Common - Mark - 15

15:1  Very early in the morning, the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council; and they bound Jesus, led him away, and delivered him to Pilate.

15:2  Then Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" And he answered him, "It is as you say."

15:3  And the chief priests accused him of many things.

15:4  And Pilate again asked him, "Have you no answer to make? See how many things they bring against you."

15:5  But Jesus still made no answer, so that Pilate was amazed.

15:6  Now at the feast he was accustomed to release for them one prisoner whom they requested.

15:7  And with the rebels in prison, who had committed murder in the insurrection, there was a man called Barabbas.

15:8  And the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to do as he had always done for them.

15:9  But Pilate answered them, "Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"

15:10  For he knew it was out of envy that the chief priests had handed Jesus over to him.

15:11  But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release for them Barabbas instead.

15:12  And Pilate again said to them, "Then what shall I do with the man whom you call the King of the Jews?"

15:13  And they cried out again, "Crucify him!"

15:14  And Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they shouted all the more, "Crucify him!"

15:15  So Pilate, wanting to satisfy the crowd, released Barabbas to them; and he delivered Jesus, after he had scourged him, to be crucified.

15:16  The soldiers led him away into the palace (that is, the Praetorium) and they called together the whole battalion.

15:17  And they clothed him in a purple cloak, and they twisted a crown of thorns and put it on him.

15:18  And they began to salute him, "Hail, King of the Jews!"

15:19  Then they struck him on the head with a reed and spat on him; and falling on their knees, they paid homage to him.

15:20  And when they had mocked him, they took the purple robe off him, and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him out to crucify him.

15:21  Then they compelled a certain man, Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, as he was coming out of the country and passing by, to carry his cross.

15:22  And they brought him to the place called Golgotha (which means the place of a skull).

15:23  Then they offered him wine mingled with myrrh, but he did not take it.

15:24  And when they crucified him, they divided his garments, casting lots for them to determine what each man should take.

15:25  And it was the third hour, when they crucified him.

15:26  And the inscription of the charge written against him read: THE KING OF THE JEWS.

15:27  And with him they crucified two robbers, one on his right and one on his left.

15:29  And those who passed by hurled insults at him, wagging their heads, and saying, "Aha! You who would destroy the temple and build it in three days,

15:30  save yourself, and come down from the cross!"

15:31  So also the chief priests mocked him among themselves with the scribes, and said, "He saved others; he cannot save himself.

15:32  Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe." Those who were crucified with him also reviled him.

15:33  And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.

15:34  And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" —which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

15:35  When some of those standing near heard this, they said, "Behold, he is calling Elijah."

15:36  And one ran and filled a sponge full of wine vinegar, put it on a reed, and offered it to him to drink, saying, "Wait, let us see if Elijah will come to take him down."

15:37  And with a loud cry, Jesus breathed his last.

15:38  Then the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.

15:39  So when the centurion, who stood 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 looking on from afar, among whom were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome,

15:41  who also followed him and ministered to him when he was in Galilee; and many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.

15:42  Now when evening had come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,

15:43  Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent council member, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God, coming and taking courage, went in to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.

15:44  Pilate marveled that he was already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him if he was already dead.

15:45  And when he learned from the centurion that he was dead, he granted the body to Joseph.

15:46  Then he bought fine linen, took him down, and wrapped him in the linen. And he laid him in a tomb which had been hewn out of the rock, and rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.

15:47  Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where he was laid.