Mark 15 · Clearspring

Jesus Delivered to Pilate

¹Immediately 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.+ 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.+

The Crowd Chooses Barabbas

Matthew 27:15–23; Luke 23:13–25

⁶Now at the feast he used to release to them one prisoner, whom 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.+ ⁹Pilate answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”+ ¹⁰For he perceived that for envy the chief priests had delivered him up.+ ¹¹But the chief priests stirred up the multitude, that he should release Barabbas to them instead.+

Pilate Delivers Up Jesus

Matthew 27:24–26

¹²Pilate again asked them, “What then should I do to him whom you call the King of the Jews?”+ ¹³They cried out again, “Crucify him!”+ 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.+

The Soldiers Mock Jesus

Isaiah 50:4–11; Matthew 27:27–31; Luke 22:63–65; John 19:1–15

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 off him, and put his own garments on him. They led him out to crucify him.+

The Crucifixion

Psalm 22:1–31; Matthew 27:32–44; Luke 23:26–43; John 19:16–27

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.+ ²⁵It was the third hour, and they crucified him.+ ²⁶The superscription of his accusation was written over him, “THE KING OF THE JEWS.”+ ²⁷With him they crucified two robbers; one on his right hand, and one on his left.+ ²⁸The Scripture was fulfilled, which says, “He was counted with transgressors.” + ²⁹Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, “Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,+ ³⁰save yourself, and come down from the cross!”+ 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.+

The Death of Jesus

Psalm 22:1–31; Matthew 27:45–56; Luke 23:44–49; John 19:28–30

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.+

The Burial of Jesus

Isaiah 53:9–12; Matthew 27:57–61; Luke 23:50–56; John 19:38–42

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 marveled if he were 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.+