Mark 15:1
After it became light the leaders and teachers and old men and the rest of the bosses gathered together in the Big Committee. They were talking among themselves. “Let us take Jesus to the Roman boss.” After that they tied up Jesus, they took him to the big Roman boss, his name was Pilate. He was from the country of the Romans, the Roman King made Pilate boss for the Jews.
Nyangumarta (portions)
In The King James Version
In Context
2Pilate asked Jesus, “How about it? Are you the Jews' king?” Jesus replied, “You said that.”
Cross References
Mark 10:33“Listen. We are going to Jerusalem. You know the Jewish lawmen want to kill me. There someone will give me to them. They will gather together to criticise me. They will make a word about me. Then they will say to me, 'You should die.' After that they will give me to foreign bosses from the Roman Government.
Matthew Henry on Mark 15:1
What we read of the sufferings of Christ, in the foregoing chapter, was but the prologue or introduction; here we have the completing of them. We left him condemned by the chief priests; but they could only show their teeth, they could not bite. Here we have him, I. Arraigned and accused before Pilate the Roman governor, ver. 1-5 . II. Cried out against by the common people, at the instigation of the priests, ver. 6-14 . III. Condemned to be crucified immediately, ver. 15 . IV. Bantered and abused, as a mock-king,… Read the whole commentary →