Exodus 25:1-9 and Mark 15:21-32 (NLT)

Exodus 25:1-9
Offerings for the Tabernacle

1  The Lord said to Moses, 

2  “Tell the people of Israel to bring me their sacred offerings. Accept the contributions from all whose hearts are moved to offer them. 

3  Here is a list of sacred offerings you may accept from them:  gold, silver, and bronze;

4  blue, purple, and scarlet thread;  fine linen and goat hair for cloth;

5  tanned ram skins and fine goatskin leather;  acacia wood;

6  olive oil for the lamps;  spices for the anointing oil and the fragrant incense;

7  onyx stones, and other gemstones to be set in the ephod and the priest’s chestpiece.

8  “Have the people of Israel build me a holy sanctuary so I can live among them. 

9  You must build this Tabernacle and its furnishings exactly according to the pattern I will show you.

Mark 15:21-32

Crucifixion

21  A passerby named Simon, who was from Cyrene, was coming in from the countryside just then, and the soldiers forced him to carry Jesus’ cross. (Simon was the father of Alexander and Rufus.) 

22  And they brought Jesus to a place called Golgotha (which means “Place of the Skull”). 

23  They offered him wine drugged with myrrh, but he refused it.

24  Then the soldiers nailed him to the cross. They divided his clothes and threw dice to decide who would get each piece. 

25  It was nine o’clock in the morning when they crucified him. 

26  A sign announced the charge against him. It read, “The King of the Jews.” 

27-28  Two revolutionaries were crucified with him, one on his right and one on his left.

29  The people passing by shouted abuse, shaking their heads in mockery. “Ha! Look at you now!” they yelled at him. “You said you were going to destroy the Temple and rebuild it in three days. 

30  Well then, save yourself and come down from the cross!”

31  The leading priests and teachers of religious law also mocked Jesus. “He saved others,” they scoffed, “but he can’t save himself! 

32  Let this Messiah, this King of Israel, come down from the cross so we can see it and believe him!” Even the men who were crucified with Jesus ridiculed him.