OR: Mark 15:1-39

¹ And as soon as it was morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council held a consultation; and they bound Jesus and led him away and delivered him to Pilate.
² And Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” And he answered him, “You have said so.”
³ And the chief priests accused him of many things.
⁴ And Pilate again asked him, “Have you no answer to make? See how many charges they bring against you.”
⁵ But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate wondered.
⁶ Now at the feast he used to release for them one prisoner for whom they asked.
⁷ And among the rebels in prison, who had committed murder in the insurrection, there was a man called Barab’bas.
⁸ And the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to do as he was wont to do for them.
⁹ And he answered them, “Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?”
¹⁰ For he perceived that it was out of envy that the chief priests had delivered him up.
¹¹ But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release for them Barab’bas instead.
¹² And Pilate again said to them, “Then what shall I do with the man whom you call the King of the Jews?”
¹³ And they cried out again, “Crucify him.”
¹⁴ And Pilate said to them, “Why, what evil has he done?” But they shouted all the more, “Crucify him.”
¹⁵ So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released for them Barab’bas; and having scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
¹⁶ And the soldiers led him away inside the palace (that is, the praetorium); and they called together the whole battalion.
¹⁷ And they clothed him in a purple cloak, and plaiting a crown of thorns they put it on him.
¹⁸ And they began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
¹⁹ And they struck his head with a reed, and spat upon him, and they knelt down in homage to him.
²⁰ And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple cloak, and put his own clothes on him. And they led him out to crucify him.
²¹ And they compelled a passer-by, Simon of Cyre’ne, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross.
²² And they brought him to the place called Gol’gotha (which means the place of a skull).
²³ And they offered him wine mingled with myrrh; but he did not take it.
²⁴ And they crucified him, and divided his garments among them, casting lots for them, to decide what each should take.
²⁵ And it was the third hour, when they crucified him.
²⁶ And the inscription of the charge against him read, “The King of the Jews.”
²⁷ And with him they crucified two robbers, one on his right and one on his left.
²⁹ And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads, and saying, “Aha! You who would destroy the temple and build it in three days,
³⁰ save yourself, and come down from the cross!”
³¹ So also the chief priests mocked him to one another with the scribes, saying, “He saved others; he cannot save himself.
³² Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe.” Those who were crucified with him also reviled him.
³³ And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
³⁴ And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, “E’lo-i, E’lo-i, la’ma sabach-tha’ni?” which means, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”
³⁵ And some of the bystanders hearing it said, “Behold, he is calling Eli’jah.”
³⁶ And one ran and, filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Wait, let us see whether Eli’jah will come to take him down.”
³⁷ And Jesus uttered a loud cry, and breathed his last.
³⁸ And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom.
³⁹ And when the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that he thus breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!”