Mark 15:9
And Pilate said in answer to them, Is it your desire that I let the King of the Jews go free?
Bible in Basic English
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 the people went up, requesting him to do as he had done for them in other years.
10For he saw that the chief priests had given him up through envy.
Cross References
Matthew 27:17So when they came together, Pilate said to them, Whom will you have? Barabbas, or Jesus, who is named Christ?
John 19:4And Pilate went out again and said to them, See, I let him come out to you to make it clear to you that I see no wrong in him.
Acts 3:13The God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has given glory to his servant Jesus; whom you gave up, turning your backs on him, when Pilate had made the decision to let him go free.
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 →