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Mark 15:9

And Pilate said in answer to them, Is it your desire that I let the King of the Jews go free?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Barabbas;   Complicity;   Jesus, the Christ;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Worship;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Mark, the Gospel of;   Messiah;   Sanhedrin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Barabbas;   Mss;   Pilate;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Barabbas ;   Manuscripts;   Passion Week;   Trial of Jesus;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Barabbas ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Barabbas;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Pilate, Pontius;   Will;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Barabbas;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Pilate answered them, “Do you want me to release the King of the Jews for you?”
King James Version (1611)
But Pilate answered them, saying, Will ye that I release vnto you the King of the Iewes?
King James Version
But Pilate answered them, saying, Will ye that I release unto you the King of the Jews?
English Standard Version
And he answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?"
New American Standard Bible
Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?"
New Century Version
So Pilate asked them, "Do you want me to free the king of the Jews?"
Amplified Bible
Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to set free for you the King of the Jews?"
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?"
Legacy Standard Bible
And Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?"
Berean Standard Bible
"Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?" Pilate asked.
Contemporary English Version
Pilate asked them, "Do you want me to free the king of the Jews?"
Complete Jewish Bible
he asked them, "Do you want me to set free for you the ‘King of the Jews'?"
Darby Translation
But Pilate answered them saying, Will ye that I release to you the King of the Jews?
Easy-to-Read Version
Pilate asked them, "Do you want me to free the king of the Jews?"
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Pilate answered them, and said, Will ye that I let loose vnto you the King of ye Iewes?
George Lamsa Translation
Pilate answered and said, Are you willing that I release to you the King of the Jews?
Good News Translation
he asked them, "Do you want me to set free for you the king of the Jews?"
Lexham English Bible
So Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release for you the king of the Jews?"
Literal Translation
But Pilate answered them, saying, Do you desire I should release to you the king of the Jews?
American Standard Version
And Pilate answered them, saying, Will ye that I release unto you the King of the Jews?
Hebrew Names Version
Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you you want me to release to you the King of the Yehudim?"
International Standard Version
Pilate answered them, "Do you want me to release the king of the Jews for you?"
Etheridge Translation
But Pilatos answered and said, Will you that I release to you the King of the Jihudoyee ?
Murdock Translation
And Pilate answered, and said: Will ye, that I release to you the king of the Jews?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Pilate aunswered them, saying: Wyll ye that I let loose vnto you the kyng of the Iewes?
English Revised Version
And Pilate answered them, saying, Will ye that I release unto you the King of the Jews?
World English Bible
Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And Pilate answered them, saying, Will ye that I release to you the king of the Jews?
Weymouth's New Testament
"Shall I release for you the King of the Jews?" answered Pilate.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Pilat answeride `to hem, and seide, Wolen ye Y leeue to you the kyng of Jewis?
Update Bible Version
And Pilate answered them, saying, Do you want that I release to you the King of the Jews?
Webster's Bible Translation
But Pilate answered them, saying, Will ye that I release to you the King of the Jews?
New English Translation
So Pilate asked them, "Do you want me to release the king of the Jews for you?"
New King James Version
But Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"
New Living Translation
"Would you like me to release to you this ‘King of the Jews'?" Pilate asked.
New Life Bible
Pilate said, "Do you want me to let the King of the Jews go free?"
New Revised Standard
Then he answered them, "Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?"
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, Pilate, answered them, saying - Will ye, I release unto you, the King of the Jews?
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Pilate answered them and said: Will you that I release to you the king of the Jews?
Revised Standard Version
And he answered them, "Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?"
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Pylate answered them and sayd: Will ye that I lowse vnto you the kynge of the Iewes?
Young's Literal Translation
and Pilate answered them, saying, `Will ye [that] I shall release to you the king of the Jews?'
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Pylate answered them: wyl ye that I geue lowse vnto you the kynge of the Iewes?
Mace New Testament (1729)
but Pilate answered them, saying, do you chuse to have Jesus releas'd, the king of the Jews?
Simplified Cowboy Version
Pilate said, "Do you want me to let the Boss of the Jews go?"

Contextual Overview

1 And the first thing in the morning the chief priests, with those in authority and the scribes and all the Sanhedrin, had a meeting, and put cords round Jesus, and took him away, and gave him up to Pilate. 2 And Pilate put a question to him, Are you the King of the Jews? And he, answering, said to him, You say so. 3 And the chief priests said a number of things against him. 4 And Pilate again put a question, Do you say nothing in answer? see how much evil they say you have done. 5 But Jesus gave no more answers, so that Pilate was full of wonder. 6 Now at the feast every year he let one prisoner go free at their request. 7 And there was one named Barabbas, in prison with those who had gone against the government and in the fight had taken life. 8 And the people went up, requesting him to do as he had done for them in other years. 9 And Pilate said in answer to them, Is it your desire that I let the King of the Jews go free? 10 For he saw that the chief priests had given him up through envy.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Will: Matthew 27:17-21, John 18:39, John 19:4, John 19:5, John 19:14-16, Acts 3:13-15

Cross-References

Genesis 22:13
And lifting up his eyes, Abraham saw a sheep fixed by its horns in the brushwood: and Abraham took the sheep and made a burned offering of it in place of his son.
Leviticus 1:3
If the offering is a burned offering of the herd, let him give a male without a mark: he is to give it at the door of the Tent of meeting so that he may be pleasing to the Lord.
Leviticus 1:10
And if his offering is of the flock, a burned offering of sheep or goats, let him give a male without a mark.
Leviticus 1:14
And if his offering to the Lord is a burned offering of birds, then he is to make his offering of doves or of young pigeons.
Leviticus 3:1
And if his offering is given for a peace-offering; if he gives of the herd, male or female, let him give it without any mark on it, before the Lord.
Leviticus 3:6
And if what he gives for a peace-offering to the Lord is of the flock, let him give a male or female, without any mark on it.
Leviticus 9:2
And he said to Aaron, Take a young ox for a sin-offering and a male sheep for a burned offering, without a mark, and make an offering of them before the Lord.
Leviticus 9:4
And an ox and a male sheep for peace-offerings, to be put to death before the Lord; and a meal offering mixed with oil: for this day you are to see the Lord.
Leviticus 12:8
And if she has not money enough for a lamb, then let her take two doves or two young pigeons, one for a burned offering and the other for a sin-offering, and the priest will take away her sin and she will be clean,
Leviticus 14:22
And two doves or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get; and one will be for a sin-offering and the other for a burned offering.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But Pilate answered them; saying,.... Being satisfied of the innocence of Jesus, and being willing to dismiss him:

will ye that I release unto you the king of the Jews? he who is called so; and which he either said by way of derision both of Christ, and them; or else in order to prevail upon them to ask his release, it being scandalous and reproachful to put their king to death.


 
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