They began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
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They began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
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and beganne to salute him. Hayle kynge of the Iewes.
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And began to salute him, saying, Haile, King of the Iewes.
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Passages linked to Mark 15:18 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Matthew 27:42-43 “He saved others, but he can’t save himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him. He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’ ”
- Genesis 37:10 He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?”
- Genesis 37:20 Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, ‘An evil animal has devoured him.’ We will see what will become of his dreams.”
- Mark 15:2 Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” He answered, “So you say.”
- Mark 15:29-32 Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, “Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself, and come down from the cross!” Likewise, also the chief priests mocking among themselves with the scribes said, “He saved others. He can’t save himself. Let the Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe him.” Those who were crucified with him also insulted him.
- Luke 23:36-37 The soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar, and saying, “If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!”
- John 19:14-15 Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Behold, your King!” They 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!”
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And when they had mocked him,.... To their satisfaction,…
And when they had mocked him,.... To their satisfaction, and had had enough of this sort of diversion:
they took off the purple from him; and so, in their way, unkinged him;
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and put his own clothes on him: both that he might be known to be the same person; and that the four soldiers, who had the charge of him, might have the perquisites of his clothes at his execution:
and led him out to crucify him: they led him out of the "praetorium", or judgment hall, and through the city, without the gates of it, to the usual place of crucifixion; he bearing his own cross, when first led out.
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain Crucify Him.
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Crucify Him.
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The worlds treatment of Christ
John Wesley, at a considerable party, had been maintaining with great earnestness the doctrine of Vox populi, vox Dei, against his sister, a lady whose talents were not unworthy the family to which she belonged. At last the preacher, to put an end to the controversy, put his argument in the shape of a dictum, and said, I tell you, sister, the voice of the people is the voice of God. Yes, she replied, mildly, it cried, Crucify Him, crucify Him. A more admirable answer was, perhaps, never given.
The worlds treatment of Christ
Dr. Blair, at the conclusion of a sermon in which he had descanted with his usual eloquence on the loveliness of virtue, gave utterance to the following apostrophe: O virtue, if thou wert embodied, how would all men love and imitate thee. His colleague, the Rev. R. Walker, preached that afternoon, and took occasion to say, My reverend friend observed in the morning that, if virtue were embodied, all men would love and imitate her. Well, virtue has been embodied; but how was she treated? Did all men love her? Did they copy her? No! She was despised and rejected of men, who, after defaming, insulting, and scourging her, led her to Calvary, where they crucified her between two thieves.
Fickleness of the populace
When Napoleon was returning from his successful wars in Austria and Italy, amid the huzzas of the people, Bourrienne remarked to him that it must be delightful to be greeted with such demonstrations of enthusiastic admiration. Bah! replied Napoleon, this same unthinking crowd, under a slight change of circumstances, would follow me just as eagerly to the scaffold. (Dictionary of Anecdote.)
An indictment against man
I. Here we have the basis of a tremendous indictment against human nature.
1. Human nature does not know good. It if had, it would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
2. Human nature hated goodness in its most attractive form.
3. Humanity is guilty of the utmost possible folly, because in crucifying Jesus it crucified its best friend.
4. Human nature destroyed its best instructor.
5. Human nature submitted to the insolent tyranny of the priests.
6. Human nature was guilty of craven cowardice in striking One who would not defend Himself.
II. Let me shut the door against some self-righteous disclaimers.
1. I should not have done so. Of whom wast thou born, but of a woman, as they were?
2. I would have spoken for Him. Yes; and dost thou speak for Him now? What have you done already? Have you sneered at the gospel? Have you rejected it? Are you ignorant of it? Have you ever doubted His power and His willingness to save? For believers-oh what a sorrow to think we stabbed our Friend to the heart. If we have crucified Him-let us resolve to crown Him. (C. H. Spurgeon.)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 15:18 King of the Jews: The formal charge (15:2)…
15:18 King of the Jews: The formal charge (15:2) on which Jesus was convicted (15:26).
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