Mark 15:22-34

22The soldiers took Jesus to a place that is called Golgotha. (Golgotha means ‘the place of a skull’.)

23They tried to give Jesus some wine to drink. They had mixed some medicine called myrrh into the wine. But Jesus would not drink it.

24Then the soldiers fixed Jesus onto the cross. They took his clothes for themselves. They played a game to decide which soldier would receive each of his clothes.

25It was about nine o'clock in the morning when the soldiers fixed Jesus to the cross.

26They put a notice there to show the reason why they were killing him. It said, ‘The King of the Jews’.

27They also put two robbers on crosses near to Jesus. One robber was on Jesus' right side. The other robber was on his left side.

28[The Bible says that this would happen. It says, ‘People thought of him as someone who did not obey God's Law.’]

29The people who walked near there insulted Jesus. They laughed at him and they said, ‘Oh! You said that you would destroy the temple. And you said that in three days you would build it again.

30If you can really do that, save yourself. Come down from the cross!’

31The leaders of the priests and the teachers of God's Law laughed at him. They said to each other, ‘This man saved other people, did he? But he cannot save his own life!

32If he is the Messiah, the king of Israel, he should come down from the cross now. Then we would see it and we would believe in him.’ The two men who were on the crosses next to Jesus also insulted him.

33At midday, the whole country became dark for three hours.

34At three o'clock in the afternoon, Jesus shouted loudly, ‘Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?’ That means, ‘My God, my God, why have you left me alone?’