1PROMPTLY at dawn the high priests, after holding a consultation with the elders and the scribes and the whole council, bound Jesus and led him away and delivered him over to Pilate. 2Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered him, "I am." 3The high priests went on making many charges against him. 4Pilate again asked him, "Have you no answer? See how many charges they are making against you." 5But Jesus no longer answered anything, so that Pilate wondered. 6It was customary that at every feast he should release some one prisoner at their request. 7There was a man called Barabbas in chains among those insurrectionaries who in the insurrection had committed murder. 8The crowd advanced and began asking him to do as he was accustomed to do for them. 9Pilate answered them, "Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?" 10For he knew that it was on account of envy that the high priests had handed him over. 11But the high priests incited the crowd to have him rather set free Barabbas for them. 12Pilate again asked, "What, then, shall I do with him whom you call the King of the Jews?" 13They again shouted, "Crucify him!" 14But Pilate said to them, "What has he done that was wrong?" But they shouted violently, "Crucify him!" 15Then Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, set free Barabbas for them and after scourging Jesus handed him over to be crucified. 16The soldiers led him away inside the courtyard of the castle and called together the whole battalion. 17Then they dressed him in purple and put on him a crown of thorns which they had twisted together, 18and they began to salute him, "Hail, King of the Jews!" 19They kept striking him on the head with a reed and spitting on him, and bending their knees they did homage to him. 20After making sport of him, they took off the purple and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him out to crucify him. 21They impressed a man who was passing by, Simon, a Cyrenian, who was coming in from the country , to carry his cross. 22So they brought him to the place Golgotha, which means Skull Place. 23They gave him wine flavored with myrrh, but he did not take it. 24Then they crucified him. They divided his clothes, casting lots what part each should take. 25It was nine in the morning when they crucified him. 26The statement of his crime was written up over him: THE KING OF THE JEWS 27With him were crucified also two robbers, one on his right and one on his left. 28TEXT OMITTED 29The people who passed by scoffed at him, shaking their heads and saying, "Ha, you who can pull down the Temple and build it up in three days, 30save yourself by coining down from the cross." 31In the same way the high priests, jesting with one another, and the scribes said, "He saved others; himself he cannot save. 32Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross so that we may see and believe." Even the men who were crucified along with him reviled him. 33At noon darkness fell on all the land and continued until three o'clock. 34At three Jesus cried with a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" \'97 which means, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" 35Some of the bystanders, when they heard this, said, "See, he is calling Elijah." 36One ran and filled a sponge with sour wine and put it on a reed and gave him a drink, saying, "Let him be. Let us see whether Elijah comes to take him down." 37But Jesus uttered a loud cry and ceased to breathe. 38Then the curtain in the Temple was torn in two from top to bottom. 39When the Centurion who was standing facing him saw that he expired in this way, he exclaimed, "Truly this man was a son of God!" 40There were also some women looking on from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James the Little and Joses, and Salome, 41who when he was in Galilee used to follow him and wait on him, and there were many others who had come up with him to Jerusalem. 42It was now late in the afternoon and, since it was Preparation Day, that is the day before the Sabbath, 43Joseph of Arimathaea, a councilor of high standing, who himself was looking for the kingdom of God, took courage to go in to Pilate and ask for the body of Jesus. 44Pilate wondered whether he was already dead, but he called in the Centurion and asked him whether Jesus had been long dead. 45Upon learning this from the Centurion, he granted the body to Joseph. 46Joseph bought a linen sheet and took him down and swathed him in it and laid him in a tomb which had been hewn out in the rock. He then rolled a stone against the door of the tomb. 47Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses were looking on to see where Jesus was laid.