Mark 15:2

2 Pilate questioned him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" Jesus replied, " That's what you say."

Mark 15:2 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 15:2

And Pilate asked him, art thou the king of the Jews?
&c.] Which either he had heard before that it was said by him, and his followers; or was what the Jews now suggested to him as his crime, which they desired sentence of death might pass upon him:

and he answering, said unto him, thou sayest it;
which is all one as if he had said, I am; (See Gill on Matthew 26:25); for so he was in a sense, in which he explained himself to Pilate's satisfaction, ( John 18:36 John 18:37 ) ; (See Gill on Matthew 27:11).

Mark 15:2 In-Context

1 At daybreak, the chief priests—with the elders, legal experts, and the whole Sanhedrin—formed a plan. They bound Jesus, led him away, and turned him over to Pilate.
2 Pilate questioned him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" Jesus replied, "That's what you say."
3 The chief priests were accusing him of many things.
4 Pilate asked him again, "Aren't you going to answer? What about all these accusations?"
5 But Jesus gave no more answers, so that Pilate marveled.

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