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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Mark 15:15-21

Here, I. Pilate, to gratify the Jews? malice, delivers Christ to be crucified, Mark 15:15. Willing to content the people, to do enough for them (so the word is), and make them easy, that he might keep them quiet, he released Barabbas unto them, who was the scandal and plague of their nation, and delivered Jesus to be crucified, who was the glory and blessing of their nation. Though he had scourged him before, hoping that would content them, and then not designing to crucify him, yet he went on... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Mark 15:16-20

15:16-20 The soldiers led Jesus away into the hall, which is the Praetorium, and they called together the whole company. They clad him in a purple robe, and they plaited a crown of thorns and put it on him, and they began to salute him, "Hail! King of the Jews!" And they struck his head with a reed, and they spat on him, and they knelt down before him and worshipped him. And after they had made sport of him, they took off the purple robe, and clad him in his own clothes. And they led him away... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 15:19

And they smote him on the head with a reed ,.... Or cane, a walking stick which they had put into his hands for a sceptre: this they took out again, and struck him on the head with it, which drove the sharp pointed thorns into his temples: and did spit upon him ; "upon his face", as the Syriac, Arabic, and Persic versions read: and bowing their knees , as to a sovereign prince, worshipped him ; saying the above words, hail, king of the Jews? See Gill on Matthew 27:29 , Matthew... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Mark 15:20

And when they had mocked him ,.... To their satisfaction, and had had enough of this sort of diversion: they took off the purple from him ; and so, in their way, unkinged him; and put his own clothes on him : both that he might be known to be the same person; and that the four soldiers, who had the charge of him, might have the perquisites of his clothes at his execution: and led him out to crucify him : they led him out of the "praetorium", or judgment hall, and through the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Mark 15:1-20

The second trial. I. IT ELICITED THE INNOCENCE OF JESUS . Charges were made that he had excited sedition through the country, had prohibited the Roman tribute, and had claimed royalty. The last only had any show of plausibility in it. Jesus admitted his kingship, but declared it in immortal words to be the sovereignty of truth over the consciences of men. Reading the narratives of the other evangelists, we gain a clear impression of the innocence of Jesus, as it was exhibited... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Mark 15:16-20

Christ mocked. During this awful night and morning our Lord thrice underwent the suffering and indignity of public and vulgar derision. First before the high priest, at the hands of the officers and servants of Caiaphas; then again when he was set at nought and mocked by the brutal soldiery of Herod Antipas; and now yet once more, when Pilate delivered him into the keeping of the Roman soldiers, a company of whom were about to lead him forth to crucifixion. Insult was added to insult, and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Mark 15:16-32

The mockery of Jesus. The scene, the courtyard of the governor's residence; the actors, the Roman soldiery and the Son of God; and the awful fate that awaited the Sufferer, render this mockery one of the most impressive incidents in human history. It was deliberate, brutal, and inhuman. I. WHAT IT WAS IN HIM THAT WAS MOCKED . The crown and the purple and the sham homage are interpreted by the cry, "Hail, King of the Jews!" 1 . It was his kingly pretensions they... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Mark 15:16-32

The crucifixion: the human deed. To the contemplation of that supreme fact in history, around which the thoughts, the hearts, of men gather more and more, we are directed by the few sad, solemn words, "Pilate … delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified." The preliminary incidents are minutely related. They describe the most solemn mockery ever perpetrated. The scourging first. He is stripped to the waist, his hands tied behind him; his bent back is beaten with leathern... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Mark 15:16-41

Parallel passages: Matthew 27:27-56 ; Luke 23:26-49 ; John 19:17-37 .— The closing scene. I. THE CRUCIFIXION AND ACCOMPANYING EVENTS , 1 . The words of the Creed. The words of the Creed, "crucified under Pontius Pilate," are familiar to almost every young person who has been trained in the Christian religion. All down the centuries the name of this Roman knight, who was Procurator of Judaea under the Propraetor of Syria, has been associated with the greatest crime... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Mark 15:19

And they smote his head with a reed —the same reed, according to St. Matthew ( Matthew 27:29 , Matthew 27:30 ), which they bad first put into his right hand as a scepter, to complete the mocking symbolism— and did spit upon him ( ἐνέπτυον αὐτῷ ) . The verb is in the imperfect; they did it again and again. read more

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