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

And

General references

Luke 23:13

Acts 13:28

Bible References

Why

"I have sinned," he said, "in betraying innocent blood!" "What is that to us?" they answered; "you must see to that."

And Pilate said to the chief priest and the crowd, "I find no harm in this man."

Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" As he said this, he went outside again to the Jews and said to them.

So when the chief priests and the police saw him, they shouted. "Crucify him! Crucify him!" "Take him yourselves and crucify him," said Pilate, "for I find no crime in him."

For we needed just such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens;

but with precious blood, like that of a lamb without spot or blemish, even the blood of Christ.

And

But Pilate said, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they kept shouting the more fiercely, "Let him be crucified!"

But they kept shouting the more insistently, demanding that he should be crucified, and their shouts won the day.

After that Pilate began to seek to release him, but the Jews shouted out. "If you release this man you are no friend of the Emperor. Any man who makes himself out to be king is a rebel against the Emperor."

As they heard these words they became furious and gnashed their teeth at him.

but when they saw that he was a Jew they all, with one voice, for about two hours, shouted,

Until they heard this last statement, the people were listening to Paul, but now they roared out. "Away with such a fellow from the earth! He is not fit to live!"

General references

So Pilate called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,

"Though they found no cause of death in him, yet they asked Pilate to put him to death.