READ Mark 15 COMMENTARY: : 15      And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified. (2425 “content” [hikanos] means satisfy, act in a pleasing manner, befitting, or gratify.) DEVOTION:  People pleasers have been around for generations. Here we have a political leader who wants to please the people with whatever they want even when he was warned of his wife to not get involved with this innocent man. Jesus was innocent but to a politician that didn’t made it hard because popular vote was all that was necessary. He washed his hands of guilt but it was still there. Pilate gave the people a murderer that they chose because the religious leaders told them what to do. So it was not only the politician but also the…