Whereupon they shouted again, "Crucify him."

"Why," said Pilate, "what has he done wrong?" But they shouted more fiercely than ever, "Crucify him!"

So, as Pilate wanted to satisfy the crowd, he released Bar-Abbas for them; Jesus he handed over to be crucified, after he had scourged him.

The soldiers took him inside the courtyard (that is, the praetorium) and got all the regiment together;

then they dressed him in purple, put on his head a crown of thorns which they had plaited,

and began to salute him with, "Hail, O king of the Jews!"

They struck him on the head with a stick and spat upon him and bent their knees to him in homage.

Then, after making fun of him, they stripped off the purple, put on his own clothes, and took him away to crucify him.

and they led him to the place called Golgotha (which means the place of a skull).

They offered him wine flavoured with myrrh, but he would not take it.

Then they crucified him and distributed his clothes among themselves, drawing lots for them to decide each man's share.

It was nine in the morning when they crucified him.

They also crucified two robbers along with him, one at his right and one at his left.

Those who passed by scoffed at him, nodding at him in derision and calling, "Ha! You were to destroy the temple and build it in three days!

So, too, the high priests made fun of him to themselves with the scribes; "he saved others," they said, "but he cannot save himself!

Let 'the Christ,' 'the king of Israel' come down now from the cross! Let us see that and we will believe!" Those who were crucified with him also denounced him.

One man ran off, soaked a sponge in vinegar, and put it on the end of a stick to give him a drink, saying, "Come on, let us see if Elijah does come to take him down!"

Now when the army-captain who stood facing him saw that he expired in this way, he said, "This man was certainly a son of God."

women who had followed him when he was in Galilee and waited on him, besides a number of other women who had accompanied him to Jerusalem.

He, after buying a linen sheet, took him down and swathed him in the linen, laying him in a tomb which had been cut out of the rock and rolling a boulder up against the opening of the tomb.

And when the sabbath had passed Mary of Magdala, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought some spices in order to go and anoint him;

Go you and tell his disciples and Peter, 'He precedes you to Galilee; you shall see him there, as he told you.'"

She went and reported it to those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept;

Afterwards he appeared at table to the eleven themselves and reproached them for their unbelief and dulness of mind, because they had not believed those who saw him risen from the dead. [But they excused themselves, saying, "This age of lawlessness and unbelief lies under the sway of Satan, who will not allow what lies under the unclean spirits to understand the truth and power of God; therefore," they said to Christ, "reveal your righteousness now." Christ answered them, "The term of years for Satan's power has now expired, but other terrors are at hand. I was delivered to death on behalf of sinners, that they might return to the truth and sin no more, that they might inherit that glory of righteousness which is spiritual and imperishable in heaven."]