Mark 15:14

Pilate said, “Why? What has he done wrong?” But the crowd did not listen. They shouted out even louder, “Nail him to a cross.”

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In The King James Version

Then Pilate said unto them, Why, what evil hath he done? And they cried out the more exceedingly, Crucify him.

In Context

13All the people shouted, “Nail him to a cross.”

15Pilate wanted to make the crowd happy and so he told his soldiers to let Bar-abbas go free from jail. Then Pilate said to his soldiers, “Take Jesus outside and flog him and then take him away and nail him up on a cross to die.” And you can read this story in Matthew 27:27-31; and in John 19:2-3

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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 →

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