Mark 15:9

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

Mark 15:9 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 15:9

But Pilate answered them; saying
Being satisfied of the innocence of Jesus, and being willing to dismiss him:

will ye that I release unto you the king of the Jews?
he who is called so; and which he either said by way of derision both of Christ, and them; or else in order to prevail upon them to ask his release, it being scandalous and reproachful to put their king to death.

Mark 15:9 In-Context

7 There was one called Bar-Abba, bound with those who had made insurrection, men who in the insurrection had committed murder.

8 The multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do as he always did for them.

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

10 For he perceived that for envy the chief Kohanim had delivered him up.

11 But the chief Kohanim stirred up the multitude, that he should release Bar-Abba to them instead.