15Mark 15

1Immediately 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.Select Mark 15:1

2Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” He answered, “So you say.”Select Mark 15:2

3The chief priests accused him of many things.Select Mark 15:3

4Pilate again asked him, “Have you no answer? See how many things they testify against you!”Select Mark 15:4

5But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate marveled.Select Mark 15:5

6Now at the feast he used to release to them one prisoner, whom they asked of him.Select Mark 15:6

7There was one called Barabbas, bound with those who had made insurrection, men who in the insurrection had committed murder.Select Mark 15:7

8The multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do as he always did for them.Select Mark 15:8

9Pilate answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”Select Mark 15:9

10For he perceived that for envy the chief priests had delivered him up.Select Mark 15:10

11But the chief priests stirred up the multitude, that he should release Barabbas to them instead.Select Mark 15:11

12Pilate again asked them, “What then should I do to him whom you call the King of the Jews?”Select Mark 15:12

13They cried out again, “Crucify him!”Select Mark 15:13

14Pilate said to them, “Why, what evil has he done?” But they cried out exceedingly, “Crucify him!”Select Mark 15:14

15Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.Select Mark 15:15

16The soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium; and they called together the whole cohort.Select Mark 15:16

17They clothed him with purple, and weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on him.Select Mark 15:17

18They began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!”Select Mark 15:18

19They struck his head with a reed, and spat on him, and bowing their knees, did homage to him.Select Mark 15:19

20When 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.Select Mark 15:20

21They 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.Select Mark 15:21

22They brought him to the place called Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, “The place of a skull.”Select Mark 15:22

23They offered him wine mixed with myrrh to drink, but he didn’t take it.Select Mark 15:23

24Crucifying him, they parted his garments among them, casting lots on them, what each should take.Select Mark 15:24

25It was the third hour, and they crucified him.Select Mark 15:25

26The superscription of his accusation was written over him, “THE KING OF THE JEWS.”Select Mark 15:26

27With him they crucified two robbers; one on his right hand, and one on his left.Select Mark 15:27

28The Scripture was fulfilled, which says, “He was numbered with transgressors.”Select Mark 15:28

29Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, “Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,Select Mark 15:29

30save yourself, and come down from the cross!”Select Mark 15:30

31Likewise, also the chief priests mocking among themselves with the scribes said, “He saved others. He can’t save himself.Select Mark 15:31

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

33When the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.Select Mark 15:33

34At 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?”Select Mark 15:34

35Some of those who stood by, when they heard it, said, “Behold, he is calling Elijah.”Select Mark 15:35

36One 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.”Select Mark 15:36

37Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and gave up the spirit.Select Mark 15:37

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

39When 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!”Select Mark 15:39

40There 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;Select Mark 15:40

41who, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and served him; and many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.Select Mark 15:41

42When evening had now come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,Select Mark 15:42

43Joseph 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.Select Mark 15:43

44Pilate marveled if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long.Select Mark 15:44

45When he found out from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.Select Mark 15:45

46He 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.Select Mark 15:46

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