15:1 As soon as it was morning, having held a meeting with the elders, scribes, and the whole Sanhedrin, the chief priests tied Jesus up, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate.
15:2 So Pilate asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?” He answered him, “You say so.”
15:3 And the chief priests accused him of many things.
15:4 Pilate questioned him again, “Aren’t you going to answer? Look how many things they are accusing you of!”
15:5 But Jesus still did not answer, and so Pilate was amazed.
15:6 At the festival Pilate used to release for the people a prisoner whom they requested.
15:7 There was one named Barabbas, who was in prison with rebels who had committed murder during the rebellion.
15:8 The crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to do for them as was his custom.
15:9 Pilate answered them, “Do you want me to release the king of the Jews for you?”
15:10 For he knew it was because of envy that the chief priests had handed him over.
15:11 But the chief priests stirred up the crowd so that he would release Barabbas to them instead.
15:12 Pilate asked them again, “Then what do you want me to do with the one you call the king of the Jews?”
15:14 Pilate said to them, “Why? What has he done wrong?” But they shouted all the more, “Crucify him!”
15:15 Wanting to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them; and after having Jesus flogged, he handed him over to be crucified.
15:16 The soldiers led him away into the palace (that is, the governor’s residence) and called the whole company together.
15:17 They dressed him in a purple robe, twisted together a crown of thorns, and put it on him.
15:18 And they began to salute him, “Hail, king of the Jews!”
15:19 They were hitting him on the head with a stick and spitting on him. Getting down on their knees, they were paying him homage.
15:20 After they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple robe and put his clothes on him. They led him out to crucify him.
15:21 They forced a man coming in from the country, who was passing by, to carry Jesus’s cross. He was Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus.
15:22 They brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha (which means Place of the Skull).
15:23 They tried to give him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it.
15:24 Then they crucified him and divided his clothes, casting lots for them to decide what each would get.
15:25 Now it was nine in the morning when they crucified him.
15:26 The inscription of the charge written against him was: The King of the Jews.
15:27 They crucified two criminals with him, one on his right and one on his left.
15:29 Those who passed by were yelling insults at him, shaking their heads, and saying, “Ha! The one who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,
15:30 save yourself by coming down from the cross!”
15:31 In the same way, the chief priests with the scribes were mocking him among themselves and saying, “He saved others, but he cannot save himself!
15:32 Let the Messiah, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross, so that we may see and believe.” Even those who were crucified with him taunted him.
15:33 When it was noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.
15:34 And at three Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lemá sabachtháni?” which is translated, “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?”
15:35 When some of those standing there heard this, they said, “See, he’s calling for Elijah.”
15:36 Someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, fixed it on a stick, offered him a drink, and said, “Let’s see if Elijah comes to take him down.”
15:37 Jesus let out a loud cry and breathed his last.
15:38 Then the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.
15:39 When the centurion, who was standing opposite him, saw the way he breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!”
15:40 There were also women watching from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome.
15:41 In Galilee these women followed him and took care of him. Many other women had come up with him to Jerusalem.
15:42 When it was already evening, because it was the day of preparation (that is, the day before the Sabbath),
15:43 Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the Sanhedrin who was himself looking forward to the kingdom of God, came and boldly went to Pilate and asked for Jesus’s body.
15:44 Pilate was surprised that he was already dead. Summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had already died.
15:45 When he found out from the centurion, he gave the corpse to Joseph.
15:46 After he bought some linen cloth, Joseph took him down and wrapped him in the linen. Then he laid him in a tomb cut out of the rock and rolled a stone against the entrance to the tomb.
15:47 Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses were watching where he was laid.
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