Mark 15:11 Meaning and Explanation
“But the chief priests moved the people, that he should rather release Barabbas unto them.”
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Read Full Chapter →The chief priests stir up the crowd to demand the release of Barabbas instead of Jesus.
What Does Mark 15:11 Mean?
While Pilate waits for an answer, the priests work the crowd, persuading the people to ask for Barabbas. The shepherds of Israel campaign for a murderer's freedom in order to secure an innocent man's death.
Evil rarely shouts in its own name; it borrows the voices of the persuaded. The people choose the man who kills for liberation over the King who dies for it, the way of the sword over the way of the cross. Yet the exchange they engineer stands at the heart of the gospel: the guilty man goes free because Jesus is condemned. What the priests meant for triumph, God wove into substitution, the innocent for the guilty, that the guilty might live.
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What does Mark 15:11 mean?
The chief priests stir up the crowd to demand the release of Barabbas instead of Jesus.