1 As soon as it was morning, the chief priests, with the elders and scribes and the whole Council, held a consultation; they tied Jesus up, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate.
2 Pilate questioned him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered him, "You are saying it."
3 The chief priests were accusing him of many things, but he gave no answer at all.
4 Pilate questioned him again, "Have you no answer to give? See how many things they are testifying against you!"
5 But Jesus gave no further answer at all, so that Pilate was amazed.
6 Now at the festival he would release to them one prisoner, whomever they requested.
7 There was a man called Barabbas, imprisoned with the insurrectionists who had committed murder during the insurrection.
8 The crowd began shouting and asking him to do what he always did for them.
9 Pilate answered them, "Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?"
10 For he was aware that the chief priests had handed him over out of envy.
11 But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release Barabbas for them instead.
12 Pilate answered them again, "Then what do you want me to do with the one you call the King of the Jews?"
13 They shouted again, "Crucify him!"
14 Pilate said to them, "Why? What evil has he done?" But they shouted all the more, "Crucify him!"
15 So Pilate, wanting to satisfy the crowd, released Barabbas for them; and Jesus he had flogged and handed over to be crucified.
16 The soldiers led him away into the courtyard, that is, the Praetorium, and they called together the whole cohort.
17 They dressed him in purple, wove a crown out of thorns, and set it on him,
18 and they began to salute him: "Hail, King of the Jews!"
19 They kept hitting him on the head with a reed and spitting on him, and bending their knees they bowed down before him.
20 After they had mocked him, they took the purple off him, put his own garments on him, and led him out to crucify him.
21 They forced a passerby, Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, who was coming in from the country, to carry his cross.
22 They brought him to the place Golgotha, which translated means Skull's Place.
23 They tried to give him wine mixed with myrrh to drink, but he did not take it.
24 After crucifying him, they divided up his garments by casting lots for them, to decide what each would take.
25 It was the third hour when they crucified him.
26 The inscription giving the charge against him read: THE KING OF THE JEWS.
27 With him they crucified two robbers, one on his right and one on his left.
28 And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "And he was counted among the lawless."
29 Those passing by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, "Aha! You who would tear down the temple and build it in three days,
30 save yourself, and come down from the cross!"
31 In the same way the chief priests too, together with the scribes, mocked him among themselves and said, "He saved others, but he cannot save himself.
32 Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down from the cross now, so that we may see and believe." Those who were crucified with him also heaped insults on him.
33 When the sixth hour came, darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.
34 At the ninth hour Jesus called out with a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lamma sabachthani?" which translated means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
35 When some of the bystanders heard this, they said, "Look, he is calling for Elijah."
36 Someone ran, soaked a sponge with sour wine, put it on a reed, and offered it to him to drink, saying, "Leave him alone; let us see if Elijah comes to take him down."
37 Then Jesus let out a loud cry and breathed his last.
38 And the veil of the sanctuary was split in two from top to bottom.
39 When the centurion standing facing him saw that he had cried out in this way and breathed his last, he said, "Truly this man was the Son of God!"
40 Some women were also there, watching from a distance; among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome,
41 who, when he was in Galilee, used to follow him and serve him; and many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem.
42 Since it was already evening, and it was the Preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath,
43 Joseph of Arimathea, a respected member of the Council who was himself also waiting for the kingdom of God, came and went in boldly to Pilate and requested the body of Jesus.
44 Pilate was surprised that he was already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead for long.
45 When he found out from the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph.
46 Joseph bought linen, took him down, wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a tomb that had been hewn out of rock; and he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb.
47 Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses were watching where he was laid.