Jesus Delivered to Pilate
15 cAnd as soon as it was morning, the chief priests dheld a consultation with theelders and scribes and the whole council. And ethey bound Jesus and fled himaway and gdelivered him over to hPilate. 2 iAnd Pilate asked him, j“Are you the King ofthe Jews?” And he answered him, k“You have said so.” 3 And the chief priests accused himof many things. 4 And Pilate again asked him, l“Have you no answer to make? See howmany charges they bring against you.” 5 But Jesus lmade no further answer, so that Pilatewas amazed.
Pilate Delivers Jesus to Be Crucified
6 mNow at the feast he used to release for them one prisoner for whom they asked.7 And among the rebels in prison, who had ncommitted murder oin the insurrection, therewas a man called Barabbas. 8 And the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to do as heusually did for them. 9 And he answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release for youthe King of the Jews?” 10 For he perceived that pit was out of envy that the chief priestshad delivered him up. 11 But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release forthem Barabbas instead. 12 And Pilate again said to them, “Then what shall I do with qtheman you call the King of the Jews?” 13 And they cried out again, “Crucify him.” 14 AndPilate said to them, “Why? rWhat evil has he done?” But they shouted all the more,“Crucify him.” 15 So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released for them Barabbas, andhaving sscourged1 Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
Jesus Is Mocked
16 tAnd the soldiers led him away inside uthe palace (that is, vthe governor’sheadquarters),2 and they called together the whole wbattalion.3 17 And they clothed himin xa purple cloak, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on him. 18 And theybegan to salute him, y“Hail, King of the Jews!” 19 And they were striking his head with areed and zspitting on him and akneeling down in homage to him. 20 And when they hadbmocked him, they stripped him of xthe purple cloak and put his own clothes on him. Andthey cled him out to crucify him.
The Crucifixion
21 dAnd they compelled a passerby, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from thecountry, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross. 22 eAnd they brought him tothe place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull). 23 And they offered him winemixed with fmyrrh, but he did not take it. 24 And they crucified him and gdivided hisgarments among them, casting lots for them, to decide what each should take. 25 And hitwas the third hour4 when they crucified him. 26 And the inscription of the charge againsthim read, i“The King of the Jews.” 27 And with him they crucified two jrobbers, kone onhis right and one on his left.5 29 And lthose who passed by derided him, mwagging theirheads and saying, n“Aha! oYou who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,30 save yourself, and come down from the cross!” 31 So also the chief priests with thescribes mocked him to one another, saying, p“He saved others; qhe cannot save himself.32 Let rthe Christ, sthe King of Israel, come down now from the cross that we may tseeand believe.” uThose who were crucified with him also reviled him.
The Death of Jesus
33 And when the sixth hour6 had come, there was darkness over the whole land untilthe ninth hour.7 34 And at the ninth hour Jesus vcried with a loud voice, w“Eloi, Eloi, lemasabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” 35 And someof the bystanders hearing it said, “Behold, he is calling Elijah.” 36 And someone ran andfilled 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.” 37 And Jesus zuttered a loud cryand abreathed his last. 38 And bthe curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top tobottom. 39 cAnd when the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that in this way he8breathed his last, he said, d“Truly this man was the Son9 of God!”
40 There were also ewomen looking on ffrom a distance, among whom were gMaryMagdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and iSalome.41 When he was in Galilee, they followed him and gministered to him, and there were alsomany other women who jcame up with him to Jerusalem.
Jesus Is Buried
42 kAnd when evening had come, since it was lthe day of Preparation, that is, the daybefore the Sabbath, 43 Joseph of Arimathea, ma respected member of the council, whonwas also himself looking for the kingdom of God, took courage and went to Pilate andasked for the body of Jesus. 44 Pilate was surprised to hear that he should have alreadydied.10 And summoning othe centurion, he asked him whether he was already dead.45 And when he learned from othe centurion that he was dead, he granted the corpse toJoseph. 46 And Joseph11 bought pa linen shroud, and taking him down, wrapped him inthe linen shroud and qlaid him in a tomb rthat had been cut out of the rock. And he rolledsa stone against the entrance of the tomb. 47 tMary Magdalene and Mary the mother ofJoses saw where he was laid.