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Mar_15:15-20. See on Mat_27:26-31. Comp. Luk_23:24-25.
τὸ ἱκανὸν ποιῆσαι ] satisfacere, to do what was enough, to content them. See examples from Diog. Laert., Appian, and so forth, in Wetstein and Kypke. Comp. λαμβάνειν τὸ ἱκανόν , Act_17:9.
Mar_15:16. Matthew has: εἰς τὸ πραιτώριον ; the vividly descriptive Mark has: ἔσω τῆς αὐλῆς , ὅ ἐστι πραιτώριον , into the interior of the court, which is the praetorium, for they did not bring Him into the house and call the cohorts together thither, but into the inner court surrounded by the buildings (the court-yard) which formed the area of the praetorium, so that, when people went from without into this court through the portal ( πυλών , comp. on Mat_26:71) they found themselves in the praetorium. Accordingly αὐλή is not in this place to be translated palace (see on Mat_26:3), but court, as always in the N. T. Comp. Mar_14:66; Mar_14:54.
On the ὅ attracted by the predicative substantive, comp. Winer, p. 150 [E. T. 206]
πορφύραν ] a purple robe. Matthew specifies the robe more definitely ( χλαμύδα ), and the colour differently ( κοκκίνην ), following another tradition.
Mar_15:18. ἤρξαντο ] after that investiture; a new act.