✧1Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders, scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, bound Jesus, carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate. ✧2Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” He answered, “So you say.” ✧3The chief priests accused him of many things. ✧4Pilate again asked him, “Have you no answer? See how many things they testify against you!” ✧5But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate marveled. ✧6Now at the feast he used to release to them one prisoner, whomever they asked of him. ✧7There was one called Barabbas, bound with his fellow insurgents, men who in the insurrection had committed murder. ✧8The multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do as he always did for them.
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✧14Pilate said to them, “Why, what evil has he done?” But they cried out exceedingly, “Crucify him!”
✧15Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.
✧16The soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium; and they called together the whole cohort.
✧17They clothed him with purple; and weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on him.
✧18They began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
✧19They struck his head with a reed and spat on him, and bowing their knees, did homage to him.
✧20When they had mocked him, they took the purple cloak off him, and put his own garments on him. They led him out to crucify him.
✧21They 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.
✧22They brought him to the place called Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, “The place of a skull.”
✧23They offered him wine mixed with myrrh to drink, but he didn’t take it.
✧24Crucifying him, they parted his garments among them, casting lots on them, what each should take.
✧31Likewise, also the chief priests mocking among themselves with the scribes said, “He saved others. He can’t save himself.
✧32Let 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.
✧33When the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
✧34At 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?”
✧35Some of those who stood by, when they heard it, said, “Behold, he is calling Elijah.”
✧36One 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.”
✧37Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and gave up the spirit.
✧38The veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom.
✧39When 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!”
✧40There 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;
✧41who, when he was in Galilee, followed him and served him; and many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.
✧42When evening had now come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,
✧43Joseph 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.
✧44Pilate was surprised to hear that he was already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long.
✧45When he found out from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.
✧46He 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.
✧47Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses, saw where he was laid.