NIV Butterfly Garden Holy Bible Book of Mark, "Prayer Is..., Getting to Know Jesus | Page 20

875  l   Mark 15:26
62 “I am,” said ­Jesus. “And you will see
the Son of Man sit­ting at the r ­ ight hand of
the M
­ ighty One and com­ing on the c ­ louds
of heav­en.”
63 The high ­priest tore his ­clothes. “Why
do we need any more wit­ness­es?” he a
­ sked.
64 “You have h
­ eard the blas­phe­my. What do
you think?”
They all con­demned him as wor­thy of
­death. 65 Then some be­gan to spit at him;
they blind­fold­ed him, s ­ truck him with
their f ­ ists, and said, “Proph­e s ­ y!” And the
guards took him and beat him.
Peter Disowns ­Jesus
66 While Pe­ter was be­low in the court­
yard, one of the ser­vant ­girls of the high
priest came by. 67 When she saw Pe­
­
ter
warm­ing him­self, she ­looked close­ly at
him.
“You also were with that Naz­
a­
rene,
Jesus,” she said.
68 But he de­nied it. “I d
­ on’t know or un­
der­stand what ­you’re talk­ing ­about,” he
said, and went out into the en­try­way.  a
69 When the ser­vant girl saw him ­there,
she said ­again to ­those stand­ing ­around,
“This fel­low is one of them.” 70 Again he
de­nied  it.
Af­ter a lit­tle ­while, ­those stand­ing near
said to Pe­ter, “Sure­ly you are one of them,
for you are a Gal­i­le­an.”
71 He be­gan to call down curs­es, and he
swore to them, “I ­don’t know this man
you’re talk­ing about.”
72   Im­me­di­ate­ly the roost­er ­crowed the
sec­ond time.  b Then Pe­ter re­mem­bered the
word ­Jesus had spo­ken to him: “Be­fore the
roost­er ­crows ­twice  c you will dis­own me
three ­times.” And he ­broke down and wept.
Jesus Before Pilate
15
Very ear­ly in the morn­ing, the c ­ hief
priests, with the el­ders, the teach­ers
of the law and the ­whole San­he­drin, m
­ ade
their plans. So they ­bound ­Jesus, led him
away and hand­ed him over to Pi­late.
2 “Are you the king of the Jews?” a
­ sked
Pi­late.
“You have said so,” ­Jesus re­plied.
3 The c ­ hief ­priests ac­cused him of many
things. 4 So a
­ gain Pi­late ­asked him, “Aren’t
you go­ing to an­swer? See how many t ­ hings
they are ac­cus­ing you of.”
5 But ­Jesus s ­ till made no re­ply, and Pi­late
was amazed.
6 Now it was the cus­tom at the fes­ti­val
to re­lease a pris­on­er whom the peo­ple re­
quest­ed. 7 A man c ­ alled Bar­ab­bas was in
pris­on with the in­sur­rec­tion­ists who had
com­mit­ted mur­der in the up­ris­ing. 8 The
crowd came up and ­asked Pi­late to do for
them what he usu­al­ly did.
9 “Do you want me to re­lease to you the
king of the Jews?” ­asked Pi­late, 10 know­
ing it was out of self-interest that the
chief p
­ riests had hand­ed ­Jesus over to
him. 11 But the ­chief ­priests ­stirred up the
crowd to have Pi­late re­lease Bar­ab­bas in­
stead.
12 “What ­shall I do, then, with the one
you call the king of the Jews?” Pi­late a
­ sked
them.
13  “Cru­ci­fy him!” they shout­ed.
14 “Why? What ­crime has he com­mit­ted?”
asked Pi­late.
But they shout­ed all the loud­er, “Cru­ci­
fy him!”
15   Want­ing to sat­is­fy the ­crowd, Pi­late
re­leased Bar­ab­bas to them. He had ­Jesus
flogged, and hand­ed him over to be cru­
ci­fied.
The Soldiers Mock ­Jesus
16 The sol­diers led ­Jesus away into the
pal­ace (that is, the Prae­to­ri­um) and c ­ alled
to­geth­er the ­whole com­pa­ny of sol­diers.
17 They put a pur­ple robe on him, then
twist­ed to­geth­er a c ­ rown of ­thorns and set
it on him. 18 And they be­gan to call out to
him, “Hail, king of the Jews!” 19 Again and
again they ­struck him on the head with
a ­staff and spit on him. Fall­ing on ­their
knees, they paid hom­age to him. 20 And
when they had m
­ ocked him, they took off
the pur­ple robe and put his own ­clothes on
him. Then they led him out to cru­ci­fy him.
The Crucifixion of ­Jesus
21 A cer­tain man from Cy­re­ne, Si­mon, the
fa­ther of Al­ex­an­der and Ru­fus, was pass­
ing by on his way in from the coun­try, and
they ­forced him to car­ry the ­cross. 22 They
­brought ­Jesus to the ­place ­called Gol­go­
tha (which ­means “the ­place of the ­skull”).
23 Then they of­fered him wine m
­ ixed with
myrrh, but he did not take it. 24 And they
cru­ci­fied him. Di­vid­ing up his c ­ lothes, they
cast lots to see what each ­would get.
25 It was nine in the morn­ing when they
cru­ci­fied him. 26 The writ­ten no­tice of the
charge a
­ gainst him read: the king of the
jews.
a  68  Some early manuscripts entryway and the
rooster crowed    b  72  Some early manuscripts
do not have the second time.    c  72  Some early
manuscripts do not have twice.