Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Mark 15:15 in context
Mark 15:12–18
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Pilate again asked them, “What then should I do to him whom you call the King of the Jews?”
14
Pilate said to them, “Why, what evil has he done?”
But they cried out exceedingly, “Crucify him!”
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Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.
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The soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium; and they called together the whole cohort.
17
They clothed him with purple; and weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on him.
18
They began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
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