Nov. 05, 2024

Jesus Delivered to Pilate

Mar 15:1  Very early in the morning, the chief priests, with the elders, the teachers of the law and the whole Sanhedrin, made their plans. So they bound Jesus, led him away and handed him over to Pilate. 

Mar 15:2  "Are you the king of the Jews?" asked Pilate. "You have said so," Jesus replied. 

Mar 15:3  The chief priests accused him of many things. 

Mar 15:4  So again Pilate asked him, "Aren't you going to answer? See how many things they are accusing you of." 

Mar 15:5  But Jesus still made no reply, and Pilate was amazed. 

Pilate Delivers Jesus to Be Crucified

Mar 15:6  Now it was the custom at the festival to release a prisoner whom the people requested. 

Mar 15:7  A man called Barabbas was in prison with the insurrectionists who had committed murder in the uprising. 

Mar 15:8  The crowd came up and asked Pilate to do for them what he usually did. 

Mar 15:9  "Do you want me to release to you the king of the Jews?" asked Pilate, 

Mar 15:10  knowing it was out of self-interest that the chief priests had handed Jesus over to him. 

Mar 15:11  But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have Pilate release Barabbas instead. 

Mar 15:12  "What shall I do, then, with the one you call the king of the Jews?" Pilate asked them. 

Mar 15:13  "Crucify him!" they shouted. 

Mar 15:14  "Why? What crime has he committed?" asked Pilate. But they shouted all the louder, "Crucify him!" 

Mar 15:15  Wanting to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them. He had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified. 

Jesus Is Mocked

Mar 15:16  The soldiers led Jesus away into the palace (that is, the Praetorium) and called together the whole company of soldiers. 

Mar 15:17  They put a purple robe on him, then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on him. 

Mar 15:18  And they began to call out to him, "Hail, king of the Jews!" 

Mar 15:19  Again and again they struck him on the head with a staff and spit on him. Falling on their knees, they paid homage to him. 

Mar 15:20  And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him out to crucify him.