• Jesus Before Pilate

  • 1 And early in the morning the chief priests with the elders and scribes and the whole Sanhedrin, immediately held council; and binding Jesus, led Him away and delivered Him to Pilate.
  • 2 And Pilate questioned Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?” And He answered him and *said, “You yourself say it.”
  • 3 And the chief priests began to accuse Him of many things.
  • 4 Then Pilate was questioning Him again, saying, “You answer nothing? See how many accusations they bring against You!”
  • 5 But Jesus made no further answer; so Pilate marveled.
  • 6 Now at the feast he used to release for them any one prisoner whom they requested.
  • 7 And the man named Barabbas had been imprisoned with the insurrectionists who had committed murder in the insurrection.
  • 8 And the crowd went up and began asking him to do as he had been accustomed to do for them.
  • 9 And Pilate answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?”
  • 10 For he was aware that the chief priests had delivered Him over because of envy.
  • 11 But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to ask him to release Barabbas for them instead.
  • 12 And answering again, Pilate was saying to them, “Then what shall I do with Him whom you call the King of the Jews?”
  • 13 And they shouted again, “Crucify Him!”
  • 14 But Pilate was saying to them, “Why? What evil did He do?” But they shouted all the more, “Crucify Him!”
  • 15 And wishing to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas for them, and after having Jesus scourged, he delivered Him over to be crucified.

  • Jesus Is Mocked

  • 16 So the soldiers took Him away into the palace (that is, the Praetorium), and they *called together the whole Roman cohort.
  • 17 And they *dressed Him up in purple, and after twisting a crown of thorns, they *put it on Him;
  • 18 and they began to greet Him, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
  • 19 And they kept beating His head with a reed, and spitting on Him; and kneeling, they were bowing down before Him.
  • 20 And after they had mocked Him, they took the purple robe off Him and put His own garments on Him. And they *led Him out to crucify Him.
  • 21 And they *pressed into service a passer-by coming from the countryside, Simon of Cyrene (the father of Alexander and Rufus), to carry His cross.

  • The Crucifixion

  • 22 Then they *brought Him to the place Golgotha, which is translated, Place of a Skull.
  • 23 And they tried to give Him wine mixed with myrrh; but He did not take it.
  • 24 And they *crucified Him, and *divided up His garments among themselves, casting lots for them to decide who should take what.
  • 25 Now it was the third hour, and they crucified Him.
  • 26 And the inscription of the charge against Him read, “THE KING OF THE JEWS.”
  • 27 And they *crucified two robbers with Him, one on His right and one on His left.
  • 28 [And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “And He was numbered with transgressors.”]
  • 29 And those passing by were blaspheming Him, shaking their heads, and saying, “Ha! You who are going to destroy the sanctuary and rebuild it in three days,
  • 30 save Yourself by coming down from the cross!”
  • 31 In the same way, mocking Him to one another, the chief priests also, along with the scribes, were saying, “He saved others; He cannot save Himself.
  • 32 Let this Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, so that we may see and believe!” Those who were crucified with Him were also insulting Him.
  • 33 And when the sixth hour came, darkness fell over the whole land until the ninth hour.
  • 34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is translated, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”
  • 35 And when some of the bystanders heard it, they began saying, “Look, He is calling for Elijah.”
  • 36 And someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a reed, and gave Him a drink, saying, “Let us see whether Elijah will come to take Him down.”
  • 37 And Jesus, uttering a loud cry, breathed His last.
  • 38 And the veil of the sanctuary was torn in two from top to bottom.
  • 39 And when the centurion, who was standing right in front of Him, saw the way He breathed His last, he said, “Truly this man was God’s Son!”
  • 40 And there were also some women looking on from a distance, among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the Less and Joses, and Salome,
  • 41 who, when He was in Galilee, were following Him and serving Him; and there were many other women who came up with Him to Jerusalem.

  • Jesus Is Buried

  • 42 And when evening had already come, because it was Preparation day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,
  • 43 Joseph of Arimathea came, a prominent Council member, who himself was waiting for the kingdom of God; and he gathered up courage and went in before Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus.
  • 44 And Pilate wondered if He had died by this time, and summoning the centurion, he questioned him as to whether He already died.
  • 45 And ascertaining this from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.
  • 46 And when Joseph had bought a linen cloth and took Him down, he wrapped Him in the linen cloth and laid Him in a tomb which had been hewn out in the rock. And he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb.
  • 47 And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses were looking on to see where He had been laid.