Immediately in the morning, the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes, and the whole council. They bound Jesus, led him away, and delivered him to Pilate.
Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” He answered him, “You say so.”
The chief priests accused him of many things.
Pilate asked him again, “Answer nothing? See how many things they testify against you!”
But Jesus still answered nothing, so that Pilate marveled.
Now at the feast he released to them one prisoner, whomever they requested.
There was one named Barabbas, who was imprisoned with those who had made insurrection with him, who had committed murder in the insurrection.
The crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to do as he usually did for them.
Pilate answered them, “Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”
For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him because of envy.
But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release Barabbas to them instead.
Pilate again asked them, “Then what do you want me to do with him whom you call the King of the Jews?”
They cried out again, “Crucify him!”
Pilate asked them, “Why, what evil has he done?” But they cried out all the more, “Crucify him!”
Pilate, wanting to satisfy the crowd, released Barabbas to them, and delivered Jesus, after he had scourged him, to be crucified.
The soldiers led him away into the hall called Praetorium, and they called together the whole cohort.
They clothed him with purple, and wove a crown of thorns, and put it on him.
They began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
They struck his head with a reed, spat on him, and bowing their knees, worshiped him.
When they had mocked him, they took off the purple from him, and put his own clothes on him, and led him out to crucify him.
They compelled a passerby, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.
They brought Jesus to the place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, Place of a Skull.
They offered him wine mingled with myrrh, but he didn’t take it.
They crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots for them, to decide what each should take.
It was the third hour when they crucified him.
The inscription of his accusation was written, “The King of the Jews.”
They crucified two robbers with him, one on his right hand, and the other on his left.
Those who passed by derided him, shaking 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 the chief priests mocked him among themselves, with the scribes, saying, “He saved others, himself he cannot save.
Let the Christ, the King of Israel, descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe.” Those who were crucified with him also reproached him.
When the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is, being interpreted, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
Some of those who stood by, when they heard it, said, “Behold, he calls Elijah!”
One ran, and filled a sponge with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Leave him alone. Let’s see whether Elijah will come to take him down.”
Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the spirit.
The veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.
When the centurion who stood opposite him saw that he cried out like this, and gave up the spirit, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!”
There were also women looking on afar off, among whom were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome,
who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him and served him. Many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem were there, looking on.
Now when evening had come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath,
Joseph of Arimathea, a respected member of the council, who also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus.
Pilate marveled that he was already dead. He called the centurion, and asked him if he had been dead for some time.
When he learned it from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.
He bought a linen cloth, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb which had been hewn 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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