Mark 15:5

But Jesus said nothing, and Pilate was really shocked.

Plain English Version

In The King James Version

But Jesus yet answered nothing; so that Pilate marvelled.

In Context

4Then Pilate said to him, “They are saying lots of bad things about you. Why don’t you say something for yourself?”

6Every year, at the ceremony time called Passover, Pilate always did something special for the people in Jerusalem. He let one prisoner go free from the jail.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 4:9No, I reckon it is like this. Even though we are Jesus’s special workers, God lets us look weak. You know how soldiers take prisoners out to kill them in a place where everybody can watch them die. Well, I reckon it is like that with us. God lets us look weak, like those prisoners, so that everyone on the earth, and in heaven too, can look at us.

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 →

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