Mark 15:3

But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”

But he stayed quiet, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, “Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?”

They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”

The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.

He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.

When they had mocked him, they took the robe off him, and put his clothes on him, and led him away to crucify him.

The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.

But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.

He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.

For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on.

He questioned him with many words, but he gave no answers.

whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!”

Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

“ ‘If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring a female without defect.

The two men, the wicked fellows, came in and sat before him. The wicked fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.

But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite servant, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, and despised us, and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?”

I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.

Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.

I am a marvel to many, but you are my strong refuge.

Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Armies, who dwells in Mount Zion.

Then the priests and the prophets spoke to the princes and to all the people, saying, “This man is worthy of death; for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.”

“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

Hear now, Joshua the high priest, you and your fellows who sit before you; for they are men who are a sign: for, behold, I will bring out my servant, the Branch.

Yahweh said to me, “Throw it to the potter, the handsome price that I was valued at by them!” I took the thirty pieces of silver, and threw them to the potter, in Yahweh’s house.

From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.

and they will kill him, and the third day he will be raised up.” They were exceedingly sorry.

When he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.

He gave him no answer, not even one word, so that the governor marveled greatly.

They spat on him, and took the reed and struck him on the head.

“Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death, and will deliver him to the Gentiles.

They led Jesus away to the high priest. All the chief priests, the elders, and the scribes came together with him.

But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate marveled.

Then Pilate spoke to them again, wanting to release Jesus,

saying that the Son of Man must be delivered up into the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and the third day rise again?”

So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”

nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.”

They answered him, “If this man weren’t an evildoer, we wouldn’t have delivered him up to you.”

Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”

At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, “If you release this man, you aren’t Caesar’s friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!”

Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, “JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”

Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.

Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, so he doesn’t open his mouth.

For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.

but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish or spot, the blood of Christ,