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Mark 15:14

New Living Translation

“Why?” Pilate demanded. “What crime has he committed?” But the mob roared even louder, “Crucify him!”

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Those who hate me without cause outnumber the hairs on my head. Many enemies try to destroy me with lies, demanding that I give back what I didn’t steal.

He was despised and rejected— a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way. He was despised, and we did not care.

He had done no wrong and had never deceived anyone. But he was buried like a criminal; he was put in a rich man’s grave.

Just then, as Pilate was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent him this message: “Leave that innocent man alone. I suffered through a terrible nightmare about him last night.”

“I have sinned,” he declared, “for I have betrayed an innocent man.” “What do we care?” they retorted. “That’s your problem.”

The Roman officer and the other soldiers at the crucifixion were terrified by the earthquake and all that had happened. They said, “This man truly was the Son of God!”

They shouted back, “Crucify him!”

So to pacify the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them. He ordered Jesus flogged with a lead-tipped whip, then turned him over to the Roman soldiers to be crucified.

But they kept shouting, “Crucify him! Crucify him!”

Pilate turned to the leading priests and to the crowd and said, “I find nothing wrong with this man!”

We deserve to die for our crimes, but this man hasn’t done anything wrong.”

When the Roman officer overseeing the execution saw what had happened, he worshiped God and said, “Surely this man was innocent.”

“What is truth?” Pilate asked. Then he went out again to the people and told them, “He is not guilty of any crime.

When they saw him, the leading priests and Temple guards began shouting, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” “Take him yourselves and crucify him,” Pilate said. “I find him not guilty.”

They found no legal reason to execute him, but they asked Pilate to have him killed anyway.

But when the crowd realized he was a Jew, they started shouting again and kept it up for about two hours: “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians! Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

He is the kind of high priest we need because he is holy and blameless, unstained by sin. He has been set apart from sinners and has been given the highest place of honor in heaven.

It was the precious blood of Christ, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God.




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