Here, I. Pilate, to gratify the Jews’ malice, delivers Christ to be crucified , Mark 15:15. Willing to content the people , to do enough for them (so the word is), and make them easy, that he might keep them quiet, he released Barabbas unto them , who was the scandal and plague of their nation, and delivered Jesus to be crucified , who was the glory and blessing of their nation. Though he had scou...