| 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, 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. " Those who were crucified with him insulted him. |
| 33 | When the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. |
| 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. |
