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Matthew 27:32
And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name; him they compelled to bear His cross.
And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name; him they compelled to bear His cross.
Verse 32. _A MAN OF CYRENE - HIM THEY COMPELLED TO BEAR HIS_ _CROSS._] In John, John 19:16, we are told Christ himself bore the cross, and this, it is likely, he did for a _part_ of the way; but, bei...
AS THEY CAME OUT - That is, either out of the governor’s palace where he had been treated with such cruelty and contempt, or out of the gates of the city, to crucify him. A MAN OF CYRENE - Cyrene was...
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...
THE MAN WHO SENTENCED JESUS TO DEATH (Matthew 27:1-2 ; Matthew 27:11-26)...
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...
HIM. this [man]. COMPELLED. See note on Matthew 5:41....
Jesus is led to Crucifixion Mark 15:20-21; Luke 23:26-32; John 19:16-17 St Luke has several particulars of what happened on the way to Golgotha, omitted in the other Gospels. The great company of pe...
_a man of Cyrene, Simon by name_ (1) "coming out of the country" (Mark and Luke), (2) the father of Alexander and Rufus (Mark). (1) This has been thought to imply that Simon was returning from work,...
31, 32. JESUS IS LED TO CRUCIFIXION Mark 15:20-21; Luke 23:26-32; John 19:16-17 St Luke has several particulars of what happened on the way to Golgotha, omitted in the other Gospels. The great compan...
ἌΝΘΡΩΠΟΝ ΚΥΡΗΝΑΙ͂ΟΝ. (1) ‘coming out of the country’ (Mark and Luke), (2) the father of Alexander and Rufus (Mark). (1) This has been thought to imply that Simon was returning from work, and hence tha...
VER 31. AND AFTER THAT THEY HAD MOCKED HIM, THEY TOOK THE ROBE OFF FROM HIM, AND PUT HIS OWN RAIMENT ON HIM, AND LED HIM AWAY TO CRUCIFY HIM. 32. AND AS THEY CAME OUT, THEY FOUND A MAN OF CYRENE, SIMO...
_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...
ΕΎΡΟΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΕΥΡΊΣΚΩ (G2147) находить, ΉΓΓΆΡΕΥΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΑΓΓΑΡΕΎΩ (G29) заставлять, принуждать кого-л. силой что-л. делать; слово, очевидно, взято из сферы персидской почтов...
AND AS THEY CAME OUT, &C.— We learn from the other Evangelists, that our blessed Lord had borne his cross agreeable to the custom in executions, at his first setting out. It was not indeed the whole c...
ON THE WAY TO GOLGOTHA TEXT: 27:32-34 32 And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to go _with them,_ that he might bear his cross. 33 And when they were c...
Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers. For the exposition, see the notes at Mark 15:16....
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...
BEFORE PILATE. THE CRUCIFIXION 1, 2. Jesus delivered to Pilate (Mark 15:1; Luke 23:1; John 18:28 : see on Jn)....
HE IS LED TO THE CROSS (Mark 15:20; Luke 23:26; John 19:16). The cross was regarded as the most horrible and most degrading form of punishment, fit only for slaves. 'It is an outrage for a Roman citiz...
AS THEY CAME OUT] viz. of the city, executions being forbidden within the walls (Numbers 15:35; 1 Kings 21:13; Acts 7:58; Hebrews 13:12). Up to this
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...
THEY FOUND A MAN OF CYRENE, SIMON BY NAME. — There seems at that time to have been a flourishing settlement of Jews in Cyrene, and members of that community appear as prominent in the crowd of the day...
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...
ἐξερχόμενοι : going out (of the city) according to later Roman custom, and in harmony also with Jewish usage (Numbers 15:35; 1 Kings 21:23; Acts 7:58). ἄνθρ. Κυρ.: a man of Cyrene, in Libya, presumabl...
_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
“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...
And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they (m) compelled to bear his cross. (m) They compelled Simon to bear his burdensome cross, by which it appears that Jesus was so...
Cyrene was the capital of a province in Africa, near Lybia. See Acts ii. 10. Some are of opinion that this Simon was a Jew; his name favours that sentiment, and there were many Jews in that province....
CHAPTER 27. JESUS LED TO CALVARY Matthew 27:31-34; Mark 15:20-23; Luke 23:26-33; John 19:16-17. “ And the
"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...
32._They found a man, a Cyrenian. _This circumstance points out the extreme cruelty both of the Jewish nation and of the soldiers. There is no reason to doubt that it was then the custom for malefacto...
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...
AND AS THEY CAME OUT,.... Of the city; for no execution was made, neither in the court of judicature, nor in the city, but at some distance; as it was at stoning, so at crucifixion h: "when judgment...
And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross. Ver. 32. _They found a man of Cyrene_] A stranger, coming out of the field towards Jerusalem, me...
_After they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him_ But it is not said they took the crown of thorns off his head, which served to gratify both their malice and contempt; probably he died wea...
CYRENE; a city in the northern part of Africa. BEAR HIS CROSS; at first the cross had been laid on Jesus, according to the custom of compelling malefactors to carry their own cross to the place of ex...
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...
31-34 Christ was led as a Lamb to the slaughter, as a Sacrifice to the altar. Even the mercies of the wicked are really cruel. Taking the cross from him, they compelled one Simon to bear it. Make us...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 27:34"....
Pseudo-Tertullian Against All Heresies but by the above-named Abraxas; and to have come in a phantasm, and been destitute of the substance of flesh: that it was not He who suffered among the Jews, bu...
Matthew 27:32 Now G1161 out G1831 (G5740) found G2147 (G5627) man G444 Cyrene G2956 Simon G4613 name...
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...
‘And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, him they compelled to go with them, that he might bear his cross.' ‘As they came out.' ‘Out' is being emphasised. Clearly this is inte...
JESUS IS PUT TO DEATH AS THE KING OF THE JEWS (27:32-37). That Matthew saw the thought of the crucifixion of his Master as hard to bear comes out especially in these few short verses. There is no emph...
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...
Matthew 27:32. CAME OUT. From the city. Executions took place outside of the camp, here outside of the holy city. Numbers 15:35; 1 Kings 21:13; Acts 7:5
COMPELLED (ηγγαρευσαν). This word of Persian origin was used in Matthew 5:41, which see. There are numerous papyri examples of Ptolemaic date and it survives in modern Greek vernacular. So the soldi...
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...
Matthew 27:32 I. We could not spare this incident; it would leave a gap in the evangelical histories, which it would be quite beyond our power to fill. We have indeed evidence that Christ could hunger...
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 27:32. _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...
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...
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...
As THEY WERE GOING OUT. Jesus died outside the city gate (Hebrews 13:12). A MAN FROM CYRENE. Simon, father of two well known Christians (Mark 15:21). Cyrene was in North Africa, and had a large Jewish...
_Him they compelled to bear His cross._ - SIMON BEARING THE CROSS I. We may derive from this narrative A confirmation of our faith. It was in accordance with the customs of the country; the corresp...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 27:32 CYRENE was a region in North Africa (see note on Acts 13:1) with a large Jewish population. SIMON was likely a Jew who had traveled to Jerusalem for the
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;...
Jesus is led away to be crucified Matthew 27:32-44; Mark 15:21-32; Luke 23:26-43; John 19:17-22;...
1-66 CHAPTER 27 Ver. 1. _But when the morning was come_ (Syr. _when it was dawn_), _all the chief priests_, &c. "See here," says S. Jerome, "the eagerness of the Priests for evil," _their feet were s...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 27:27. THE COMMON HALL.—Literally, the _Prætorium_, a word which, applied originally to the tent of the prætor, or general, and so to the headquarters of the camp, had come t...
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...
1 Kings 21:10; 1 Kings 21:13; Acts 11:20; Acts 13:1; Acts 2:10;...
Compelled to go [η γ γ α ρ ε υ σ α ν]. See on Matthew 5:41. Rev., has impressed in margin....
Him they compelled to bear his cross — He bore it himself, till he sunk under it, John 19:17....
The sentence of death being passed by Pilate, who can with dry eyes behold the sad pomp of our Saviour's bloody execution? Forth comes the blessed Jesus out of Pilate's gates, bearing that cross which...