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Literal Standard Version

Mark 15:9

and Pilate answered them, saying, "Will you [that] I will release to you the King of the Jews?"

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Barabbas;   Complicity;   Jesus, the Christ;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Worship;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Mark, the Gospel of;   Messiah;   Sanhedrin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Barabbas;   Mss;   Pilate;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Barabbas ;   Manuscripts;   Passion Week;   Trial of Jesus;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Barabbas ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Barabbas;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Pilate, Pontius;   Will;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Barabbas;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Pilate answered them, “Do you want me to release the King of the Jews for you?”
King James Version (1611)
But Pilate answered them, saying, Will ye that I release vnto you the King of the Iewes?
King James Version
But Pilate answered them, saying, Will ye that I release unto you the King of the Jews?
English Standard Version
And he answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?"
New American Standard Bible
Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?"
New Century Version
So Pilate asked them, "Do you want me to free the king of the Jews?"
Amplified Bible
Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to set free for you the King of the Jews?"
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?"
Legacy Standard Bible
And Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?"
Berean Standard Bible
"Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?" Pilate asked.
Contemporary English Version
Pilate asked them, "Do you want me to free the king of the Jews?"
Complete Jewish Bible
he asked them, "Do you want me to set free for you the ‘King of the Jews'?"
Darby Translation
But Pilate answered them saying, Will ye that I release to you the King of the Jews?
Easy-to-Read Version
Pilate asked them, "Do you want me to free the king of the Jews?"
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Pilate answered them, and said, Will ye that I let loose vnto you the King of ye Iewes?
George Lamsa Translation
Pilate answered and said, Are you willing that I release to you the King of the Jews?
Good News Translation
he asked them, "Do you want me to set free for you the king of the Jews?"
Lexham English Bible
So Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release for you the king of the Jews?"
Literal Translation
But Pilate answered them, saying, Do you desire I should release to you the king of the Jews?
American Standard Version
And Pilate answered them, saying, Will ye that I release unto you the King of the Jews?
Bible in Basic English
And Pilate said in answer to them, Is it your desire that I let the King of the Jews go free?
Hebrew Names Version
Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you you want me to release to you the King of the Yehudim?"
International Standard Version
Pilate answered them, "Do you want me to release the king of the Jews for you?"
Etheridge Translation
But Pilatos answered and said, Will you that I release to you the King of the Jihudoyee ?
Murdock Translation
And Pilate answered, and said: Will ye, that I release to you the king of the Jews?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Pilate aunswered them, saying: Wyll ye that I let loose vnto you the kyng of the Iewes?
English Revised Version
And Pilate answered them, saying, Will ye that I release unto you the King of the Jews?
World English Bible
Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And Pilate answered them, saying, Will ye that I release to you the king of the Jews?
Weymouth's New Testament
"Shall I release for you the King of the Jews?" answered Pilate.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Pilat answeride `to hem, and seide, Wolen ye Y leeue to you the kyng of Jewis?
Update Bible Version
And Pilate answered them, saying, Do you want that I release to you the King of the Jews?
Webster's Bible Translation
But Pilate answered them, saying, Will ye that I release to you the King of the Jews?
New English Translation
So Pilate asked them, "Do you want me to release the king of the Jews for you?"
New King James Version
But Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"
New Living Translation
"Would you like me to release to you this ‘King of the Jews'?" Pilate asked.
New Life Bible
Pilate said, "Do you want me to let the King of the Jews go free?"
New Revised Standard
Then he answered them, "Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?"
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, Pilate, answered them, saying - Will ye, I release unto you, the King of the Jews?
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Pilate answered them and said: Will you that I release to you the king of the Jews?
Revised Standard Version
And he answered them, "Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?"
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Pylate answered them and sayd: Will ye that I lowse vnto you the kynge of the Iewes?
Young's Literal Translation
and Pilate answered them, saying, `Will ye [that] I shall release to you the king of the Jews?'
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Pylate answered them: wyl ye that I geue lowse vnto you the kynge of the Iewes?
Mace New Testament (1729)
but Pilate answered them, saying, do you chuse to have Jesus releas'd, the king of the Jews?
Simplified Cowboy Version
Pilate said, "Do you want me to let the Boss of the Jews go?"

Contextual Overview

1And immediately, in the morning, the chief priests having made a consultation with the elders, and scribes, and the whole Sanhedrin, having bound Jesus, led [Him] away, and delivered [Him] to Pilate; 2and Pilate questioned Him, "Are You the King of the Jews?" And He answering said to him, "You say [it]." 3And the chief priests were accusing Him of many things, [but He answered nothing.] 4And Pilate again questioned Him, saying, "You do not answer anything? Behold, how many things they testify against You!" 5And Jesus no longer answered anything, so that Pilate wondered. 6And at every celebration he was releasing to them one prisoner, whomsoever they were asking for; 7and there was [one] named Barabbas, bound with those making insurrection with him, who had committed murder in the insurrection. 8And the multitude having cried out, began to ask for themselves as he was always doing to them, 9and Pilate answered them, saying, "Will you [that] I will release to you the King of the Jews?"10For he knew that the chief priests had delivered Him up because of envy;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Will: Matthew 27:17-21, John 18:39, John 19:4, John 19:5, John 19:14-16, Acts 3:13-15

Cross-References

Genesis 22:13
And Abraham lifts up his eyes, and looks, and behold, a ram behind, seized in a thicket by its horns; and Abraham goes, and takes the ram, and causes it to ascend for a burnt-offering instead of his son;
Leviticus 1:3
If his offering [is] a burnt-offering out of the herd, he brings a male near, a perfect one, to the opening of the Tent of Meeting; he brings it near at his pleasure before YHWH;
Leviticus 1:10
And if his offering [is] out of the flock—out of the sheep or out of the goats—he brings a male near, a perfect one, for a burnt-offering,
Leviticus 1:14
And if his offering [is] a burnt-offering out of the bird to YHWH, then he has brought his offering near out of the turtle-doves or out of the young pigeons,
Leviticus 3:1
"And if his offering [is] a sacrifice of peace-offerings, if he is bringing near out of the herd, whether male or female, he brings a perfect one near before YHWH,
Leviticus 3:6
And if his offering [is] out of the flock for a sacrifice of peace-offerings to YHWH, male or female, he brings a perfect one near;
Leviticus 9:2
and he says to Aaron, "Take a calf for yourself, a son of the herd, for a sin-offering, and a ram for a burnt-offering, perfect ones, and bring [them] near before YHWH.
Leviticus 9:4
and a bullock and a ram for peace-offerings, to sacrifice before YHWH, and a present mixed with oil; for today YHWH has appeared to you."
Leviticus 12:8
And if her hand does not find the sufficiency of a sheep, then she has taken two turtle-doves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt-offering and one for a sin-offering, and the priest has made atonement for her, and she has been cleansed."
Leviticus 14:22
and two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, which his hand reaches to, and one has been a sin-offering and one a burnt-offering;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But Pilate answered them; saying,.... Being satisfied of the innocence of Jesus, and being willing to dismiss him:

will ye that I release unto you the king of the Jews? he who is called so; and which he either said by way of derision both of Christ, and them; or else in order to prevail upon them to ask his release, it being scandalous and reproachful to put their king to death.


 
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