1 I mmediately 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 P ilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” He answered, “So you say.”

3 T he chief priests accused him of many things.

4 P ilate again asked him, “Have you no answer? See how many things they testify against you!”

5 B ut Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate marveled.

6 N ow at the feast he used to release to them one prisoner, whom they asked of him.

7 T here was one called Barabbas, bound with his fellow insurgents, men who in the insurrection had committed murder.

8 T he multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do as he always did for them.

9 P ilate answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”

10 F or he perceived that for envy the chief priests had delivered him up.

11 B ut the chief priests stirred up the multitude, that he should release Barabbas to them instead.

12 P ilate again asked them, “What then should I do to him whom you call the King of the Jews?”

13 T hey cried out again, “Crucify him!”

14 P ilate said to them, “Why, what evil has he done?” But they cried out exceedingly, “Crucify him!”

15 P ilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.

16 T he soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium; and they called together the whole cohort.

17 T hey clothed him with purple, and weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on him.

18 T hey began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!”

19 T hey struck his head with a reed, and spat on him, and bowing their knees, did homage to him.

20 W hen 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 T hey 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 T hey brought him to the place called Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, “The place of a skull.”

23 T hey offered him wine mixed with myrrh to drink, but he didn’t take it.

24 C rucifying him, they parted his garments among them, casting lots on them, what each should take.

25 I t was the third hour, and they crucified him.

26 T he superscription of his accusation was written over him, “THE KING OF THE JEWS.”

27 W ith him they crucified two robbers; one on his right hand, and one on his left.

28 T he Scripture was fulfilled, which says, “He was numbered with transgressors.”

29 T hose who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, “Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,

30 s ave yourself, and come down from the cross!”

31 L ikewise, also the chief priests mocking among themselves with the scribes said, “He saved others. He can’t save himself.

32 L et 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 also insulted him.

33 W hen the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.

34 A t 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 S ome of those who stood by, when they heard it, said, “Behold, he is calling Elijah.”

36 O ne 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 J esus cried out with a loud voice, and gave up the spirit.

38 T he veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom.

39 W hen 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 T here 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 w ho, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and served him; and many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.

42 W hen evening had now come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,

43 J oseph of Arimathaea, a prominent council member who also himself was looking for God’s Kingdom, came. He boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for Jesus’ body.

44 P ilate marveled if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long.

45 W hen he found out from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.

46 H e 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 M ary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of Joses, saw where he was laid.