Mark 15:1-15 NIV
1 Very early in the morning, the chief priests, with the elders, the
teachers of the law and the whole Sanhedrin, reached a decision.
They bound Jesus, led him away and handed him over to Pilate.
2"Are you the king of the Jews?" asked Pilate.
"Yes, it is as you say," Jesus replied.
3 The chief priests accused him of many things.
4 So again Pilate
asked him, "Aren't you going to answer? See how many things they are
accusing you of."
5 But Jesus still made no reply, and Pilate was amazed.
6 Now it was the custom at the Feast to release a prisoner whom the
people requested.
7 A man called 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 knowing it was out of envy that the chief priests had
handed Jesus over to him.
11 But the chief priests stirred up the
crowd to have Pilate release Barabbas instead.
12 "What shall I do, then, with the one you call the king of the
Jews?" Pilate asked them.
13 "Crucify him!" they shouted.
14 "Why? What crime has he committed?" asked Pilate.
But they shouted all the louder, "Crucify him!"
15 Wanting to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them. He
had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified.
