¹Then straightaway in the morning the senior priests with the elders and scribes and all the Sanhedrin held a council, and they bound Jesus and carried him away and handed him over to Pilate. ²And Pilate questioned him and asked, “Are you the king of the Jews?” He then answered and said to him, “As you say.” ³And the senior priests accused him of many things. ⁴Then Pilate questioned him again and asked, “Do you not answer anything? See how many things they testify against you.” ⁵But Jesus no longer answered anything, with the result that Pilate was amazed. ⁶Now at the festival, he would release to them one prisoner, whomever they asked for. ⁷And a man called Barabbas was held bound among the insurgents who had committed murder in the insurrection. ⁸And the crowd shouted out and began to make their request for him to do as he always did for them, ⁹at which Pilate answered them and said, “Do you want me to release the king of the Jews to you?” ¹⁰For he knew that the senior priests had delivered him up through envy. ¹¹But the senior priests had stirred up the crowd so that he should rather release Barabbas to them. ¹²Then Pilate replied again and said to them, “What then do you want me to do to him whom you call the king of the Jews.” ¹³Then they shouted again, “Crucify him!” ¹⁴Then Pilate said to them, “Well what has he done wrong?” But they shouted all the more profusely, “Crucify him!” ¹⁵Then Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released Barabbas to them, and when he had had Jesus flogged, he handed him over to be crucified. ¹⁶Next the soldiers led him into the courtyard, which is the governmental compound, and they convened the whole cohort. ¹⁷And they clothed him in purple and put a crown of thorns on him which they had plaited. ¹⁸And they went on to greet him, saying, “Hail, O king of the Jews.” ¹⁹And they kept striking his head with a reed, and spitting on him, and kneeling and paying homage to him, ²⁰and when they had made fun of him, they took off the purple clothing, and they put his own clothes on him, and they led him out in order to crucify him. ²¹And they pressed a certain passer-by, Simon the Cyrene, who was coming from a field, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross. ²²Then they brought him to the place called Golgotha, which in translation is “The Place of the Skull.” ²³And they gave him wine mixed with myrrh to drink, but he did not take it. ²⁴Then when they had started to crucify him, they shared out his clothes among themselves and cast lots for them as to who would take what. ²⁵Now it was the third hour when they crucified him. ²⁶And the inscription of his indictment was inscribed:

“The king of the Jews.”

²⁷Moreover they crucified two robbers with him, one on his right and one on his left. ²⁸So the scripture was fulfilled which says, “And he was reckoned with lawless ones.” ²⁹And those passing by blasphemed him, shaking their heads and saying, “Ah, you who would demolish the sanctuary and build it again in three days, ³⁰save yourself and come down from the cross.” ³¹And the senior priests also similarly mocked among themselves along with the scribes and said, “He saved others. He cannot save himself. ³²Let Christ, the king of Israel, come down now from the cross, so that we may see and believe him.” And those crucified with him kept reproaching him. ³³Then, at the sixth hour, darkness descended on the whole earth until the ninth hour. ³⁴And at the ninth hour, Jesus shouted in a loud voice and said, “Eloi Eloi, lima sabachthani”, which in translation is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” ³⁵At which some bystanders, when they heard it, said, “Look, he is calling on Elijah.” ³⁶Then a certain person ran and filled a sponge with vinegar and put it on a reed and offered it him to drink, and he said, “All right. Let's see if Elijah comes to take him down.” ³⁷Then Jesus uttered a loud noise and expired. ³⁸At this point the veil of the sanctuary was split in two from the top to the bottom. ³⁹When the centurion who was standing by opposite him saw that he had shouted and expired in this way, he said, “Truly, this man was the son of God.” ⁴⁰There were also some women looking on from a distance, among whom were also Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James junior and Joses, and Salome, ⁴¹who had also followed him and served him when he was in Galilee, and there were many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem. ⁴²Then with it being late by this time, since it was the Preparation Day, which is the day before the Sabbath, ⁴³Joseph of Arimathea, an honourable councillor, who himself was awaiting the kingdom of God, came and ventured to go up to Pilate and asked for Jesus's body. ⁴⁴Now Pilate was surprised that he had already died, and he called for the centurion and asked him if he died a while ago. ⁴⁵Then having ascertained the fact from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph. ⁴⁶And having bought fine linen, he took him down and wrapped him in the fine linen and deposited him in a sepulchre which had been hewn out of a rock, and he rolled a stone against the entrance to the sepulchre, ⁴⁷while Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses observed where he was being put.

Reference(s) in Chapter 15: v.28 ↔ Isaiah 53:12 ● v.34 ↔ Psalm 22:2^MT (Psalm 22:1^AV).