Mark 15:5

5 Iesus yet answered never aworde so that Pilate merveled.

Mark 15:5 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 15:5

But Jesus yet answered nothing
He still continued silent, and made no defence for himself, which the governor was willing to give him an opportunity to make, and, as his friend, urged him to it:

so that Pilate marvelled;
what should be the meaning of his silence, when he was so capable of defending himself, and was so innocent, as Pilate himself was ready to believe; and yet the things he was charged with were of, the highest nature, and by persons of the greatest figure in the nation; so that his silence exposed him to a great deal of danger, which Pilate thought might easily be avoided by answering for himself; (See Gill on Matthew 27:14).

Mark 15:5 In-Context

3 And the hye prestes accused him of many thinges.

4 Wherfore Pilate axed him agayne sayinge: Answerest thou nothinge? Beholde how many thinges they lay vnto thy charge.

5 Iesus yet answered never aworde so that Pilate merveled.

6 At that feast Pilate was wont to delivre at their pleasure a presoner: whomsoever they wolde desyre.

7 And ther was one named Barrabas which laye bounde with the that made insurreccion and in the insurreccion comitted murther.