MARK 15:15 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.”
Wanting to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them. He had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified — the political capitulation: Pilate wants to satisfy the crowd. The wanting to satisfy (to hikanon poiēsai) is the language of political expediency. Jesus is flogged (the standard preliminary to crucifixion, using a flagellum with lead balls or bone fragments woven into the thongs) and handed over. The flogging is brutal enough that victims sometimes died from it before the crucifixion.
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