Jesus Delivered to Pilate
1cAnd 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 17And 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 29And 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 34And 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.
Footnotes
- 1 15:15 A Roman judicial penalty, consisting of a severe beating with a multi-lashed whip containing embedded pieces of bone and metal
- 2 15:16 Greek the praetorium
- 3 15:16 Greek cohort; a tenth of a Roman legion, usually about 600 men
- 4 15:25 That is, 9 a.m.
- 5 15:27 Some manuscripts insert verse 28: And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “He was numbered with the transgressors”
- 6 15:33 That is, noon
- 7 15:33 That is, 3 p.m.
- 8 15:39 Some manuscripts insert cried out and
- 9 15:39 Or a son
- 10 15:44 Or Pilate wondered whether he had already died
- 11 15:46 Greek he
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