15 and Pilate, wishing to content the multitude, released to them Barabbas, and delivered up Jesus -- having scourged `him' -- that he might be crucified.
Then did he release to them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, he delivered `him' up that he may be crucified;
Then, therefore, did Pilate take Jesus and scourge `him',
and they shall mock him, and scourge him, and spit on him, and kill him, and the third day he shall rise again.'
Be thou exalted above the heavens, O God. Above all the earth Thine honour!
Fear of man causeth a snare, And the confident in Jehovah is set on high.
and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the nations to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify, and the third day he will rise again.'
and Pilate gave judgment for their request being done, and he released him who because of sedition and murder hath been cast into the prison, whom they were asking, and Jesus he gave up to their will.
Then, therefore, he delivered him up to them, that he may be crucified, and they took Jesus and led `him' away,
And Festus willing to lay on the Jews a favour, answering Paul, said, `Art thou willing, to Jerusalem having gone up, there concerning these things to be judged before me?'
and other of the apostles I did not see, except James, the brother of the Lord.
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Commentary on Mark 15 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 15
What we read of the sufferings of Christ, in the foregoing chapter, was but the prologue or introduction; here we have the completing of them. We left him condemned by the chief priests; but they could only show their teeth, they could not bite. Here we have him,
Mar 15:1-14
Here we have,
Mar 15:15-21
Here,
Christ was crucified, for that was,
Mar 15:22-32
We have here the crucifixion of our Lord Jesus.
Mar 15:33-41
Here we have an account of Christ's dying, how his enemies abused him, and God honoured him at his death.
Mar 15:42-47
We are here attending the funeral of our Lord Jesus, a solemn, mournful funeral. O that we may by grace be planted in the likeness of it! Observe,