Mark 15

¹ And straightway, in the morning, the chief priests with the elders and the scribes and the whole Sanhedrin hold a consultation. Binding Jesus, they carry Him away and give Him over to Pilate. ² And Pilate inquires of Him, "You are the king of the Jews?" Now He, answering him, is saying, "You are saying it." ³ And the chief priests accused Him of many things. ⁴ Now Pilate again inquires of Him, saying, "You are not answering anything? Lo! of how much they are accusing you!" ⁵ Yet Jesus no longer answered anything, so that Pilate is marveling. ⁶ Now at the festival he released to them one prisoner, even whom they requested. ⁷ Now there was one termed Bar-Abbas, bound with the insurrectionists, who had done some murder in the insurrection. ⁸ And the throng, exclaiming, begins to be requesting according as he ever did for them. ⁹ Now Pilate answered them, saying, "Are you wanting that I should be releasing to you the king of the Jews?" ¹⁰ For he recognized that because of envy the chief priests had given Him up. ¹¹ Now the chief priests excite the throng, that he should rather be releasing Bar-Abbas to them. ¹² Now Pilate, again answering, said to them, "What, then, are you wanting that I shall be doing with him whom you are terming the king of the Jews?" ¹³ Yet they again cry, saying, "Crucify him!" ¹⁴ Yet Pilate said to them, "What evil does he?" Yet they cry exceedingly, saying, "Crucify him!" ¹⁵ Now Pilate, intending to do enough for the throng, releases to them Bar-Abbas, and gives up Jesus, whipping Him, that He may be crucified. ¹⁶ Yet the soldiers led Him away within the courtyard, which is the pretorium. And they are calling together the whole squadron. ¹⁷ And they are dressing Him in purple, and, braiding a thorny wreath, they are placing it about Him. ¹⁸ And they begin to salute Him and say, "Rejoice! king of the Jews!" ¹⁹ And they beat His head with a reed and spat on Him and, kneeling, they worshiped Him. ²⁰ And when they scoff at Him, they strip Him of the purple and put on Him His own garments, and they are leading Him out that they should be crucifying Him. ²¹ And they are conscripting a certain Simon, a Cyrenian, passing along, coming from a field, the father of Alexander and Rufus, that he should be picking up His cross. ²² And they are bringing Him to Golgotha Place, which is, being construed, "Skull's Place." ²³ And they gave Him wine with myrrh to drink, yet He did not take it. ²⁴ And, crucifying Him, they are dividing His garments, casting a lot for them, - who should be taking anything away. ²⁵ Now it was the third hour, and they crucify Him. ²⁶ And there was an inscription with His charge inscribed, "The King of the Jews." ²⁷ And together with Him they are crucifying two robbers, one at the right and one at the left of Him. ²⁸ - ²⁹ And those going by blasphemed Him, wagging their heads and saying, "Aha! You who are demolishing the temple and building it in three days, ³⁰ save yourself by descending from the cross!" ³¹ Likewise, the chief priests also, with the scribes, scoffing with one another, said, "Others he saves! Himself he can not save! ³² Let the Christ, the king of Israel, descend now from the cross, that we may be perceiving and should be believing!" And those crucified together with Him reproached Him. ³³ And at the coming of the sixth hour, darkness came over the whole land till the ninth hour. ³⁴ And at the ninth hour Jesus implores with a loud voice, saying, "Eloi! Eloi! Lema sabachthani?" which is, being construed, "My God! My God! Why didst Thou forsake Me?" ³⁵ And some of those standing by, hearing it, said, "Lo! He is summoning Elijah!" ³⁶ Now someone, running and soaking a sponge with vinegar, sticking it on a reed, gave Him a drink, saying, "Let be! We may see if Elijah is coming to take Him down." ³⁷ Now Jesus, letting out a loud sound, expires. ³⁸ And the curtain of the temple is rent in two from above to the bottom. ³⁹ Now the centurion, who stands by opposite Him, perceiving that, crying thus, He expires, said, "Truly, this Man was the Son of God!" ⁴⁰ Now there were women also, beholding from afar, among whom was Mary Magdalene also, and Mary, the mother of James the Little and Joses, and Salome, ⁴¹ who, when He was in Galilee, followed Him and dispensed to Him, and many others who ascend with Him into Jerusalem. ⁴² And, already coming to be evening, since it was the preparation which is before the sabbath, ⁴³ Joseph from Arimathea, a respectable counselor, who himself also was anticipating the kingdom of God, coming with daring, entered in to Pilate and requests the body of Jesus. ⁴⁴ Now Pilate marvels if He is dead already, and, calling the centurion to him, he inquires of him if He died long ago. ⁴⁵ And, knowing it from the centurion, he presents the corpse to Joseph. ⁴⁶ And, buying a linen wrapper, and taking Him down, he wraps Him in the linen wrapper, and places Him in a tomb which was quarried out of rock. And he rolls a large stone on to the door of the tomb. ⁴⁷ Now Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where He has been placed.