Mark 15:9
But Pilate answered them, saying, Would ye have me release to you the king of the Jews?
1770 John Worsley 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 people clamoured and desired him to do as he always used to do for them.
10(for he knew that the chief priests had delivered Him up to him out of envy:)
Cross References
Matthew 27:17Therefore when they were gathered together, Pilate said unto them, Whom will ye that I release unto you?
John 19:4Pilate therefore came out again, and saith unto them, Behold I bring Him out to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in Him.
Acts 3:13The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers hath glorified his son Jesus, whom ye delivered up, and denied before Pilate, when he determined 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 →