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John 19:23
Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took His garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also His coat Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.
Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took His garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also His coat Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.
Verse 23. _TO EVERY SOLDIER A PART_] So it appears there were _four_ soldiers employed in nailing him to and rearing up the cross. _THE COAT WAS WITHOUT SEAM_] Several have seriously doubted whether...
HIS GARMENTS - The plural here is used to denote the outer garment. It was made, commonly, so as to be easily thrown on or off, and when they labored or walked it was girded about the loins. See the n...
CHAPTER 19 _ 1. Behold the Man! (John 19:1 .)_ 2. The Last Question of Pilate and Christ's Last Word. (John 19:8 .) 3. Delivered up and Crucified. (John 19:12 .) 4. The Title upon the Cross. ...
THE CRUCIFIXION. The statement that Jesus bears His own cross corrects, or at least supplements, the Synoptic story of Simon of Cyrene. It may have been added to show that the Johannine Christ needs n...
THEN THE SOLDIERS.... TOOK HIS GARMENTS, AND MADE FOUR PARTS. There were four soldiers at the cross and the garments were. perquisite of the soldiers. The outer garments were divided into four parts,...
JESUS AND PILATE (John 18:28-40 ; John 19:1-16)...
When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes, and they divided them into four parts, a part for each soldier; and they took his tunic. It was a tunic which had no seam, woven throughou...
THE SOLDIERS. These were probably slaves attached to the legion who were employed as executioners. TOOK. received. The garments were their perquisite. COAT. Greek. _chiton._. tunic worn next the bod...
The Death and Burial For what is peculiar to S. John's narrative in this section see the introductory note to chap. 18. Besides this, the title on the cross, the Jews" criticism of it, and the conduc...
The four Enemies and the four Friends 23. _Then the soldiers_ Better, _The soldiers_ THEREFORE. The -therefore" looks back to John 19:18. _his garments_ The loose, outer garment, or toga, with the g...
THE FOUR ENEMIES AND THE FOUR FRIENDS...
ΤᾺ ἹΜΆΤΙΑ. The upper garment, girdle, sandals, &c. The ἱμάτιον was large enough to be worth dividing. By the law _De bonis damnatorum_ the clothes of executed criminals were the perquisite of the sold...
THE DEATH AND BURIAL For what is peculiar to S. John’s narrative in this section see the introductory note to chap. 18. Besides this, the title on the cross, the Jews’ criticism of it, and the conduc...
VER 23. THEN THE SOLDIERS, WHEN THEY HAD CRUCIFIED JESUS, TOOK HIS GARMENTS, AND MADE FOUR PARTS, TO EVERY SOLDIER A PART; AND ALSO HIS COAT: NOW THE COAT WAS WITHOUT SEAM, WOVEN FROM THE TOP THROUGHO...
ΈΛΑΒΟΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ John 19:1. ΈΠΟΊΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΟΙΈΩ, _см._ John 19:7. ΧΙΤΏΝΑ (G5509) _асс. sing._ туника, рубаха, нижняя рубашка, которая надевалась прямо на тело, под другую о...
DISCOURSE: 1723 CASTING LOTS FOR OUR LORD’S VESTURE John 19:23. Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: no...
AND MADE FOUR PARTS,— Because four soldiers are mentioned in the division of the clothes, it does not follow that there were but four present at the crucifixion. Since soldiers were necessary at all,...
THOSE AROUND THE CROSS _Text: John 19:23-27_ 23 The soldiers therefore, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat: now the coa...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 19:12-24 The following is an Analysis of the passage which is to be before us:— The death of Christ may be viewed from five main viewpoints. From the standpoint...
Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout....
7 It appears on the surface, that Pilate's question, when he heard that the Lord claimed to be the Son of God, was ignored. Not so. Since the Lord was the Son of God it was far beneath His dignity to...
THE CRUCIFIXION. THE BURIAL 1-3. Inside the Prætorium. Scourging and mockery by the soldiers (Matthew 27:26; Mark 15:15). It might be supposed from Mt and Mk that the scourging was only the ordinary p...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 19 PILATE ORDERS HIS SOLDIERS TO WHIP JESUS 19:1-16 V1 So Pilate ordered his soldiers to whip Jesus. V2 The soldiers to...
On John 19:23, comp. Notes on Matthew 27:35; Luke 23:34. St. John’s account is again more full than any of the others. AND MADE FOUR PARTS, TO EVERY SOLDIER A PART. — The soldiers there who carried th...
XX. _ MARY AT THE CROSS._ "They took Jesus therefore: and He went out, bearing the cross for Himself, unto the place called The place of a skull, which is called in Hebrew Golgotha: where they crucifi...
XXI. _ THE CRUCIFIXION._ "The soldiers therefore, when they had crucified Jesus, took His garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat: now the coat was without seam, wove...
_The crucifixion_....
“The soldiers, then, when they had crucified Jesus, took His garments” the executioner's perquisite (Apuleius has the comparison “naked as a new-born babe or as the crucified”) and as there were four...
“THEY CRUCIFIED HIM” John 19:18-24 Just outside the city gates, beside the main road, was a little conical eminence, which from its resemblance to a skull was called in Aramaic, _Golgotha,_ and in La...
JESUS' LAST THOUGHT FOR OTHERS John 19:23-30 Love made Mary brave to encounter the tragedy of that scene. The sword, as Simeon had foretold, was piercing her soul, Luke 2:35. Jesus knew how lonely sh...
Here once more we have the story of the Cross, and once again it is a story to be read almost without note or comment. The picture of our Lord led forth and presented to the crowds by Pilate is one of...
(7) Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also [his] coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout...
They made four parts. Christ's upper garment had seams, which the four executioners could easily divide; but his under garment, or vest, was without seam, so that being cut, it would have been of no u...
THE CRUCIFIXION Matthew 27:35-38; Luke 23:33-38; John 19:18-24; Mark 15:24-28. “ _And it was the third hour_,
THIRD SECTION: 19:16B-42. THE EXECUTION OF JESUS. 1. The crucifixion: John 19:16; John 19:16; 2. The inscription: John 19:19-22; 3. The parting of the garments:...
“ _The soldiers therefore, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, one for every soldier, and then the tunic;now the tunic was without seam, woven from the top throughout...
Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat; now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. (24)...
In John 15:1-27 our Lord substitutes Himself for Israel, as the plant of God, responsible to bear fruit for Him on earth (not merely for man, as such, openly sinful and lost). He takes the place of th...
23._Then the soldiers. _The other Evangelists also mention the _parting _of Christ’s _garments among the soldiers, _(Matthew 27:35; Mark 15:24; Luke 23:34.) There _were four _soldiers who _parted _amo...
Pilate (chapter 19) gives way to his usual inhumanity. In the account, however, given in this Gospel, the Jews are prominent, as the real authors (as far as man was concerned) of the Lord's death. Jea...
THEN THE SOLDIERS, WHEN THEY HAD CRUCIFIED JESUS,.... The crucifixion of Christ was at the request and solicitation of the Jews, was ordered by the Roman governor, and performed by the Roman soldiers;...
Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also _his_ coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. V...
_Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus_ That is, erected the cross with him upon it; they _took his garments, and made four parts_, &c. Because four soldiers only are mentioned in the divis...
The actions of wicked men, as well as of good men, are a fulfilment of the Scriptures. Though they mean not so, neither do their hearts think so, yet they are evidences to the truth of God's declarati...
CRIMINALLY ASSAULTED IN THE COURT! (vs.1-12) Pilate then tried another desperate move, having the Lord scourged. This was gross injustice, yet he hoped by this to placate the Jews' enmity, considerin...
WOVEN: Or, wrought...
19-30 Here are some remarkable circumstances of Jesus' death, more fully related than before. Pilate would not gratify the chief priests by allowing the writing to be altered; which was doubtless owi...
Both Matthew, MATTHEW 27:35, and Mark, MARK 15:24, mention this parting of Christ's garments amongst them, which must be understood of his inward garments; which some tell us might easily be done, bec...
Tertullian An Answer to the Jews just as the other (outrages) which you were to commit on Him were foretold,-all which He, actually and thoroughly suffering, suffered not for any evil action of His o...
John 19:23 Then G3767 soldiers G4757 when G3753 crucified G4717 (G5656) Jesus G2424 took G2983 (G5627) His...
THE LAMB IS OFFERED UP (JOHN 19:16). Meanwhile the innocent victim was being dragged through the streets of the city, and then through an outer gate in order to be crucified ‘outside the gate' (Hebrew...
‘The soldiers therefore, when they had crucified Jesus, took his clothes and made four parts, to every soldier a part, and they also took the coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top th...
John 19:23. THE SOLDIERS THEREFORE, WHEN THEY HAD CRUCIFIED JESUS, TOOK HIS GARMENTS, AND MADE FOUR PARTS, TO EVERY SOLDIER A PART; AND ALSO HIS TUNIC: NOW THE TUNIC WAS WITHOUT SEAM, WOVEN FROM THE T...
This paragraph details some of the events of the crucifixion, but not in strict historical sequence to John 19:21-22. The conference with Pilate there alluded to following as it did the reading of the...
FOUR PARTS (τεσσερα μερη). There were four soldiers, the usual quaternion (τετραδιον, Acts 12:9) besides the centurion (Mark 15:39; Matthew 27:54; Luke 23:...
John 19:23 As the robe which Christ wore closest to Himself was curiously and strangely wrought without seam from head to foot; so all that Jesus Christ has left behind is singular, unique, harmonious...
John 19:23. _There the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments,_ They had already stripped him, no element of shame was wanting in his substitution for us. He stooped as low as our...
John 19:14. _And it was the preparation of the Passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!_ They had accused him of being a King, or of pretending to be one. Pil...
John 19:1. _Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him._ This was one of the most terrible punishments to which a man could be sentenced. The Roman scourge was no trifle. It tore off the quiv...
CONTENTS: Pilate brings Jesus before the multitude. The rejection of the Savior and the crucifixion. His entombment. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Pilate, soldiers, Jesus' mother, His aunt, wife of Cleophas, Ma...
John 19:1. _Pilate therefore took Jesus and scourged him,_ as stated in Matthew 27:26. In cases where this preseded crucifixion, Cicero has recited the form of the sentence from the Roman law. _I, lic...
SO THEY TOOK CHARGE OF JESUS. See notes on Matthew 27:32-66. John gives a few details. 25. HIS MOTHER'S SISTER. Matthew 27:56 identifies Salome as one of the four women ["the mother of Zebedee's sons...
_And He bearing His cross went forth_ THE LONELY CROSS-BEARER I. BEARING THE CROSS FOR HIMSELF (Isaiah 63:3). 1. An aggravation of His misery. 2. An intensifying of their sin. 3. A heightening of...
_Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took His garments_ ONE EVENT WITH MANY REVELATIONS I. The SPOLIATION OF DEATH. Christ is crucified. Death has completed its work. What had it done?...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 19:23 The soldiers’ actions fulfilled Scripture (see notes on v. 24; 12:37–40). ⇐...
CHAPTER 19 VER. 1. _Then Pilate therefore took Jesus and scourged Him._ That is after he had said (Luke 23:22), "I will chastise Him and let Him go." The tradition is that He was first scourged with t...
_But His coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout._ Euthymius says it was said to have been woven by the Blessed Virgin. _Allegorically._ This was a type of Christ's Church, which it is n...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 19:19. This was also one reason for the TITLE written (τίτλος, _titulus,_ the technical name) by Pilate for the cross of Jesus. His alone would need it. For peopl...
EXPOSITION JOHN 19:1 (d) [Within the Praetorium.] The unjust scourging, and the crown of thorns. JOHN 19:1 Then PILATE THEREFORE TOOK JESUS, AND SCOURGED HIM. The force of the "therefore" may be se...
Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him (John 19:1). The scourging was a whipping that was done to examine the prisoners. It was a third degree technique of the Roman Empire. They did not h...
Exodus 39:22; Exodus 39:23; Luke 23:34; Mark 15:24; Matthew 27:35...
Four parts. All the Synoptists relate the parting of the garments. The four pieces to be divided would be, the head - gear, the sandals, the girdle, and the tallith or square outer garment with fringe...
THE CALVARY CHAPTER John 19:16 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We will suggest the steppingstone which immediately precedes the Calvary experiences of our Lord and then enlarge on the Calvary events. What we sa...
The vesture — The upper garment....
Here we have recorded our Saviour's sufferings from the soldiers; they stript him of his garments, before they fastened him to his cross, and divided those garments which could be parted amongst them,...