Mark 15
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1And immediately in the morning, the chief priests, having formed a plan with the elders and scribes and the whole council, bound Jesus, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate. 2And Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" And answering him, he says, "You say so." 3And the chief priests accused him of many things. 4But Pilate asked him again, saying, "Do you answer nothing? Look how many things they accuse you of!" 5But Jesus no longer answered anything, so that Pilate marveled. 6Now at the feast he used to release to them one prisoner, whomever they asked. 7And there was the one called Barabbas, bound with the insurgents who had committed murder in the insurrection. 8And the crowd, coming up, began to ask him to do as he always did for them. 9But Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?" 10For he perceived that the chief priests had handed him over out of envy. 11But the chief priests stirred up the crowd, so that he might release to them Barabbas instead. 12And Pilate, answering again, said to them, "What then do you want me to do to him whom you call the King of the Jews?" 13And they cried out again, "Crucify him!" 14But Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they cried out all the more exceedingly, "Crucify him!" 15So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released to them Barabbas; and having flogged Jesus, he handed him over to be crucified. 16And the soldiers led him away inside the courtyard, which is the Praetorium; and they call together the whole cohort. 17And they clothe him in purple, and they place around him a woven crown of thorns; 18and they began to salute him, "Hail, King of the Jews!" 19And they were striking his head with a reed and were spitting on him, and bowing their knees, they were doing homage to him. 20And when they had mocked him, they undressed him of the purple and dressed him in his own garments. And they lead him out to crucify him. 21And they compel a certain passerby coming from the country, Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross. 22And they bring him to the place Golgotha, which is translated, Place of a Skull. 23And they were offering him myrrhed wine to drink, but he did not take it. 24And they crucify him and divide his garments, casting lots for them to decide who should take what. 25Now it was the third hour, and they crucified him. 26And the inscription of the charge against him was inscribed over him: "THE KING OF THE JEWS." 27And with him they crucify two robbers, one on his right and one on his left. 28And the scripture was fulfilled which says, "And he was numbered with the lawless." 29And those passing by blasphemed him, shaking their heads and saying, "Aha! You who destroy the temple and build it in three days, 30save yourself, and come down from the cross!" 31In like manner also the chief priests, mocking him among themselves with the scribes, said, "He saved others; he cannot save himself! 32Let the Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe!" And the ones co-crucified with him reproached him. 33And when the sixth hour had come, darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour. 34And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, "Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?" which is translated, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" 35And some of those standing by, hearing it, said, "Look, he is calling Elijah." 36And someone ran, and filling a sponge with vinegar, placed it on a reed and gave it to him to drink, saying, "Leave him be; let us see if Elijah comes to take him down." 37But Jesus, having let out a loud cry, breathed his last. 38And the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. 39And when the centurion, who was standing by opposite him, saw that he thus cried out and breathed his last, he said, "Truly this man was the Son of God!" 40There were also women watching from a distance, among whom were Mary the Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome; 41who also, when he was in Galilee, were following him and serving him; and many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem. 42And evening having already come, since it was the preparation, which is the fore-sabbath, 43Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent council member, who also himself was looking for the kingdom of God, came; taking courage, he went in to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. 44And Pilate wondered if he was already dead; and summoning the centurion, he questioned him if he had been dead long. 45And having learned this from the centurion, he granted the corpse to Joseph. 46And having bought a linen cloth, he took him down, wrapped him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb which had been hewn out of rock; and he rolled a stone against the door of the tomb. 47Now Mary the Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses were observing where he was laid.
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