MODERN LITERAL VERSION

15:1 And immediately in the morning, the high-priests with the elders and scribes and the whole ruling council made* a council together and bound Jesus and carried him away and gave him up to Pilate.
{Mt 27:3-10 & Acts 1:18-19 Friday morning and toward the future.}
{Mk 15:2-5 & Mt 27:11-14 & Lk 23:2-5 & Jn 18:28-38 Jerusalem early Friday morning.}

15:2 And Pilate asked him, Are you the King of the Jews?
And answering, he said to him, You speak correctly.

15:3 And the high-priests accused him of many things.

15:4 And Pilate asked him again, saying, Do you answer nothing? Behold how many things they are testifying against you.
15:5 But Jesus no more answered anything; so-that Pilate marveled.
{Lk 23:6-12 Jerusalem early Friday morning.}
{Mk 15:6-19 & Mt 27:15-30 & Jn 18:39-19:16 Friday, April 7, 30AD.}

15:6 Now he would release to them one prisoner at the feast, whomever they asked for.
15:7 And there was one called Barabbas, bound with his fellow rioters, who in the riot had practiced murder.
15:8 And the crowd crying out, began to ask him to do like he did habitually for them.
15:9 And Pilate answered them, saying, Do you* wish that I might release to you* the King of the Jews?
15:10 For* he knew that because of envy the high-priests had given him up.
15:11 But the high-priests stirred up the crowd, that* he should rather release Barabbas to them.
15:12 And Pilate again answering said to them, Then* what do you* wish that I might do to him whom you* call the King of the Jews?

15:13 And they cried out again, Crucify him!

15:14 And Pilate said to them, For* what evil has he done?
But they cried out even-more, Crucify him.
15:15 And Pilate, willing to do what was sufficient for the crowd, released to them Barabbas and gave up Jesus, having scourged him, that* he might be crucified.

15:16 And the soldiers led him away, inside the courtyard, which is the palace, and they call together the whole cohort.
15:17 And they clothe him with purple and braided a thorny crown and they placed it around his head;
15:18 and they began to greet him, Hail, King of the Jews!
15:19 And they beat his head with a reed and spit on him and placing their knees down, worshiped him.
{Mk 15:20-23 & Mt 27:31-34 & Lk 23:26-33 & Jn 19:17 Road to the Cross, Friday morning.}

15:20 And when they had mocked him, they stripped the purple off him and clothed him with his own garments. And they lead him out that* they should crucify him.
15:21 And they compel one, Simon from Cyrene, passing by, coming from the rural area, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to go with them, that* he might lift up his cross.
15:22 And they bring him to the place called Golgotha, which is, after being translated, The place of a skull.
15:23 And they gave to him wine medicated with myrrh to drink, but he did not take it.
{Mk 15:24-32 & Mt 27:35-44 & Lk 23:33-43 & Jn 19:18-27 9:00 until Noon, Friday.}

15:24 And having crucified him, they divide his garments, casting lots upon them, who and what each might take.
15:25 And it was the third hour and they crucified him.
15:26 And the inscription of his accusation was written on the cross, THE KING OF THE JEWS.
15:27 And they crucify two robbers with him; one at his right and one at his left.
15:28 And the Scripture was fulfilled, which says ‘And he was counted with the lawless.' {Is. 53:12}
15:29 And those who traveled by blasphemed him, wagging their heads and saying, Ha! You who will tear-down the temple and build it in three days;
15:30 save yourself and come down from the cross.

15:31 And likewise the high-priests mocking him among themselves with the scribes said, He saved others , but he is not able to save himself.
15:32 Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross, that* we may see and may believe in him. And those who were crucified together with him reproached him.
{Mk 15:34 & Mt 27:45 & Lk 23:44 around Noon.}

15:33 And when it became the sixth hour, there became darkness over the whole earth until the ninth hour.
{Mk 15:34-41 & Mt 27:46-56 & Lk 23:45-49 & Jn 19:28-30 around 5:00 PM.}

15:34 And in the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, after being translated, ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' {Ps. 22:1}

15:35 And some of those standing beside him, when they heard it, said, Behold, he is summoning Elijah.
15:36 And one having run and filled a sponge with vinegar, placed it around a reed and gave it to him to drink, saying, Allow it, that we may see if Elijah comes to take him down.

15:37 And Jesus expired, leaving with a loud voice.
15:38 And the curtain of the temple was split-apart, into two pieces, from the top to the bottom.
15:39 And when the centurion, who was standing beside, opposite from him, saw that thus he, having cried out, expired, said, Truly this man was the Son of God.
15:40 And there were also women viewing from afar, among whom were both Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses and Salome;
15:41 who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him and served him, and many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.
{Mk 15:42-47 & Mt 27:57-66 & Lk 23:50-56 & Jn 19:31-42 Before The Sabbath.}

15:42 And already becoming evening, since it was the Preparation, that is, the daytime before the Sabbath,
15:43 Joseph, a prominent counselor, came, who was from Arimathaea, who himself was also waiting for the kingdom of God, and being daring, he went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.
15:44 Now Pilate marveled if he had already died and calling to him the centurion, he asked him if he had been dead very-long.
15:45 And when he knew it from the centurion, he bestowed as a gift the body to Joseph.
15:46 And he bought a linen cloth and taking him down, coiled him in the linen cloth and placed him in a tomb which had been hewn out of a rock, and he rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.
15:47 And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses viewed where he was laid.
{Mk 16:1-8 & Mt 28:1-8 & Lk 24:1-8, 12 & Jn 20:1-10 Dawn and very early Sunday.}