It is Finished

Mark 15 

1 And straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him to Pilate. first thing in the morning... Sakhar. the chief priests, less Zechariah? these priests were in cahoots with Pilate? They must have been Herodian plants
2 And Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answering said unto them, Thou sayest it. Pilate would have known that Herod was considered the king of the Jews by Rome
3 And the chief priests accused him of many things: but he answered nothing.
4 And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing? behold how many things they witness against thee.
5 But Jesus yet answered nothing; so that Pilate marvelled.
6 Now at that feast he released unto them one prisoner, whomsoever they desired. this seems superfluous - it must have a deeper meaning
7 And there was one named Barabbas, which lay bound with them that had made insurrection with him, who had committed murder in the insurrection.
8 And the multitude crying aloud began to desire him to do as he had ever done unto them. pro-Roman propaganda
9 But Pilate answered them, saying, Will ye that I release unto you the King of the Jews?
10 For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy.
11 But the chief priests moved the people, that he should rather release Barabbas unto them.
12 And Pilate answered and said again unto them, What will ye then that I shall do unto him whom ye call the King of the Jews?
13 And they cried out again, Crucify him.
14 Then Pilate said unto them, Why, what evil hath he done? And they cried out the more exceedingly, Crucify him.
15 And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.
16 And the soldiers led him away into the hall, called Praetorium; and they call together the whole band.
17 And they clothed him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his head,
18 And began to salute him, Hail, King of the Jews! note the absence of Herod, whom Rome had made ''king of the Jews'': this offense would have gotten the soldiers and Pilate in deep trouble if it were known to Herod.
19 And they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon him, and bowing their knees worshipped him.
20 And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple from him, and put his own clothes on him, and led him out to crucify him.
21 And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.
22 And they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, The place of a skull. 
23 And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but he received it not.
24 And when they had crucified him, they parted his garments, casting lots upon them, what every man should take.
25 And it was the third hour, and they crucified him.
26 And the superscription of his accusation was written over, The King Of The Jews. This would have been perceived as a severe insult to the Herodians, whom claimed to be the Rome-sanctioned kings of the Jews
27 And with him they crucify two thieves; the one on his right hand, and the other on his left.
28 And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And he was numbered with the transgressors.
29 And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days,
30 Save thyself, and come down from the cross.
31 Likewise also the chief priests mocking said among themselves with the scribes, He saved others; himself he cannot save.
32 Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him reviled him. the other two were most likely Zealots: why would they revile he whom they were fighting for?
33 And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
35 And some of them that stood by, when they heard it, said, Behold, he calleth Elias.
36 And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elias will come to take him down.
37 And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost.
38 And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.
39 And when the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God. So the Jews did not recognize their own messiah, but a Roman guard did?
40 There were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;
41 (Who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and ministered unto him;) and many other women which came up with him unto Jerusalem. Where were all the men?
42 And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,
43 Joseph of Arimathaea, an honorable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.
44 And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead. Jesus or Joseph? It sounds like Pilate might be questioning the centurion regarding Joseph being ''already dead''.
45 And when he knew it of the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph. The author speaks of the body of the Messiah as simply ''the body''? Suspicious...
46 And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.
47 And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was laid. Two Marys present - just like at the raising of Lazarus

Relative hour (Hebrew singular: shaʿah zǝmanit / שעה זמנית; plural: shaʿot - zǝmaniyot / שעות זמניות), sometimes called halachic hour, seasonal hour and variable hour, is a term used in rabbinic Jewish law that assigns 12 hours to each day and 12 hours to each night, all throughout the year. A relative hour has no fixed radical, but changes with the length of each day - depending on summer (when the days are long and the nights are short), and in winter (when the days are short and the nights are long). Even so, in all seasons a day is always divided into 12 hours, and a night is always divided into 12 hours, which inevitably makes for a longer hour or a shorter hour. All of the hours mentioned by the Sages in either the Mishnah or Talmud, or in other rabbinic writings, refer strictly to relative hours.

Another feature of this ancient practice is that, unlike the standard modern 12-hour clock that assigns 12 o'clock pm for noon time, in the ancient Jewish tradition noon time was always the sixth hour of the day, whereas the first hour began with the break of dawn, by most exponents of Jewish law, and with sunrise by the Vilna Gaon and Rabbi Hai Gaon. Midnight (12:00am) was also the sixth hour of the night, whereas the first hour of the night began when the first three stars appeared in the night sky.

John 19:28-30 Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.” A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus’ lips. When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

Shalom can mean "complete: finished, done.", but also means "Evening". Therefore, "It is finished" is synonymous with "It is evening": when Jesus said "It is shalom", he wasn't stating that it was finished, he was stating that evening (shalom) had come, which corresponds with the fact that shortly thereafter, as the New Testament states, darkness came upon the earth. The NT also states that Salome (Evening) was there upon a hill watching the crucifixion with Mary Magdalen (Night) and the Virgin Mary (Day).

33. Three hours of darkness between the sixth hour and the ninth hour. In Jewish terms this would have been between midnight; however in Roman time, the sixth hour would have been 6AM (Dawn). This coincides with the Dance of Salome and the beheading of John in that the term Salome is derived from the deity of Dusk (Shalome) and the term Zechariah is derived from the deity of Dawn (Sachar). Darkness overtaking dawn... it is finished equating to it is Salome equating to it is evening (the sky is growing dark)... perhaps a solar eclipse... much like the ''Dance of Salome'' that lead to John the Baptist's ''beheading''. According to Wikipedia, "The Romano-Jewish historian Josephus lists Antipas's stepdaughter's name as Salome, but makes no mention of a dance nor makes any connection between Salome and John the Baptist." If it had been a factual event, Josephus would have recorded it. In fact, if such a beheading had taken place, it would have been such a common knowledge that he could not have failed to mention it.

37. Jesus ''gave up the ghost'': the Holy Ghost? The third phase of the trinity? Osiris (''Lazarus'')?

38. The veil of the temple which as a child Mary had sewn the purple and scarlet portions of. Salome's dance was called the dance of the seven veils... Isis' veil, under which no man has ever seen.

the Mesopotamian goddess Inanna "performed the first documented striptease" when she descended into the Kur (underworld), ruled by her sister Ereshkigal, in search of her faithless lover Dumuzid. Inanna had to divest herself of the mysterious "seven mé" (conjecturally, her various jewels and robes) in her descent through seven successive gates leading ever deeper into the underworld until at last she stood naked in the 'land of no return.'