Mark 15:7 (WEB)
There was one called Barabbas, bound with his fellow insurgents, men who in the insurrection had committed murder.
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Augustine of Hippo
“The above is Mark’s recital of what occurred in presence of the governor.” — editor's note: Mark xv. 2–15.
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Catena Aurea on Mark
- BedeCatena Aurea on Mark
Pilate furnished many opportunities for releasing Jesus, in the first place contrasting a robber with the Just One. Wherefore it is said: “Now at that feast he released unto them one prisoner, whomsoever they desired.”
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Which indeed he was accustomed to do, to obtain favour with the people, and above all, on the feast day, when the people of the whole province of the Jews flocked to Jerusalem. And that the wickedness of the Jews…
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No one can feel it a difficulty that Matthew is silent as to their asking some one to be released unto them, which Mark here mentions; for it is a thing of no consequence that one should mention a thing which another…
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This demand which the Jews made with such toil to themselves still sticks to them. Because, when the choice was given to them, they chose a robber instead of Christ, a murderer instead of the Saviour, they deservedly…
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It now is clear enough that Mark means by “King of the Jews” what Matthew means by the word, “Christ”; for no kings but those of the Jews were called Christs. For in this place according to Matthew it is said, “What…
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Now see the wickedness of the Jews, and the moderation of Pilate, though he too was worthy of condemnation for not resisting the people. For they cried out, “Crucify”; he faintly tries to save Jesus from their…
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But the Jews giving loose to their madness do not answer the question of the judge. Wherefore it goes on, “And they cried out the more exceedingly, Crucify him!,” that those words of the Prophet Jeremiah might be…
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He wished indeed to satisfy the people, that is, to do their will, not what was agreeable to justice and to God.
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Here are two goats; one is the scape goat, that is, one loosed and sent out into the wilderness of hell with the sin of the people; the other is slain, as a lamb, for the sins of those who are forgiven. The Lord’s…
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We must understand that Jesus was scourged by no other than Pilate himself. For John writes: “Pilate took Jesus, and scourged Him,” [John 19:1] which we must suppose that he did, that the Jews might be satisfied with…
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Cross-references · 3
Cited together in Bede on Mark 15:6–15 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Mark 15:6–15 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Mark 15:6–15 (2) (Catena Aurea).