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          DASV: Mark 15    

1 Early in the morning the chief priests with the elders, scribes,
and the whole Sanhedrin council, held a meeting. Then they
bound Jesus, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate.
2 Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered
him, "You said it."
3 Then chief priests accused him of many things.
4 So Pilate again asked him, saying, "Do you not answer anything?
Look how many things they accuse you of."
5 But Jesus did not answer anything, so much so that Pilate was
amazed.

6 Now at the feast he customarily released to them one prisoner,
whomever they requested.
7 There was one called Barabbas, jailed with them that had
made insurrection with rebels who, during the revolt, had
committed murder.
8 The crowd went up and began to ask him to do as he usually
did for them.
9 Then Pilate asked them "Do you want me to release to you the
King of the Jews?"
10 For he perceived that it was because of jealousy the chief
priests had handed him over to him.
11 But the chief priests stirred up the crowd, to have Pilate
release Barabbas to them.
12 Then Pilate again asked them, "What then shall I do with him
you call the King of the Jews?"
13 They shouted back, "Crucify him."
14 Then Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has he done?" But
they shouted out all the more, "Crucify him."
15 So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released Barabbas
to them, but when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him up
to be crucified.

16 The soldiers led him away into the governor's palace, the
Praetorium, and they called together the whole battalion.
17 Then they clothed him in a purple robe, and twisting 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 stick, and spat on him, and bowed
their knees in homage to him.
20 After they had mocked him, they took off the purple robe, and
put his clothes back on him. Then they led him out to crucify him.
21 They forced one passing by, Simon of Cyrene, who had come from
the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to go with them,
so that he could carry his cross.
22 They brought him to the place Golgotha, which means, "The place
of a skull."
23 Then they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not
take it.
24 They crucified him. They split up his garments among them,
casting lots for them to determine what each one should get.
25 It was nine o'clock in the morning when they crucified him.
26 The posted inscription of the charge against him was, "THE KING
OF THE JEWS."
27 They crucified two robbers with him, one on his right hand,
and one on his left.
28 [Some manuscripts have: "and the Scripture was fulfilled
which says, "He was counted with the lawless ones."]
29 Those who passed by insulted him, shaking their heads,
and saying, "Aha! You who claimed to be able to destroy the
temple, and build it in three days,
30 save yourself, and come down from the cross."
31 Likewise also the chief priests mocked him with the scribes
saying, "He saved others; but he cannot save himself.
32 Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross,
that we may see and believe." Those who were crucified with him
insulted him.
33 Then, at noon, there was darkness over the whole land
until three in the afternoon.

34 At three Jesus cried with a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi,
lama sabachthani?" which is translated, "My God, my God,
why have you forsaken me?"
35 Some of them that stood by, when they heard it, said, "Look,
he is calling for Elijah."
36 One person ran, and filled a sponge full of vinegar, put it
on a stick, and gave it to him to drink, saying, "Leave him alone,
let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down."
37 Then Jesus with a loud sigh breathed his last.
38 The veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the
bottom.
39 When the centurion, who stood in front of him, saw how
he died, he said, "Truly this man was the Son of God."
40 There were also women watching from a distance among whom
were both Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the
less, Joses, and Salome;
41 who, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and served him.
Many other women had come up to Jerusalem with him.
42 When evening had come, it was the day of Preparation,
that is, the day before the Sabbath.

43 Joseph of Arimathea, a highly regarded council member,
who also himself was looking for the kingdom of God, came
and boldly went to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus.
44 Then Pilate was surprised that he was dead already. Calling
to him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead
for a while.
45 After he confirmed it from the centurion, he granted the
body to Joseph.
46 Joseph bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound
him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb which had been
hewn out of a rock. Then he rolled a stone against the door
of the tomb.
47 Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where
Jesus' body was laid.

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