Mark 15:9
But Pilate answered them, saying, “Do you desire that I release to you the King of the Jews?”
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
But Pilate answered them, saying, Will ye that I release unto you the King of the Jews?
In Context
8Then the crowd cried out and began to request that just as always he would do this for them.
10For he knew that because of envy the chief priests had delivered Him up.
Cross References
Matthew 27:17Therefore when they had assembled, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you wish that I should release to you, Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?”
John 19:4Pilate then went out again, and said to them, “Behold, I am bringing Him out to you, so that you may know that I find no fault in Him.” 1 Jesus Sentenced to Death
Acts 3:13The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you indeed delivered up and denied Him in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided 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 →