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828  |  Mark 14:64 
do we need any more wit­ness­es?” he ­a sked.
have ­heard the blas­phe­my. What do
you think?”
They all con­demned him as wor­t hy of
death. 65  Then some be­gan to spit at him; they
blind­fold­ed him, ­struck him with ­t heir ­f ists,
and said, “Proph­e­sy!” And the ­g uards took him
and beat him.
64  “You
Peter Disowns Jesus
66  While Pe­ter was be­low in the court­y ard,
one of the ser­vant ­g irls of the high ­priest came
by. 67  When she saw Pe­ter warm­i ng him­self,
she ­looked close­ly at him.
“You also were with that Naz­a ­rene, ­Jesus,”
she said.
68  But he de­n ied it. “I ­don’t know or un­der­
stand what ­you’re talk­i ng ­about,” he said, and
went out into the en­t ry­way.  a
69  When the ser­v ant girl saw him ­t here, she
said ­again to ­t hose stand­i ng ­a round, “This fel­
low is one of them.” 70  Again he de­n ied it.
Af­ter a lit­t le ­while, ­t hose stand­i ng near said
to Pe­ter, “Sure­ly you are one of them, for you
are a Gal­i ­le­a n.”
71  He be­g an to call down curs­e s, and he
s wore to them, “I ­don’t know this man ­you’re
talk­i ng about.”
72  Im­me­d i­ate­l y the roost­er ­c rowed the sec­
ond time.  b Then Pe­ter re­mem­bered the word
Jesus had spo­ken to him: “Be­fore the roost­er
crows ­t wice  c you will dis­own me ­t hree ­t imes.”
And he ­broke down and wept.
Jesus Before Pilate
15
Very ear­l y in the morn­i ng, the ­c hief
priests, with the el­ders, the teach­ers of
the law and the ­whole San­he­d rin, ­made their
plans. So they ­bound ­Jesus, led him away and
hand­ed him over to Pi­late.
2  “Are you the king of the Jews?” ­asked Pi­late.
“You have said so,” ­Jesus re­plied.
3  The ­c hief ­priests ac­c used him of many
t hings. 4  So ­again Pi­late ­asked him, “Aren’t you
go­i ng to an­s wer? See how many ­t hings they
are ac­cus­i ng you of.”
5  But ­Jesus ­s till made no re­ply, and Pi­l ate
was amazed.
6  Now it was the cus­tom at the fes­t i­v al to re­
lease a pris­on­er whom the peo­ple re­quest­ed.
7  A man ­c alled Bar­a b­b as was in pris­on with
the in­sur­rec­t ion­ists who had com­m it­ted mur­
der in the up­r is­i ng. 8  The ­c rowd came up and
a sked Pi­late to do for them what he usu­a l­l y
did.
a  68 
9  “Do you want me to re­lease to you the king
of the Jews?” ­asked Pi­late, 10  know­i ng it was out
of self-interest that the ­chief ­priests had hand­
ed ­Jesus over to him. 11  But the ­chief ­priests
stirred up the ­crowd to have Pi­late re­lease Bar­
ab­bas in­stead.
12  “What ­s hall I do, then, with the one you
call the king of the Jews?” Pi­late ­asked them.
13  “Cru­c i­f y him!” they shout­ed.
14  “Why? What ­c rime has he com­m it­t ed?”
asked Pi­late.
But they shout­e d all the loud­er, “Cru­c i­f y
him!”
15  Want­i ng to sat­i s­f y the ­c rowd, Pi­l ate re­
leased Bar­ab­bas to them. He had ­Jesus ­f logged,
and hand­ed him over to be cru­ci­f ied.
The Soldiers Mock Jesus
16  The sol­d iers led ­Jesus away into the pal­
ace (that is, the Prae­to­r i­u m) and ­called to­geth­
er the ­whole com­pa­ny of sol­d iers. 17  They put
a pur­ple robe on him, then twist­e d to­geth­
er a ­c rown of ­t horns 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. Fall­
ing on ­t heir ­k nees, they paid hom­age to him.
20  And when they had ­mocked him, they took
off the pur­ple robe and put his own ­clothes on
him. Then they led him out to cru­ci­f y him.
The Crucifixion of Jesus
21  A cer­tain man from Cy­re­ne, Si­mon, the fa­
ther of Al­ex­an­der and Ru­f us, was pass­ing by on
his way in from the coun­try, and they ­forced him
to car­r y the ­cross. 22  They ­brought ­Jesus to the
place ­called Gol­go­t ha (which ­means “the ­place
of the ­skull”). 23  Then they of­fered him wine
mixed with ­myrrh, but he did not take it. 24  And
they cru­ci­f ied him. Di­v id­ing up his ­clothes, they
cast lots to see what each ­would get.
25  It was nine in the morn­i ng when they cru­
ci­f ied him. 26  The writ­ten no­t ice of the ­charge
against him read: the king of the jews.
27  They cru­c i­f ied two reb­els with him, one
on his ­r ight and one on his left. [28] d 29  Those
who ­passed by ­hurled in­sults at him, shak­i ng
t heir ­heads and say­i ng, “So! You who are go­i ng
to de­stroy the tem­ple and ­build it in ­t hree days,
30  come down from the ­c ross and save your­
self !” 31  In the same way the ­chief ­priests and
the teach­ers of the law ­mocked him ­a mong
them­selves. “He ­saved oth­ers,” they said, “but
he ­can’t save him­self ! 32  Let this Mes­si­a h, this
king of Is­ra­el, come down now from the ­cross,
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.    d  28  Some manuscripts include here words similar to
Luke 22:37.