Mark 15:9
And Pilate answered them, saying, Do ye wish that I would release to you the king of the Jews?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
But Pilate answered them, saying, Will ye that I release unto you the King of the Jews?
In Context
8And having cried aloud, the multitude began to ask as he was always doing for them.
10For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him up because of envy.
Cross References
Matthew 27:17When therefore they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, Whom do ye want I should release to you? Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?
John 19:4Therefore Pilate again went forth outside, and says to them, Behold, I bring him out to you, so that ye may know that I find not one cause in him.
Acts 3:13The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Boy Jesus, whom ye actually delivered up and denied him in the presence of Pilate who preferred to release that man.
Matthew Henry on Mark 15:2-15
Christ Brought before Pilate. 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. 2 And Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answering said unto him, Thou sayest it. 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… Read the whole commentary →