Mark - Chapter 15 | New International Version

  • 1. Very early in the morning, the chief priests, with the elders, the teachers of the law and the whole Sanhedrin, reached a decision. They bound Jesus, led him away and handed him over to Pilate.
  • 2. Are you the king of the Jews? asked Pilate. "Yes, it is as you say," Jesus replied.
  • 3. The chief priests accused him of many things.
  • 4. So again Pilate asked him, "Aren't you going to answer? See how many things they are accusing you of."
  • 5. But Jesus still made no reply, and Pilate was amazed.
  • 6. Now it was the custom at the Feast to release a prisoner whom the people requested.
  • 7. A man called Barabbas was in prison with the insurrectionists who had committed murder in the uprising.
  • 8. The crowd came up and asked Pilate to do for them what he usually did.
  • 9. Do you want me to release to you the king of the Jews? asked Pilate,
  • 10. knowing it was out of envy that the chief priests had handed Jesus over to him.
  • 11. But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have Pilate release Barabbas instead.
  • 12. What shall I do, then, with the one you call the king of the Jews? Pilate asked them.
  • 13. Crucify him! they shouted.
  • 14. Why? What crime has he committed? asked Pilate. But they shouted all the louder, "Crucify him!"
  • 15. Wanting to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them. He had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified.
  • 16. The soldiers led Jesus away into the palace (that is, the Praetorium) and called together the whole company of soldiers.
  • 17. They put a purple robe on him, then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on him.
  • 18. And they began to call out to him, "Hail, king of the Jews!"
  • 19. Again and again they struck him on the head with a staff and spit on him. Falling on their knees, they paid homage to him.
  • 20. And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him out to crucify him.
  • 21. A certain man from Cyrene, Simon, the father of Alexander and Rufus, was passing by on his way in from the country, and they forced him to carry the cross.
  • 22. They brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha (which means The Place of the Skull).
  • 23. Then they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it.
  • 24. And they crucified him. Dividing up his clothes, they cast lots to see what each would get.
  • 25. It was the third hour when they crucified him.
  • 26. The written notice of the charge against him read: THE KING OF THE JEWS.
  • 27. They crucified two robbers with him, one on his right and one on his left.
  • 29. Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, "So! You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days,
  • 30. come down from the cross and save yourself!"
  • 31. In the same way the chief priests and the teachers of the law mocked him among themselves. "He saved others," they said, "but he can't save himself!
  • 32. Let this Christ, this King of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe." Those crucified with him also heaped insults on him.
  • 33. At the sixth hour darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.
  • 34. And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?"--which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
  • 35. When some of those standing near heard this, they said, "Listen, he's calling Elijah."
  • 36. One man ran, filled a sponge with wine vinegar, put it on a stick, and offered it to Jesus to drink. "Now leave him alone. Let's see if Elijah comes to take him down," he said.
  • 37. With a loud cry, Jesus breathed his last.
  • 38. The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.
  • 39. And when the centurion, who stood there in front of Jesus, heard his cry and saw how he died, he said, "Surely this man was the Son of God!"
  • 40. Some women were watching from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome.
  • 41. In Galilee these women had followed him and cared for his needs. Many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem were also there.
  • 42. It was Preparation Day (that is, the day before the Sabbath). So as evening approached,
  • 43. Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the Council, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for Jesus' body.
  • 44. Pilate was surprised to hear that he was already dead. Summoning the centurion, he asked him if Jesus had already died.
  • 45. When he learned from the centurion that it was so, he gave the body to Joseph.
  • 46. So Joseph bought some linen cloth, took down the body, wrapped it in the linen, and placed it in a tomb cut out of rock. Then he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb.
  • 47. Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where he was laid.
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