1 Immediately 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. 2 Pilate asked him, “Are
you the King of the Jews?”
He answered, “So you say.”
3 The chief priests accused him of many things. 4 Pilate again asked
him, “Have you no answer? See how many things they testify against you!”
5 But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate marveled.
6 Now at the feast he used to release to them one prisoner, whom they
asked of him. 7 There was one called Barabbas, bound with those who had
made insurrection, men who in the insurrection had committed murder. 8 The
multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do as he always did for them.
9 Pilate answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release to you the
King of the Jews?” 10 For he perceived that for envy the chief priests had
delivered him up. 11 But the chief priests stirred up the multitude, that
he should release Barabbas to them instead. 12 Pilate again asked them,
“What then should I do to him whom you call the King of the Jews?”
13 They cried out again, “Crucify him!”
14 Pilate said to them, “Why, what evil has he done?”
But they cried out exceedingly, “Crucify him!”
15 Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and
handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified. 16 The
soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium; and they
called together the whole cohort. 17 They clothed him with purple, and
weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on him. 18 They began to salute
him, “Hail, King of the Jews!” 19 They struck his head with a reed, and
spat on him, and bowing their knees, did homage to him. 20 When 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. 21 They 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. 22 They brought him to the place
called Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, “The place of a skull.”
23 They offered him wine mixed with myrrh to drink, but he didn’t take
it.
24 Crucifying him, they parted his garments among them, casting lots on
them, what each should take. 25 It was the third hour,*1 and they crucified
him. 26 The superscription of his accusation was written over him, “THE
KING OF THE JEWS.” 27 With him they crucified two robbers; one on his
right hand, and one on his left. 28 The Scripture was fulfilled, which
says, “He was numbered with transgressors.”
29 Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying,
“Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, 30 save
yourself, and come down from the cross!”
31 Likewise, also the chief priests mocking among themselves with the
scribes said, “He saved others. He can’t save himself. 32 Let the Christ,
the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe
him.*2 ” Those who were crucified with him insulted
him.
33 When the sixth hour*3 had come, there was darkness
over the whole land until the ninth hour.*4 34 At 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?”
35 Some of those who stood by, when they heard it, said, “Behold, he is
calling Elijah.”
36 One 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.”
37 Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and gave up the spirit. 38 The
veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom. 39 When 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!”
40 There 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;
41 who, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and served him; and many
other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.
42 When evening had now come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is,
the day before the Sabbath, 43 Joseph 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. 44 Pilate marveled if he
were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had
been dead long. 45 When he found out from the centurion, he granted the
body to Joseph. 46 He 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. 47 Mary Magdalene and
Mary, the mother of Joses, saw where he was laid.
1 9:00 A. M. 2 TR omits “him” 3 or, noon 4 3:00 PM
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