Mark 15:4 — Community Reflections

MARK 15:4 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing? behold how many things they witness against thee.”

So again Pilate asked him, aren't you going to answer? See how many things they are accusing you of — Pilate's amazement at the silence begins here and will be noted again in verse 5. The amazement is the response of a Roman official to a prisoner who does not mount a self-defense when self-defense could save his life. The silence is not resignation but the fulfillment of the Servant's silence (Isaiah 53:7).

Church Fathers on Mark 15:4

The Jews had a custom of delivering him whom they had condemned to death, bound to the judge. Wherefore after the condemnation of Christ, the Evangelist adds: 'And straightway in the morning the Chief Priests held a consultation with the elders and Scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and carried Him away, and delivered Him to Pilate.' But it must be observed, that they did not then first bind Him, but they bound Him on first taking Him in the garden by night, as…
Bede · 8th century · in Marc., 4, 44

They then gave Jesus up to the Romans, but were themselves given up by God into the hands of the Romans, that the Scriptures might be fulfilled, which say, 'Recompense them after the work of their hands.' [Ps 28:5]
Theophylact · 11th century

Luke has also laid open the false charges which they brought against Him; for he thus relates it: 'And they began to accuse Him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King.' [Luke 23:2]
Augustine · 4th century · de. Con. Evan., iii, 8

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