John 19:16-37

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' (Hebrews 13:12). Rejected by those to whom He had come He was being treated as an excrescence, seen as not even fit to suffer within the city, something emphasised by the fact that He was being crucified. In the words of Deuteronomy 21:23, ‘a hanged man is accursed by God', and that is how the Jews would see it. They overlooked the fact that that was only true where the judgment was deserved.