Mark 15:9

9 Pylate answered them and sayd: Will ye that I lowse vnto you the kynge of the Iewes?

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

8 And ye people called vnto him and began to desyre accordinge as he had ever done vnto them.

9 Pylate answered them and sayd: Will ye that I lowse vnto you the kynge of the Iewes?

10 For he knewe that the hye Prestes had delyvered him of envy.

11 But the hye prestes had moved the people that he shuld rather delyvre Barrabas vnto them.