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Mark 15

Mark 15:7

Insurrection — A crime which the Roman governors, and Pilate in particular, were more especially concerned and careful to punish.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 15:9

Will ye that I release to you the king of the Jews — Which does this wretched man discover most? Want of justice, or courage, or common sense? The poor coward sacrifices justice to popular clamour, and enrages those whom he seeks to appease, by so unseasonably repeating that title, The king of the J... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 15:16

Praetorium — The inner hall, where the praetor, a Roman magistrate, used to give judgment. But St. John calls the whole palace by this name. Matthew 27:27; John 19:2.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 15:17

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.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 15:21

The father of Alexander and Rufus — These were afterward two eminent Christians, and must have been well known when St. Mark wrote.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 15:24

St. Mark seems to intimate, that they first nailed him to the cross, then parted his garments, and afterward reared up the cross.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 15:34

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me — Thereby claiming God as his God; and yet lamenting his Father's withdrawing the tokens of his love, and treating him as an enemy, while he bare our sins.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 15:42

Because it was the day before the Sabbath — And the bodies might not hang on the Sabbath day: therefore they were in haste to have them taken down.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 15:43

Honourable — A man of character and reputation: A counsellor — A member of the sanhedrim. Who waited for the kingdom of God — Who expected to see it set up on earth. Matthew 27:57; Luke 23:50; John 19:38.... [ Continue Reading ]

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