Mark:15

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

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