New Testament in a Year

Jesus Before Pilate

15 ^(A)And early in the morning the chief priests with the elders and scribes and the whole ^(B)Sanhedrin, immediately held council; and binding Jesus, led Him away and delivered Him to Pilate. ^2 (C)And Pilate questioned Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?” And He answered him and *said, “You yourself say it.” ³ And the chief priests began to accuse Him of many things. ⁴ Then Pilate was questioning Him again, saying, “You answer nothing? See how many accusations they bring against You!” ⁵ But Jesus ^(D)made no further answer; so Pilate marveled.

^6 (E)Now at the feast he used to release for them any one prisoner whom they requested. ⁷ And the man named Barabbas had been imprisoned with the insurrectionists who had committed murder in the insurrection. ⁸ And the crowd went up and began asking him to do as he had been accustomed to do for them. ⁹ And Pilate answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?” ¹⁰ For he was aware that the chief priests had delivered Him over because of envy. ¹¹ But the chief priests stirred up the crowd ^(F)to ask him to release Barabbas for them instead. ¹² And answering again, Pilate was saying to them, “Then what shall I do with Him whom you call the King of the Jews?” ¹³ And they shouted again, “Crucify Him!” ¹⁴ But Pilate was saying to them, “Why? What evil did He do?” But they shouted all the more, “Crucify Him!” ¹⁵ And wishing to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas for them, and after having Jesus ^(G)scourged, he delivered Him over to be crucified.

Jesus Is Mocked

^16 (H)So the soldiers took Him away into ^(I)the ^[a]palace (that is, the ^[b]Praetorium), and they *called together the whole Roman ^[c](J)cohort. ¹⁷ And they *dressed Him up in purple, and after twisting a crown of thorns, they *put it on Him; ¹⁸ and they began to greet Him, “Hail, King of the Jews!” ¹⁹ And they kept beating His head with a ^[d]reed, and spitting on Him; and kneeling, they were bowing down before Him. ²⁰ And after they had mocked Him, they took the purple robe off Him and put His own garments on Him. And they *led Him out to crucify Him.

^21 (K)And they *pressed into service a passer-by coming from the countryside, Simon of Cyrene (the father of Alexander and ^(L)Rufus), to ^[e]carry His cross.

The Crucifixion

^22 (M)Then they *brought Him to the place ^(N)Golgotha, which is translated, Place of a Skull. ²³ And they tried to give Him ^(O)wine mixed with myrrh; but He did not take it. ²⁴ And they *crucified Him, and *^(P)divided up His garments among themselves, casting ^[f]lots for them to decide who should take what. ²⁵ Now it was the ^[g](Q)third hour, and they crucified Him.