MARK CHAPTER 15 Mark 15:1-5 Jesus is brought bound and accused before Pilate: his silence before the governor. Mark 15:6-15 Pilate, prevailed upon by the clamours of the people, releases Barabbas, and giveth up Jesus to be crucified. Mark 15:16-23 Christ is mocked of the soldiers, crowned with thorns, and led to the place of crucifiction. Mark 15:24-28 He is crucified between two thieves, Mark 15:29-32 reviled, Mark 15:33-37 and calling upon God expires. Mark 15:38 The veil of the temple rent. Mark 15:39-41 The centurion's confession. Mark 15:42-47 Joseph of Arimathea begs the body, and buries it. See Poole on "Matthew 27:1". See Poole on "Matthew 27:2". Pontius Pilate was the Roman governor in Judea at this time, Luke 3:1. The reasons of their carrying Christ to him, when they had condemned him to death for blasphemy, (a crime cognizable before them, as appeareth in the case of Stephen, Acts 7:54-60), see in our notes on Matthew. What time in the morning they carried him before Pilate is not said, only John saith it was early, and we read it was about the sixth hour, (that is, with us twelve of the clock), when Pilate dismissed him, being by him condemned; so probably they were with Pilate by six or seven in the morning. This morning was the morning after the evening in which they had eaten the passover, and the first day of their feast of unleavened bread: so little did they regard God's ordinance.
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Mark 15:1
1 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.