1 Et confestim mane consilium facientes summi sacerdotes cum senioribus, et scribis, et universo concilio, vincientes Jesum, duxerunt, et tradiderunt Pilato. 2 Et interrogavit eum Pilatus: Tu es rex Judæorum? At ille respondens, ait illi: Tu dicis. 3 Et accusabant eum summi sacerdotes in multis. 4 Pilatus autem rursum interrogavit eum, dicens: Non respondes quidquam? vide in quantis te accusant. 5 Jesus autem amplius nihil respondit, ita ut miraretur Pilatus. 6 Per diem autem festum solebat dimittere illis unum ex vinctis, quemcumque petissent. 7 Erat autem qui dicebatur Barrabas, qui cum seditiosis erat vinctus, qui in seditione fecerat homicidium. 8 Et cum ascendisset turba, cœpit rogare, sicut semper faciebat illis. 9 Pilatus autem respondit eis, et dixit: Vultis dimittam vobis regem Judæorum? 10 Sciebat enim quod per invidiam tradidissent eum summi sacerdotes. 11 Pontifices autem concitaverunt turbam, ut magis Barabbam dimitteret eis. 12 Pilatus autem iterum respondens, ait illis: Quid ergo vultis faciam regi Judæorum? 13 At illi iterum clamaverunt: Crucifige eum. 14 Pilatus vero dicebat illis: Quid enim mali fecit? At illi magis clamabant: Crucifige eum. 15 Pilatus autem volens populo satisfacere, dimisit illis Barabbam, et tradidit Jesum flagellis cæsum, ut crucifigeretur. 16 Milites autem duxerunt eum in atrium prætorii, et convocant totam cohortem, 17 et induunt eum purpura, et imponunt ei plectentes spineam coronam. 18 Et cœperunt salutare eum: Ave rex Judæorum. 19 Et percutiebant caput ejus arundine: et conspuebant eum, et ponentes genua, adorabant eum. 20 Et postquam illuserunt ei, exuerunt illum purpura, et induerunt eum vestimentis suis: et educunt illum ut crucifigerent eum. 21 Et angariaverunt prætereuntem quempiam, Simonem Cyrenæum venientem de villa, patrem Alexandri et Rufi, ut tolleret crucem ejus. 22 Et perducunt illum in Golgotha locum: quod est interpretatum Calvariæ locus. 23 Et dabant ei bibere myrrhatum vinum: et non accepit. 24 Et crucifigentes eum, diviserunt vestimenta ejus, mittentes sortem super eis, quis quid tolleret. 25 Erat autem hora tertia: et crucifixerunt eum. 26 Et erat titulus causæ ejus inscriptus: Rex Judæorum. 27 Et cum eo crucifigunt duos latrones: unum a dextris, et alium a sinistris ejus. 28 Et impleta est Scriptura, quæ dicit: Et cum iniquis reputatus est. 29 Et prætereuntes blasphemabant eum, moventes capita sua, et dicentes: Vah ! qui destruis templum Dei, et in tribus diebus reædificas, 30 salvum fac temetipsum descendens de cruce. 31 Similiter et summi sacerdotes illudentes, ad alterutrum cum scribis dicebant: Alios salvos fecit; seipsum non potest salvum facere. 32 Christus rex Israël descendat nunc de cruce, ut videamus, et credamus. Et qui cum eo crucifixi erant, convitiabantur ei. 33 Et facta hora sexta, tenebræ factæ sunt per totam terram usque in horam nonam. 34 Et hora nona exclamavit Jesus voce magna, dicens: Eloi, eloi, lamma sabacthani? quod est interpretatum: Deus meus, Deus meus, ut quid dereliquisti me? 35 Et quidam de circumstantibus audientes, dicebant: Ecce Eliam vocat. 36 Currens autem unus, et implens spongiam aceto, circumponensque calamo, potum dabat ei, dicens: Sinite, videamus si veniat Elias ad deponendum eum. 37 Jesus autem emissa voce magna expiravit. 38 Et velum templi scissum est in duo, a summo usque deorsum. 39 Videns autem centurio, qui ex adverso stabat, quia sic clamans expirasset, ait: Vere hic homo Filius Dei erat. 40 Erant autem et mulieres de longe aspicientes: inter quas erat Maria Magdalene, et Maria Jacobi minoris, et Joseph mater, et Salome: 41 et cum esset in Galilæa, sequebantur eum, et ministrabant ei, et aliæ multæ, quæ simul cum eo ascenderant Jerosolymam. 42 Et cum jam sero esset factum (quia erat parasceve, quod est ante sabbatum), 43 venit Joseph ab Arimathæa nobilis decurio, qui et ipse erat exspectans regnum Dei, et audacter introivit ad Pilatum, et petiit corpus Jesu. 44 Pilatus autem mirabatur si jam obiisset. Et accersito centurione, interrogavit eum si jam mortuus esset. 45 Et cum cognovisset a centurione, donavit corpus Joseph. 46 Joseph autem mercatus sindonem, et deponens eum involvit sindone, et posuit eum in monumento quod erat excisum de petra, et advolvit lapidem ad ostium monumenti. 47 Maria autem Magdalene et Maria Joseph aspiciebant ubi poneretur.
Mark 15 Clementine Vulgate
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Alexander
Named in Mark 15:21 as a son of Simon of Cyrene.
Cited in the guide: Mark 15:21
Barabbas
A notorious prisoner, an insurrectionist, whom the crowd chose to be released rather than Jesus.
Cited in the guide: Matthew 27:16; Matthew 27:17; Mark 15:7
James the younger
Called James the younger in Mark 15:40, the son of a Mary who watched at the crucifixion; the text does not say whether he is James son of Alphaeus or James the brother of Jesus.
Cited in the guide: Mark 15:40
Joseph of Arimathea
A rich man and member of the council from the Judean town of Arimathea, a disciple of Jesus (secretly, for fear of the Jews), who asked Pilate for the body and laid it in a new…
Cited in the guide: Matthew 27:57; Mark 15:43; Luke 23:50
Joses
Named in Mark 15:40 and 15:47 (Joses; Joseph in Matthew 27:56) as a son of the Mary who watched the crucifixion; the text does not identify him with Joses the brother of Jesus in…
Cited in the guide: Matthew 27:56; Mark 15:40
Mary
A woman who followed Jesus from Galilee and was at the cross, called the mother of James the younger and of Joses (Joseph) and seen at the burial and at the tomb; the text does…
Cited in the guide: Matthew 27:56; Mark 15:40; Mark 15:47
Rufus
Named in Mark 15:21 as a son of Simon of Cyrene.
Cited in the guide: Mark 15:21
Salome
A woman who followed Jesus from Galilee, named at the crucifixion and with Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James who bought spices for the body; Matthew 27:56 names the…
Cited in the guide: Mark 15:40; Mark 16:1
Simon of Cyrene
A man from Cyrene coming in from the country whom the soldiers forced to carry the cross of Jesus; Mark calls him the father of Alexander and Rufus.
Cited in the guide: Matthew 27:32; Mark 15:21; Luke 23:26
Cross references (43)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Matthew 27:1–2; Luke 22:66; Luke 23:1–5; Acts 3:13; John 18:28–38
- 2 Matthew 2:2; Matthew 27:11–14; 1 Timothy 6:13; Mark 15:26; Mark 15:18
- 3 Isaiah 53:7; John 19:12; John 19:6–7; Mark 14:60–61; Luke 23:2–5
- 4 John 19:10; Matthew 27:13; Matthew 26:62
- 5 Isaiah 53:7; Zechariah 3:8; Matthew 27:14; 1 Corinthians 4:9; Psalm 71:7
- 6 John 18:39–40; Acts 24:27; Acts 25:9; Matthew 27:15–26; Luke 23:16–25
- 7 Luke 23:18–19; Matthew 27:16; Luke 23:25
- 9 Matthew 27:17–21; John 19:14–16; John 19:4–5; John 18:39; Acts 3:13–15
- 10 Proverbs 27:4; 1 Samuel 18:8–9; Matthew 27:18; Genesis 4:4–6; Titus 3:3
- 11 Acts 3:14; Matthew 27:20; Hosea 5:1; John 18:40
- 12 Isaiah 9:6–7; Jeremiah 23:5–6; Matthew 27:22–23; Zechariah 9:9; John 19:14–16
- 14 Luke 23:41; Matthew 27:23–25; 1 Peter 1:19; Luke 23:4; Isaiah 53:3
- 15 Matthew 27:26; John 19:1; Isaiah 50:6; Mark 10:34; Psalm 129:3
- 16 Matthew 27:27–31; John 19:9; John 18:28; Matthew 26:3; Acts 10:1
- 17 Matthew 27:28–30; John 19:2–5; Luke 23:11
- 18 Matthew 27:42–43; Luke 23:36–37; Mark 15:29–32; Mark 15:2; Genesis 37:10
- 19 Mark 14:65; Isaiah 53:3–5; Psalm 35:15–17; Hebrews 12:2–3; Isaiah 50:6
- 20 John 19:16; Matthew 27:31
- 21 Matthew 27:32; Luke 23:26; Romans 16:13; Acts 13:1; Acts 11:20
- 22 Matthew 27:33–44; John 19:17–27; Luke 23:27–38
- 23 Matthew 27:34; Luke 22:18; John 19:28–30; Luke 23:36; Mark 14:25
- 24 Luke 23:34; John 19:23–24; Matthew 27:35–36; Isaiah 53:4–8; Psalm 22:16–18
- 25 John 19:14; Matthew 27:45; Mark 15:33; Luke 23:44; Acts 2:15
- 26 Matthew 27:37; John 19:18–22; Luke 23:37–38; Zechariah 9:9; Matthew 2:2
- 27 Luke 23:32–33; Matthew 27:38; John 19:18
- 29 Mark 14:58; Psalm 109:25; Lamentations 1:12; John 2:18–22; Lamentations 2:15
- 31 John 12:23–24; Matthew 27:41–43; Psalm 22:16–17; Psalm 2:1–4; 1 Peter 3:17–18
- 32 Matthew 27:44; Luke 23:39–43; Zephaniah 3:15; Isaiah 44:6; Matthew 1:17
- 33 Matthew 27:45; Luke 23:44–45; Amos 8:9–10; Mark 15:25; Isaiah 50:3–4
- 34 Psalm 22:1; Matthew 27:46; Hebrews 5:7; Psalm 27:9; Isaiah 41:17
- 35 Matthew 27:47–49; Matthew 17:11–13; Mark 9:11–13
- 36 Psalm 69:21; Mark 15:23; Luke 23:36; John 19:28–30
- 37 John 19:30; Luke 23:46; Matthew 27:50
- 38 Hebrews 10:19–23; Luke 23:45; Hebrews 9:3–12; Matthew 27:51–53; Leviticus 16:2–19
- 39 Luke 23:47–48; Matthew 27:54; Matthew 27:43; Acts 10:1; Acts 27:1–3
- 40 Matthew 27:55–56; Luke 23:49; Luke 8:2–3; Mark 16:9; Mark 15:47–16:1
- 41 Luke 8:2–3; Matthew 27:55–56
- 42 Luke 23:50–56; John 19:31; John 19:38–42; Matthew 27:57–62
- 43 Luke 2:38; Luke 2:25; Luke 23:51; John 19:38; Acts 17:12
- 44 John 19:31–37
- 45 John 19:38; Mark 15:39; Matthew 27:58
- 46 Isaiah 53:9; Matthew 27:59–60; John 11:38; Mark 16:3–4; Isaiah 22:16
- 47 Mark 15:40; Mark 16:1; Matthew 27:61; Luke 23:55–24:2; Matthew 28:1
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"Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers; and they stripped Him, and put on Him a purple robe; and when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it on His head, and a reed in His right hand; and they bowed the knee before …
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But what sort of gall put they into My mouth? They gave Him, it says, wine mingled with myrrh.
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And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour." The question, at what hour the Lord was crucified, because of the testimony supplied by another evangelist, who says, "And it was the third hour, and they crucified Him," we shall consider as we can, if the Lord please, when we are come to the passage itself …
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Mark at any rate saith, that "Pilate marvelled if He were already dead:" and that the centurion for this cause above all believed, because He died with power.
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