After the action of holding a trial, they take Jesus to Pilate. After Pilate interacts with a crowd of people who come to him to release a prisoner for the festival, he whips Jesus and gives orders for him to be crucified. After the soldiers mock Jesus through actions and speech, they crucify him. Joseph of Arimathea goes to Pilate and requests the corpse of Jesus, and Pilate, after he sends for the centurion and receives verification that Jesus is dead, gives permission to Joseph to bury Jesus' corpse. Joseph takes Jesus' body down from the cross, wraps it in linen cloth, and buries it in a tomb.
Women buy spices and come to the tomb after the sabbath to anoint the corpse.
The young man in the tomb announces the resurrection of Jesus and gives the women orders to go and tell Peter and the disciples what they have seen and heard. The forms of institutionalization and power are the temple, the Jewish court, the Roman military establishment, and the office of prefect in Jerusalem. Markan discourse, then, presents two dominant institutional forms in Jerusalem. The rationalization of the activity in Mark 15 is highly complex and conflicted. Just before he dies, Jesus cries out that God has forsaken him.