Mark 15:2 - Exposition

Art thou the King of the Jews? It appears from St. Luke ( Luke 23:1-5 ) that when Pilate demanded particularly what the charges against Jesus were, on account of which the Jews urged that he should be crucified, they alleged these three things:

Whereupon Pilate, who had heard by many of the blameless life, the pure doctrine, and the famous miracles of Jesus, goes at once to the point, and asks him, "Art thou the King of the Jews?"—a question which, of course, affected the position of Caesar. Our Lord's answer, Thou sayest ( σὺ λέγεις ), was in the affirmative, amounting to this "Thou sayest that which is true."