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 Mar 15:1 |
And as soon as it was morning, the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole Council. And they bound Jesus and led him away and delivered him over to Pilate. |
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Mar 15:2 |
And Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" And he answered him, "You have said so." |
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Mar 15:3 |
And the chief priests accused him of many things. |
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Mar 15:4 |
And Pilate again asked him, "Have you no answer to make? See how many charges they bring against you." |
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Mar 15:5 |
But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate was amazed. |
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Mar 15:6 |
Now at the feast he used to release for them one prisoner for whom they asked. |
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Mar 15:7 |
And among the rebels in prison, who had committed murder in the insurrection, there was a man called Barabbas. |
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Mar 15:8 |
And the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to do as he usually did for them. |
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Mar 15:9 |
And he answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?" |
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Mar 15:10 |
For he perceived that it was out of envy that the chief priests had delivered him up. |
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Mar 15:11 |
But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release for them Barabbas instead. |
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Mar 15:12 |
And Pilate again said to them, "Then what shall I do with the man you call the King of the Jews?" |
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Mar 15:13 |
And they cried out again, "Crucify him." |
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Mar 15:14 |
And Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they shouted all the more, "Crucify him." |
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Mar 15:15 |
So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released for them Barabbas, and having scourged [fn] Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified. |
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Mar 15:16 |
And the soldiers led him away inside the palace (that is, the governor's headquarters), [fn] and they called together the whole battalion. |
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Mar 15:17 |
And they clothed him in a purple cloak, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on him. |
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Mar 15:18 |
And they began to salute him, "Hail, King of the Jews!" |
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Mar 15:19 |
And they were striking his head with a reed and spitting on him and kneeling down in homage to him. |
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Mar 15:20 |
And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes on him. And they led him out to crucify him. |
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Mar 15:21 |
And they compelled a passerby, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross. |
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Mar 15:22 |
And they brought him to the place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull). |
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Mar 15:23 |
And they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it. |
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Mar 15:24 |
And they crucified him and divided his garments among them, casting lots for them, to decide what each should take. |
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Mar 15:25 |
And it was the third hour [fn] when they crucified him. |
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Mar 15:26 |
And the inscription of the charge against him read, "The King of the Jews." |
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Mar 15:27 |
And with him they crucified two robbers, one on his right and one on his left. [fn] |
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Mar 15:28 |
Omitted from the ESV. See the  button or the footnotes for additional information.
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Mar 15:29 |
And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads and saying, "Aha! You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, |
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Mar 15:30 |
"save yourself, and come down from the cross!" |
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Mar 15:31 |
So also the chief priests with the scribes mocked him to one another, saying, "He saved others; he cannot save himself. |
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Mar 15:32 |
"Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross that we may see and believe." Those who were crucified with him also reviled him. |
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Mar 15:33 |
And when the sixth hour [fn] had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. [fn] |
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Mar 15:34 |
And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?" which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" |
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Mar 15:35 |
And some of the bystanders hearing it said, "Behold, he is calling Elijah." |
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Mar 15:36 |
And someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink, saying, "Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down." |
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Mar 15:37 |
And Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed his last. |
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Mar 15:38 |
And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. |
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Mar 15:39 |
And when the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that in this way he [fn] breathed his last, he said, "Truly this man was the Son [fn] of God!" |
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Mar 15:40 |
There were also women looking on from a distance, among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome. |
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Mar 15:41 |
When he was in Galilee, they followed him and ministered to him, and there were also many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem. |
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Mar 15:42 |
And when evening had come, since it was the day of Preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath, |
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Mar 15:43 |
Joseph of Arimathea, a respected member of the Council, who was also himself looking for the kingdom of God, took courage and went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. |
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Mar 15:44 |
Pilate was surprised to hear that he should have already died. [fn] And summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he was already dead. |
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Mar 15:45 |
And when he learned from the centurion that he was dead, he granted the corpse to Joseph. |
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Mar 15:46 |
And Joseph [fn] bought a linen shroud, and taking him down, wrapped him in the linen shroud and laid him in a tomb that had been cut out of the rock. And he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb. |
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Mar 15:47 |
Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where he was laid. |
ESV Footnotes:
- (15:15) A Roman judicial penalty, consisting of a severe beating with a multi-lashed whip containing imbedded pieces of bone and metal
- (15:16) Greek the praetorium
- (15:25) That is, 9 a.m.
- (15:27) Some manuscripts insert verse 28: And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “He was numbered with the transgressors”
- (15:33) That is, 3 p.m.
- (15:33) That is, noon
- (15:39) Or a son
- (15:39) Some manuscripts insert cried out and
- (15:44) Or Pilate wondered whether he had already died
- (15:46) Greek he
