Mark 15:2 Cross References - WNT

² So Pilate questioned Him. "Are *you* the King of the Jews?" he asked. "I am," replied Jesus.

² inquiring, "Where is the newly born king of the Jews? For we have seen his Star in the east, and have come here to do him homage."

¹¹ Meanwhile Jesus was brought before the Governor, and the latter put the question, "Are you the King of the Jews?" "I am their King," He answered. ¹² When however the High Priests and the Elders kept bringing their charges against Him, He said not a word in reply. ¹³ "Do you not hear," asked Pilate, "what a mass of evidence they are bringing against you?" ¹⁴ But He made no reply to a single accusation, so that the Governor was greatly astonished.

⁹ "Shall I release for you the King of the Jews?" answered Pilate.

¹² and when Pilate again asked them, "What then shall I do to the man you call King of the Jews?"

¹⁸ and went on to salute Him with shouts of "Long live the King of the Jews."

²⁶ Over His head was the notice in writing of the charge against Him: THE KING OF THE JEWS.

² "We have found this man," they said, "an agitator among our nation, forbidding the payment of tribute to Caesar, and claiming to be himself an anointed king." ³ Then Pilate asked Him, "You, then, are the King of the Jews?" "It is as you say," He replied.

²⁹ Accordingly Pilate came out to them and inquired, "What accusation have you to bring against this man?" ³⁰ "If the man were not a criminal," they replied, "we would not have handed him over to you." ³¹ "Take him yourselves," said Pilate, "and judge him by your Law." "We have no power," replied the Jews, "to put any man to death." ³² They said this that the words might be fulfilled in which Jesus predicted the kind of death He was to die. ³³ Re-entering the Praetorium, therefore, Pilate called Jesus and asked Him, "Are *you* the King of the Jews?" ³⁴ "Do you say this of yourself, or have others told it you about me?" replied Jesus. ³⁵ "Am I a Jew?" exclaimed Pilate; "it is your own nation and the High Priests who have handed you over to me. What have you done?" ³⁶ "My kingdom," replied Jesus, "does not belong to this world. If my kingdom did belong to this world, my subjects would have resolutely fought to save me from being delivered up to the Jews. But, as a matter of fact, my kingdom has not this origin." ³⁷ "So then *you* are a king!" rejoined Pilate. "Yes," said Jesus, "you say truly that I am a king. For this purpose I was born, and for this purpose I have come into the world--to give testimony for the truth. Every one who is a friend of the truth listens to my voice." ³⁸ "What is truth?" said Pilate. But no sooner had he spoken the words than he went out again to the Jews and told them, "I find no crime in him.

¹⁹ And Pilate wrote a notice and had it fastened to the top of the cross. It ran thus: JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS. ²⁰ Many of the Jews read this notice, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the notice was in three languages--Hebrew, Latin, and Greek. ²¹ This led the Jewish High Priests to remonstrate with Pilate. "You should not write 'The King of the Jews,'" they said, "but that he claimed to be King of the Jews." ²² "What I have written I have written," was Pilate's answer.

¹³ I charge you--as in the presence of God who gives life to all creatures, and of Christ Jesus who at the bar of Pontius Pilate made a noble profession of faith--