Mark 15

Jesus Delivered to Pilate

15^cAnd as soon as it was morning, the chief priests ^dheld a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council. And ^ethey bound Jesus and ^fled him away and ^gdelivered him over to ^hPilate. ²ⁱAnd Pilate asked him, ^j“Are you the King of the Jews?” And he answered him, ^k“You have said so.” ³And the chief priests accused him of many things. ⁴And Pilate again asked him, ^l“Have you no answer to make? See how many charges they bring against you.” ⁵But Jesus ^lmade no further answer, so that Pilate was amazed.

Pilate Delivers Jesus to Be Crucified

^6mNow at the feast he used to release for them one prisoner for whom they asked. ⁷And among the rebels in prison, who had ⁿcommitted murder ^oin 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 ^pit 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 ^qthe man you call the King of the Jews?” ¹³And they cried out again, “Crucify him.” ¹⁴And Pilate said to them, “Why? ^rWhat evil has he done?” But they shouted all the more, “Crucify him.” 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!”

⁴⁰There were also ^ewomen looking on ^ffrom a distance, among whom were ^gMary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and ⁱSalome. ⁴¹When he was in Galilee, they followed him and ^gministered to him, and there were also many other women who ^jcame up with him to Jerusalem.

Jesus Is Buried

^42kAnd when evening had come, since it was ^lthe day of Preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath, ⁴³Joseph of Arimathea, ^ma respected member of the council, who ⁿwas 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.¹⁰ And summoning ^othe centurion, he asked him whether he was already dead. ⁴⁵And when he learned from ^othe centurion that he was dead, he granted the corpse to Joseph. ⁴⁶And Joseph¹¹ bought ^pa linen shroud, and taking him down, wrapped him in the linen shroud and ^qlaid him in a tomb ^rthat had been cut out of the rock. And he rolled ^sa stone against the entrance of the tomb. ^47tMary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where he was laid.