Mark 15 Mark 15:1–5 Jesus is brought bound and accused before Pilate: his silence before the governor. Mark 15:6–15 Pilate, prevailed upon by the clamours of the people, releases Barabbas, and giveth up Jesus to be crucified.

See Poole on “Matt. 27:1–2”. Pontius Pilate was the Roman governor in Judea at this time, Luke 3:1. The reasons of their carrying Christ to him, when they had condemned him to death for blasphemy, (a crime cognizable before them, as appeareth in the case of Stephen, Acts 7:54–60), see in our notes…

This history of our Saviour’s examination before and condemnation by Pilate, together with the indignities offered him after his condemnation, is recorded in some degree or other by all the four evangelists, by the comparing of which it will appear that Mark hath left out many material…

To make this history complete, all the other evangelists must be consulted, and compared with Mark, who omits many considerable passages recorded by them; we have done it in our notes on Matt. 27:32–50, See Poole on “Matt. 27:32”, and following verses to Matt.

The prodigies happening upon the death of our Saviour, and the passages happening between the time of his expiration and his burial, are more largely reported by the other evangelists than by Mark; we have put them all together, and considered the passages relating to them, in our notes on Matt.

The circumstances of our Saviour’s honourable burial, as related by this and the other evangelists, are gathered together and opened in our notes on Matt. 27:57–66. See Poole on “Matt. 27:57”, and following verses to Matt. 27:66.