Mark 15:1–21

¹And immediately in the morning the chief priests, having taken counsel with the elders and scribes and the whole sanhedrim, bound Jesus and carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate. ²And Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answered and said to him, Thou sayest. ³And the chief priests accused him urgently. ⁴And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing? See of how many things they bear witness against thee. ⁵But Jesus still answered nothing, so that Pilate marvelled. ⁶But at the feast he released to them one prisoner, whomsoever they begged of him. ⁷Now there was the person named Barabbas bound with those who had made insurrection with him, and that had committed murder in the insurrection. ⁸And the crowd crying out began to beg that he would do to them as he had always done. ⁹But Pilate answered them saying, Will ye that I release to you the King of the Jews? ¹⁰for he knew that the chief priests had delivered him up through envy. ¹¹But the chief priests stirred up the crowd that he might rather release Barabbas to them. ¹²And Pilate answering said to them again, What will ye then that I do to him whom ye call King of the Jews? ¹³And they cried out again, Crucify him. ¹⁴And Pilate said to them, What evil then has he done? But they cried out the more urgently, Crucify him.

¹⁵And Pilate, desirous of contenting the crowd, released to them Barabbas, and delivered up Jesus, when he had scourged him, that he might be crucified. ¹⁶And the soldiers led him away into the court which is called the praetorium, and they call together the whole band. ¹⁷And they clothe him with purple, and bind round on him a crown of thorns which they had plaited. ¹⁸And they began to salute him, Hail, King of the Jews! ¹⁹And they struck his head with a reed, and spat on him, and, bending the knee, did him homage. ²⁰And when they had mocked him, they took the purple off him, and put his own clothes on him; and they lead him out that they may crucify him. ²¹And they compel to go with them a certain passer-by, Simon, a Cyrenian, coming from the field, the father of Alexander and Rufus, that he might carry his cross.