[1] Immediately 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] Pilate asked him,
"Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered, "So you say." [3] The
chief priests accused him of many things. [4] Pilate again asked him, "Have
you no answer? See how many things they testify against you!" [5] But Jesus
made no further answer, so Pilate marveled. [6] Now at the feast he used to
release to them one prisoner, whom they asked of him. [7] There was one
called Barabbas, bound with those who had made insurrection, men who in the
insurrection had committed murder. [8] The multitude, crying aloud, began
to ask him to do as he always did for them. [9] Pilate answered them,
saying, "Do you you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?" [10]
For he perceived that for envy the chief priests had delivered him up. [11]
But the chief priests stirred up the multitude, that he should release
Barabbas to them instead. [12] Pilate again asked them, "What then should I
do to him whom you call the King of the Jews?" [13] They cried out again,
"Crucify him!" [14] Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has he done?"
But they cried out exceedingly, "Crucify him!" [15] Pilate, wishing to
please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and delivered Jesus, when
he had flogged him, to be crucified. [16] The soldiers led him away within
the court, which is the Praetorium; and they called together the whole
cohort. [17] They clothed him with purple, and weaving a crown of thorns,
they put it on him. [18] They began to salute him, "Hail, King of the
Jews!" [19] They struck his head with a reed, and spat on him, and bowing
their knees, did homage to him. [20] When 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] They 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] They brought him to the place called
Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, "The place of a skull." [23] They
offered him wine mixed with myrrh to drink, but he didn`t take it. [24]
Crucifying him, they parted his garments among them, casting lots on them,
what each should take. [25] It was the third hour, and they crucified him.
[26] The superscription of his accusation was written over him, "THE KING
OF THE JEWS." [27] With him they crucified two robbers; one on his right
hand, and one on his left. [28] The scripture was fulfilled, which says,
"He was numbered with transgressors." [29] Those who passed by blasphemed
him, wagging their heads, and saying, "Ha! You who destroy the temple, and
build it in three days, [30] save yourself, and come down from the cross!"
[31] Likewise, also the chief priests mocking among themselves with the
scribes said, "He saved others. He can`t save himself. [32] Let 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 reproached him. [33] When
the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the
ninth hour. [34] At 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] Some of those who stood by, when they
heard it, said, "Behold, he calls Elijah." [36] One 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]
Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and gave up the spirit. [38] The veil of
the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom. [39] When 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] There
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] who,
when he was in Galilee, followed him, and served him; and many other women
who came up with him to Jerusalem. [42] When evening had now come, because
it was the Preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath, [43] Joseph of
Arimathaea, a member of the council of honorable estate, who also himself
was looking for the kingdom of God, came. He boldly went in to Pilate, and
asked for Jesus` body. [44] Pilate marveled if he were already dead: and
calling to him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead for a
while. [45] When he learned it from the centurion, he granted the body to
Joseph. [46] He 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] Mary Magdalene and Mary,
the mother of Joses, saw where he was laid.
