Mark 15:9
So Pilate answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release to you the king of the Jews?”
Family 35 New Testament
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 began to call out and request that he do just as he always did for them.
10(He knew that the chief priests had handed Him over because of envy.)
Cross References
Matthew 27:17So while they were assembled Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release to you, Barabbas or Jesus who is called Messiah?”
John 19:4Pilate then went out again and says to them, “Look, I am bringing him out to you so that you may know that I find no crime in him at all.”
Acts 3:13The God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up; and you repudiated Him to Pilate's face, when he was intending 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 →