Mark Chapter 15 Back Next{15:1} Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the
elders and scribes, and the whole
council, held a consultation, and bound
Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.
{15:2} Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the
Jews?" He answered, "So you say."
{15:3} The chief priests accused him of many things.
{15:4} Pilate again asked him, "Have you no answer? See how many things they testify against you!"
{15:5} But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate marveled.
{15:6} Now at the
feast he used to release to them one prisoner, whom they asked of him.
{15:7} There was one called
Barabbas, bound with those who had made insurrection, men who in the insurrection had committed murder.
{15:8} The multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do as he always did for them.
{15:9} Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"
{15:10} For he perceived that for envy the chief priests had delivered him up.
{15:11} But the chief priests stirred up the multitude, that he should release Barabbas to them instead.
{15:12} Pilate again asked them, "What then should I do to him whom you call the King of the Jews?"
{15:13} They cried out again, "Crucify him!"
{15:14} Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they cried out exceedingly, "Crucify him!"
{15:15} Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.
{15:16} The soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium; and they called together the whole cohort.
{15:17} They clothed him with purple, and weaving a
crown of thorns, they put it on him.
{15:18} They began to salute him, "Hail, King of the Jews!"
{15:19} They struck his head with a reed, and spat on him, and
bowing their knees, did homage to him.
{15:20} When they had mocked him, they took the purple off of him, and put his own garments on him. They led him out to crucify him.
{15:21} 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.
{15:22} They brought him to the place called
Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, "The place of a skull."
{15:23} They offered him wine mixed with myrrh to
drink, but he didn't take it.
{15:24} Crucifying him, they parted his garments among them, casting lots on them, what each should take.
{15:25} It was
the third hour, and they crucified him.
{15:26} The superscription of his accusation was written over him, "THE KING OF THE JEWS."
{15:27} With him they crucified two robbers; one on his right hand, and one on his left.
{15:28} [
Note]The Scripture was fulfilled, which says, "He was numbered with transgressors."
{15:29} Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, "Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,
{15:30} save yourself, and come down from the cross!"
{15:31} Likewise, also the chief priests mocking among themselves with the scribes said, "He saved others. He can't save himself.
{15:32} Let the
Christ, the King of
Israel, now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe him. [
Note]" Those who were crucified with him insulted him.
{15:33} When the
sixth hour had come, there was
darkness over the whole land until the
ninth hour.
{15:34} 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?"[
Ref]
{15:35} Some of those who stood by, when they heard it, said, "Behold, he is calling
Elijah."
{15:36} 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."
{15:37} Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and gave up the spirit.
{15:38} The veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom.
{15:39} 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!"
{15:40} 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;
{15:41} who, when he was in
Galilee, followed him, and served him; and many other women who came up with him to
Jerusalem.
{15:42} When evening had now come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,
{15:43}
Joseph of
Arimathaea, a prominent council member who also himself was looking for the
Kingdom of God, came. He boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for Jesus' body.
{15:44} Pilate marveled if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long.
{15:45} When he found out from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.
{15:46} 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.
{15:47} Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of Joses, saw where he was laid.
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