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| 15:1 |
And as soon as it was morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council held a consultation;and they bound Jesus and led him away and delivered him to Pilate.
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| 15:2 |
And Pilate asked him, 'Are you the King of the Jews?' And he answered him, 'You have said so.'
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| 15:3 |
And the chief priests accused him of many things.
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| 15:4 |
And Pilate again asked him, 'Have you no answer to make? See how many charges they bring against you.'
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| 15:5 |
But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate wondered.
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| 15:6 |
Now at the feast he used to release for them one prisoner for whom they asked.
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| 15:7 |
And among the rebels in prison, who had committed murder in the insurrection, there was a man called Barab'bas.
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| 15:8 |
And the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to do as he was wont to do for them.
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| 15:9 |
And he answered them, 'Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?'
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| 15:10 |
For he perceived that it was out of envy that the chief priests had delivered him up.
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| 15:11 |
But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release for them Barab'bas instead.
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| 15:12 |
And Pilate again said to them, 'Then what shall I do with the man whom you call the King of the Jews?'
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| 15:13 |
And they cried out again, 'Crucify him.'
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| 15:14 |
And Pilate said to them, 'Why, what evil has he done?' But they shouted all the more, 'Crucify him.'
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| 15:15 |
So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released for them Barab'bas;and having scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
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| 15:16 |
And the soldiers led him away inside the palace (that is, the praetorium);and they called together the whole battalion.
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| 15:17 |
And they clothed him in a purple cloak, and plaiting a crown of thorns they put it on him.
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| 15:18 |
And they began to salute him, 'Hail, King of the Jews!'
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| 15:19 |
And they struck his head with a reed, and spat upon him, and they knelt down in homage to him.
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| 15:20 |
And 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.
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| 15:21 |
And they compelled a passer-by, Simon of Cyre'ne, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross.
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| 15:22 |
And they brought him to the place called Gol'gotha (which means the place of a skull).
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| 15:23 |
And they offered him wine mingled with myrrh;but he did not take it.
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| 15:24 |
And they crucified him, and divided his garments among them, casting lots for them, to decide what each should take.
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| 15:25 |
And it was the third hour, when they crucified him.
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| 15:26 |
And the inscription of the charge against him read, 'The King of the Jews.'
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| 15:27 |
And with him they crucified two robbers, one on his right and one on his left.
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| 15:28 |
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| 15:29 |
And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads, and saying, 'Aha! You who would destroy the temple and build it in three days,
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| 15:30 |
save yourself, and come down from the cross!'
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| 15:31 |
So also the chief priests mocked him to one another with the scribes, saying, 'He saved others;he cannot save himself.
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| 15:32 |
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 also reviled him.
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| 15:33 |
And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
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| 15:34 |
And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, 'E'lo-i, E'lo-i, la'ma sabach-tha'ni?' which means, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?'
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| 15:35 |
And some of the bystanders hearing it said, 'Behold, he is calling Eli'jah.'
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| 15:36 |
And one ran and, filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink, saying, 'Wait, let us see whether Eli'jah will come to take him down.'
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| 15:37 |
And Jesus uttered a loud cry, and breathed his last.
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| 15:38 |
And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom.
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| 15:39 |
And when the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that he thus breathed his last, he said, 'Truly this man was the Son of God!'
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| 15:40 |
There were also women looking on from afar, among whom were Mary Mag'dalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salo'me,
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| 15:41 |
who, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and ministered to him;and also many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.
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| 15:42 |
And when evening had come, since it was the day of Preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,
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| 15:43 |
Joseph of Arimathe'a, 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.
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| 15:44 |
And Pilate wondered if he were already dead;and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he was already dead.
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| 15:45 |
And when he learned from the centurion that he was dead, he granted the body to Joseph.
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| 15:46 |
And he bought a linen shroud, and taking him down, wrapped him in the linen shroud, and laid him in a tomb which had been hewn out of the rock;and he rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.
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| 15:47 |
Mary Mag'dalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where he was laid.
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