Mark 15:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And they clothed him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his head, ”

• Mark 15:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  With purple - Matthew says scarlet. See the notes at Matthew 27:28 . About his head - In the form of a garland or diadem. The whole head was not covered, but it was placed in a circle round...

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• Mark 15:17 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (2) And they clothed him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his [head], (2) Christ going about to take away the sins of men, who went about to usurp the throne of God himse...

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• Mark 15:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Soldiers Mock Jesus. This narrative in its brief intensity is very poignant. Some scholars suggest that Jesus is treated like the central figure in a scene from a mime (was there a popular play,...

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• Mark 15:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  purple . See Matthew 27:28 .

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• Mark 15:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And they clothed him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his head , And platted a crown of thorns - In the note on Matthew 27:29 (note), I have ventured to express a doubt...

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• Mark 15:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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. For...

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• Mark 15:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Trial Before Pilate. The Crucifixion 1-15. Trial before Pilate ( Matthew 27:1 ; Matthew 27:11 ; Luke 23:1 ; Luke 23:13 ; John 18:28 ). See on Mt and Jn. For the trial before Herod see on...

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• Mark 15:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (15-21) And so Pilate, willing to content the people. — The word which St. Mark uses for “content” appears to be the Greek equivalent for the Latin satisfacere, and so takes its place in the evid...

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• Mark 15:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 15 CHAPTER 15:1-20 ( Mark 15:1-20 ) PILATE "And straightway in the morning the chief priests with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, and bound Jesus, and...

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• Mark 15:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Choice of the Multitude Mark 15:1-21 The hurried consultation of the evening was followed by the more formal meeting of the early morning; and even the decision made then had no binding for...

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• Mark 15:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  This chapter is one of those that needs little explanation and must ever be read in awe and reverence. Pilate represented the Roman empire, which attempted to secure itself by its ordinary methods of...

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• Mark 15:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (15) And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified. (16) And the soldiers led him away into the hall, c...

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• Mark 15:17 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  CHRIST’S HUMILIATION ‘Pilate … delivered Jesus, when he had scourged Him, to be crucified. And the soldiers … did spit upon Him.’ Mark 15:15-19 The prophecy, ‘I gave my back to the smiters …...

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• Mark 15:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And they clothed him with purple ,.... Matthew calls it a "scarlet" robe; and the Persic version here renders it a "red garment": it was of a colour resembling purple; it was pretty near it, and the...

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• Mark 15:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And the soldiers led him away The soldiers, knowing that it was a Roman custom to scourge prisoners just before they were put to death, interpreted Pilate's order on this head as a declaration that...

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• Mark 15:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Christ Insulted and Condemned.       15 And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus,...

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• Mark 15:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  See Poole on " Mark 15:2 "

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• Mark 15:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Roman Justice (15:1-20). Mark's concern in this narrative is to bring out that there was not really any serious political charge against Jesus, and that that was recognised by the Roman governor,...

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• Mark 15:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES Mark 15:16 . See R.V. Mark 15:17 . Render: And they invest Him with “a purple ”—the official robe of gs and rulers, no matter what its colour. MAIN HOMILETICS O...

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• Mark 15:17 - Scofield Reference Notes

  platted plaited.

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• Mark 15:17 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Let us read again what we have often read before, that saddest of all stories which, nevertheless, is the fountain of the highest gladness,-the story of our Saviour's death, as recorded by Mark. Ma...

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• Mark 15:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Mark 15:1 . Straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council. Συνεδριν, the whole sanhedrim, consisting of seventy, but which must...

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• Mark 15:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

  And they clothed Him with purple and platted a crown of thorns. Mock dignity Among the Babylonians and Persians it was customary on a certain feast to bring forth a malefactor from the prison,...

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• Mark 15:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Mark 15:1 And straightway in the morning the chief priests with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and d...

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• Mark 15:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Condemnation, Crucifixion, and Death of Jesus. The sentence and the mockery by the soldiers:

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• Mark 15:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  John 19:2-5 ; Luke 23:11 ; Matthew 27:28-30

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• Mark 15:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Purple — As royal robes were usually purple and scarlet, St. Mark and John term this a purple robe, St. Matthew a scarlet one. The Tyrian purple is said not to have been very different from scarlet...

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