Mark 15:15

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 15:6-15

15:6-15 At the time of the Feast, it was the custom for the governor to release to the people a prisoner, whom they were accustomed to choose. There was a man called Barabbas, confined with the revolutionaries, who had committed murder during the insurrection. The crowd approached Pilate's judgment seat and began to request that he should carry out the customary procedure for them. Pilate answered, "Do you wish me to release to you the King of the Jews?" For he knew that the chief priests had... read more

John Gill

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

And so Pilate, willing to content the people ,.... To satisfy and make them easy, who were become very noisy and tumultuous, and fearing the consequences of their resentment, should he not comply, of which he had formerly had experience; therefore to humour them, and keep in their favour, after he had washed his hands, to testify his innocence in the matter, he released Barabbas unto them ; the seditious person, robber, and murderer, as they desired: and delivered Jesus when he had... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Mark 15:1-15

The trial before Pilate. How true it is that "God spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all"! Jesus was first examined by Annas, then tried before Caiaphas, the high priest, then formally condemned by the Sanhedrim. But these mock-trials, with all their injustice and their indignities, were not enough to exhaust the appointed humiliation and suffering. Christ must needs be brought before the Roman governor, who had come up from Caesarea to Jerusalem to attend the Feast of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Mark 15:1-15

Parallel passages: Matthew 27:1 , Matthew 27:2 , Matthew 27:11-26 ; Luke 23:1-7 , Luke 23:13-24 ; John 18:28 ; John 19:16 .— Judicial processes. I. JESUS SENT FROM THE SANHEDRIM TO PILATE — FROM THE JEWISH TRIAL TO THE ROMAN TRIAL . 1 . The first stage of the Jewish trial. After the arrest at Gethsemane, our Lord was conducted back to the city, across the Kidron to the palace-of the ex-high priest Annas, the father-in-law of Caiaphas,... 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 15:6-15

Christ or Barabbas. I. A REVELATION OF THE HATRED OF THE NATURAL MIND FOR TRUTH AND GOODNESS . Several ancient authorities are in favor of readings here and elsewhere which would give us, "Jesus Barabbas" ( i.e. son of a father or rabbi), as the full name of the "robber" who was here the favorite of the populace. ]f this be so, there would be two of the name Jesus, and the choice would thus be strikingly emphasized. The character of Barabbas as a rioter and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Mark 15:6-15

Barabbas; or, the evil choice. A strange custom prevailed. To appease the anger of the rabble, and to curry favor with them, Pilate was wont, on the recurrence, of certain feasts, to release a prisoner, giving the mob permission to choose who should be the favored one. At this feast "the multitude went up and began to ask him to do as he was wont to do unto them." Knowing that "for envy the chief priests had delivered him up," he tested the feeling of the multitude by asking them if he... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Mark 15:15

And Pilate, wishing βουλόμενος to content the multitude, released unto them Barabbas, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified . St. Luke and St. John are more full in details here. From their narratives it appears that when Pilate found that his attempt to rescue our Lord, by putting Barabbas in contrast with him, had failed, he next hoped to move the multitude to pity by the terrible punishment of scourging, after which he trusted that they would relent.... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Mark 15:11-15

Mark 15:11-15. But the chief priests Being very solicitous to carry the plan they had formed for his destruction into execution; moved the people To desire the release of Barabbas, though he was a scandalous and outrageous criminal. Pilate said again Being willing, Luke says, to release Jesus; What will ye then that I shall do unto him whom ye call King of the Jews It seems strange that Pilate should so often repeat this title, King of the Jews; but perhaps he might do it partly to... read more

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