"But Pilate answered them, saying, Will ye that I release unto you the King of the Jews?" — Mark 15:9

Mark 15:9 · KJV

“But Pilate answered them, saying, Will ye that I release unto you the King of the Jews?”

— Mark 15:9

And the multitude crying aloud began to desire {him to do} as he had ever done unto them.

For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy.

Mark 15 — Context

And there was {one} named Barabbas, {which lay} bound with them that had made insurrection with him, who had committed murder in the insurrection.

And the multitude crying aloud began to desire {him to do} as he had ever done unto them.

But Pilate answered them, saying, Will ye that I release unto you the King of the Jews?

For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy.

But the chief priests moved the people, that he should rather release Barabbas unto them.

Cross References

Matthew 27:17-21

Therefore when they were gathered together, Pilate said unto them, Whom will ye that I release unto you? Barabbas, or Jesus which is called Christ?

John 19:14-16

And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!

John 18:39

But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews?

Acts 3:13-15

The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let {him} go.

John 19:4-5

Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him.