As soon as it was morning, having held a meeting with the elders, scribes, and the whole Sanhedrin, the chief priests tied Jesus up, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate.
Pilate questioned him again, “Aren’t you going to answer? Look how many things they are accusing you of! ”
At the festival Pilate used to release for the people a prisoner whom they requested.
There was one named Barabbas, who was in prison with rebels who had committed murder during the rebellion.
But the chief priests stirred up the crowd so that he would release Barabbas to them instead.
Pilate asked them again, “Then what do you want me to do with the one you call the king of the Jews? ”
Pilate said to them, “Why? What has he done wrong? ”
But they shouted all the more, “Crucify him! ”
Wanting to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them; and after having Jesus flogged, he handed him over to be crucified.
The soldiers led him away into the palace (that is, the governor’s residence) and called the whole company together.
They dressed him in a purple robe, twisted together a crown of thorns, and put it on him.
They were hitting him on the head with a stick and spitting on him. Getting down on their knees, they were paying him homage.
After they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple robe and put his clothes on him.
They led him out to crucify him.
They forced a man coming in from the country, who was passing by, to carry Jesus’s cross. He was Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus.
They brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha (which means Place of the Skull).
Then they crucified him and divided his clothes, casting lots for them to decide what each would get.
In the same way, the chief priests with the scribes were mocking him among themselves and saying, “He saved others, but he cannot save himself!
“Let the Messiah, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross, so that we may see and believe.” Even those who were crucified with him taunted him.
And at three Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lemá sabachtháni? ” which is translated, “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? ”
When some of those standing there heard this, they said, “See, he’s calling for Elijah.”
Someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, fixed it on a stick, offered him a drink, and said, “Let’s see if Elijah comes to take him down.”
There were also women watching from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome.
In Galilee these women followed him and took care of him. Many other women had come up with him to Jerusalem.
When it was already evening, because it was the day of preparation (that is, the day before the Sabbath),
Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the Sanhedrin who was himself looking forward to the kingdom of God, came and boldly went to Pilate and asked for Jesus’s body.
Pilate was surprised that he was already dead. Summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had already died.
After he bought some linen cloth, Joseph took him down and wrapped him in the linen. Then he laid him in a tomb cut out of the rock and rolled a stone against the entrance to the tomb.
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