Mark 15:9
And Pilate responded to them, saying, Do you wish that I may release unto you the King of the Jews?
1902 William Baxter Godbey 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
8And the multitude crying out began to ask, as he was always accustomed to do unto them.
10For he knew that the chief priests had delivered Him on account of envy.
Cross References
Matthew 27:17Then they being assembled, Pilate said to them, Whom do you wish that I may release unto you? Barabbas? or Jesus who is called Christ?
John 19:4Again Pilate went out, and speaks to them, Behold, I lead Him out to you, in order that you may know that I find no fault.
Acts 3:13The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, and the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Child, Jesus, who you indeed delivered up and denied before the face of Pilate having 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 →