15:1 Early in the morning the chief priests with the elders and scribes and the whole Council, immediately held a consultation; and binding Jesus, they led Him away and delivered Him to Pilate. |
15:2 Pilate questioned Him, "Do You call Yourself the King of the Jews?" And He answered him, "You said it correctly." |
15:3 The chief priests began to accuse Him harshly. |
15:4 Then Pilate questioned Him again, saying, "Do You not answer? See how many charges they bring against You!" |
15:5 But Jesus made no further answer; so Pilate felt amazed. |
15:6 Now at the feast he used to release for them any one prisoner whom they requested. |
15:7 The man named Barabbas had received imprisonment with the insurrectionists who had committed murder in the insurrection. |
15:8 The crowd went up and began asking him to do as he had customarily done for them. |
15:9 Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?" |
15:10 For he knew that the chief priests had handed Him over because of envy. |
15:11 But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to ask him to release Barabbas for them instead. |
15:12 Answering again, Pilate said to them, "Then what shall I do with Him whom you call the King of the Jews?" |
15:13 They shouted back, "Crucify Him!" |
15:14 But Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has He done?" But they shouted all the more, "Crucify Him!" |
15:15 Wishing to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas for them, and after having Jesus scourged, he handed Him over to suffer crucifixion. |
15:16 The soldiers took Him away into the palace (namely, the Praetorium), and they called together the whole Roman cohort. |
15:17 They dressed Him up in purple, and after twisting a crown of thorns, they put it on Him; |
15:18 and they began to acclaim Him, "Hail, King of the Jews!" |
15:19 They kept beating His head with a reed, and spitting on Him, and kneeling and bowing before Him. |
15:20 After they had mocked Him, they took the purple robe off Him and put His own garments on Him. And they led Him out to crucify Him. |
15:21 They pressed into service a passer-by coming from the country, Simon of Cyrene (the father of Alexander and Rufus), to bear His cross. |
15:22 Then they brought Him to the place Golgotha, which we translate, Place of a Skull. |
15:23 They tried to give Him wine mixed with myrrh; but He did not take it. |
15:24 And they crucified Him, and divided up His garments among themselves, casting lots for them to decide what each man should take. |
15:25 It became the third hour when they crucified Him. |
15:26 The inscription of the charge against Him read, "THE KING OF THE JEWS." |
15:27 They crucified two robbers with Him, one on His right and one on His left. |
15:28 [And the Scripture became fulfilled which says, "And they numbered Him with transgressors."] |
15:29 Those passing by hurled abuse at Him, wagging their heads, and saying, "Ha! You who planned to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, |
15:30 save Yourself, and come down from the cross!" |
15:31 In the same way the chief priests also, along with the scribes, mocked Him among themselves and said, "He saved others; He cannot save Himself. |
15:32 "Let this Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, so that we may see and believe!" Those who suffered crucifixion with Him also insulted Him. |
15:33 When the sixth hour came, darkness fell over the whole land until the ninth hour. |
15:34 At the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, "ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI?" which we translate, "MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?" |
15:35 When some of the bystanders heard it, they began saying, "Behold, He calls for Elijah." |
15:36 Someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a reed, and gave Him a drink, saying, "Let us see whether Elijah will come to take Him down." |
15:37 And Jesus uttered a loud cry, and breathed His last. |
15:38 And the veil of the temple ripped in half from top to bottom. |
15:39 When the centurion, who stood right in front of Him, saw the way He breathed His last, he said, "Truly I acknowledge this man as the Son of God!" |
15:40 Some women looked on from a distance, among whom included Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the Less and Joses, and Salome. |
15:41 When He lived in Galilee, they used to follow Him and minister to Him; and many other women came up with Him to Jerusalem. |
15:42 When evening had already come, because the preparation day had come, namely, the day before the Sabbath, |
15:43 Joseph of Arimathea came, a prominent member of the Council, who himself waited for the kingdom of God; and he gathered up courage and went in before Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus. |
15:44 Pilate wondered if He had died by this time, and summoned the centurion, he questioned him as to whether He had already died. |
15:45 And ascertaining this from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph. |
15:46 Joseph bought a linen cloth, took Him down, wrapped Him in the linen cloth and laid Him in a tomb which they had hewn out in the rock; and he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb. |
15:47 Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses looked on to see where they laid Him. |