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Mark 15:27  l  876
27 They cru­ci­fied two reb­els with him,
one on his r ­ ight and one on his left. [28] a
29 Those who ­passed by ­hurled in­sults at
him, shak­ing ­their ­heads and say­ing, “So!
You who are go­ing to de­stroy the tem­ple
and ­build it in t ­ hree days, 30 come down
from the ­cross and save your­self !” 31 In the
same way the ­chief ­priests and the teach­
ers of the law ­mocked him ­among them­
selves. “He ­saved oth­ers,” they said, “but
he ­can’t save him­self ! 32   Let this Mes­si­ah,
this king of Is­ra­el, come down now from
the ­cross, that we may see and be­lieve.”
Those cru­ci­fied with him also h
­ eaped in­
sults on him.
The Death of ­Jesus
33 At noon, dark­ness came over the ­whole
land un­til t ­ hree in the af­ter­noon. 34 And at
three in the af­ter­noon ­Jesus ­cried out in a
loud ­voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sa­bach­tha­ni?  ”
(which ­means “My God, my God, why have
you for­sak­en me?”).  b
35 When some of ­those stand­ing near
heard this, they said, “Lis­ten, he’s call­ing
Eli­jah.”
36 Some­one ran, ­filled a ­sponge with
wine vin­egar, put it on a ­staff, and of­fered
it to ­Jesus to ­drink. “Now ­leave him ­alone.
Let’s see if Eli­jah ­comes to take him down,”
he said.
37 With a loud cry, ­Jesus ­breathed his last.
38 The cur­tain of the tem­ple was torn in
two from top to bot­tom. 39 And when the
cen­tu­ri­on, who ­stood ­there in ­front of
Jesus, saw how he died,  c he said, “Sure­ly
this man was the Son of God!”
40 Some wom­en were watch­ing from a
dis­tance. ­Among them were Mary Mag­da­
lene, Mary the moth­er of ­James the youn­
ger and of Jo­seph,  d and Sa­lo­me. 41  In Gal­i­lee
these wom­en had fol­lowed him and ­cared
for his n
­ eeds. Many oth­er wom­en who had
come up with him to Je­ru­sa­lem were also
there.
The Burial of ­Jesus
42 It was Prep­a r ­ a­tion Day (that is, the
day be­fore the Sab­bath). So as eve­ning ap­
proached, 43   Jo­seph of Ar­i­ma­thea, a prom­
i­nent mem­ber of the Coun­cil, who was
him­self wait­ing for the king­dom of God,
went bold­ly to Pi­late and ­asked for ­Jesus’
body. 44 Pi­late was sur­prised to hear that
he was al­ready dead. Sum­mon­ing the cen­
tu­ri­on, he ­asked him if ­Jesus had al­ready
died. 45 When he ­learned from the cen­tu­
ri­on that it was so, he gave the body to
Jo­seph. 46   So Jo­seph ­bought some lin­en
c ­ loth, took down the body, ­wrapped it in
the lin­en, and p
­ laced it in a tomb cut out
of rock. Then he ­rolled a ­stone ­against the
en­trance of the tomb. 47   Mary Mag­da­lene
and Mary the moth­er of Jo­seph saw ­where
he was laid.
Jesus Has Risen
16
When the Sab­bath was over, Mary
Mag­
d a­
l ene, Mary the moth­
e r of
James, and Sa­lo­me ­bought spic­es so that
they ­might go to a
­ noint ­Jesus’ body. 2 Very
ear­ly on the f ­ irst day of the week, just af­ter
sun­rise, they were on ­their way to the tomb
3 and they ­asked each oth­er, “Who will roll
the ­stone away from the en­trance of the
tomb?”
4 But when they l ­ ooked up, they saw that
the s ­ tone, ­which was very l ­ arge, had been
­rolled away. 5 As they en­tered the tomb,
they saw a ­young man d
­ ressed in a ­white
robe sit­ting on the r ­ ight side, and they
were alarmed.
6 “Don’t be ­alarmed,” he said. “You are
look­ing for ­Jesus the Naz­a­rene, who was
cru­ci­fied. He has ris­en! He is not here. See
the ­place ­where they laid him. 7 But go, tell
his dis­ci­ples and Pe­ter, ‘He is go­ing a
­ head
of you into Gal­i­lee. ­There you will see him,
just as he told you.’ ”
8   Trem­bling and be­wil­dered, the wom­
en went out and fled from the tomb. They
said noth­ing to any­one, be­cause they were
afraid.  e
[The earliest manuscripts and some other
ancient witnesses do not have verses 9 – ​20.]
9 When ­Jesus rose ear­ly on the ­first day of the
week, he ap­peared f ­ irst to Mary Mag­da­lene, out of
whom he had driv­en sev­en de­mons. 10 She went and
told ­those who had been with him and who were
mourn­ing and weep­ing. 11 When they ­heard that
Jesus was ­alive and that she had seen him, they
did not be­lieve it.
12 Af­ter­ward ­Jesus ap­peared in a dif­fer­ent form
to two of them ­while they were walk­ing in the
a  28  Some manuscripts include here words
similar to Luke 22:37.    b  34 Psalm 22:1   
c  39  Some manuscripts saw that he died with such
a cry    d  40 Greek Joses, a variant of Joseph;
also in verse 47    e  8  Some manuscripts have
the following ending between verses 8 and 9, and
one manuscript has it after verse 8 (omitting
verses 9-20): Then they quickly reported all these
instructions to those around Peter. After this, ­Jesus
himself also sent out through them from east to
west the sacred and imperishable proclamation of
eternal salvation. Amen.