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A Parody of "Hail, Caesar!"
Commentators explain that the soldiers' salute was a deliberate and cruel parody of the formal Roman greeting, "Hail, Emperor Caesar!" They were treating Jesus's claim to kingship as a "great joke," as one scholar puts it, mocking him with the highest form of political address they knew, but in a context of utter humiliation.
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Albert Barnes
On Mark 15:18
18th Century
Theologian
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Charles Spurgeon
On Mark 15:15–23
19th Century
Preacher
And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified. And …
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Mark 15:18
The soldiers thought it was a great joke that this gentle Jew claimed to be a king. So they took a purple robe, a symbol of royalty, and threw it a…
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John Gill
On Mark 15:18
17th Century
Pastor
And began to salute him, hail, king of the Jews !
] In a mock way, wishing him long life and prosperity, as if he wa…
Matthew Henry
On Mark 15:15–21
17th Century
Minister
Christ met death in its greatest terror. It was the death reserved for the most vile criminals. Therefore, the cross and the shame are linked. God …