When evening had now come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,
v43
Joseph of Arimathaea, a prominent council member who also himself was looking for God’s Kingdom, came. He boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for Jesus’ body.
v44
Pilate marveled if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long.
v45
When he found out from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.
v46
He bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb which had been cut out of a rock. He rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.
v47
Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of Joses, saw where he was laid.