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Mark 14

## The Gospel According to Saint Mark

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| # Chapter 15
#### 1 | Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, and bound Jesus, and 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 Pilate marveled.
#### 6 | Now at the feast he used to release to them one prisoner, whom they asked of him.
#### 7 | There was one called Barabbas, bound with those who had made insurrection, 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 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, that he should release Barabbas to them instead.
#### 12 | Pilate again asked them, 'What then 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 the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and delivered 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 off of 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, which is, 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, and 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.
#### 28 | The scripture was fulfilled, which says, 'He was numbered 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.' Those who were crucified with him reproached him.
#### 33 | When the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the 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 calls 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 opposite him, saw that he cried out like 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, that is, the day before the Sabbath,
#### 43 | Joseph of Arimathaea, a member of the council of honorable estate, who also himself was looking for the kingdom of God, came. He boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for Jesus' body.
#### 44 | Pilate marveled if he were already dead: and calling to him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead for a while.
#### 45 | When he learned it 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, the mother of Joses, saw where he was laid.

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