Mark 15:9
But Pilate answered them and said, “Do you want me to release to you the king of the Jews?”
Catholic Public Domain 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 when the crowd had ascended, they began to petition him to do as he always did for them.
10For he knew that it was out of envy that the leaders of the priests had betrayed him.
Cross References
Matthew 27:17Therefore, having been gathered together, Pilate said to them, “Who is it that you want me to release to you: Barabbas, or Jesus, who is called Christ?”
John 19:4Then Pilate went outside again, and he said to them: “Behold, I am bringing him out to you, so that you may realize that I find no case against him.”
Acts 3:13The God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Son Jesus, whom you, indeed, handed over and denied before the face of Pilate, when he was giving judgment to release him.
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 →