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John 19:29
Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar; and they filled a sponge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to His mouth.
Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar; and they filled a sponge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to His mouth.
JOHN 19:29 u`ssw,pw| {A} One eleventh-century manuscript (476*) reads u`ssw|/ (“a javelin”; compare _perticae_ (itb, ff2, n, v) “a pole or long staff”), a reading which, though more appropriate in th...
Verse 29. _A VESSEL FULL OF VINEGAR_] This was probably that _tart_ small wine which we are assured was the common drink of the Roman soldiers. Our word _vinegar_ comes from the French _vin aigre, so...
See the notes at Matthew 27:46. THAT THE SCRIPTURE MIGHT BE FULFILLED, SAITH, I THIRST - See Psalms 69:21. Thirst was one of the most distressing circumstances attending the crucifixion. The wounds we...
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...
NOW THERE WAS SET. VESSEL FULL OF VINEGAR. This was the sour wine used by the soldiers; not mixed with myrrh, as in the case of the stupefying draught Jesus had refused before crucifixion (Mark 15:23)...
JESUS AND PILATE (John 18:28-40 ; John 19:1-16)...
After that, when Jesus knew that everything was completed, he said, in order that the scripture might be fulfilled: "I thirst." There was a vessel standing there full of vinegar. So they put a sponge...
NOW. All the texts omit. VINEGAR. See note...
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...
_Now … vinegar_ Omit -now." S. John's precise knowledge appears once more: the other three do not mention the vessel, but he had stood close to it. The -vinegar" was probably the sour wine or _posca_i...
ΣΠΌΓΓΟΝ ΟΥ̓͂Ν ΜΕΣΤῸΝ ΤΟΥ͂ ὌΞΟΥΣ (אBLX) for οἱ δὲ πλήσαντες σπόγγον ὄξους καὶ (A), a combination with Matthew 27:48 and Mark 15:36, which caused οὖν to be transferred to the previous clause,—σκεῦος οὖν...
THE TWO WORDS FROM THE CROSS, ‘I THIRST,’ ‘IT IS FINISHED’...
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 28. AFTER THIS, JESUS KNOWING THAT ALL THINGS WERE NOW ACCOMPLISHED, THAT THE SCRIPTURE MIGHT BE FULFILLED, SAID, I THIRST. 29. NOW THERE WAS SET A VESSEL FULL OF VINEGAR: AND THEY FILLED A SPONG...
ΣΚΕΫ́ΟΣ (G4632) сосуд, ΈΚΕΙΤΟ _impf. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΚΕΪ́ΜΑΙ (G2749) стоять, ΌΞΟΣ (G3690) уксус, разбавленное кислое вино, которое пили солдаты и работники (Brown). ΣΠΌΓΓΟΣ (G4699) губка, Ύ...
DISCOURSE: 1725 OUR SAVIOUR’S DEATH John 19:28. After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. Now there was set a vessel full...
IT IS FINISHED _Text: John 19:28-37_ 28 After this Jesus, knowing that all things are now finished, that the scripture might be accomplished, saith, I thirst. 29 There was set there a vessel full...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 19:25-42 Below is an Analysis of John 19:25-42:— 1. The mother of Jesus and the beloved disciple, verses 25-27. John says nothing about the Savior’s agony in G...
Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth. NOW THERE WAS SET A VESSEL FULL OF VINEGAR: AND THEY FILLED A SPO...
25 Physical relationships are temporary, and will be superseded by spiritual ties. All lasting spiritual bonds are made at the foot of the cross. 28-30 Compare Mat_27:45-51; Mar_15:33-36; Luk_23:46;...
19:29 it, (b-21) Probably means, 'binding it to hyssop.'...
DEATH OF JESUS (Matthew 27:45). The sayings 'I thirst' and 'It is finished' are peculiar to St. John. The former explains, what the synoptics do not, why 'one of them ran and took a sponge, and filled...
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...
NOW THERE WAS SET A VESSEL FULL OF VINEGAR. — This vessel of the ordinary sour wine drunk by the Roman soldiers, was placed near in order to be given to those who were crucified. Thirst was always an...
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_....
Σκεῦος … μεστόν “There was set a vessel full of vinegar”; the mention of the vessel betrays the eye-witness. “The Synoptists do not mention the σκεῦος, but John had stood beside it.” Plummer. ὄξος, th...
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...
Now there was set a (c) vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put [it] upon hyssop, and put [it] to his mouth. (c) Galatinus witnesses out of the book called Sanhedrin th...
JESUS EXPIRES AMID THE DARKNESS Luke 23:44-46; John 19:28-30; Mark 15:33-37; Matthew 27:45-50. “ And from the s
“ _After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled_, _says, I thirst._ 29. _There was a vessel there full of vinegar; and the soldiers, having filled a spon...
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:...
Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary, the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. (26) When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom...
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...
29._And, having filled a sponge with vinegar, they fixed it on hyssop. _When he says that they _fixed the sponge on hyssop, _the meaning is, that they fastened it to the end of a bunch of _hyssop, _th...
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...
NOW THERE WAS SET A VESSEL FULL OF VINEGAR,.... In a place near at hand, as Nonnus observes; not on purpose, for the sake of them that were crucified, either to refresh their spirits, or stop a too gr...
Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put _it_ upon hyssop, and put _it_ to his mouth. Ver. 29. _Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar_] Cold com...
_After this_ After what is related above; and after other events recorded by the other evangelists, such as the three hours supernatural darkness, and the doleful exclamation of Jesus, _Eloi, Eloi,_ &...
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...
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...
SEE POOLE ON " JN 19: 28 "....
John 19:29 Now G3767 vessel G4632 full G3324 wine G3690 sitting G2749 (G5711) and G1161 filled G4130 ...
‘There was set there a vessel full of sour wine. So they put a sponge full of sour wine on hyssop and brought it to his mouth.' Near the cross was a vessel of sour wine. ‘Sour wine' was soldiers' wine...
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...
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...
John 19:29. THERE WAS SET THERE A VESSEL FULL OF VINEGAR: THEY PUT THEREFORE A SPONGE FULL OF THE VINEGAR UPON HYSSOP, AND BROUGHT IT TO HIS MOUTH. It is possible that the vinegar here referred to may...
WAS SET (εκειτο). Imperfect middle. John, as eyewitness, had noticed it there.OF VINEGAR (οξους). Not vinegar drugged with myrrh (Mark 15:23) and gall (Matthew 27:34) which Jesus had refused just...
John 19:25. _Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary, the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene._ Last at the cross, first at the sepulcher. No woman's lip betr...
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...
_After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished that the Scriptures might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst_ A WORD FROM THE CROSS 1. Our Lord’s seven words from the cross, have in all a...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 19:28 The reference to Scripture being fulfilled is most likely an allusion to Psalms 69:21 (compare...
Jesus dies on the cross Matthew 27:45-56; Mark 15:33-41; Luke 23:44-49; John 19:28-37;...
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...
_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...
1 Kings 4:33; Exodus 12:22; Luke 23:36; Mark 15:36; Matthew 27:34;...
Vinegar. See on Matthew 27:48. Hyssop. Matthew and Mark have kalamw, a reed. Luke says merely that they offered Him vinegar. The vinegar mingled with gall (Matthew 27:34), or the wine mingled with myr...
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...
A stalk of hyssop — Which in those countries grows exceeding large and strong. Psalms 69:21....