Mark 15:1-10 ▼

1 As soon as it was morning, the high priests convened a meeting with the elders and scribes and the whole Council. They bound Jesus with chains, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate.

2 Pilate asked him, |Are you the king of the Jews?| Jesus answered him, |You say so.|

3 The high priests kept accusing him of many things.

4 So Pilate asked him again, |Don't you have any answer? Look how many accusations they're bringing against you!|

5 But since Jesus no longer answered, Pilate was astonished.

6 At every festival, Pilate would release any one prisoner whom the people requested.

7 Now there was a man in prison named Barabbas. He had been with the insurgents who had committed murder during the rebellion.

8 So the crowd came and began to request that Pilate do for them what he always did.

9 Pilate answered them, |Do you want me to release the king of the Jews for you?|

10 because he knew that the high priests had handed him over due to jealousy.