Mark 15:19

Mark 15:19 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon him, and bowing their knees worshipped him.
• New International Version (NIV)Again and again they struck him on the head with a staff and spit on him. Falling on their knees, they paid homage to him.
• English Standard Version (ESV)And they were striking his head with a reed and spitting on him and kneeling down in homage to him.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Then they struck Him on the head with a reed and spat on Him; and bowing the knee, they worshiped Him.

Context of Mark 15:19

17Then they put a dark red coat on Jesus. They used some branches with thorns to make a crown for him. They put it on his head. 18Then the soldiers began to laugh at Jesus. They said, ‘Hello, King of the Jews, you are great!’ They took a stick and they hit him on the head with it many times. They spat on him. Then they went down on their knees in front of him. They told him how great he was. 20When they had stopped laughing at him, they took the dark red coat off him. They put his own clothes back on him. Then they took him away to the place where they would kill him on a cross. 21When the soldiers were taking Jesus out to that place, a man called Simon was there. He was coming in from outside the city. He was from the city of Cyrene, and he was the father of Alexander and Rufus. The soldiers told Simon that he must carry Jesus' cross.

Mark 15:19 word by word

καὶ ἔτυπτον αὐτοῦ τὴν κεφαλὴν καλάμῳ καὶ ἐνέπτυον αὐτῷ, καὶ τιθέντες τὰ γόνατα προσεκύνουν αὐτῷ.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Andκαίkai · andG2532
• they smoteτύπτωtuptō · to strikeG5180
• himαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
• on the headὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• on the headκεφαλήkephalē · headG2776
• with a reedκάλαμοςkalamos · reed/stick/penG2563
• did spitἐμπτύωemptuō · to spit on/atG1716
• bowingτίθημιtithēmi · to placeG5087
• kneesγόνυgonu · a kneeG1119
• worshippedπροσκυνέωproskuneō · to worshipG4352

Cross-references for Mark 15:19

• Mark 9:12Jesus said to them, ‘Elijah does come first. He makes everything ready. But what is written in the Bible about the Son of Man? It says that people will cause him to suffer a lot. They will think that he is nothing.
• Mark 10:34Those people will laugh at him. They will spit at him. They will hit him with whips. Then they will kill him. But after three days, he will become alive again.’
• Mark 14:65Then some of the men began to spit on Jesus. They covered his eyes with a cloth and they hit him many times with their fists. They said, ‘Show us that you are a prophet! Tell us who hit you!’ Then the guards took hold of Jesus and they beat him.
• Job 13:9If God asks you questions, would he find that you speak the truth? Or would you try to deceive him, as you deceive other people?
• Job 30:8They were foolish people that nobody respected. People chased them away from their land.
• Psalms 22:6People insult me. They think that I am worth nothing. It seems that I am only a worm, and I am not really a man.
• Psalms 35:15But when I had troubles myself, they were happy. They stood together and they laughed at me. Even strangers attacked me and they would not stop.
• Psalms 69:12People who sit at the city gate talk about me. People who are drunk make songs to sing about me.
• Isaiah 49:7The Lord is Israel's Redeemer, their Holy God. Nations refuse to accept his servant. Their people hate him and their rulers have made him their slave. The Lord says to his servant, ‘Kings will see you and they will rise up to respect you. Princes will bend down low in front of you. They will see that the Lord is faithful. He is Israel's Holy God, who has chosen you to serve him.’
• Isaiah 50:6I offered my back to the people who hit me. I offered my face to the people who pulled out my beard. When they insulted me and they spat at me, I did not hide my face from them.
• Isaiah 52:14At one time, when people saw him, they were very upset. His body became completely spoiled, so that he no longer seemed to be a man. He did not seem to have a human body.
• Isaiah 53:3People did not respect him. They refused to accept him. He was a man who received much pain. He knew what it felt like to be weak and ill. People did not even want to look at him. They did not respect him. We decided that he was worth nothing.
• Micah 5:1Soldiers in Jerusalem, come together! Get ready, because your enemies are attacking you. They are all round the city, ready to fight. They will hit Israel's ruler on his face with a stick.
• Matthew 20:18‘Listen!’ he said to them. ‘We are going to Jerusalem. There, someone will deliver the Son of Man to the leaders of the priests and the teachers of God's Law. These Jewish leaders will decide that I must die.
• Luke 18:32The Jewish leaders will deliver me to people that are not Jews. They will laugh at me. They will say bad things against me. They will spit at me.
• Luke 22:63The men that were holding Jesus were laughing at him. They hit him many times.

Commentaries on Mark 15:19

• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15-21Verses 15-21 Christ met death in its greatest terror. It was the death of the vilest malefactors. Thus the cross and the shame are put together. God having been dishonoured by the sin of man, Christ made satisfaction by submitting to the greatest disgrace human nature could be loaded with. It was a cursed death; thus it was branded by the Jewish law, De 21:23. The Roman soldiers mocked our Lord Jesus as a King; thus in the high priest's hall the servants…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 16-41The crucifixion story is one of the most historically reliable events from ancient history. Why would the early church invent a story where its central figure died as a criminal? This story was offensive to Jews and seemed ridiculous to non-Jews (1 Corinthians 1:23).Read the comment

Topics related to Mark 15:19

• Irony
• Jesus, the Christ
• Judge
• Mocking
• Reed
• Soldiers

In the dictionaries

• Compel
• Consultation
• Content
• Release
• Superscription
• Witness
• Games
• Jesus Christ
• Pilate; Pontius
• Reed

Commentaries on Mark 15

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Catena Aurea
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• John Lightfoot Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings