Mark 15:2-26
English Standard Version
Chapter 15
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."
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."
