Mark 15:8

A crowd approached Pilate and asked him to release someone, just like he customarily did for them during the Passover celebration.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And the multitude crying aloud began to desire him to do as he had ever done unto them.

In Context

7At that time there was a man called Barabbas who had been {whom the soldiers had} put in prison with some other men. Those men had murdered some soldiers when they rebelled against the Roman government.

9Pilate answered them, “Would you like me to release for you the man whom you Jewish people say is your king?”

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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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