Mark 15:11
But the High Priests urged on the crowd to obtain Barabbas's release in preference;
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
But the chief priests moved the people, that he should rather release Barabbas unto them.
In Context
10For he could see that it was out of sheer spite that the High Priests had handed Him over.
12and when Pilate again asked them, "What then shall I do to the man you call King of the Jews?"
Cross References
John 18:40With a roar of voices they again cried out, saying, "Not this man, but Barabbas!" Now 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 →