George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Matthew 27:38
Two robbers, or thieves, and Jesus in the midst; as if he had been the greatest malefactor of the three. (Witham)
Two robbers, or thieves, and Jesus in the midst; as if he had been the greatest malefactor of the three. (Witham)
MATTHEW 27:38 After the words “one on the right” and “one on the left” the Old Latin codex Colbertinus (itc) supplies names for the two robbers who were crucified with Jesus: _nomine Zoatham_ and _no...
Verse 38. _TWO THIEVES_] λησται, _robbers_, or cutthroats: men who had committed robbery and murder; for it does not appear that persons were crucified for robbery only. Thus was our Lord _numbered_...
TWO THIEVES CRUCIFIED ... - Rather two “robbers.” Pilate did not reside in Jerusalem. When he came there on the great feasts, or at other times, it was, in part, to hold courts for the trial of crimin...
CHAPTER 27 1. Delivered unto Pilate.(Matthew 27:1 .) 2. The Suicide of Judas.(Matthew 27:3 .) 3. Before Pilate. (Matthew 27:11 .) 4. The Awful Choice....
THE CRUCIFIXION (Mark 15:21 *, Luke 23:26). Mt. still follows Mk. clearly, the chief alterations being (_a)_ gall (Matthew 27:34) for myrrh (this is due to...
As they were going out, they found a Cyrenian man, Simon by name, and they impressed him into their service, to bear Jesus' Cross. When they had come to the place which is called Golgotha (which means...
THE MAN WHO SENTENCED JESUS TO DEATH (Matthew 27:1-2 ; Matthew 27:11-26)...
THEN. After the parting of the garments. See App-163. TWO THIEVES. two robbers. Greek. _lestia._ Therefore not the two "malefactors" (Greek. _kakourgoi)_ of Luke 23:32, who "were led with Him to be pu...
The Crucifixion and Death of Jesus Mark 15:22-37; Luke 23:33-46; John 19:18-30. St Mark's account differs little from St Matthew's. St Luke names the mockery of the soldiers and the words of the rob...
_two thieves_ Rather, ROBBERS; in all probability partners in the crime of Barabbas. The mountain robbers, or banditti, were always ready to take part in such desperate risings against the Roman power...
THE CRUCIFIXION AND DEATH OF JESUS Mark 15:22-37; Luke 23:33-46; John 19:18-30 St Mark’s account differs little from St Matthew’s. St Luke names the mockery of the soldiers and the words of the robbe...
ΔΎΟ ΛΗΙΣΤΑΊ, ‘Two robbers’; in all probability partners in the crime of Barabbas. The mountain robbers, or banditti, were always ready to take part in such desperate risings against the Roman power. I...
VER 35. AND THEY CRUCIFIED HIM, AND PARTED HIS GARMENTS, CASTING LOTS: THAT IT MIGHT BE FULFILLED WHICH WAS SPOKEN BY THE PROPHET, THEY PARTED MY GARMENTS AMONG THEM, AND UPON MY VESTURE DID THEY CAST...
_JESUS' DEATH AND BURIAL MATTHEW 27:32-66:_ The power of the cross makes salvation possible. The sign over His head read, "This is Jesus the King of the Jews." He is far more though, "Now to the King...
ΣΤΑΥΡΟΫ́ΝΤΑΙ _praes. ind. pass. от_ ΣΤΑΥΡΌΩ (G4717) распинать, ΛΗΣΤΑΊ _pl. от_ ΛΗΣΤΉΣ (G3027) разбойник (_см._ Matthew 26:55). Хотя было принято казнить только одного человека в день, в этот день бы...
DISCOURSE: 1410 THE MOCKING OF CHRIST UPON THE CROSS Matthew 27:38. Then were there two thieves crucified with him; one on the right hand, and another on the left. And they that passed by reviled him,...
THEN WERE THERE TWO THIEVES CRUCIFIED WITH HIM— They placed Jesus in the middle, by way of mock honour, because he had called himself a king, and was now crowned with thorns; or, if the priests had an...
REVILING ABUSE AND SHAME HEAPED UPON JESUS TEXT: 27:38-44 38 Then are there crucified with him two robbers, one on the right hand and one on the left. 39 And they that passed by railed on him, waggin...
They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof he would not drink They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drin...
29 See Psa_69:19-20; Isa_53:3. 30 See Isa_50:6. 31 See Isa_53:7-8; Php_2:9-10. 31 In mockery, our Lord went through the mimic ceremony of being invested with imperial dignity. The shining attire wit...
THIEVES] RV 'robbers,' i.e. brigands, as distinguished from thieves: see on Lk....
BEFORE PILATE. THE CRUCIFIXION 1, 2. Jesus delivered to Pilate (Mark 15:1; Luke 23:1; John 18:28 : see on Jn)....
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 27 JUDAS KILLS HIMSELF 27:1-10 V1 It was very early in the morning. All the chief *priests and the other leaders decided that Jesus...
THEN WERE THERE TWO THIEVES CRUCIFIED WITH HIM. — Better, _robbers,_ the word being the same as that used of Barabbas (John 18:40). It would seem, as there is no record of their trial, as if they were...
Chapter 19 The Great Atonement Day - Matthew 26:1 - Matthew 27:1 WE enter now on the story of the last day of the mortal life of our Lord and Saviour. We have already noticed the large proportionate...
_Crucifixion_ (Mark 15:21-27; Luke 23:26; Luke 23:35-38). This part of the story begins with the closing words of Matthew 27:31 : “they led
: τότε introduces the fact mentioned as an accompaniment of the crucifixion of Jesus, ithout indicating its precise place in the course of events. σταυροῦνται, the historical present with lively effec...
“WHERE THEY CRUCIFIED HIM” Matthew 27:32-44 He will not drink what would dull His keen sense of the momentous issues of the Cross. Those taunts were true. None who save themselves can save others. Th...
The morning saw the plot hatched in the night carried into effect. This is chronicled in the first two verses of the chapter. The picture of Judas in his remorse is very terrible. Pilate stands out as...
(10) Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand, and another on the left. (10) Christ then began to judge the world, when after his judgment he hung between two thieves....
THE CRUCIFIXION Matthew 27:35-38; Luke 23:33-38; John 19:18-24; Mark 15:24-28. “ _And it was the third hour_,
"And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross. (33) And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, ...
We now enter on the Lord's final presentation of Himself to Jerusalem, traced, however, from Jericho; that is, from the city which had once been the stronghold of the power of the Canaanite. The Lord...
_ON THE CROSS_ ‘Then were there two thieves crucified with Him.’ Matthew 27:38 I. CHRIST CRUCIFIED WITH MAN.—That there might be no doubt about the disgracefulness of the Saviour’s sufferings, He w...
38._Then were crucified with him two robbers. _It was the finishing stroke of the lowest disgrace when Christ was executed between _two robbers; _for they assigned him the most prominent place, as if’...
After this (chapter 27), the unhappy priests and heads of the people deliver up their Messiah to the Gentiles, as He had told His disciples. Judas, in despair under Satan's power, hangs himself, havin...
THEN WERE THERE TWO THIEVES CRUCIFIED WITH HIM,.... Which seems contrary to one of their canons, which runs thus; ביום אחד אין דנין שנים, "they do not judge two in one day" y, unless they were both i...
Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand, and another on the left. Ver. 38. _Then were there two thieves_] So he "was reckoned among the transgressors,"Isaiah 53:12; a si...
_And set over his head his accusation_ That is, a superscription, containing the substance of his pretended crime, written in capital letters, and in these remarkable words, THIS IS JESUS, (John adds,...
TWO THIEVES; thus he was numbered with the transgressors, according to Isaiah 53:12....
THEN WERE THERE TWO THIEVES CRUCIFIED WITH HIM, ONE ON THE RIGHT HAND AND ANOTHER ON THE LEFT....
The taunts of the people:...
All night the Lord Jesus had been subjected to the persecution of the Jewish council. Now early in the morning, determined that He might be put to death as soon as possible, they bring Him bound to th...
35-44 It was usual to put shame upon malefactors, by a writing to notify the crime for which they suffered. So they set up one over Christ's head. This they designed for his reproach, but God so over...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 27:44"....
Matthew 27:38 Then G5119 two G1417 robbers G3027 crucified G4717 (G5743) with G4862 Him G846 one G1520 on...
THE OPEN MOCKERY OF THE SON OF GOD (27:38-44). Having been mocked by the soldiers prior to His crucifixion Jesus must now face the mockery of His own nation. It begins with ‘those who pass by', it con...
‘Then are there crucified with him two insurrectionists, one on the right hand and one on the left.' The whole picture has been centralised on Jesus, but now we learn of the two men who were crucified...
THE FINAL FAREWELL (27:27-54). In sober words Matthew now portrays what Jesus had to endure from the moment when He was handed over to His executioners to be mocked as ‘the King of the Jews' to the t...
Matthew 27:38. THEN. Luke (Luke 23:32) tells us that the two robbers were led out with Him. TWO ROBBERS. Probably associates of Barabbas, and hence placed on either side of Jesus, who had taken the p...
This section describes the _central fact of the world's history_. The accounts of the four Evangelists agree perfectly as to the main points; but each mentions circumstances omitted by the others. Mat...
ROBBERS (ληιστα). Not thieves (κλεπτα) as in Authorized Version. See Matthew 26:55. These two robbers were probably members of the band of Barabbas on whose cross Jesus now hung....
Matthew 27:26 _(with Mark 15:15)_ Christ on the Cross. Christ on the Cross is our subject. You know His history, And when you read, "The people stood beholding" you will be ready to add, "And no won...
We are now to read about our Lord before Pontius Pilate. Matthew 27:15. Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would. And they had then a notable pri...
Our Lord was brought before the Roman governor Pilate. He was anxious to let Jesus go; but he was a weak-minded man, easily swayed by the noisy cry of the people, prompted by the chief priests and eld...
Matthew 27:27. Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers. And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe. And when they...
Matthew 27:33. _And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, they gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not...
Matthew 27:32. _And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross._ Perhaps they were afraid that Christ would die from exhaustion; so they compell...
Matthew 27:27. Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers. And they stripped him and put on him a scarlet robe. And when they h...
CONTENTS: Jesus delivered to Pilate. Judas' remorse. Barabbas released in Jesus' place. The crucifixion of Christ. The entombment and sealing of the tomb. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Pilate, Judas, Jerem...
The redemption of man is comprised in many scenes. The last supper of our Lord his agony in the garden, for there man first offended the treason of Judas the apprehension of Christ his appearance befo...
TWO BANDITS. Fellow conspirators with Barabbas (Mark 15:7). They were being crucified for their part in leading a revolt against the Romans....
_Two thieves crucified with Him._ JESUS BETWEEN TWO ROBBERS I. The moral condition of these men before crucifixion-Robbers. They are also called “malefactors.” At the earlier stage of the proceeding...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 27:38 ROBBERS. Nothing more is known about the background of these men. Jesus’ crucifixion with criminals fulfills Isaiah 53:12....
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 27:27 As he tells of the crucifixion, Matthew focuses on the fulfillment of OT prophecies about the suffering servant (Isaiah 42:1;...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 27:35. THAT IT MIGHT BE FULFILLED, ETC.—Omitted in R.V. It ought not to be questioned that the words were interpolated by the copyists, from John 19:24 (_Scrivener_). Matthew...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 27:1, MATTHEW 27:2 _Jesus brought to Pilate. _(Mark 15:1; Luke 2
This time shall we turn in our Bibles to Matthew's gospel chapter twenty-seven? In the twenty-sixth chapter we left Jesus before the high priest, the Sanhedrin, and Peter had just outside of this grou...
Isaiah 53:12; John 19:18; John 19:31; Luke 22:37; Luke 23:32;...
Thieves [λ η σ τ α ι]. Rev., robbers. See on Matthew 26:55....
Mark 15:27; Luke 23:32....
Here we have several aggravations of our Lord's sufferings upon the cross. 1. From the company he suffered with, TWO THIEVES. It had been disparagement enough to our blessed Saviour to have been sorte...