MARK 15:10 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy.”
Knowing it was out of envy that the chief priests had handed Jesus over to him — the parenthetical note is Pilate's own perception: the motivation for the prosecution is envy, not genuine concern about public order or Roman authority. Pilate understands the situation accurately and is attempting to use the Passover release mechanism to resolve it without giving the chief priests what they want.
Church Fathers on Mark 15:10
Pilate furnished many opportunities for releasing Jesus, in the first place contrasting a robber with the Just One.
Which indeed he was accustomed to do, to obtain favour with the people, and above all, on the feast day, when the people of the whole province of the Jews flocked to Jerusalem. And that the wickedness of the Jews might appear the greater, the enormity of the sin of the robber, whom they preferred to Christ, is next described.
No one can feel it a difficulty that Matthew is silent as to their asking some one to be released unto them, which Mark here mentions; for it is a thing of no consequence that one should mention a thing which another leaves out.
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