Mark 15:15–39

¹⁵So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released for them Barabbas, and having ^sscourged¹ Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.

Jesus Is Mocked

^16tAnd the soldiers led him away inside ^uthe palace (that is, ^vthe governor’s headquarters),² and they called together the whole ^wbattalion.^{3 17}And they clothed him in ^xa purple cloak, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on him. ¹⁸And they began to salute him, ^y“Hail, King of the Jews!” ¹⁹And they were striking his head with a reed and ^zspitting on him and ^akneeling down in homage to him. ²⁰And when they had ^bmocked him, they stripped him of ^xthe purple cloak and put his own clothes on him. And they ^cled him out to crucify him.

The Crucifixion

^21dAnd they compelled a passerby, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross. ^22eAnd they brought him to the place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull). ²³And they offered him wine mixed with ^fmyrrh, but he did not take it. ²⁴And they crucified him and ^gdivided his garments among them, casting lots for them, to decide what each should take. ²⁵And ^hit was the third hour⁴ when they crucified him. ²⁶And the inscription of the charge against him read, ⁱ“The King of the Jews.” ²⁷And with him they crucified two ^jrobbers, ^kone on his right and one on his left.^{5 29}And ^lthose who passed by derided him, ^mwagging their heads and saying, ⁿ“Aha! ^oYou 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, ^p“He saved others; ^qhe cannot save himself. ³²Let ^rthe Christ, ^sthe King of Israel, come down now from the cross that we may ^tsee and believe.” ^uThose who were crucified with him also reviled him.

The Death of Jesus

³³And when the sixth hour⁶ had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.^{7 34}And at the ninth hour Jesus ^vcried with a loud voice, ^w“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 ^xsour wine, put it on a reed ^yand gave it to him to drink, saying, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down.” ³⁷And Jesus ^zuttered a loud cry and ^abreathed his last. ³⁸And ^bthe curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. ^39cAnd when the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that in this way he⁸ breathed his last, he said, ^d“Truly this man was the Son⁹ of God!”