Mark 15

Wycliffe Bible

15 And at once in the morrowtide the high priests made a counsel with the elder men, and the scribes, and with all the council, and bound Jesus and led, and betook him to Pilate. [And anon the morrow made, the highest priests, making counsel with the elder men, and scribes, and all the council, binding Jesus, led and betook to Pilate.]

² And Pilate asked him, Art thou king of Jews? And Jesus answered, and said to him, Thou sayest [And he answering saith to him, Thou sayest].

³ And the high priests accused him in many things. [And the highest priests accused him in many things.]

⁴ But Pilate again asked him, and said [saying], Answerest thou nothing? Seest thou in how many things they accuse thee?

⁵ But Jesus answered no more [Forsooth Jesus more nothing answered], so that Pilate wondered.

⁶ But by the feast day he was wont to let go to them to them one of the men bound, whomever they asked.^[a]

⁷ And there was one that was said Barabbas, that was bound with men of dissension, that had done manslaughter in sedition [that had done manslaying in dissension].

⁸ And when the people was gone up, he began to pray, as he evermore did to them. [And when the company had ascended, he began to pray, as he ever did to them.]

⁹ And Pilate answered to them, and said, Will ye that I let go to you the king of Jews?^[b]

¹⁰ For he knew, that the high priests had taken him by envy. [Forsooth he knew that the highest priests had betaken him by envy.]

¹¹ But the bishops stirred the people, that he should rather let go to them Barabbas.^[c]

¹² And again Pilate answered, and said to them, What then will ye that I shall do to the king of Jews?

¹³ And they again cried, Crucify him [Crucify him, that is, Put him on the cross].

¹⁴ But Pilate said to them, [Soothly] What evil hath he done? And they cried the more, Crucify him.

¹⁵ And Pilate, willing to make satisfaction to the people, let go to them Barabbas, and he betook to them Jesus, beaten with scourges^[d], to be crucified.

¹⁶ And knights led him withinforth, into the porch of the moot hall. And they called together all the company of knights,

¹⁷ and they clothed him with purple. And they wreathed a crown of thorns, and put on him [And they folding a crown of thorns, put on him].

¹⁸ And they began to greet him, and said [And began to greet him, saying], Hail, king of Jews.

¹⁹ And they smote his head with a reed, and bespat him; and they kneeled, and worshipped him.^[e]

²⁰ And after that they had scorned him, they unclothed him of the purple [they unclothed him from purple], and clothed him with his clothes, and led out him, to crucify him.

²¹ And they compelled a man that passed by the way, that came from the town, Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and of Rufus, to bear his cross. [And they constrained some man passing forth, Simon of Cyrene, coming from the town, the father of Alexander and Rufus, that he should take his cross.]

²² And they led him into a place Golgatha, that is to say, the place of Calvary. [And they led him into the place of Golgatha, that is interpreted, the place of Calvary.]

²³ And they gave to him to drink wine mixed with myrrh [And they gave him to drink wine meddled with myrrh], and he took not.

²⁴ And they crucified him, and parted his clothes, and cast lot on those^[f], who should take what.

²⁵ And it was the third hour, and they crucified him.

²⁶ And the title of his cause was written, King of Jews.

²⁷ And they crucify with him two thieves, one at the right half and one at his left half.^[g]

²⁸ And the scripture was fulfilled that saith, And he is ordained [And he is areckoned] with wicked men.

²⁹ And as they passed forth, they blasphemed him, moving their heads, and saying, Vath! [Fie!] thou that destroyest the temple of God, and in three days buildest it again;

³⁰ come adown from the cross, and make thyself safe.

³¹ Also the high priests scorned him each to other with the scribes, and said, He hath made other men safe, he may not save himself.^[h]

³² Christ, [the] king of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we see, and believe. And they that were crucified with him, despised him [And they that were crucified with him, put wrong, or false reproof, to him].

³³ And when the sixth hour was come, darknesses were made on [upon] all the earth till into the ninth hour^[i].

³⁴ And in the ninth hour Jesus cried with a great voice, and said [saying], Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani, that is to say [the which is interpreted], My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

³⁵ And some of the men that stood about heard, and said, Lo! he calleth Elias.

³⁶ And one ran, and filled a sponge with vinegar, and putted about to a reed, and gave him to drink, and said [saying], Suffer ye, see we, if Elias come to do him down.

³⁷ And Jesus gave out a great cry, and died.^[j]

³⁸ And the veil of the temple was rent atwo from the highest to beneath. [And the veil of the temple was cut into twain from the highest, till to down, or beneath.]

³⁹ But the centurion that stood over against saw, that he so crying had died, and he said, Verily, this man was God's Son [and said, Verily, this man was the Son of God].

⁴⁰ And there were also women beholding from afar, among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary, the mother of James the less, and of Joseph, and of Salome [among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary, the mother of James the less, and Joseph, and Salome].

⁴¹ And when Jesus was in Galilee, they followed him, and ministered to him, and many other women, that came up together with him to Jerusalem [and many other women, which had ascended together with him to Jerusalem].

⁴² And when the eventide was come, for it was the eventide that is before the sabbath,^[k]

⁴³ Joseph of Arimathaea, the noble decurion, came, and he abode the realm of God [Joseph of Arimathaea, a noble decurion, came, which also he was abiding the realm of God]; and boldly he entered [in] to Pilate, and asked the body of Jesus.

⁴⁴ But Pilate wondered, if he were now dead [Forsooth Pilate wondered, if he had now died]. And when the centurion was called, he asked him, if he were [now] dead;

⁴⁵ and when he knew of the centurion, he granted the body of Jesus to Joseph [he gave the body of Jesus to Joseph].

⁴⁶ And Joseph bought linen cloth, and took him down, and wrapped [him] in the linen cloth, and laid him in a sepulchre that was hewn of a stone [Soothly Joseph buying sendal, or linen cloth, and doing him down, wrapped him in the linen cloth, and put him in a new sepulchre that was hewn in a stone], and wallowed a stone to the door of the sepulchre.

⁴⁷ And Mary Magdalene and Mary of Joseph beheld, where he was laid.