Mark 15:14

World English Bible (2000)

Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they cried out exceedingly, "Crucify him!"

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὁ δὲ Πιλάτος ἔλεγεν αὐτοῖς, Τί γὰρ, κακὸν ἐποίησεν; Οἱ δὲ περισσοτέρως ἔκραξαν, Σταύρωσον αὐτόν.

Transliteration

The de Pilatos elegen to-them, What gar kakon he-epoiēsen? They de perissoterōs ekraxan, Staurōson him.

Grammar Details

• *de*: conjunction - but/and
• *Pilatos*: noun, nominative, masculine, singular - Pilate
• *elegen*: verb, imperfect, active, indicative, 3rd, singular - was saying
• *gar*: conjunction - for/because
• *kakon*: adjective, accusative, neuter, singular - evil/bad
• *epoiēsen*: verb, aorist, active, indicative, 3rd, singular - he did/committed
• *perissoterōs*: adverb, comparative - more abundantly/more vehemently
• *ekraxan*: verb, aorist, active, indicative, 3rd, plural - cried out/shouted
• *Staurōson*: verb, aorist, active, imperative, 2nd, singular - crucify!

Word Meanings

• *elegen*: was saying/kept saying
• *kakon*: evil/bad/harm
• *epoiēsen*: did/committed/performed
• *perissoterōs*: more abundantly/more vehemently/all the more
• *ekraxan*: cried out/shouted/called out
• *Staurōson*: crucify!/nail to a cross!

Referenced Verses

• Luke 23:41 : 41 And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong."
• Luke 23:47 : 47 When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, "Certainly this was a righteous man."
• John 18:38 : 38 Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" When he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, "I find no basis for a charge against him.
• John 19:6 : 6 When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify!" Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him."
• John 19:12-15 : 12 At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, "If you release this man, you aren't Caesar's friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!" 13 When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called "The Pavement," but in Hebrew, "Gabbatha." 14 Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, "Behold, your King!" 15 They cried out, "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar!"
• Acts 7:54-57 : 54 Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth. 55 But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, 56 and said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!" 57 But they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and rushed at him with one accord.
• Acts 19:34 : 34 But when they perceived that he was a Jew, all with one voice for a time of about two hours cried out, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
• Acts 22:22-23 : 22 They listened to him until he said that; then they lifted up their voice, and said, "Rid the earth of this fellow, for he isn't fit to live!" 23 As they cried out, and threw off their cloaks, and threw dust into the air,
• Heb 7:26 : 26 For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
• 1 Pet 1:19 : 19 but with precious blood, as of a faultless and pure lamb, the blood of Christ;
• Ps 69:4 : 4 Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn't take away.
• Isa 53:3 : 3 He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn't respect him.
• Isa 53:9 : 9 They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death; although he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
• Matt 27:4 : 4 saying, "I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us? You see to it."
• Matt 27:19 : 19 While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, "Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him."
• Matt 27:23-25 : 23 But the governor said, "Why? What evil has he done?" But they cried out exceedingly, saying, "Let him be crucified!" 24 So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it." 25 All the people answered, "May his blood be on us, and on our children!"
• Matt 27:54 : 54 Now the centurion, and those who were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake, and the things that were done, feared exceedingly, saying, "Truly this was the Son of God."
• Luke 23:4 : 4 Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, "I find no basis for a charge against this man."
• Luke 23:14-15 : 14 and said to them, "You brought this man to me as one that perverts the people, and see, I have examined him before you, and found no basis for a charge against this man concerning those things of which you accuse him. 15 Neither has Herod, for I sent you to him, and see, nothing worthy of death has been done by him.
• Luke 23:21 : 21 but they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify him!"
• Luke 23:23-24 : 23 But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed. 24 Pilate decreed that what they asked for should be done.