Mark 12:1-12
Jesus Tells About The Owner Of a Vineyard
Mark 12:13-17
Pharisees Ask Jesus About Paying Poll Tax
Mark 12:18-27
Whose Wife Shall She Be in The Resurrection?
Mark 12:28-34
“You Shall Love Your Neighbor as Yourself.”
Mark 12:35-44
Jesus Makes Charges Against The Scribes
Mark 13:1-13
Prediction of “The Time of Tribulation”
Mark 13:14-23
False Teachers in The End Times
Mark 13:24-32
A Description of The Second Coming
Mark 13:33-37
We Must Not be Found Sleeping
Mark 14:1-9
Jesus Anointed With Perfume
Mark 14:10-16
Judas Arranges For Jesus Betrayal
Mark 14:17-26
Lord’s Supper Replaces The Passover
Mark 14:27-31
Peter’s Heart Was in The Right Place
Mark 14:32-42
Jesus in The Garden of Gethsemane
Mark 14:43-52
Judas’ Arrival to Betray Jesus
Mark 14:53-65
Jesus is Brought Before The Sanhedrin
Mark 14:66-72
Peter Denies His Lord Three Times
Mark 15:1-5
Jesus is Brought Before Pontius Pilate
Mark 15:6-15
Barabbas is Released
Mark 15:16-23
Simon Commanded to Carry The Cross
Mark 15:24-32
Jesus is Nailed to The Cross
Mark 15:33-41
Jesus “Gave Up The Ghost”
Mark 15:42-47
Joseph Places Jesus in The Tomb
Mark 16:1-8
Angel Says Jesus is Risen
Jesus is Brought Before Pontius Pilate
Mark 15:1–5
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The night meeting of the Sanhedrin had been illegal, so as soon as morning came they all got together again to make it legal. From here they bound Jesus and led Him to Pontius Pilate who was then governor of Judea (v. 1). In (Luke 23:1-2) it tells us that their charge became threefold:
It is interesting to note that the charge the religious leaders had made to the Jews was blasphemy, but this is not the charge they bring before Pilate. They were smart enough to know that Pilate would not have anything to do with what he considered a religious argument. Instead, they now bring a political charge in which they accuse Jesus of setting Himself up as king in opposition to Caesar. Pilate asked Jesus, “Art thou the king of the Jews” (v. 2). His reply was, “It is you that say that, not I.” It seems that what He really meant was, “I may have claimed to be “King of the Jews,” but you know very well that I was not trying to take over as a political ruler.
The chief priests continue to accuse Him of many things (v. 3) but Jesus didn’t attempt to answer them which is a fulfillment of (Isa. 53:7) “As a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.” The Jews so bumbled the case that Jesus could have been set free by just a word or two in appropriate places, yet He refused to speak (vv. 4-5). He was in total control in this situation.
Application
Have you ever heard the phrase “Silence is golden?” There is a time when it is better to remain silent than to speak because silence will say things that words could not express. Ask - Can I think of some situations in my life when it would have been better to have remained silent than to have spoken? I always need to remember that angry words only stir up strife.<
Mark 15:1-5 (English Standard Version)
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