"What Will You Do With Jesus?"

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Pilate Delivers Jesus to Be Crucified

6 Now at the feast he used to release for them one prisoner for whom they asked. 7 And among the rebels in prison, who had committed murder in the insurrection, there was a man called Barabbas. 8 And the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to do as he usually did for them. 9 And he answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?” 10 For he perceived that it was out of envy that the chief priests had delivered him up. 11 But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release for them Barabbas instead. 12 And Pilate again said to them, “Then what shall I do with the man you call the King of the Jews?” 13 And they cried out again, “Crucify him.” 14 And Pilate said to them, “Why? What evil has he done?” But they shouted all the more, “Crucify him.” 15 So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released for them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.

Mark 15:6-15 ESV

Mark 15:12 ESV - 12 And Pilate again said to them, "Then what shall I do with the man you call the King of the Jews?"

2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV - 21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

1. The Customary Pardon

Mark 15:6 ESV - 6 Now at the feast he used to release for them one prisoner for whom they asked.

Mark 15:7 ESV - 7 And among the rebels in prison, who had committed murder in the insurrection, there was a man called Barabbas.

Mark 15:8 ESV - 8 And the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to do as he usually did for them.

Mark 15:9 ESV - 9 And he answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?"

Mark 15:10 ESV - 10 For he perceived that it was out of envy that the chief priests had delivered him up.

Matthew 27:17-19 ESV - 17 So when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to release for you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?" 18 For he knew that it was out of envy that they had delivered him up. 19 Besides, while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, "Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered much because of him today in a dream."

Mark 15:11 ESV - 11 But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release for them Barabbas instead.

John 19:10-12 ESV - 10 So Pilate said to him, "You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you?" 11 Jesus answered him, "You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin." 12 From then on Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, "If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend. Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.

2. The Question of Innocence

Mark 15:12 ESV - 12 And Pilate again said to them, "Then what shall I do with the man you call the King of the Jews?"

Mark 15:13-14 ESV - 13 And they cried out again, "Crucify him." 14 And Pilate said to them, "Why? What evil has he done?"

Romans 5:7-8 ESV - 7 For one will scarcely die for a righteous person--though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die-- 8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Isaiah 53:6 ESV - 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned--everyone--to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Mark 10:33-34 ESV - 33 saying, "See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and deliver him over to the Gentiles. 34 And they will mock him and spit on him, and flog him and kill him. And after three days he will rise."

3. The Shouts of Condemnation

Mark 15:14-15 ESV - 14 And Pilate said to them, "Why? What evil has he done?" But they shouted all the more, "Crucify him." 15 So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released for them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.

Matthew 27:24-25 ESV - 24 So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of this man's blood; see to it yourselves." 25 And all the people answered, "His blood be on us and on our children!"