<TITLE>Mark 15</TITLE>
                   Mark 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. [2]And Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" And he answered him, "You have said so." [3]And the chief priests accused him of many things. [4]And Pilate again asked him, "Have you no answer to make? See how many charges they bring against you." [5]But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate was amazed.

[6]Now at the feast he used to release for them one prisoner for whom they asked. [7]And among the rebels in prison, who had committed murder in the insurrection, there was a man called Barabbas. [8]And the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to do as he usually did for them. [9]And he answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?" [10]For he perceived that it was out of envy that the chief priests had delivered him up. [11]But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release for them Barabbas instead. [12]And Pilate again said to them, "Then what shall I do with the man you call the King of the Jews?" [13]And they cried out again, "Crucify him." [14]And Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they shouted all the more, "Crucify him." [15]So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released for them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.

[16]And the soldiers led him away inside the palace (that is, the governor's headquarters), and they called together the whole battalion. [17]And they clothed him in a purple cloak, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on him. [18]And they began to salute him, "Hail, King of the Jews!" [19]And they were striking his head with a reed and spitting on him and kneeling down in homage to him. [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.

[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. [22]And they brought him to the place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull). [23]And they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it. [24]And they crucified him and divided his garments among them, casting lots for them, to decide what each should take. [25]And it was the third hour when they crucified him. [26]And the inscription of the charge against him read, "The King of the Jews." [27]And with him they crucified two robbers, one on his right and one on his left. [28]And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "He was numbered with the transgressors" [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, [30]save yourself, and come down from the cross!" [31]So also the chief priests with the scribes mocked him to one another, saying, "He saved others; he cannot save himself. [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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