# Mark 15.1

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**Book:** [Mark](/codex/john-mark/) · NASB95

## Immediate context (±2 verses)

**ASV** ([ASV](/codex/asv/))
> **1. And straightway in the morning the chief priests with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.**
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> 2. And Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answering saith unto him, <span class="rl-speech">Thou sayest.</span> 3. And the chief priests accused him of many things. (Mark 15:1-3, ASV)

**WEB** ([WEB](/codex/web/))
> **1. Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.**
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> 2. Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” He answered, <span class="rl-speech">“So you say.”</span> 3. The chief priests accused him of many things. (Mark 15:1-3, WEB)

**KJV** ([KJV](/codex/kjv/))
> **1. And straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him to Pilate.**
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> 2. And Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answering said unto him, <span class="rl-speech">Thou sayest it.</span> 3. And the chief priests accused him of many things: but he answered nothing. (Mark 15:1-3, KJV)

**YLT** ([YLT](/codex/ylt/))
> **1. And immediately, in the morning, the chief priests having made a consultation, with the elders, and scribes, and the whole sanhedrim, having bound Jesus, did lead away, and delivered [him] to Pilate;**
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> 2. and Pilate questioned him, 'Art thou the king of the Jews?' and he answering said to him, <span class="rl-speech">'Thou dost say [it].'</span> 3. And the chief priests were accusing him of many things, [but he answered nothing.] (Mark 15:1-3, YLT)

## Setting

- **Speaker:** _TBD_
- **Audience:** _TBD_
- **Location:** _TBD_
- **Time period:** _TBD_

## Theological reading

_Patristic / early-church-father exegesis, to be added._

## Key words

_Theologically-loaded Greek or Hebrew words in this verse may have entries in the lexicon. Curated to roughly 100 contested terms across the corpus, not every word; see Lexicon Roadmap._

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## Quoted in

**Concepts:**

- [Pilate Stone](/codex/pilate-stone/), via [Mark 15.1-15](/codex/mark-15-1-15/)
- [Pilates Ring at Herodion](/codex/pilates-ring-at-herodion/), via [Mark 15.1-15](/codex/mark-15-1-15/)

**Lexicon:**

- [G3860 - paradidomi](/codex/g3860-paradidomi/)

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## Why these four translations

ris3n chose ASV, WEB, KJV, and YLT for two reasons together. They are the **most literal English translations available** (formal-equivalence: word-for-word renderings that preserve the Hebrew and Greek grammar rather than smoothing it into modern dynamic-equivalence idiom). And they are in the **public domain in the United States**, which means fair-use quotation at any length requires no publisher license. Modern licensed translations (NASB95, ESV, NIV) restrict volume of quotation under their copyright terms, so they are not used at stub-level coverage here. NASB95 appears only on hand-curated rich passage hubs under Lockman Foundation's fair-use allowance.

The four:

- **[ASV](/codex/asv/)** (American Standard Version, 1901). The basis of the modern critical-text English tradition.
- **[WEB](/codex/web/)** (World English Bible, contemporary). Public-domain revision in the ASV line, in current English.
- **[KJV](/codex/kjv/)** (King James Version, 1611). Reformation-era, Textus Receptus base.
- **[YLT](/codex/ylt/)** (Young's Literal Translation, Robert Young, 1862). Hyper-literal preservation of Hebrew and Greek grammar; useful for word-study work even where English reads stiff.

See [Bibles](/codex/bibles/) for the full per-translation history, translators, textual basis, strengths, and weaknesses.