Mark 15:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And straightway in the morning— The horrid transactions of this dismal night being over, it was no sooner day, than the Jews hurried the blessed Jesus away to the Roman governor; for though the Sanhedrim had the power of trying and condemning men for crimes which the Jewish law had made capital; yet, like the court of inquisition, they had not the power of putting such sentences into execution, without the approbation of the civil magistrate, or Roman governor;—for nothing but necessity could have brought the Jewish rulers to Pilate on this occasion. They had bound Jesus when he was first apprehended; but perhaps he had been loosed while under examination, or else they now made his bonds stricter than before; the better, as they might think, to secure him from a rescue, as he passed through the public streets in the day-time. See Matthew 27:1-2. Doddridge, and Biscoe's Boyle's Lectures, p. 113. Instead of, And the whole council, we may read, Even, &c.