15 Early the next morning, the chief priests, elders, religious teachers, and the whole council consulted together. They bound Jesus and sent him away to be handed over to Pilate. 2 Pilate asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?” Jesus replied, “It is as you say.” 3 The chief priests were accusing him of many things. 4 Pilate asked him, “Are you not going to say anything? See how many charges they are bringing against you!” 5 But Jesus did not answer any more, which amazed Pilate.
    6 Because it was the Passover feast it was Pilate’s custom to release one prisoner to the people, whoever they asked him for. 7 A man called Barabbas had been imprisoned with a group of revolutionaries who had committed murder during an uprising. 8 The crowd went to Pilate and asked him to release a prisoner as he usually did.  9 “Do you want me to release the king of the Jews to you?” he asked them, 10 because he realized that the chief priests had handed Jesus over to him because of jealousy.  11 But the chief priests incited the crowd to have him release Barabbas to them instead.  12 “So what do you want me to do with this man you call the king of the Jews?” he asked them.  13 “Crucify him!” they shouted back.  14 “Why?” Pilate asked them. “What crime has he committed?” They shouted even louder, “Crucify him!” 15 “Pilate, wishing to please the crowd, released Barabbas to them, and after having Jesus flogged, handed him over to be crucified.
    16 The soldiers took him away to the palace, that is, the Praetorium, where they called together the whole Roman cohort.  17 They put a royal purple robe on him, and wove together a crown of thorns, and crowned him with it.  18 Then they began to call out: “We salute you, king of the Jews!” 19 They kept beating him on the head with a rod, spat at him, and mockingly knelt and bowed before him. 20 When they had finished mocking him, they took off the purple robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they took him to be crucified.  21 They forced a passer-by, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming from the countryside, to carry his cross. Simon was the father of Alexander and Rufus.
    22 Then they led Jesus to the place called Golgotha, which is translated “Place of a Skull.” 23 They offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take any. 24 Then they crucified him. They divided up his clothes, casting lots to decide what each man would get. 25 It was 9 a.m. when they put him on the cross. 26 The charge against him read: “The King of the Jews.”
    27 They crucified two criminals with him, one on his right and one on his left. [28 And the Scripture was fulfilled which says: “He was numbered with sinners.”] [317] 29 People passing by ridiculed him, shaking their heads in contempt: “Ha! You who are going to destroy the Temple and rebuild it in three days, 30 save yourself and come down from the cross!” 31 In the same way the chief priests and the religious teachers mocked him among themselves: “He could save others, but he cannot save himself.  32 Let this Messiah, the king of Israel, now come down from the cross so that we can see it and ‘believe’!” The ones who were being crucified with him also insulted him.
    33 At noon darkness spread over the whole land until three p.m. 34 At three p.m. Jesus cried out loudly, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which translated means, “My God, my God, why have You abandoned me?”[318]  35 When some of those standing there heard this, they said, “Listen, he is calling for Elijah.” 36 Someone ran and put a sponge soaked in sour wine on a stick and held it up to Jesus to drink. He said, “Let us see if Elijah will come to take him down.” 37 Then Jesus gave a loud cry, and breathed his last. 38 The Temple veil was torn in two from top to bottom. 39 When the centurion standing in front of him saw how he died, he said, “This man really was the Son of God!”
    40 Among the women who were watching from a distance were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome. 41 These were the women who had followed Jesus and taken care of him when he was in Galilee, along with many other women who had come with him to Jerusalem.
    42 When the evening of the Preparation Day came, the day before the Sabbath, [319] 43 Joseph of Arimathea, a leading member of the council, who was himself waiting for the Kingdom of God, gathered up courage to go to Pilate and ask for Jesus’ body. [320] 44 Pilate was surprised that Jesus was dead so soon, so he called the centurion and asked him if Jesus had died already. 45 Once he found out from the centurion, he gave permission to Joseph to take the body. 46 Joseph bought a linen cloth, took Jesus down from the cross, wrapped him in the sheet and placed him in a rock tomb. Then he rolled a stone against the entrance. 47 Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where he was laid.