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| | Mar 15:1 | Early in the morning the chief priests with the elders and scribes and the whole Council, immediately held a consultation; and binding Jesus, they led Him away and delivered Him to Pilate.
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| | Mar 15:2 | Pilate questioned Him, "Are You the King of the Jews?" And He answered him, "It is as you say."
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| | Mar 15:3 | The chief priests began to accuse Him harshly.
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| | Mar 15:4 | Then Pilate questioned Him again, saying, "Do You not answer? See how many charges they bring against You!"
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| | Mar 15:5 | But Jesus made no further answer; so Pilate was amazed.
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| | Mar 15:6 | Now at the feast he used to release for them any one prisoner whom they requested.
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| | Mar 15:7 | The man named Barabbas had been imprisoned with the insurrectionists who had committed murder in the insurrection.
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| | Mar 15:8 | The crowd went up and began asking him to do as he had been accustomed to do for them.
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| | Mar 15:9 | Pilate 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 was aware that the chief priests had handed Him over because of envy.
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| | Mar 15:11 | But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to ask him to release Barabbas for them instead.
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| | Mar 15:12 | Answering again, Pilate said to them, "Then what shall I do with Him whom you call the King of the Jews?"
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| | Mar 15:13 | They shouted back, "Crucify Him!"
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| | Mar 15:14 | But 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 | Wishing to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas for them, and after having Jesus scourged, he handed Him over to be crucified.
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| | Mar 15:16 | The soldiers took Him away into the palace (that is, the Praetorium), and they called together the whole Roman cohort.
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| | Mar 15:17 | They dressed Him up in purple, and after twisting a crown of thorns, they put it on Him;
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| | Mar 15:18 | and they began to acclaim Him, "Hail, King of the Jews!"
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| | Mar 15:19 | They kept beating His head with a reed, and spitting on Him, and kneeling and bowing before Him.
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| | Mar 15:20 | After they had mocked Him, they took the purple robe off Him and put His own garments on Him. And they led Him out to crucify Him.
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| | Mar 15:21 | They pressed into service a passer-by coming from the country, Simon of Cyrene (the father of Alexander and Rufus), to bear His cross.
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| | Mar 15:22 | Then they brought Him to the place Golgotha, which is translated, Place of a Skull.
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| | Mar 15:23 | They tried to give Him wine mixed with myrrh; but He did not take it.
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| | Mar 15:24 | And they crucified Him, and divided up His garments among themselves, casting lots for them to decide what each man should take.
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| | Mar 15:25 | It was the third hour when they crucified Him.
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| | Mar 15:26 | The inscription of the charge against Him read, "THE KING OF THE JEWS."
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| | Mar 15:27 | They crucified two robbers with Him, one on His right and one on His left.
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| | Mar 15:28 | [And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "And He was numbered with transgressors."]
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| | Mar 15:29 | Those passing by were hurling abuse at Him, wagging their heads, and saying, "Ha! You who are going to 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 | In the same way the chief priests also, along with the scribes, were mocking Him among themselves and saying, "He saved others; He cannot save Himself.
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| | Mar 15:32 | "Let this Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, so that we may see and believe!" Those who were crucified with Him were also insulting Him.
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| | Mar 15:33 | When the sixth hour came, darkness fell over the whole land until the ninth hour.
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| | Mar 15:34 | At the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which is translated, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?"
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| | Mar 15:35 | When some of the bystanders heard it, they began saying, "Behold, He is calling for Elijah."
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| | Mar 15:36 | Someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a reed, and gave Him a drink, saying, "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 veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.
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| | Mar 15:39 | When the centurion, who was standing right in front of Him, saw the way He breathed His last, he said, "Truly this man was the Son of God!"
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| | Mar 15:40 | There were also some women looking on from a distance, among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the Less and Joses, and Salome.
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| | Mar 15:41 | When He was in Galilee, they used to follow Him and minister to Him; and there were many other women who came up with Him to Jerusalem.
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| | Mar 15:42 | When evening had already come, because it was the preparation day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,
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| | Mar 15:43 | Joseph of Arimathea came, a prominent member of the Council, who himself was waiting for the kingdom of God; and he gathered up courage and went in before Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus.
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| | Mar 15:44 | Pilate wondered if He was dead by this time, and summoning the centurion, he questioned him as to whether He was already dead.
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| | Mar 15:45 | And ascertaining this from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.
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| | Mar 15:46 | Joseph bought a linen cloth, took Him down, wrapped Him in the linen cloth and laid Him in a tomb which had been hewn out in 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 were looking on to see where He was laid.
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| Scripture quotations taken from the NASB. |
