Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Mark 15:17
And they clothed Him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about His head,
And they clothed Him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about His head,
Verse 17. _AND PLATTED A CROWN OF THORNS_] In the note on Matthew 27:29, I have ventured to express a doubt whether our Lord was crowned with _thorns_, in our sense of the word; this crown being desi...
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 the temple...
CHAPTER 15 _ 1. Before Pilate. (Mark 15:1 .Matthew 27:1; Luke 23:1; John 18:28 .)_ 2. Barabbas released and the Servant condemned. ...
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, _T...
THE SILENCE OF JESUS (Mark 15:1-5)...
The soldiers led Jesus away into the hall, which is the Praetorium, and they called together the whole company. They clad him in a purple robe, and they plaited a crown of thorns and put it on him, an...
PURPLE. See Matthew 27:28....
_clothed him with purple_ Instead of the white robe, with which Herod had mocked Him, they threw around Him a scarlet _sagum_, or soldier's cloak. St Matthew, Matthew 27:38, calls it "_a scarlet robe;...
ἘΝΔΙΔΎΣΚΟΥΣΙΝ ΑΥ̓ΤῸΝ ΠΟΡΦΎΡΑΝ. Double acc. both here and Mark 15:19. Cf. Luke 16:19 of Dives. Mt. for πορφύραν has χλαμύδα κοκκίνην, Jn has ἱμάτιον πορφυροῦν. All three mean some bright coloured garme...
16–20 A. THE MOCKERY BY PILATE’S SOLDIERS Matthew 27:27-31; John 19:2-3...
VER 16. AND THE SOLDIERS LED HIM AWAY INTO THE HALL, CALLED PRAETORIUM; AND THEY CALLED TOGETHER THE WHOLE BAND. 17. AND THEY CLOTHED HIM WITH PURPLE, AND PLATTED A CROWN OF THORNS, AND PUT IT ABOUT H...
_JESUS WAS TRIED AND CONDEMNED -- MARK 15:1-20:_ The Jews charged Jesus with blasphemy because He called Himself the Son of God. Jesus was tried before Pilate, a weak leader that would do anything to...
ΈΝΔΙΔΎΣΚΟΥΣΙΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΈΝΔΙΔΎΣΚΩ (G1737) надевать, одевать. Hist, _praes._ ΠΟΡΦΎΡΑ (G4209) пурпур. Это был плащ одного из солдат, вероятно, поношенный и превратившийся в выцветшую тряпку...
5. JESUS BEFORE PILATE 15:1-20 _TEXT 15:1-20_ 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 hi...
_SUMMARY 15:16_16:20 This closing section of Mark, like the corresponding section in Matthew, contains two proofs of the divinity of Jesus. The first is found in the darkness that covered the earth du...
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 the e...
7 Bar-Abbas, which means son of the father, _ had _ committed the political crime against the Roman government which they tried to fasten on our Lord. He was a murderer. The Lord was a life giver. Yet...
THE TRIAL BEFORE PILATE. THE CRUCIFIXION 1-15. Trial before Pilate (Matthew 27:1; Matthew 27:11; Luke 23:1; Luke 23:13;...
THE MOCKERY (Matthew 27:27). See on Mt....
CHRIST IN THE BIBLE: MARK’S GOSPEL _KEITH SIMONS_ This commentary HAS BEEN through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 15 JESUS AND PILATE VERSES 1-15 The *Jews did not have power over their own countr...
THEY CLOTHED HIM WITH PURPLE. — The colour is called “purple” by St. Mark and St. John, “crimson” by St. Matthew. The two words probably indicated the same colour....
(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 evidenc...
CHAPTER 15 CHAPTER 15:1-20 (Mark 15:1) 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 carried...
ἐνδιδύσκουσιν for ἐνδύουσιν T.R.: a rare word, not in classics, found in Sept [154] and Joseph. (and in Luke 8:27; Luke 16:19), and because rare, the more probable reading. πορφύραν, a _purple_ garmen...
_Mocked by the soldiers_ (Matthew 27:27-31)....
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 force ti...
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...
(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 himsel...
(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, ca...
The transfiguration, as a matter of fact witnessed by the eyes of chosen witnesses, introduces naturally the great change that was about to be effected by the mighty power of God; for that wondrous sc...
_CHRIST’S HUMILIATION_ ‘Pilate … delivered Jesus, when he had scourged Him, to be crucified. And the soldiers … did spit upon Him.’ Mark 15:15 The prophecy, ‘I gave my back to the smiters … and I h...
Before Pilate (chapter 15), He only witnesses a good confession, a testimony to the truth where the glory of God required it, and where this testimony stood opposed to the power of the adversary. To a...
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 theref...
_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...
Christ before Pilate. Matthew 27:1-31; LUKE 23:1-25; JOHN 18:28-40; John 19:1-16....
TITLE: King is crowned TEXT: Mark 15:16-20 PROPOSITION: Jesus endured cruel mocking. QUESTION: Who? KEY WORD: Mockings READING: Same INTRODUCTION: 1. Many of the recent school shootings = teasing, m...
15-21 Christ met death in its greatest terror. It was the death of the vilest malefactors. Thus the cross and the shame are put together. God having been dishonoured by the sin of man, Christ made sa...
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Mark 15:17 And G2532 clothed G1746 (G5719) Him G846 purple G4209 and G2532 twisted G4120 (G5660) crown...
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, with...
‘And the soldiers led him away within the court which is the Praetorium, and they call together the whole band, and they clothe him with purple, and plaiting a crown of thorns they put it on him, and...
Mark 15:17. WITH PURPLE. See on Matthew 27:28. Lange: ‘The scarlet military cloak no more required to be a real purple, than the crown of thorns required to be a real crown, or the reed a real sceptre...
THIS account is closely related to that of Matthew, but the remorse and suicide of Judas are omitted, and in the narrative of the trial before Pilate some independent details are introduced....
PURPLE (πορφυραν). Matthew 27:28 has "scarlet robe" which see for discussion as well as for the crown of thorns....
PLATTED plaited....
We will read two short passages from the Gospels this evening. May the blessed Spirit, who taught the Evangelists to record the sad story of our Lord's sufferings and death, give us fully to enter int...
Mark 15:15. And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified. And the soldiers led him away into the hall, call...
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. Mark...
CONTENTS: Jesus before Pilate. Barabbas set free instead of Christ. The crucifixion. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Pilate, Simon, Barabbas, Centurion, Joseph, 2 thieves, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of...
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 ne...
_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, to p...
MARK—NOTE ON MARK 15:16 On the GOVERNOR’S HEADQUARTERS, see note on John 18:28. The presence of THE WHOLE BATTALION (about 600 men at full strength) means they are assuming that J
ROMAN SOLDIERS MOCK JESUS MATTHEW 27:27-31; MARK 15:16-20; JOHN 19:1-3; MATTHEW 27:27 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesu
CHAPTER XV. 1 _Jesus brought bound, and accused before Pilate_. 15 _Upon the clamour of the common people, the murderer Barabbas is loosed, and Jesus delivered up to be crucified_. 17 _He is crowned w...
_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 OF THE P...
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 DELIVERED HIM...
Let's turn to Mark's gospel chapter 15. Jesus was arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane in the evening or late night, and immediately brought before Caiaphas the high priest and some of the rulers wher...
John 19:2; Luke 23:11; Matthew 27:28...
Purple. See on Matthew 27:28. Matthew adds the word for soldier's cloak. Mark has simply purple....
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....