Mark 15:1

Final events leading up to the crucifixion, burial and resurrection of Christ are unfolded in this chapter. Mark's record is far more brief than the other Gospels, and it is refreshing for a scholar like Cranfield to admit that this record is obviously later than the Gospel of Matthew.[1] With regard to some of the subjects treated at greater length in the other Gospels, reference is made to this writer's Commentary on Matthew for the following:

The Six Trials of Jesus (Matthew 26:57ff); Pilate's Efforts to Release Jesus (Matthew 27:14-23); The Mockery (Matthew 27:27-28); The Via Dolorosa (Matthew 27:32); Regarding the Inscriptions (Matthew 27:37); The Calvary Miracles (Matthew 27:53); Pilate's Order to Break Jesus' Legs (Matthew 27:56); Joseph of Arimathea (Matthew 27:57); and The Seven Words from the Cross (Matthew 27:66).