Mark Chapter 15 verse 12 Holy Bible
And Pilate again answered and said unto them, What then shall I do unto him whom ye call the King of the Jews?
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And Pilate again said in answer to them, What then am I to do to him to whom you give the name of the King of the Jews?
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And Pilate answering said to them again, What will ye then that I do [to him] whom ye call King of the Jews?
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And Pilate answered and said again unto them, What will ye then that I shall do unto him whom ye call the King of the Jews?
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Pilate again asked them, "What then should I do to him whom you call the King of the Jews?"
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And Pilate answering, again said to them, `What, then, will ye `that' I shall do to him whom ye call king of the Jews?'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 12. - And Pilate again answered and said unto them, What then shall I do unto him whom ye call the King of the Jews? The word "again" has the support of three great uncials, and the best of the cursives. Pilate did not give way without many an inward struggle. And now at last he puts the matter, so to speak, in their own power; so that it might be an act of their clemency, and that they might have the honor of saving our Lord's life. But it was all in vain. For the chief priests had resolved to press for his crucifixion, little dreaming that they were doing what "God's hand and God's counsel had before determined to be done." Pilate puts the question before them with much shrewdness and tact. He speaks of our Lord as one whom "they called the King of the Jews." He appeals to their national pride and their national hopes. Would they degrade themselves, and extinguish their hopes, by giving up to the most ignominious of deaths one who had established such claims upon their reverence and their love?
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(12) Whom ye call the King of the Jews.--We note in St. Mark's report something of the same determination to fasten upon the Jews the reproach that it was indeed their king whom he had condemned, as we see afterwards in the "title" which he placed upon the cross, and in his refusal to alter it (John 19:21-22).
