Mark 15:9
he answered, “Do you want me to release the ‘king of the Jews’ for you?”
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
But Pilate answered them, saying, Will ye that I release unto you the King of the Jews?
In Context
8So, when the crowd went up and began to ask Pilate to follow his usual custom,
10For he was aware that it was out of jealousy that the chief priests had given Jesus up to him.
Cross References
Matthew 27:17So, when the people had collected, Pilate said to them, “Which do you wish me to release for you? Barabbas? Or Jesus who is called ‘Christ’?”
John 19:4Pilate again came outside, and said to the people, “Look! I am bringing him out to you, so that you may know that I find nothing with which he can be charged.”
Acts 3:13The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our ancestors, has done honor to his servant Jesus – him whom you gave up and disowned before Pilate, when he had decided to set him free.
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 →