Mark 15:9
But Pilate answered them, saying, Do you wish [that] I should release to you the Melech HaYehudim?
Orthodox Jewish Bible
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 the crowd came and began to ask Pilate to do for them just as in the past was his custom.
10For Pilate knew that because of kinah (envy) the Rashei Hakohanim had handed him over to him.
Cross References
Matthew 27:17When, therefore, they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, Whom do you want me to release for you, Bar-Abba or Yehoshua called Moshiach?
John 19:4And Pilate went outside again and says to them, Hinei, I bring him outside to you, in order that you may have da'as that I find no avon (offense), no cause for punishment, in him.
Acts 3:13Hashem, Elohei Avraham V'Elohei Yitzchak V'Elohei Ya'akov, the G-d of Avoteinu, has brought kavod to his mesharet, his Eved, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua whom you delivered over and denied in the presence of Pilate when you decided to release the other one. + 3:13 Ex 3:6,15; Isa 52:13; 53:11
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 →