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

17They dressed him in a purple robe, and they wove thorn branches into a crown and put it on his head. 18Then they saluted him and taunted, “Hail! King of the Jews!” And they struck him on the head with a reed stick, spit on him, and dropped to their knees in mock worship. 20When they were finally tired of mocking him, they took off the purple robe and put his own clothes on him again. Then they led him away to be crucified. 21A passerby named Simon, who was from Cyrene, was coming in from the countryside just then, and the soldiers forced him to carry Jesus’ cross. (Simon was the father of Alexander and Rufus.)

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 responded, “Elijah is indeed coming first to get everything ready. Yet why do the Scriptures say that the Son of Man must suffer greatly and be treated with utter contempt?
• Mark 10:34They will mock him, spit on him, flog him with a whip, and kill him, but after three days he will rise again.”
• Mark 14:65Then some of them began to spit at him, and they blindfolded him and beat him with their fists. “Prophesy to us,” they jeered. And the guards slapped him as they took him away.
• Job 13:9What will happen when he finds out what you are doing? Can you fool him as easily as you fool people?
• Job 30:8They are nameless fools, outcasts from society.
• Psalms 22:6But I am a worm and not a man. I am scorned and despised by all!
• Psalms 35:15But they are glad now that I am in trouble; they gleefully join together against me. I am attacked by people I don’t even know; they slander me constantly.
• Psalms 69:12I am the favorite topic of town gossip, and all the drunks sing about me.
• Isaiah 49:7The Lord, the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel, says to the one who is despised and rejected by the nations, to the one who is the servant of rulers: “Kings will stand at attention when you pass by. Princes will also bow low because of the Lord, the faithful one, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
• Isaiah 50:6I offered my back to those who beat me and my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard. I did not hide my face from mockery and spitting.
• Isaiah 52:14But many were amazed when they saw him. His face was so disfigured he seemed hardly human, and from his appearance, one would scarcely know he was a man.
• Isaiah 53:3He was despised and rejected— a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way. He was despised, and we did not care.
• Micah 5:1Mobilize! Marshal your troops! The enemy is laying siege to Jerusalem. They will strike Israel’s leader in the face with a rod.
• Matthew 20:18“Listen,” he said, “we’re going up to Jerusalem, where the Son of Man will be betrayed to the leading priests and the teachers of religious law. They will sentence him to die.
• Luke 18:32He will be handed over to the Romans, and he will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit upon.
• Luke 22:63The guards in charge of Jesus began mocking and beating him.

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