Mark 15:9
Pilate answered them, “Do you want me to release for you the king of the Jews?”
Text-Critical English NT
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 cried out and began to ask Pilate to do what he had always done for them.
10(For he knew that the chief priests had handed Jesus over out of envy.)
Cross References
Matthew 27:17So when the crowds were gathered together, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release for you? Barabbas, or Jesus, who is called Christ?”
John 19:4Once again Pilate came out and said to the Jews, “Behold, I am bringing him out to you so that you may know that I find no fault in him.”
Acts 3:13The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—the God of our fathers—has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, even though Pilate had decided to release him.
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 →