Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
John 19:27
He also reciprocally commendeth his mother to John, to be cared for as his own mother. From that time Mary went home, and lived with John.
He also reciprocally commendeth his mother to John, to be cared for as his own mother. From that time Mary went home, and lived with John.
BEHOLD THY MOTHER! - One who is to be to thee as a mother. The fact that she was the mother of Jesus would secure the kindness of John, and the fact that she was now intrusted to him demanded of him a...
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...
WOMAN, BEHOLD THY SON! Agonizing as the sight was, it was the part of. mother to press as near her great suffering son as possible, and she, with other saintly women, were near the foot of the cross....
JESUS AND PILATE (John 18:28-40 ; John 19:1-16)...
But his mother, and his mother's sister, and Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary from Magdala, stood near the Cross of Jesus. So Jesus saw his mother, and he saw the disciple whom he loved standing by,...
FROM. Greek. _apo._ App-104. UNTO HIS OWN. Greek. _eis_ (App-104.) ta idia. This expression occurs in John 1:11; John 16:32.Acts 21:6. A different phrase in...
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...
_from that hour_ Quite literally, as soon as all was over (John 19:30); or he may have led her away at once and then have returned (John 19:35). _unto his own home_ Although the commendation was doubl...
26, 27. ἼΔΕ (S. John’s usual form) for ἰδού, with אB and others against A....
THE FOUR ENEMIES AND THE FOUR FRIENDS...
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 24B. THESE THINGS THEREFORE THE SOLDIERS DID. 25. 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...
ΈΛΑΒΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΛΑΜΒΆΝΩ, _см._ John 19:1....
DISCOURSE: 1724 JESUS COMMENDS HIS MOTHER TO JOHN’S CARE John 19:26. _When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son...
WOMAN, BEHOLD THY SON!— We have elsewhere observed, that Joseph was probably dead some time before. See on ch. John 2:1; John 6:42. And as Jesus now shewed the tender concern he had for his mother, in...
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 19:25-42 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...
Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home. THEN SAITH HE TO THE DISCIPLE, "BEHOLD THY MOTHER!" What forgetfulness of self,...
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;...
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...
JESUS AND HIS MOTHER. This beautiful episode is peculiar to St. John. Its grace and naturalness, and withal its reticence, speak powerfully for its truth. It took place before the darkness, which St....
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...
BEHOLD THY MOTHER! — The solemn committal is a double one. The loving heart of the disciple should find, as well as give, sympathy and support in the love of the mother. The sympathy in their common l...
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...
And this trust He commits to John in the simple words, Ἰδοὺ ἡ μήτηρ σου, although his natural mother, Salome, was also standing there. [_Cf._ the bequest of Eudamidas: “I leave to Aretaeus the care of...
_The crucifixion_....
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...
_The disciple took her to his own [1] home, or into his own are, not for his mother, by the Greek expression. See St. John Chrysostom and St. Augustine. (Witham)_ [BIBLIOGRAPHY] Accepit eam discipul...
CARE OF JESUS FOR HIS MOTHER John 19:25-27. “ _His mother and the sister of His mother_, _Mary the mother of Clopas do not identify the sister of our Savior_ ' _s mother with Mary the mother of Clopas...
“ _Now there stood near the cross of Jesus his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene._ 26. _Jesus, therefore, seeing his mother and beside her the disciple whom h...
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...
_THE MOST PATHETIC PHRASE IN GOD’S WORD_ ‘Woman, behold thy son!… Behold thy mother!’ John 19:26 There was a brief lull in the tempest which surged round the Cross of Christ, and the women who had...
27._The disciple took her to his own home. _It is a token of the reverence due by a _disciple _to his master, that John so readily obeys the command of Christ. Hence also it is evident, that the Apost...
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 SAITH HE TO THE DISCIPLE,.... The same disciple John: BEHOLD THY MOTHER; take care of her, and provide for her, as if she was thine own mother: this shows the meanness of Christ, who had nothing...
Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own _home_. Ver. 27. _The disciple took her, &c._] A precious _depositum; _ trust the house was th...
_Now_ While Jesus, hanging on the cross, suffered all manner of insults and sorrows; _there stood by the cross his mother_ “Neither her own danger, nor the sadness of the spectacle, nor the reproaches...
The duty of filial affection, and of the most ready and conscientious discharge of relative duties, was taught by Jesus Christ amidst the agonies of the cross; and no one can imitate him who is not ki...
Christ's care for His mother:...
THEN SAITH HE TO THE DISCIPLE, BEHOLD THY MOTHER! AND FROM THAT HOUR THAT DISCIPLE TOOK HER UNTO HIS OWN HOME. A beautiful evidence of the Savior's filial love and care! In the midst of the excruciati...
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...
John 19:27 Then G1534 said G3004 (G5719) disciple G3101 Behold G2400 (G5628) your G4675 mother G3384 And...
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...
‘When therefore Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple standing by whom he loved, he says to his mother, “Woman, behold your son”. Then he says to the disciple, “behold, your mother”. And from that ho...
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 19:26-27. WHEN JESUS THEREFORE SAW HIS MOTHER, AND THE DISCIPLE STANDING BY, WHOM BE LOVED, HE SAITH UNTO HIS MOTHER, WOMAN, BEHOLD, THY SON. THEN SAITH HE TO THE DISCIPLE, BEHOLD, THY MOTHER; AN...
UNTO HIS OWN HOME (εις τα ιδια). See this same idiom and sense in John 1:11; John 16:32; Acts 21:6. John had a lodging in Jerusalem, whether a house or not, and the mother of Jesus lived with him t...
John 19:27 Look at that hour. Notice I. Its anticipations. It has always seemed to me to be a fact fatal to the unpropitiatory theory of that hour, that it had been anticipated and expected by Christ...
John 19:25 I. The death of the Lord Jesus Christ differed from all other deaths in this, that the death was voluntary. Death is to us the natural termination of life, and the event of death is the onl...
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...
_Now there stood by the cross of Jesus His mother_ MANIFOLD REVELATION OF LOVE We have here a revelation in love of I. MORAL HEROISM--the presence of the woman and John. Scarcely could they have pla...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 19:26 Jesus provided for his mother (Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16). She was almost certainl
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 John 3:18; 1 John 3:19; 1 Timothy 5:2; Genesis 45:8; Genesis 47:12;...
His own home [τ α ι δ ι α]. See on 1 11. 28 - 30. Compare Matthew 27:45-50; Mark 14:33-37; Luke 23:44-46....
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...
Behold thy mother — To whom thou art now to perform the part of a son in my place, a peculiar honour which Christ conferred on him. From that hour — From the time of our Lord's death....