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the Week of Proper 15 / Ordinary 20
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Geneva Bible

Mark 15:4

Wherefore Pilate asked him againe, saying, Answerest thou nothing? beholde howe many things they witnesse against thee.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Court;   Jesus, the Christ;   Self-Defense;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Worship;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Mark, the Gospel of;   Sanhedrin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Mss;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Decapolis;   Passion Week;   Trial of Jesus;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Pilate questioned him again, “Aren’t you going to answer? Look how many things they are accusing you of!”
King James Version (1611)
And Pilate asked him againe, saying, Answerest thou nothing? behold how many things they witnesse against thee.
King James Version
And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing? behold how many things they witness against thee.
English Standard Version
And Pilate again asked him, "Have you no answer to make? See how many charges they bring against you."
New American Standard Bible
But Pilate questioned Him again, saying, "Do You offer nothing in answer? See how many charges they are bringing against You!"
New Century Version
So Pilate asked Jesus another question, "You can see that they are accusing you of many things. Aren't you going to answer?"
Amplified Bible
Then Pilate again asked Him, "Have You no answer [to give]? See how many charges they are bringing against You!"
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Pilate questioned Him again, saying, "Do You not answer? See how many charges they bring against You!"
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Pilate was questioning Him again, saying, "You answer nothing? See how many accusations they bring against You!"
Berean Standard Bible
Then Pilate questioned Him again, "Do You not answer? Look how many charges they are bringing against You!"
Contemporary English Version
Then Pilate questioned him again, "Don't you have anything to say? Don't you hear what crimes they say you have done?"
Complete Jewish Bible
and Pilate again inquired of him, "Aren't you going to answer? Look how many charges they are making against you!"
Darby Translation
And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing? See of how many things they bear witness against thee.
Easy-to-Read Version
So Pilate asked Jesus another question. He said, "You can see that these people are accusing you of many things. Why don't you answer?"
George Lamsa Translation
Then Pilate asked again and said to him, Do you not answer? see, how many are testifying against you.
Good News Translation
so Pilate questioned him again, "Aren't you going to answer? Listen to all their accusations!"
Lexham English Bible
So Pilate asked him again, saying, "Do you not answer anything? See how many charges they are bringing against you!"
Literal Translation
But Pilate again questioned Him, saying, Do You answer nothing? Behold, how many things they testify against You.
American Standard Version
And Pilate again asked him, saying, Answerest thou nothing? behold how many things they accuse thee of.
Bible in Basic English
And Pilate again put a question, Do you say nothing in answer? see how much evil they say you have done.
Hebrew Names Version
Pilate again asked him, "Have you no answer? See how many things they testify against you!"
International Standard Version
So Pilate asked him again, "Don't you have any answer? Look how many accusations they're bringing against you!"Matthew 27:13;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
but he, Pilatos, asked him again and said to him, Returnest thou not an answer ? see how many are witnessing against thee.
Murdock Translation
And Pilate again questioned him, and said to him: Makest thou no reply? See how much they testify against thee!
Bishop's Bible (1568)
So Pilate asked hym agayne, saying: Aunswerest thou nothyng? Beholde, howe many thynges they witnesse agaynst thee.
English Revised Version
And Pilate again asked him, saying, Answerest thou nothing? behold how many things they accuse thee of.
World English Bible
Pilate again asked him, "Have you no answer? See how many things they testify against you!"
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing?
Weymouth's New Testament
Pilate again and again asked Him, "Do you make no reply? Listen to the many charges they are bringing against you."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But Pilat eftsoone axide hym, and seide, Answerist thou no thing? Seest thou in hou many thingis thei accusen thee?
Update Bible Version
And Pilate again asked him, saying, Do you answer nothing? look how many things they accuse you of.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing? behold how many things they testify against thee.
New English Translation
So Pilate asked him again, "Have you nothing to say? See how many charges they are bringing against you!"
New King James Version
Then Pilate asked Him again, saying, "Do You answer nothing? See how many things they testify against You!" [fn]
New Living Translation
and Pilate asked him, "Aren't you going to answer them? What about all these charges they are bringing against you?"
New Life Bible
Pilate asked Him again, "Have You nothing to say? Listen to the things they are saying against You!"
New Revised Standard
Pilate asked him again, "Have you no answer? See how many charges they bring against you."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, Pilate, again, was questioning him, saying- Answerest thou, nothing? See! of how many things, they are accusing thee!
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Pilate again asked him, saying: Answerest thou nothing? Behold in how many things they accuse thee.
Revised Standard Version
And Pilate again asked him, "Have you no answer to make? See how many charges they bring against you."
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Wherfore Pilate axed him agayne sayinge: Answerest thou nothinge? Beholde how many thinges they lay vnto thy charge.
Young's Literal Translation
And Pilate again questioned him, saying, `Thou dost not answer anything! lo, how many things they do testify against thee!'
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But Pylate axed him agayne, and sayde: Answerest thou nothinge? Beholde, how sore they laye to yi charge.
Mace New Testament (1729)
Pilate spake to him again, and said, will you make no defence for your self? don't you hear what they urge against you?
THE MESSAGE
Pilate asked again, "Aren't you going to answer anything? That's quite a list of accusations." Still, he said nothing. Pilate was impressed, really impressed.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Pilate questioned Jesus again, "Are you not going to defend yourself? Listen to everything they are saying about you!"

Contextual Overview

1 And anon in the dawning, the hie Priestes helde a Councill with the Elders, and the Scribes, and the whole Council, and bound Iesus, and led him away, and deliuered him to Pilate. 2 Then Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Iewes? And hee answered, and sayde vnto him, Thou sayest it. 3 And the hie Priestes accused him of many things. 4 Wherefore Pilate asked him againe, saying, Answerest thou nothing? beholde howe many things they witnesse against thee. 5 But Iesus answered no more at all, so that Pilate marueiled. 6 Nowe at the feast, Pilate did deliuer a prisoner vnto them, whomesoeuer they woulde desire. 7 Then there was one named Barabbas, which was bounde with his fellowes, that had made insurrection, who in the insurrection had committed murther. 8 And the people cried aloude, and began to desire that he woulde doe as he had euer done vnto them. 9 Then Pilate answered them, and said, Will ye that I let loose vnto you the King of ye Iewes? 10 For he knewe that the hie Priestes had deliuered him of enuie.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Answerest: Matthew 26:62, Matthew 27:13, John 19:10

Reciprocal: Acts 25:7 - and laid

Cross-References

Genesis 17:16
And I will blesse her, & will also giue thee a sonne of her, yea, I will blesse her, and she shall be the mother of nations: Kings also of people shall come of her.
Genesis 21:12
But God said vnto Abraham, Let it not be grieuous in thy sight for the childe, and for thy bonde woman: in all that Sarah shall say vnto thee, heare her voyce: for in Izhak shall thy seede be called.
2 Samuel 7:12
And when thy daies bee fulfilled, thou shalt sleepe with thy fathers, and I wil set vp thy seede after thee, which shall proceede out of thy body, and will stablish his kingdome.
2 Samuel 16:11
And Dauid sayd to Abishai, and to all his seruants, Beholde, my sonne which came out of mine owne bowels, seeketh my life: then howe much more now may this sonne of Iemini? Suffer him to curse: for the Lord hath bidden him.
2 Chronicles 32:21
And the Lorde sent an Angel which destroyed all the valiant men, and the princes and captaines of the hoste of the King of Asshur: so he returned with shame to his owne lande. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came foorth of his owne bowels, slewe him there with the sworde.
Galatians 4:28
Therefore, brethren, wee are after the maner of Isaac, children of the promes.
Philemon 1:12
Whome I haue sent againe: thou therefore receiue him, that is mine owne bowels,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Pilate asked him again,.... In the presence of the chief priests, who laid so many things to his charge; for the former question was put, when Jesus and he were alone in the judgment hall, whither the Jews would not enter for fear of being defiled; see

John 18:28;

saying, answerest thou nothing behold how many things they witness against thee? The charges were many, and very heinous, and which Pilate thought called for self-defence; John 18:28- :.


 
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