Mark 15:11
But the chief priests further persuaded the multitudes, that Bar Abas should be released to them.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
But the chief priests moved the people, that he should rather release Barabbas unto them.
In Context
10For Pilate knew that the chief priests, from envy, had delivered him up.
12And Pilate said to them: What will ye, therefore, that I do to him whom ye call king of the Jews?
Cross References
John 18:40And they all cried out, and said: Not this man, but Barabbas. Now this Barabbas was a robber.
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 →