Mark 15:1-5 Part 2 of 3

    Very early in the morning, the chief priests, with the elders, the teachers of the law and the whole Sanhedrin, made their plans. So they bound Jesus, led him away and handed him over to Pilate.

    "Are you the king of the Jews?" asked Pilate.

    "You have said so," Jesus replied. 

    The chief priests accused him of many things. So again Pilate asked him, "Aren't you going to answer? See how many things they are accusing you of."

    But Jesus still made no reply, and Pilate was amazed. 

 

"Are you the king of the Jews?" asked Pilate. "You have said so," Jesus replied. 

Matthew 2:1-2  

    After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, "Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him."

(see all Matthew 2) 

Jeremiah 23:5  

    "The days are coming," declares the LORD,

        "when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch,

    a King who will reign wisely

        and do what is just and right in the land."  

        (see Jeremiah 23:1-8)

John 1:49  

    Then Nathanael declared, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the king of Israel."  (see John 1:43-51)

Matthew 27:11  

    Meanwhile Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" 

    "You have said so," Jesus replied.

Luke 23:3  

    So Pilate asked Jesus, "Are you the king of the Jews?"

    "You have said so," Jesus replied.

 

The chief priests accused him of many things.  

Luke 23:2  

And they began to accuse him, saying, "We have found this man subverting our nation. He opposes payment of taxes to Caesar and claims to be Messiah, a king." 

John 18:30-32  

    "If he were not a criminal," they replied, "we would not have handed him over to you."

    Pilate said, "Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law."

    "But we have no right to execute anyone," they objected. This took place to fulfill what Jesus had said about the kind of death he was going to die. 

 

(parentheses are mine)

 

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