MARK 15:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And Pilate answered and said again unto them, What will ye then that I shall do unto him whom ye call the King of the Jews?”
What shall I do, then, with the one you call the king of the Jews? Pilate asked them — Pilate's question communicates that the Barabbas release has resolved the Passover-release mechanism but not the Jesus question. What shall I do now forces the crowd to specify their demand for Jesus explicitly.
Church Fathers on Mark 15:12
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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