Mark 15:8

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Mark 15:8 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 15:8

And the multitude crying aloud
The Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic versions read, and when the "multitude", or "people went up", to the place called the pavement, where the judgment seat was; and so it is read in Beza's most ancient copy; but the former reading is to be preferred:

began to desire [him to do] as he had ever done to them:
that is, release a prisoner to them, as he had done at every passover, since he had been a governor over them.

Mark 15:8 In-Context

6 Now during a festival, Pilate used to set free one prisoner, whomever the crowd requested.

7 There was in prison among the rebels who had committed murder during the insurrection a man called Bar-Abba. When the crowd came up and began ask

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9 e asked them, "Do you want me to set free for you the `King of the Jews'?"

10 For it was evident to him that it was out of jealousy that the head cohanim had handed him over.