Mark 15:2

World English Bible (2000)

Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered, "So you say."

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  • Matt 2:2 : 2 "Where is he who is born King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him."
  • Matt 27:11-14 : 11 Now Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, "Are you the King of the Jews?" Jesus said to him, "So you say." 12 When he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing. 13 Then Pilate said to him, "Don't you hear how many things they testify against you?" 14 He gave him no answer, not even one word, so that the governor marveled greatly.
  • 1 Tim 6:13 : 13 I command you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,
  • Mark 15:9 : 9 Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"
  • Mark 15:12 : 12 Pilate again asked them, "What then should I do to him whom you call the King of the Jews?"
  • Mark 15:18 : 18 They began to salute him, "Hail, King of the Jews!"
  • Mark 15:26 : 26 The superscription of his accusation was written over him, "THE KING OF THE JEWS."
  • Luke 23:2-3 : 2 They began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king." 3 Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered him, "So you say."
  • John 18:29-38 : 29 Pilate therefore went out to them, and said, "What accusation do you bring against this man?" 30 They answered him, "If this man weren't an evildoer, we wouldn't have delivered him up to you." 31 Pilate therefore said to them, "Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law." Therefore the Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death," 32 that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what kind of death he should die. 33 Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" 34 Jesus answered him, "Do you say this by yourself, or did others tell you about me?" 35 Pilate answered, "I'm not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered you to me. What have you done?" 36 Jesus answered, "My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn't be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here." 37 Pilate therefore said to him, "Are you a king then?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice." 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 19:19-22 : 19 Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, "JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS." 20 Therefore many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek. 21 The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, "Don't write, 'The King of the Jews,' but, 'he said, I am King of the Jews.'" 22 Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."

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  • Luke 23:2-4
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    2They began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king."

    3Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered him, "So you say."

    4Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, "I find no basis for a charge against this man."

  • Matt 27:11-13
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    11Now Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, "Are you the King of the Jews?" Jesus said to him, "So you say."

    12When he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.

    13Then Pilate said to him, "Don't you hear how many things they testify against you?"

  • John 18:33-35
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    33Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, "Are you the King of the Jews?"

    34Jesus answered him, "Do you say this by yourself, or did others tell you about me?"

    35Pilate answered, "I'm not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered you to me. What have you done?"

  • Mark 15:12-14
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    12Pilate again asked them, "What then should I do to him whom you call the King of the Jews?"

    13They cried out again, "Crucify him!"

    14Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they cried out exceedingly, "Crucify him!"

  • Mark 15:9
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    9Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"

  • John 19:21-22
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    21The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, "Don't write, 'The King of the Jews,' but, 'he said, I am King of the Jews.'"

    22Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."

  • John 18:37-39
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    37Pilate therefore said to him, "Are you a king then?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice."

    38Pilate 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.

    39But you have a custom, that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Therefore do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"

  • Mark 15:3-5
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    3The chief priests accused him of many things.

    4Pilate again asked him, "Have you no answer? See how many things they testify against you!"

    5But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate marveled.

  • John 19:14-15
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    14Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, "Behold, your King!"

    15They 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!"

  • John 19:9-12
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    9He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, "Where are you from?" But Jesus gave him no answer.

    10Pilate therefore said to him, "Aren't you speaking to me? Don't you know that I have power to release you, and have power to crucify you?"

    11Jesus answered, "You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin."

    12At 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!"

  • Luke 23:37-38
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    37and saying, "If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!"

    38An inscription was also written over him in letters of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew: "THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS."

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    22Pilate said to them, "What then shall I do to Jesus, who is called Christ?" They all said to him, "Let him be crucified!"

    23But the governor said, "Why? What evil has he done?" But they cried out exceedingly, saying, "Let him be crucified!"

  • Mark 15:26
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    26The superscription of his accusation was written over him, "THE KING OF THE JEWS."

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    70They all said, "Are you then the Son of God?" He said to them, "You say it, because I am."

  • Matt 16:15
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    15He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"

  • John 18:29-31
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    29Pilate therefore went out to them, and said, "What accusation do you bring against this man?"

    30They answered him, "If this man weren't an evildoer, we wouldn't have delivered him up to you."

    31Pilate therefore said to them, "Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law." Therefore the Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death,"

  • Matt 26:62-63
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    62The high priest stood up, and said to him, "Have you no answer? What is this that these testify against you?"

    63But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, "I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God."

  • Mark 15:18
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    18They began to salute him, "Hail, King of the Jews!"

  • John 19:5-6
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    5Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, "Behold, the man!"

    6When 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."

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    37They set up over his head the accusation against him written, "THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS."

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    19Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, "JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS."

  • Mark 14:60-61
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    60The high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, "Have you no answer? What is it which these testify against you?"

    61But he stayed quiet, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?"

  • John 19:3
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    3They kept saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and they kept slapping him.

  • Luke 23:14
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    14and 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.

  • Mark 15:1
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    1Immediately 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 up to Pilate.

  • Matt 27:17
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    17When therefore they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to release to you? Barabbas, or Jesus, who is called Christ?"