15:1 Early in the morning, after forming a plan, the chief priests with the elders and the experts in the law 1 and the whole Sanhedrin tied Jesus up, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate. 2 15:2 So 3 Pilate asked him, “Are you the king 4 of the Jews?” He replied, 5 “You say so.” 6 15:3 Then 7 the chief priests began to accuse him repeatedly. 15:4 So Pilate asked him again, 8 “Have you nothing to say? See how many charges they are bringing against you!” 15:5 But Jesus made no further reply, so that Pilate was amazed.
15:6 During the feast it was customary to release one prisoner to the people, 9 whomever they requested. 15:7 A man named Barabbas was imprisoned with rebels who had committed murder during an insurrection. 15:8 Then the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to release a prisoner for them, as was his custom. 10 15:9 So Pilate asked them, 11 “Do you want me to release the king of the Jews for you?” 15:10 (For he knew that the chief priests had handed him over because of envy.) 12 15:11 But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release 13 Barabbas instead. 15:12 So Pilate spoke to them again, 14 “Then what do you want me to do 15 with the one you call king of the Jews?” 15:13 They shouted back, “Crucify 16 him!” 15:14 Pilate asked them, “Why? What has he done wrong?” But they shouted more insistently, “Crucify him!” 15:15 Because he wanted to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas for them. Then, 17 after he had Jesus flogged, 18 he handed him over 19 to be crucified.
15:16 So 20 the soldiers led him into the palace (that is, the governor’s residence) 21 and called together the whole cohort. 22 15:17 They put a purple cloak 23 on him and after braiding 24 a crown of thorns, 25 they put it on him. 15:18 They began to salute him: “Hail, king of the Jews!” 26 15:19 Again and again 27 they struck him on the head with a staff 28 and spit on him. Then they knelt down and paid homage to him. 15:20 When they had finished mocking 29 him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes back on him. Then 30 they led him away to crucify him. 31
15:21 The soldiers 32 forced 33 a passerby to carry his cross, 34 Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country 35 (he was the father of Alexander and Rufus). 15:22 They brought Jesus 36 to a place called Golgotha 37 (which is translated, “Place of the Skull”). 38 15:23 They offered him wine mixed with myrrh, 39 but he did not take it. 15:24 Then 40 they crucified 41 him and divided his clothes, throwing dice 42 for them, to decide what each would take. 15:25 It was nine o’clock in the morning 43 when they crucified him. 15:26 The inscription 44 of the charge against him read, “The king of the Jews.” 15:27 And they crucified two outlaws with him, one on his right and one on his left. 15:28 [[EMPTY]] 45 15:29 Those who passed by defamed him, shaking their heads and saying, “Aha! You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, 15:30 save yourself and come down from the cross!” 46 15:31 In the same way even the chief priests – together with the experts in the law 47 – were mocking him among themselves: 48 “He saved others, but he cannot save himself! 15:32 Let the Christ, 49 the king of Israel, come down from the cross now, that we may see and believe!” Those who were crucified with him also spoke abusively to him. 50
15:33 Now 51 when it was noon, 52 darkness came over the whole land 53 until three in the afternoon. 54 15:34 Around three o’clock 55 Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” 56 15:35 When some of the bystanders heard it they said, “Listen, he is calling for Elijah!” 57 15:36 Then someone ran, filled a sponge with sour wine, 58 put it on a stick, 59 and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Leave him alone! Let’s see if Elijah will come to take him down!” 15:37 But Jesus cried out with a loud voice and breathed his last. 15:38 And the temple curtain 60 was torn in two, from top to bottom. 15:39 Now when the centurion, 61 who stood in front of him, saw how he died, 62 he said, “Truly this man was God’s Son!” 15:40 There were also women, watching from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, 63 and Salome. 15:41 When he was in Galilee, they had followed him and given him support. 64 Many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem 65 were there too.
15:42 Now 66 when evening had already come, since it was the day of preparation (that is, the day before the Sabbath), 67