Mark

¹As soon as it was the morning, the chief priests, the presbyters, the scribes, and the whole council held a consultation. Having bound Jesus, they carried him away and delivered him to Pilate. ²Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”

Jesus answered, “You have said it.”

³The chief priests began to accuse him of many things, but he answered nothing.^{588 4}Again, Pilate asked him, “Do you have no answer? See how many charges they bring against you!”

⁵But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate was astonished.

⁶Now he used to release to the Jews⁵⁸⁹ one prisoner on the occasion of the feast, whichever one they asked of him. ⁷There was one called Barabbas, who was then in prison with the rebels who had committed murder during the uprising. ⁸The multitude, crying aloud, began to ask Pilate to do as he always did for them. ⁹Pilate answered them, “Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?” ¹⁰For he understood that it was from envy that the chief priests had delivered Jesus. ¹¹But the chief priests stirred up the crowd so that Pilate would release Barabbas to them instead [of Jesus]. ¹²Pilate again asked them, “What then do you want me to do to the one whom you call the King of the Jews?”

¹³”Crucify him!” they shouted.

¹⁴Pilate said to them, “Why, what evil has he done?”

But they shouted even louder, “Crucify him!”

¹⁵Wishing to please the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them, and after having Jesus flogged, he handed him over to be crucified.

The Roman soldiers mock Christ

¹⁶The soldiers led Jesus away inside the courtyard which is [called] the Praetorium, and they called together the whole cohort. ¹⁷They clothed him with purple, and weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on his head. ¹⁸They began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!” ¹⁹They struck his head with a reed, spat on him, and bowing their knees, expressed adoration to⁵⁹⁰ him. ²⁰After mocking him, they stripped him of the purple [cloak] and put his own garments on him. Then they led him out to crucify him.

The Lord’s death and burial

²¹Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, was then returning from the countryside and passing by. The soldiers⁵⁹¹ compelled him to go with them so that he might carry Jesus’ cross. ²²And they brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha, which means, “The place of a skull.” ²³They offered him wine mixed with myrrh to drink, but he did not take it.

²⁴Then they crucified him and shared his garments among them, casting lots for them to see what each one would take. ²⁵It was the third hour⁵⁹² when they crucified him. ²⁶The inscription of his accusation was written above him, “THE KING OF THE JEWS.” ²⁷With him, they also crucified two rebels; one on his right hand, and one on his left. ²⁸The Scripture was fulfilled, which says, “He was numbered with transgressors.”⁵⁹³

²⁹Those who passed by blasphemed him, shaking their heads and saying, “So! You who would destroy the sanctuary and rebuild it in three days,^{594 30}save yourself [now] and come down from the cross!”

³¹In 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! ³²Let the Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, so that we may see and believe him.”⁵⁹⁵ Those who were crucified with him also insulted him.

³³When the sixth hour⁵⁹⁶ came, there was darkness over the whole land⁵⁹⁷ until the ninth hour.^{598 34}At the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is, being interpreted, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”⁵⁹⁹

³⁵Some of those who stood by, when they heard this, exclaimed, “Behold, he is calling Elias!”

³⁶One [of them] ran to fill a sponge with vinegar. He put it on a reed and gave it to Jesus to drink. Then he said, “Let us leave him alone and see if Elias will come to take him down.”

³⁷But Jesus cried out with a loud voice and gave up the spirit. ³⁸The veil of the sanctuary was torn in two from the top to the bottom. ³⁹When the centurion who stood there in front of Jesus saw that he had 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 Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James ‘the little’⁶⁰⁰ and of Joses, and Salome. ⁴¹When Jesus was in Galilee, they had followed him and served him; along with many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem.

⁴²Evening had now come. Because it was the Preparation Day (the day before the Sabbath), ⁴³Joseph of Arimathea (a prominent council member who was also looking for the Kingdom of God), came forward. He boldly went in to Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body. ⁴⁴Pilate wondered if Jesus was already dead. Calling the centurion, he asked him whether Jesus had been dead for a long time. ⁴⁵Having been assured of this by the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.

⁴⁶Accordingly, Joseph bought fine linen, took Jesus down and wrapped him in the linen cloth. Having placed 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 Jesus⁶⁰¹ had been laid.

The Lord’s resurrection

588. Other manuscripts omit “but he answered nothing”
589. Greek “to them”
590. proskuneo can also be translated “worship (in the broad sense),” “venerate,” “fall down in reverence,” “do obeisance” (see NT introduction regarding proskuneo)
591. Greek “they”
592. 9:00 a.m.
593. CT omits verse 28
594. John 2:19
595. TR and CT omit “him”
596. Or “noon”
597. Or “earth”
598. 3:00 pm
599. Psalm 22:1/21 LXX
600. Or “James the Less”
601. Greek “he”