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Mark 15 :: Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Jesus Faces Pilate
Mar 15:1

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.

Mar 15:2

So Pilate asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews? ”

He answered him, “You say so.”

Mar 15:3

And the chief priests accused him of many things.

Mar 15:4

Pilate questioned him again, “Aren’t you going to answer? Look how many things they are accusing you of! ”

Mar 15:5

But Jesus still did not answer, and so Pilate was amazed.

Mar 15:6

At the festival Pilate used to release for the people a prisoner whom they requested.

Mar 15:7

There was one named Barabbas, who was in prison with rebels who had committed murder during the rebellion.

Mar 15:8

The crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to do for them as was his custom.

Mar 15:9

Pilate answered them, “Do you want me to release the king of the Jews for you? ”

Mar 15:10

For he knew it was because of envy that the chief priests had handed him over.

Mar 15:11

But the chief priests stirred up the crowd so that he would release Barabbas to them instead.

Mar 15:12

Pilate asked them again, “Then what do you want me to do with the one you call the king of the Jews? ”

Mar 15:13

Again they shouted, “Crucify him! ”

Mar 15:14

Pilate said to them, “Why? What has he done wrong? ”

But they shouted all the more, “Crucify him! ”

Mar 15:15

Wanting to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them; and after having Jesus flogged, he handed him over to be crucified.

Mocked by the Military
Mar 15:16

The soldiers led him away into the palace (that is, the governor’s residence) and called the whole company together.

Mar 15:17

They dressed him in a purple robe, twisted together a crown of thorns, and put it on him.

Mar 15:18

And they began to salute him, “Hail, king of the Jews! ”

Mar 15:19

They were hitting him on the head with a stick and spitting on him. Getting down on their knees, they were paying him homage.

Mar 15:20

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.

Crucified between Two Criminals
Mar 15:21

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.

Mar 15:22

They brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha (which means Place of the Skull).

Mar 15:23

They tried to give him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it.

Mar 15:24

Then they crucified him and divided his clothes, casting lots for them to decide what each would get.

Mar 15:25

Now it was nine in the morning[fn] when they crucified him.

Mar 15:26

The inscription of the charge written against him was: The King of the Jews.

Mar 15:27

They crucified two criminals[fn] with him, one on his right and one on his left.[fn]

Mar 15:29

Those who passed by were yelling insults at[fn] him, shaking their heads, and saying, “Ha! The one who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,

Mar 15:30

“save yourself by coming down from the cross! ”

Mar 15:31

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!

Mar 15:32

“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.

Mar 15:33

When it was noon,[fn] darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.[fn]

Mar 15:34

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? ”

Mar 15:35

When some of those standing there heard this, they said, “See, he’s calling for Elijah.”

Mar 15:36

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.”

Mar 15:37

Jesus let out a loud cry and breathed his last.

Mar 15:38

Then the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.

Mar 15:39

When the centurion, who was standing opposite him, saw the way he[fn] breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God! ”[fn]

Mar 15:40

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.

Mar 15:41

In Galilee these women followed him and took care of him. Many other women had come up with him to Jerusalem.

The Burial of Jesus
Mar 15:42

When it was already evening, because it was the day of preparation (that is, the day before the Sabbath),

Mar 15:43

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.

Mar 15:44

Pilate was surprised that he was already dead. Summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had already died.

Mar 15:45

When he found out from the centurion, he gave the corpse to Joseph.

Mar 15:46

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.

Mar 15:47

Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses were watching where he was laid.

CSB Footnotes
Lit was the third hour
Or revolutionaries
Some mss include v. 28: So the Scripture was fulfilled that says: And he was counted among criminals.
Or passed by blasphemed
Lit the sixth hour
Lit the ninth hour, also in v. 34
Other mss read saw that he cried out like this and
Or a son of God
BLB Footnotes
Some Greek manuscripts exclude this verse. The CSB related footnote for 15:27 states:
Some mss include v. 28: So the Scripture was fulfilled that says: And he was counted among criminals.  
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