Mark 15:9
Pilate answered them and said, “Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”
Unlocked Literal 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
8The crowd came to Pilate and began to ask him to do for them as he had done in the past.
10For he knew that it was because of envy that the chief priests had handed Jesus over to him.
Cross References
Matthew 27:17So when they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, “Who do you want me to release for you? Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?”
John 19:4Then Pilate went outside again and said to them, “See, I am bringing him outside to you so that you will know that I find no guilt in him.”
Acts 3:13The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus. He is the one whom you delivered up and rejected before the face of Pilate, when he 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 →