--- title: "Mark 15 — World English Bible | Favorite Scriptures" description: "Read Mark 15 in the World English Bible. Free Bible reading, no account needed. Browse books and chapters, then save favorite passages in your personal library." last_updated: "2026-10-08" doc_version: "1" language: "en" canonical: "https://favoritescriptures.com/bible/mark/15" --- [Home](/)/[Bible](/bible)/[Mark](/bible/mark)/15 World English Bible # Mark 15 [1](#verse-1) Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders, scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, bound Jesus, carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate. [2](#verse-2) Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” He answered, “So you say.” [3](#verse-3) The chief priests accused him of many things. [4](#verse-4) Pilate again asked him, “Have you no answer? See how many things they testify against you!” [5](#verse-5) But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate marveled. [6](#verse-6) Now at the feast he used to release to them one prisoner, whomever they asked of him. [7](#verse-7) There was one called Barabbas, bound with his fellow insurgents, men who in the insurrection had committed murder. [8](#verse-8) The multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do as he always did for them. [9](#verse-9) Pilate answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?” [10](#verse-10) For he perceived that for envy the chief priests had delivered him up. [11](#verse-11) But the chief priests stirred up the multitude, that he should release Barabbas to them instead. [12](#verse-12) Pilate again asked them, “What then should I do to him whom you call the King of the Jews?” [13](#verse-13) They cried out again, “Crucify him!” [14](#verse-14) Pilate said to them, “Why, what evil has he done?” But they cried out exceedingly, “Crucify him!” [15](#verse-15) Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified. [16](#verse-16) The soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium; and they called together the whole cohort. [17](#verse-17) They clothed him with purple; and weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on him. [18](#verse-18) They began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!” [19](#verse-19) They struck his head with a reed and spat on him, and bowing their knees, did homage to him. [20](#verse-20) When they had mocked him, they took the purple cloak off him, and put his own garments on him. They led him out to crucify him. [21](#verse-21) They compelled one passing by, coming from the country, Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to go with them that he might bear his cross. [22](#verse-22) They brought him to the place called Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, “The place of a skull.” [23](#verse-23) They offered him wine mixed with myrrh to drink, but he didn’t take it. [24](#verse-24) Crucifying him, they parted his garments among them, casting lots on them, what each should take. [25](#verse-25) It was the third hour when they crucified him. [26](#verse-26) The superscription of his accusation was written over him: “THE KING OF THE JEWS.” [27](#verse-27) With him they crucified two robbers, one on his right hand, and one on his left. [28](#verse-28) The Scripture was fulfilled which says, “He was counted with transgressors.” [29](#verse-29) Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads and saying, “Ha! You who destroy the temple and build it in three days, [30](#verse-30) save yourself, and come down from the cross!” [31](#verse-31) Likewise, also the chief priests mocking among themselves with the scribes said, “He saved others. He can’t save himself. [32](#verse-32) Let the Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe him.” Those who were crucified with him also insulted him. [33](#verse-33) When the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. [34](#verse-34) At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is, being interpreted, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” [35](#verse-35) Some of those who stood by, when they heard it, said, “Behold, he is calling Elijah.” [36](#verse-36) One ran, and filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Let him be. Let’s see whether Elijah comes to take him down.” [37](#verse-37) Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and gave up the spirit. [38](#verse-38) The veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom. [39](#verse-39) When the centurion, who stood by opposite him, saw that he cried out like this and breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!” [40](#verse-40) There were also women watching from afar, among whom were both Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome; [41](#verse-41) who, when he was in Galilee, followed him and served him; and many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem. [42](#verse-42) When evening had now come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath, [43](#verse-43) Joseph of Arimathaea, a prominent council member who also himself was looking for God’s Kingdom, came. He boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for Jesus’ body. [44](#verse-44) Pilate was surprised to hear that he was already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long. [45](#verse-45) When he found out from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph. [46](#verse-46) He bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen cloth and laid him in a tomb which had been cut out of a rock. He rolled a stone against the door of the tomb. [47](#verse-47) Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses, saw where he was laid. [← Mark 14](/bible/mark/14)[Mark 16 →](/bible/mark/16) World English Bible · Public domain ## Keep what speaks to you. Create a free library to save passages, highlight verses, and keep your study notes together. [Start your free library](/login?mode=signup) ## Sitemap See the [complete sitemap](/sitemap.md).