The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Mark 15
1 Immediately in the morning the chief
priests, with the elders, scribes, and the
whole council, held a consultation, bound
Jesus, carried him away, and delivered
him up to Pilate.
2 Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of
the Jews?” He answered, “So you say.”
3 The chief priests accused him of many
things.
4 Pilate again asked him, “Have you no
answer? See how many things they testify
against you!”
5 But Jesus made no further answer, so
that Pilate marveled.
6 Now at the feast he used to release to
them one prisoner, whomever they asked of him.
7 There was one called Barabbas, bound
with his fellow insurgents, men who in the
insurrection had committed murder.
8 The multitude, crying aloud, began to
ask him to do as he always did for them.
9 Pilate answered them, saying, “Do you
want me to release to you the King of the
Jews?”
10 For he perceived that for envy the
chief priests had delivered him up.
11 But the chief priests stirred up the
multitude,thathe shouldreleaseBarabbas
to them instead.
12 Pilate again asked them,
“What the should I do to him
whom you call the King of the Jews?”
13 They cried out again, “Crucify him!”
14 Pilate said to them, “Why, what evil
has he done?” But they cried out
exceedingly, “Crucify him!”
15 Pilate, wishing to please themultitude,
released Barabbas to them, and handed
over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be
crucified.
16 The soldiers led him away within the
court, which is the Praetorium; and they
called together the whole cohort.
17 They clothed him with purple; and
weaving a crown of thorns, they
put it on him.
18 They began to salute him, “Hail, King
of the Jews!”
19 They struck his head with a reed and
spat on him, and bowing their knees, did
homage to him.
20 When they had mocked him, they took
the purple cloak off him, and put his own
garments on him. They led him out to
crucify him.
21 They 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.
22 They brought him to the place called
Golgotha, whichis, being interpreted, “The
place of a skull.”
23 They offered him wine mixed with
myrrh to drink, but he didn’t take it.
24 Crucifying him, they parted his
garments among them, casting lots on them,
what each should take.
25 It was the third hour† when they
crucified him.
26 The superscription of his accusation
was written over him: “THE KING OF THE JEWS.”
27 With 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.”‡
29 Those who passed by blasphemed
him, wagging their heads and saying, “Ha!
You who destroy the temple and build it in
three days,
30 save yourself, and come down from
the cross!”
31 Likewise, also the chief priests mocking
among themselves with the scribes
said, “He saved others. He can’t
save himself.
32 Let the Christ, the King of Israel, now
come down from the cross, that we may
see and believe him.Ӥ Those who were
crucified with him also insulted him.
33 When the sixth hour† had come, there
was darkness over the whole land untilthe
ninth hour.‡
34 At 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?” *
35 Some of those who stood by, when
they heard it, said, “Behold, he is calling
Elijah.”
36 One 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.”
37 Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and
gave up the spirit.
38 The veil of the temple was torn in two
from the top to the bottom.
39 When the centurion, who stood by
oppositehim, saw thathe cried outlike this
and breathed his last, he said, “Truly this
man was the Son of God!”
40 There 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;
41 who, when he was in Galilee, followed
him and served him; and many
other women who came up with him to
Jerusalem.
42 When evening had now come, because it
was the Preparation Day, that is,
the day before the Sabbath,
43 Joseph 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.
44 Pilate was surprised to hear that he
was already dead; and summoning the
centurion, he asked him whether he had
been dead long.
45 When he found out from the centurion,
he granted the body to Joseph.
46 He 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.
47 Mary Magdalene and Mary themother
of Joses, saw where he was laid.