Mark 15:14

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Summary

Mark 15:14

Then Pilate said unto them, Why, what evil hath he done? And they cried out the more exceedingly, Crucify him.

Why

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General references

Luke 23:13

Acts 13:28

Bible References

Why

and said, "I did wrong when I handed an innocent man over to death!" They said, "What is that to us? You see to it yourself."

And Pilate said to the high priests and the crowd, "I cannot find anything criminal about this man."

Pilate said to him, "What is truth!" With these words he went outside again to the Jews, and said to them, "I can find nothing to charge him with.

When the high priests and their attendants saw him, they shouted, "Have him crucified! Have him crucified!" Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and have him crucified, for I can find nothing to charge him with."

Such a high priest we needed??odly, blameless, unstained, removed from sinful men and raised above the very heavens;

but with precious blood, like that of an unblemished, spotless lamb, the blood of Christ,

And

He said, "Why, what has he done that is wrong?" But they shouted all the louder, "Have him crucified!"

But they persisted with loud outcries in demanding that he be crucified, and their shouting won.

This made Pilate try to find a way to let him go, but the Jews shouted, "If you let him go, you are no friend of the emperor's! Anyone who calls himself a king utters treason against the emperor!"

When they heard that, they were enraged and ground their teeth at him.

But when they saw that he was a Jew, a great shout went up from them all, and they cried for two hours, "Great Artemis of Ephesus!"

They had listened to him until he said that, but then they shouted, "Kill him and get him out of the world! A creature like that ought not to be allowed to live!"

General references

Pilate summoned the high priests and the leading members of the council and the people,

and though they could find no ground for putting him to death, they demanded of Pilate that he be executed.