Mark 15:31 Cross References - Murdock

³¹ And so also the chief priests, jeering one with another, and the Scribes, said: He gave life to others, his own life he cannot save.

⁴¹ So also the chief priests mocked, with the Scribes and Elders and Pharisees, ⁴² and said: He gave life to others, his own life he cannot preserve. If he is the king of Israel, let him now descend from the cross, and we will believe in him. † ⁴³ He trusted in God; let him rescue him now, if he hath pleasure in him: for he said, I am the Son of God.

³⁵ And the people stood and looked on; and the rulers also derided him, and said: He quickened others; let him quicken himself, if he is the Messiah, the chosen of God. ³⁶ And the soldiers like wise mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar, ³⁷ and saying to him: If thou art the king of the Jews, quicken thyself.

⁴⁷ And the chief priests and Pharisees assembled together, and said: What shall we do? For this man worketh many signs. ⁴⁸ And if we thus let him alone, all the people will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and will take away our place and our nation. ⁴⁹ But, one of them, named Caiaphas, was the high priest of that year; and he said to them: Ye know not any thing. ⁵⁰ Neither do ye consider, that it is expedient for us, that one man die for the people, and not that this whole people perish. ⁵¹ This he said, however, not from the promptings of his own mind; but being the high priest of that year, he prophesied, that Jesus was about to die for the people: ⁵² and not only for the people, but also that he might collect together the sons of God that were dispersed.

²³ And Jesus answered, and said to them: The hour is come that the Son of man should be glorified. ²⁴ Verily, verily, I say to you, That a kernel of wheat, unless it fall and die in the ground, remaineth alone; but if it die, it produceth numerous fruits.

¹⁷ For it is profitable to you, that ye suffer evil while ye do good deeds, if this should be the pleasure of God; and not, while ye do evil deeds. ¹⁸ For the Messiah also once died for our sins, the righteous for sinners; that he might bring you to God. And he died in body, but lived in spirit.