Mark 15:2

2 And Pilate asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" And he answered him [and] said, "You say [so]."

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 And as soon as morning [came], [after] formulating a plan, the chief priests, with the elders and scribes and the whole Sanhedrin, tied up Jesus, led [him] away, and handed [him] over to Pilate.

2 And Pilate asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" And he answered him [and] said, "You say [so]."

3 And the chief priests began to accuse him [of] many [things].

4 So Pilate asked him again, saying, "Do you not answer anything? See how many [charges] they are bringing against you!"

5 But Jesus did not answer anything further, so that Pilate was astonished.

Footnotes

• [a]. *Here "[and]" is supplied because the previous participle ("answered") has been translated as a finite verb