¹And as soon as it was morning, the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole Council. And they bound Jesus and led him away and delivered him over to Pilate.

²And Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" And he answered him, "You have said so."

³And the chief priests accused him of many things.⁴And Pilate again asked him, "Have you no answer to make? See how many charges they bring against you."

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

⁶Now at the feast he used to release for them one prisoner for whom they asked.⁷And among the rebels in prison, who had committed murder in the insurrection, there was a man called Barabbas.⁸And the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to do as he usually did for them.⁹And he answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?"¹⁰For he perceived that it was out of envy that the chief priests had delivered him up.¹¹But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release for them Barabbas instead.¹²And Pilate again said to them, "Then what shall I do with the man you call the King of the Jews?"

¹³And they cried out again, "Crucify him."

¹⁴And Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they shouted all the more, "Crucify him."

¹⁴And Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they shouted all the more, "Crucify him."¹⁵So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released for them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.¹⁶And the soldiers led him away inside the palace (that is, the governor's headquarters), and they called together the whole battalion.¹⁷And they clothed him in a purple cloak, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on him.¹⁸And they began to salute him, "Hail, King of the Jews!"¹⁹And they were striking his head with a reed and spitting on him and kneeling down in homage to him.²⁰And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes on him. And they led him out to crucify him.²¹And they compelled a passerby, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross.²²And they brought him to the place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull).²³And they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it.

²⁴And they crucified him and divided his garments among them, casting lots for them, to decide what each should take.²⁵And it was the third hour when they crucified him.²⁶And the inscription of the charge against him read, "The King of the Jews."²⁷And with him they crucified two robbers, one on his right and one on his left.²⁸See Footnote

²⁹And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads and saying, "Aha! You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,³⁰save yourself, and come down from the cross!"

³¹So also the chief priests with the scribes mocked him to one another, saying, "He saved others; he cannot save himself.³²Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross that we may see and believe." Those who were crucified with him also reviled him.

³³And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.³⁴And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?" which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

³⁵And some of the bystanders hearing it said, "Behold, he is calling Elijah."

³⁶And someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink, saying, "Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down."

³⁷And Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed his last.³⁸And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom.³⁹And when the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that in this way he breathed his last, he said, "Truly this man was the Son of God!"

⁴⁰There were also women looking on from a distance, among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome.⁴¹When he was in Galilee, they followed him and ministered to him, and there were also many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.

⁴²And when evening had come, since it was the day of Preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath,⁴³Joseph of Arimathea, a respected member of the Council, who was also himself looking for the kingdom of God, took courage and went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.⁴⁴Pilate was surprised to hear that he should have already died. And summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he was already dead.⁴⁵And when he learned from the centurion that he was dead, he granted the corpse to Joseph.⁴⁶And Joseph bought a linen shroud, and taking him down, wrapped him in the linen shroud and laid him in a tomb that had been cut out of the rock. And he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb.⁴⁷Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where he was laid.