Marcos 15
1 Y luego por la mañana, habiendo tenido consejo los príncipes de los sacerdotes con los ancianos, y con los escribas, y con todo el concilio, llevaron a Jesús atado, y le entregaron a Pilato.
Very early in the morning the chief priests met together with [the rest of] the Jewish council, [in order to decide how to accuse Jesus before the Roman governor. Their guards] tied Jesus’ hands [again]. They took him to [the house of] Pilate, [the governor, and they started to accuse him, saying] “[Jesus is claiming that he is a king!]!”
2 Y Pilato le preguntó: ¿Eres tú el Rey de los Judíos? Y respondiendo él, le dijo: Tú lo dices.
Pilate asked Jesus, “Do you [claim to be] the king of the Jews?” Jesus answered him, “You yourself have said so.”
3 Y los príncipes de los sacerdotes le acusaban mucho.
Then the chief priests claimed that Jesus had done many bad things.
4 Y le preguntó otra vez Pilato, diciendo: ¿No respondes algo? Mira de cuántas cosas te acusan.
So Pilate asked him again, “Don’t you have anything to say? Listen to how many bad things they are saying that you [have done]!”
5 Mas Jesús ni aun con eso respondió; de modo que Pilato se maravillaba.
But [even though Jesus was not guilty], he did not say anything more. The result was that Pilate was very much surprised.
6 Pero en el día de la fiesta les soltaba un preso, cualquiera que pidiesen.
It was the governor’s custom [each year] during the [Passover] celebration to release [one person who was in prison. He customarily released] whichever prisoner the people requested.
7 Y había uno, que se llamaba Barrabás, preso con sus compañeros de motín que habían hecho muerte en una revuelta.
[At that time] there was a man called Barabbas who had been {whom [the soldiers had]} [put in prison with some other men]. Those men had murdered [some soldiers] when they rebelled [against the Roman government].
8 Y la multitud, dando voces, comenzó a pedir que hiciera como siempre les había hecho.
A crowd approached [Pilate] and asked him [to release someone], just like he customarily did for them [during the Passover celebration].
9 Y Pilato les respondió, diciendo: ¿Queréis que os suelte al Rey de los Judíos?
Pilate answered them, “Would you like me to release for you the [man whom you] Jewish [people say is your] king?”
10 Porque conocía que por envidia le habían entregado los príncipes de los sacerdotes.
[He asked this] because he realized what the chief priests were wanting to do. They were accusing Jesus because they were jealous of him [because many people were becoming his disciples].
11 Mas los príncipes de los sacerdotes incitaron a la multitud, que les soltase antes a Barrabás.
But the chief priests urged the crowd [to request] that Pilate release Barabbas for them instead [of Jesus].
12 Y respondiendo Pilato, les dice otra vez: ¿Qué pues queréis que haga del que llamáis Rey de los Judíos?
Pilate said to them again, “[If I release Barabbas], what do you want me to do with the man whom [some of] you Jews say is [your] king?”
13 Y ellos volvieron a dar voces: Cuélguenlo de un madero.
Then they shouted again, “[Command that your soldiers] crucify him!”
14 Mas Pilato les decía: ¿Pues qué mal ha hecho? Y ellos daban más voces: Cuélguenlo de un madero.
Then Pilate said to them, “Why? What crime has he committed?” But they shouted even louder, “[Command your soldiers to] crucify him!”
15 Y Pilato, queriendo satisfacer al pueblo, les soltó a Barrabás, y entregó a Jesús, después de azotarle, para que fuese colgado de un madero.
So, because Pilate wanted to please the crowd, he released Barabbas for them. Then, after [his soldiers] had whipped Jesus with leather straps into which they had fastened metal pieces, [Pilate told the soldiers to take him away] in order that he would be crucified {they would crucify him}.
16 Entonces los soldados le llevaron dentro del patio, es a saber al Pretorio; y convocan toda la cuadrilla.
The soldiers took Jesus into the [courtyard of the] palace [where Pilate lived]. That place was the government headquarters. Then they summoned the whole (cohort/group of soldiers) [who were on duty there].
17 Y le vistieron de púrpura; y poniéndole una corona tejida de espinas,
[After the soldiers gathered together], they put a purple robe on Jesus. Then they placed on his head a crown that they made from [branches of] thornbushes. [They did those things in order to ridicule him by pretending that he was a king].
18 Comenzaron luego a saludarle: ¡Salve, Rey de los Judíos!
Then they greeted him [like they would greet a king, in order to ridicule him], saying, “Hooray for the King [who rules] the Jews!”
19 Y le herían su cabeza con una caña, y escupían en él, y le adoraban hincadas las rodillas.
They repeatedly struck his head with a reed and spat on him. By kneeling down, they [pretended to honor] him.
20 Y cuando le hubieron escarnecido, le desnudaron la ropa de púrpura, y le vistieron sus propios vestidos, y le sacaron para colgarle del madero.
When they had finished ridiculing him, they pulled off the purple robe. They put his own clothes on him, and then they led him outside [of the city] in order to nail him to a cross.
21 Y cargaron a uno que pasaba, (Simón Cireneo, padre de Alejandro y de Rufo, que venía del campo), para que llevase su madero.
[After Jesus carried his cross a short distance], a man named Simon from Cyrene [city came along]. He was the father of Alexander and Rufus. He was passing by while he was returning [home] from outside [the city. The soldiers] compelled Simon to carry the cross [for Jesus].
22 Y le llevaron al lugar de Gólgota, que declarado quiere decir: Lugar de la Calavera.
They brought them both to a place that they [call] Golgotha. That name means, ‘a place [like] a skull’.
23 Y le dieron a beber vino mezclado con mirra; mas él no lo tomó.
Then they tried to give Jesus wine that was {that they} mixed with [medicine called] myrrh. [They wanted him to drink it so that he would not feel so much pain when they crucified him]. But he did not drink it.
24 Y cuando le hubieron colgado del madero, repartieron sus vestidos echando suertes sobre ellos, qué llevaría cada uno.
[Some] of the [soldiers took his clothes]. Then they nailed him to a cross. Afterwards, they divided his clothes among themselves by gambling with [something like] dice. They did this [in order to determine] which [piece of clothing] each one would get.
25 Y era la hora de las tres cuando le colgaron del madero.
It was nine o’clock in the morning when they crucified him.
26 Y el título escrito de su causa era: EL REY DE LOS JUDIOS.
They [attached to the cross above Jesus’ head] a sign on which it had been written {someone had written} the reason why [they were nailing him to the cross]. [But all] that it said was, “The King of the Jews.”
27 Y colgaron de maderos con él dos ladrones, uno a su mano derecha, y el otro a su mano izquierda.
They also nailed to crosses two men who were bandits. They nailed one to a cross at the right side [of Jesus] and one to a cross at the left side [of Jesus].
28 Y se cumplió la Escritura, que dice: Y con los inicuos fue contado.
29 Y los que pasaban le denostaban, meneando sus cabezas, y diciendo: ¡Ah! Tú que derribas el Templo de Dios, y en tres días lo edificas,
The people who were passing by insulted him by shaking their heads as [if here were an evil man]. They said, “Aha! You said that you would destroy the Temple and then you would build it again within three days.
30 sálvate a ti mismo, y desciende del madero.
[If you could do that, then] rescue yourself by coming down from the cross!”
31 Y de esta manera también los príncipes de los sacerdotes escarneciendo, decían unos a otros, con los escribas: A otros salvó, a sí mismo no se puede salvar.
The chief priests, along with the men who taught the [Jewish] laws, also [wanted to] make fun of Jesus. So they said to each other, “He [claims to have] saved others [from their sicknesses] [IRO] but he cannot save himself!
32 El Cristo, Rey de Israel, descienda ahora del madero, para que veamos y creamos. También los que estaban colgados de maderos con él le denostaban.
He said, ‘I am the Messiah, I am the King who [rules the people of] Israel.’ [If his words are true], he should come down now from the cross! Then we will believe [him]!” The [two] men who were crucified beside him also insulted him.
33 Y cuando vino la hora sexta, fueron hechas tinieblas sobre toda la tierra hasta la hora novena.
At noon the whole land became dark, [and it stayed dark] until three o’clock in the afternoon.
34 Y a la hora novena, exclamó Jesús a gran voz, diciendo: Eloi, Eloi, ¿lama sabactani? Que declarado, quiere decir: Dios mío, Dios mío, ¿por qué me has desamparado?
At three o’clock Jesus shouted loudly, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” That means, “My God, my God, why have you deserted me?”
35 Y oyéndole unos de los que estaban allí, decían: He aquí, llama a Elías.
When some of the people who were standing there heard [the word ‘Eloi’, misunderstanding it], they said, “Listen! He is calling for [the prophet] Elijah!”
36 Y corrió uno, y empapando una esponja en vinagre, y poniéndola en una caña, le dio a beber, diciendo: Dejad, veamos si vendrá Elías a quitarle.
One of them ran and filled a sponge with sour wine. He placed it on [the tip of] a reed, and then he [held it] up for [Jesus] to suck out [the wine that was in] it. [While he was doing that, someone] said, “Wait! Let’s see whether Elijah will come to take him down [from the cross]!”
37 Mas Jesús, dando una grande voz, expiró.
And then, after Jesus shouted loudly, he stopped breathing [and died].
38 Entonces el velo del Templo se rasgó en dos, de alto abajo.
[At that moment] the [heavy thick] curtain that closed off [the most holy place in] the Temple split into two pieces from top to bottom. [That showed that ordinary people could now go into the presence of God].
39 Y el centurión que estaba delante de él, viendo que había expirado así clamando, dijo: Verdaderamente este hombre era el Hijo de Dios.
The officer who supervised the soldiers [who nailed Jesus to the cross] was standing in front of Jesus. When he saw how Jesus died, he exclaimed, “Truly, this man was the man who was also God!”
40 Y también estaban algunas mujeres mirando de lejos; entre las cuales estaba María Magdalena, y María la madre de Jacobo el menor y de José, y Salomé;
There were also some women there, watching these events from a distance. They had accompanied Jesus when he was in Galilee [district], and they had provided what he needed. They had come with him to Jerusalem. Among those women was Mary from Magdala [town]. There was [another] Mary, who was the mother of the younger James and of Joses. There was also Salome.
41 las cuales, estando aún él en Galilea, le habían seguido, y le servían; y otras muchas que juntamente con él habían subido a Jerusalén.
42 Y cuando fue la tarde, porque era la preparación, es decir, la víspera del sábado,
When evening was near, [a man named] Joseph from Arimathea [town came there]. He was a member of the [Jewish] council, one whom everyone respected. He was also one of those who had been waiting expectantly for the [time when] God [would send] his king to begin to rule. [He knew that, according to Jewish law, people’s bodies had to be buried] {[someone had to bury people’s bodies]} [on the day they died. He also realized that] it was the day when [people] prepared [things for] ([the Jewish day of rest/the Sabbath]), [and that the Sabbath would start when the sun set]. So he became courageous and went to Pilate and asked Pilate [to permit him to take] the body of Jesus [down from the cross and bury it immediately].
43 José de Arimatea, senador noble, que también esperaba el Reino de Dios, vino, y osadamente entró a Pilato, y pidió el cuerpo de Jesús.
44 Y Pilato se maravilló que ya fuese muerto; y haciendo venir al centurión, le preguntó si era ya muerto.
Pilate was surprised [when he heard that] Jesus was already dead. So he summoned the officer who was in charge of the soldiers [who crucified Jesus], and he asked him if [Jesus] had already died.
45 Y enterado del centurión, dio el cuerpo a José.
When the officer told [Pilate that Jesus was dead], Pilate allowed Joseph [to take away] the body.
46 El cual compró una sábana, y quitándole, le envolvió en la sábana, y le puso en un sepulcro que estaba cavado en una peña, y revolvió la piedra a la puerta del sepulcro.
After Joseph bought a linen cloth, he [and others] took [Jesus’ body down from the cross]. They wrapped it in the linen cloth and laid it in a tomb that [previously] had been dug out of the rock [cliff]. Then they rolled a [huge flat] stone in front of the entrance to the tomb.
47 Y María Magdalena, y María madre de José, miraban donde era puesto.
Mary [from] Magdala and Mary the mother of Joses were watching where Jesus’ [body] was placed {where they placed Jesus’ [body]}.
