Mark 15:9-19

9 Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?"

10 For he was aware that the chief priests had handed Him over because of envy.

11 But the chief priests stirred up the crowd ¹to ask him to release Barabbas for them instead.

12 Answering again, Pilate said to them, "Then what shall I do with Him whom you call the King of the Jews?"

13 They shouted back, "Crucify Him!"

14 But Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has He done?" But they shouted all the more, "Crucify Him!"

15 Wishing to satisfy * the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas for them, and after having Jesus ²scourged, he handed Him over to be crucified.

Jesus Is Mocked

16 ³The soldiers took Him away into ⁴the palace (that is, the Praetorium ), and they called together the whole Roman ⁵cohort.

17 They dressed Him up in purple, and after twisting a crown of thorns, they put it on Him;

18 and they began to acclaim Him, "Hail, King of the Jews!"

19 They kept beating His head with a reed, and spitting on Him, and kneeling * and bowing before Him.

Cross References

• 1. Acts 3:14
• 2. Matthew 27:26
• 3. Mark 15:16-20: {Matthew 27:27-31}
• 4. Matthew 26:3; Matthew 27:27
• 5. Acts 10:1

Footnotes

• [a] Or "again"
• [b] Or "court"
• [c] Or "battalion"
• [d] Or "staff" (made of a reed)